local department

Questions about local department

What is another word for local department?

It depends which local department you mean. In the sense “a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government”, the synonyms are department of local government. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of local department?

WordNet records no antonym for local department. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for local department come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of local department

• Full entry for local departmentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for local departmentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.