department of the federal government

1. 1.

   a department of the federal government of the United States

   Synonymsfederal departmentfederal office

   Broadergovernment department

   Narrowerexecutive department

   United States

Questions about department of the federal government

What does department of the federal government mean?

department of the federal government means "a department of the federal government of the United States".

What is another word for department of the federal government?

Close synonyms include federal department, federal office. 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 the federal government a common word?

department of the federal 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.