EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does editorial department mean? 

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

1. the department of a publishing business that edits material for publication

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The department of a publishing business that edits material for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

business department (a division of a business firm)

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

city desk; city room (the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news)

sports desk (the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the sports news)