DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does department of local government mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:

1. a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A permanent department created to perform the work of a local government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

department of local government; local department

Hypernyms ("department of local government" is a kind of...):

government department (a department of government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "department of local government"):

corrections; department of corrections (the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders)

fire department (the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires)

police department (the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime)

sanitation department (the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage)