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Definition: HHS

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979.[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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"HHS" is a common misspelling or typo for: hs, BBS, TTS, UUS.

Date "HHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Specialty Definition: HHS

Domain Definition
Administration Department of Health & Human Services. (references)
Aging Department of Health. (references)
Health 1: Home Health Services. (references)
  2: (Department of) Health & Human Services (also DHHS). (references)
Military Health and Human Services. (references)
Women U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HHS

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry Source Expression Field
HHS English Health and Human Services Department N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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"HHS" is a common misspelling or typo for: hs, BBS, TTS, UUS.


Computed Synonyms: hhs

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 1   1.1090   hhs     treasuries     treasures, chests, hoards, repositories, storehouses   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top


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