department of local government

1. 1.

   a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government

   Synonymslocal department

   Broadergovernment department

   Narrowercorrectionsfire departmentpolice departmentsanitation department

Questions about department of local government

What does department of local government mean?

department of local government means "a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government".

What is another word for department of local government?

Close synonyms include local 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 department of local government a common word?

department of local government 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.