WAR DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does War Department mean? 

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

1. a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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