security department

1. 1.

   a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers

   “the head of security was a former policeman”

   Synonymssecurity

   Broaderdepartment

Questions about security department

What does security department mean?

security department means "a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers".

What is another word for security department?

Close synonyms include security. 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 security department a common word?

security 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.