department of local government
- noun
- Formal
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departamento de gobierno local
- Each department of local government is responsible for providing services such as waste collection and road maintenance.
Examples
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The city council announced that the department of local government would oversee the new urban development project.
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Funding for education is managed by a specialized department of local government in this municipality.
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The department of local government oversees public services.
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Many residents contacted the department of local government for assistance.
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Each department of local government is responsible for providing services such as waste collection and road maintenance.
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Funding for education is managed by a specialized department of local government in this municipality.
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The city council announced that the department of local government would oversee the new urban development project.
Synonyms
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3.2
A part of local government that runs services like parks or roads
How Local
1
3.6
- Formal
- UK
51
3.4
4
3.7
1
7.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
department + of + local + government
The phrase is fully compositional: 'department' (an organizational unit) + 'of' + 'local' (town/area-level) + 'government' yields an organizational unit within local government. This straightforward noun-of-noun construction is cross-linguistically common in administrative terminology, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Department of local government comes from the picture of a town as a big house with different rooms. A department is like a room or office with a job, and the local government team looks after 'services' such as roads and waste, so the phrase means a permanent office that runs those local services.