sanitation department

1. 1.

   the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage

   Broaderlocal department

   euphemism

Questions about sanitation department

What does sanitation department mean?

sanitation department means "the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage".

Is sanitation department a common word?

sanitation 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.