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Commerce Department

NOUN
  1. the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

How To Use Commerce Department In A Sentence

  • In two to three weeks, Ehrlich said, the Commerce Department plans publish statistics on durable goods orders and construction spending.
  • The Commerce Department said the new figure partly reflected an unexpectedly strong build-up of unsold goods.
  • Moving the control of the Census from the Commerce Department to the White House is just about guarantied to bring a law suit for violation of the Constitution. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • In addition, the Commerce Department said factory orders rose 0.5% in October, but inventories of "nondurable" goods, those intended to last less than three years, fell. Mixed Data Do Little to Change Glum Economic Outlook
  • In two to three weeks, Ehrlich said, the Commerce Department plans publish statistics on durable goods orders and construction spending.
  • Much like the federal VOI/TIS Justice Department grant program helped build prisons in the 1990s, a transition grant program can help to unbuild them in the 2000s (perhaps best administered by the Commerce Department). Bill Scher: Good Building, Bad Building: Ending the Prison Economy
  • The Commerce Department points out that in the last three months in 2008, GDP dropped at the rate of 6.2% annually, which is the most acute downslide in 25 years.
  • The final version merely required firms to report to the Commerce Department whenever they complied with the boycott.
  • The Commerce Department action is part of a probe looking into how a set of at least 13 Blue Coat devices ended up censoring the Internet in Syria, a country subject to strict U.S. trade embargoes. U.S. Restricts U.A.E. Firm for Web Filter Sale to Syria
  • But Commerce Department officials said that did not entitle him to see any classified information, and they maintain he saw none.
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