federal department

1. 1.

   a department of the federal government of the United States

   Synonymsfederal officedepartment of the federal government

   Broadergovernment department

   Narrowerexecutive department

   United States

Questions about federal department

What does federal department mean?

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

What is another word for federal department?

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

federal 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.