executive department

collocation in English

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executive
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪɡˈzek.jə.tɪv/us
/ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɪv/
relating to making decisions and managing businesses, or suitable for people with important jobs ...
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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 ofexecutiveanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It also, among other measures, separated the powers of government by making the judicial department (andexecutivedepartment, as well) an independent branch.
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These matters have to be dealt with through the head of theexecutivedepartment; there is no other way.
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I think the intelligence department might be absorbed by the centralexecutivedepartment.
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The president of theexecutivedepartmentacts as mayor.
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In the last he was chairman of the executive committee that framed the article in the 1870 constitution, relating to theexecutivedepartment.
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In addition, each federalexecutivedepartmentand independent agency provides additional detail and supporting documentation on its own funding requests.
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This resource category refers primarily to the presidents' changing relationship with the executive departments around 1900.
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This list includes all executive departments between 1946 and 1997 and all independent regulatory agencies between 1946 and 1949 and after 1977.
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The existence of a variety of government legal appointments inspired those lawyers who saw their professional training as an ideal foundation for service in the courts, legislature, or executive departments.
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I profoundly disbelieve in all these attempts to convert executive departments into judicial authorities.
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Under modern conditions, that reconciliation requires the understanding and co-operation of not only the trustees but also the heads of the executive departments.
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The third book deals with the imperial administration, containing the regulations for the judicial and executive departments.
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Hundreds of independent agencies were consolidated into 20 principal executive departments under the control of the governor.
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Many representatives questioned the need for this expanded authority, since committees already existed to examine the expenditures in the various executive departments.
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Ministers head executive departments of the government administration.
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The board hires a county manager who oversees day-to-day operations of the county's executive departments.
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Also, it confirms the principal officers of the executive departments and independent agencies.
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The cabinet consists of at least nine members, including the prime minister and ministers of executive departments.
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The report applied that definition to the largest units of the federal government, and identified nine executive departments and eighteen independent agencies.
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The cabinet is mostly composed of the heads of the executive departments, which provide services to the people, and other cabinet-level officials.
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