navy department

1. 1.

   a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947

   Broaderexecutive department

Questions about navy department

What does navy department mean?

navy department means "a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947".

Is navy department a common word?

navy 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.