local department

collocation in English

meaningsoflocalanddepartment

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local
adjective
uk
/ˈləʊ.kəl/us
/ˈloʊ.kəl/
from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of ...
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us
/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition oflocalanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflocal department

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A research team was eventually formed via contacts between thelocaldepartmentof public health and local university departments of primary care and health services research.
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The point is that this is a directlocaldepartment.
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They have taken the vehicle numbers and communicated them tolocaldepartmentofficials.
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Would he get titlelocaldepartmentof agriculture to move a little more quickly?
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There are also the more routine services available from thelocaldepartmentof employment offices.
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I have taken the matter up with thelocaldepartmenton several occasions.
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Thelocaldepartmentof social services could identify through the risk-disc system those who most need help.
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Certainly mylocaldepartmentcould not cope easily with that number of people coming to it so quickly.
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We must look also at the case of advertisements sent round bylocaldepartmentstores advertising their sales and listing the goods available.
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In 1925, it began openinglocaldepartmentstores.
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These items can be purchased inlocaldepartmentstores there.
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He currently works as a firefighter in alocaldepartment.
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Thelocaldepartmentmaintains original jurisdiction over these cases.
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The station building is also alocaldepartmentstore.
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I could quote a number of cases where decisions have not been taken at thelocaldepartmentcommittee level until after the lapse of many weeks.
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Thelocaldepartmentof health regulates tattoo studios in many jurisdictions.
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At the age of nine, she began doing commercials forlocaldepartmentstores.
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All of institutions provide education under thelocaldepartmentof education.
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Interaction with the whale sharks is regulated by thelocaldepartmentoffice.
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I share the anxiety that housing and housing welfare and advice do not seem likely to be brought into responsibilities of the social service director and thelocaldepartment.
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Administration of nursing homes are the state tolocaldepartmentof health direct to local contracts, generally for-profit.
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Following her high school graduation in 1932 she got employment as a clothes model in alocaldepartmentstore.
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Crosley was shocked at the prices for such a toy at alocaldepartmentstore, all of which were priced in excess of $100.
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