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    DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A permanent department created to perform the work of a local governmentplay

    Synonyms:

    department of local government; local department

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("department of local government" is a kind of...):

    government department (a department of government)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "department of local government"):

    corrections; department of corrections (the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders)

    fire department (the department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires)

    police department (the department of local government concerned with enforcing the law and preventing crime)

    sanitation department (the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage)

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