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DEPARTMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does department of the federal government mean?
• DEPARTMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (noun)
The noun DEPARTMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:
1. a department of the federal government of the United States
Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DEPARTMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A department of the federal government of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
department of the federal government; federal department; federal office
Hypernyms ("department of the federal government" is a kind of...):
government department (a department of government)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "department of the federal government"):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
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