Definition of "government department" []

• A department of government (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The first commissioner was George Boutwell; he described the Bureau of Internal Revenue as the largest government department ever organized."
• "Meetings with a cabinet official at 1100, with another government department head at 1300, with the senior representative of Crown & Spears at 1500."
• "During the Directory7 each government department was controlled almost independently, the Legal Branch by Rewbell, the Police by Barras, the War Department by Carnot, etc."