local department

Questions about local department

What does local department mean?

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

What is another word for local department?

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

local 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for local department come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.