Noun

• S: (n) instrumentality (a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose) "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement"
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• S: (n) government department (a department of government)
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• S: (n) ministry (a government department under the direction of a minister of state)
• S: (n) Foreign Office (the government department in charge of foreign relations)
• S: (n) French Foreign Office, Quai d'Orsay (the French department in charge of foreign affairs; referred to familiarly by its address in Paris)
• S: (n) Home Office (the government department in charge of domestic affairs)
• S: (n) treasury (the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues)
• S: (n) local department, department of local government (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)
• S: (n) corrections, department of corrections (the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders) "for a career in corrections turn to the web site of the New Jersey Department of Corrections"
• S: (n) fire department (the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires)
• S: (n) fire brigade (British name for a fire department)
• S: (n) police department (the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime)
• S: (n) sanitation department (the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage)
• S: (n) Special Branch (a government police department dealing with political security)
• S: (n) State Department (a department of government in one of the 50 states)
• S: (n) federal department, federal office, department of the federal government (a department of the federal government of the United States)
• S: (n) executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
• S: (n) White House, EXEC (the chief executive department of the United States government)
• S: (n) Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA (the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862)
• S: (n) Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)
• S: (n) Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoD (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)
• S: (n) Department of Education, Education Department, Education (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979)
• S: (n) Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE (the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977)
• S: (n) Department of Health and Human Services, Health and Human Services, HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)
• S: (n) Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)
• S: (n) Department of Housing and Urban Development, Housing and Urban Development, HUD (the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965)
• S: (n) Department of Justice, Justice Department, Justice, DoJ (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)
• S: (n) Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL (the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913)
• S: (n) Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies) "the Department of State was created in 1789"
• S: (n) Foggy Bottom (United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River)
• S: (n) Department of the Interior, Interior Department, Interior, DoI (the United States federal department charged with conservation and the development of natural resources; created in 1849)
• S: (n) Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)
• S: (n) Department of Transportation, Transportation, DoT (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)
• S: (n) Department of Veterans Affairs, VA (the United States federal department responsible for the interests of military veterans; created in 1989)
• S: (n) Department of Commerce and Labor (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1903 and split into two departments in 1913)
• S: (n) Department of Health Education and Welfare (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979)
• S: (n) Navy Department (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947)
• S: (n) War Department (a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947)
• S: (n) admiralty (the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain))
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• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) instrumentality (the quality of being instrumental for some purpose)
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• derivationally related form
• S: (n) instrumentality, instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)