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Definition of Department of local government
1. Noun. A permanent department created to perform the work of a local government.
Generic synonyms: Government Department
Specialized synonyms: Corrections, Department Of Corrections, Fire Department, Police Department, Sanitation Department
Lexicographical Neighbors of Department Of Local Government
Literary usage of Department of local government
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Towards Asia's Sustainable Development: The Role of Social Protection by Oecd (2002)
"At the Central level, initially the Department of Local Government and subsequently
in 1964 the Ministry of Local Government and Housing was responsible for ..."
2. Local Government in England by Josef Redlich, Francis Wrigley Hirst (1903)
"This chapter concerns itself mainly with the present organisation of poor relief
as a limb or department of local government, and from this point of view ..."
3. Local Government in the United States by Herman Gerlach James (1921)
"It is true that so far no plan of state reorganization has gone to the length of
creating a special department of local government, on the model of the ..."
4. English Local Government of To-day: A Study of the Relations of Central and by Milo Roy Maltbie (1897)
"A cholera epidemic again threatened, and public opinion was ready for the insertion
of the word must in this department of local government as it had been ..."
5. Local Government by William Blake Odgers (1899)
"Central Control In no other department of local government is the control exercised
from headquarters so efficient and complete as in the case of Boards of ..."
6. Pupil's Outline of American History ... for ... Use in Connection with a by William Coligny Doub (1904)
"What constitutes the legislative department of local government? What are the
general duties and powers of the state legislative department? ..."
7. Local Government by William Blake Odgers (1907)
"Central Control In no other department of local government is the control exercised
from headquarters so efficient and complete as in the case of Boards of ..."
8. English Local Government: The Story of the King's Highway by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1913)
"In no department of local government was this mediaeval assumption so persistent
as in the Maintenance of Roads, and in no other service was its result so ..."
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