WordNet
n. a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
Usage examples of "executive department".
When Jefferson proposed to Washington that the executive department follow the example of the House, Washington, too, declined, saying he would not know where to draw the line if he once began such a ceremony.
For example, he did not make telephone calls to the Secretary of the Navy- or to other senior executive department officials-just to hear the sound of own voice, to remind himself of his own importance, or as a fishing expedition.
Information Management was a comparatively new executive department of state, formed eighteen years previously in 2010.
It is evident that people of this temperament are particularly apt for what may be called the executive department of the leadership of mankind.
On the way, she encountered a great wholesale shoe company, through the broad plate windows of which she saw an enclosed executive department, hidden by frosted glass.
The hundreds of assignment workers continued at their desks throughout the building as Allen addressed their executive department heads.
In place of a chieftain, one finds a hierarchy of command, a ruling class, an executive department, a horde of bureaucrats.