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GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
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I. (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)
