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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.
Generic synonyms: Executive Department
Terms within: Occupational Safety And Health Administration, Osha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of Labor
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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