department of state

Questions about department of state

What does department of state mean?

department of state means "the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies".

What is another word for department of state?

Close synonyms include United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS. 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 state a common word?

department of state 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.