The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interior \In*te"ri*or\, n.
That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
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The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.
Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.
Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
Wikipedia
The Department of the Interior was an Australian government department that existed between April 1939 and December 1972. It was the second so-named Australian Government department.
Usage examples of "department of the interior".
Hillerman's books have won awards from the Navajos, the Centre for the American Indian, the American Anthropological Association, and the Department of the Interior.
You are now a clerk in the Pension Office of the Department of the Interior.
At the Department of the Interior it allows the fall of its firmest support, Roland, and appoints Garat in his place, an ideologist, whose mind, composed of glittering generalities, with a character made up of contradictory inclinations, fritters itself away in reticences, in falsehoods and in half-way treachery, under the burden of his too onerous duties.
Then La Follette had got into the act, and asked for a Senate investigation of all the oil leases given out by the Department of the Interior.
The records kept by the Department of the Interior were in shambles, and had been a total mess dating back as far as his sources had looked—.
He was soon grumbling about an amendment to the Department of the Interior's authorization for the National Forest Service, and making a few marginal notes with a green pen.
Consultant to the EPA, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Defense, the government of Nepal, God knows who else.
And he assured me that the Department of the Interior would make no fuss .
Trask was the government official in charge of the Division of Computers and Automation of the Department of the Interior.