building department

1. 1.

   the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant

   Synonymsplant department

   Broaderbusiness department

Questions about building department

What does building department mean?

building department means "the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant".

What is another word for building department?

Close synonyms include plant department. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is building department a common word?

building department is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.