Interstate Commerce Commission (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former independent federal agency that supervised and set rates for carriers that transported goods and people between states; was terminated in 1995
Example:
the ICC was established in 1887 as the first federal agency
Synonyms:
ICC; Interstate Commerce Commission
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Interstate Commerce Commission" is a kind of...):
independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)