Definition of Department of labor

1. Noun. The federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of Labor

Deparia
Deparia acrostichoides
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Defense
Department of Defense Laboratory System
Department of Education
Department of Energy
Department of Energy Intelligence
Department of Health Education and Welfare
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Justice Canada
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Department of the Treasury
Depokene
Deposition
Der Fuhrer
Derain
Derby
Derbyshire
Derbyshire spar
Dercum's disease
Dereck

Literary usage of Department of labor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Reportby New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Dept. of Labor by New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Dept. of Labor (1907)
"*868 NEW YORK STATE department of labor. The first symptom of anthrax Is usually a small inflamed swelling like a pimp].- or boll — often quite painless ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"At the end of three years Commissioner Wright had made such signal success in the new department that the bureau was changed to the Department of Labor, ..."

3. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... Assembly instructs the Legislative Committee to work for a Department of Labor—Establishment of a Department of Labor at Washington—What is hoped for ..."

4. The American Labor Year Book by Dept. of Labor Research, Rand School of Social Science (1918)
"THE US department of labor On March 4, 1913, Labor was for the first time recognized as a separate interest and given a place in the President's cabinet. ..."

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