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GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does government department mean? 

GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. a department of governmentplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A department of government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

department; section (a specialized division of a large organization)

Meronyms (parts of "government department"):

instrumentality (a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose)

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

ministry (a government department under the direction of a minister of state)

treasury (the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues)

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)

Special Branch (a government police department dealing with political security)

State Department (a department of government in one of the 50 states)

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

admiralty (the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain))

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

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)


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