Board
Board noun - A group of persons formally joined together for some common interest.
Department heads and board are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Department heads" instead a noun "Board".
Department heads
Board and department heads are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Board" instead a noun phrase "Department heads".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- assembly and board
- assembly and department heads
- body and board
- body and department heads
- management and board
- management and department heads
- administration and board
- administration and department heads
- panel and board
- panel and department heads
- chamber and board
- chamber and department heads
- department and board
- department and department heads
Both terms in one sentence
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The Nightshade started out as the Mysterious Somebody's secretary, then went on to be the Department Head of the Department of Operations; the restructuring of the Board of Department Heads after Crashing Down was done specifically to keep her off it.
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In practise, there are rumours of their existence, but nobody knows for sure; according to one of the DIO's agents, the department's discovery would be disastrous, resulting in the deaths of the DIO's members at best and a full-scale rebellion against the Board of Department Heads at worst.
Source: Secret Police - The later Department of Internal Operations is a more literal example, as in theory only the DIO itself and the Board of Department Heads know they even exist; their role is to root out Suvian infiltrators of HQ and dispose of them, and anyone who encounters them is promptly neuralysed.
Source: Secret Police
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