war department

1. 1.

   a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947

   Broaderexecutive department

Questions about war department

What does war department mean?

war department means "a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947".

Is war department a common word?

war 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.