EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executive department mean? 

• EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States

  Familiarity information: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("executive department" is a kind of...):

department of the federal government; federal department; federal office (a department of the federal government of the United States)

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

Agriculture; Agriculture Department; Department of Agriculture; USDA (the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862)

War Department (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947)

Navy Department (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947)

Department of Health Education and Welfare (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979)

Department of Commerce and Labor (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913)

Department of Veterans Affairs; VA (the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989)

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)

Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)

Department of the Interior; DoI; Interior; Interior Department (the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849)

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)

Department of Labor; DoL; Labor; Labor Department (the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913)

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)

Department of Housing and Urban Development; Housing and Urban Development; HUD (the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965)

Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)

Department of Energy; DOE; Energy; Energy Department (the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977)

Department of Education; Education; Education Department (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (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)

EXEC; White House (the chief executive department of the United States government)

Holonyms ("executive department" is a member of...):

executive branch; Executive Office of the President (the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws)