GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)