STATE DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does State Department mean? 

• STATE DEPARTMENT (noun)
  The noun STATE DEPARTMENT has 2 senses:

1. the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

2. a department of government in one of the 50 states

  Familiarity information: STATE DEPARTMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATE DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State

Context example:

the Department of State was created in 1789

Hypernyms ("State Department" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "State Department"):

Bureau of Diplomatic Security; DS (the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas)

Foreign Service (the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world)

Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR (an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "State Department"):

Foggy Bottom (United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A department of government in one of the 50 states

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("State Department" 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)

 Context examples 

The NCI term type designation for a US State Department standard country code.

(CS Term Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The US State Department system maintains a separate two letter representation code set.

(Country Code, NCI Thesaurus)