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SANITATION DEPARTMENT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanitation department mean?

• SANITATION DEPARTMENT (noun)
The noun SANITATION DEPARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. the department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage

Familiarity information: SANITATION DEPARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SANITATION DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

sanitation department ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

The department of local government responsible for collecting and disposing of garbage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("sanitation department" is a kind of...):

department of local government; local department (a permanent department created to perform the work of a local government)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive)

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