Department of state and Executive department

Department of state noun - The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.

Executive department and department of state are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Executive department" instead a noun phrase "Department of state".

Executive department noun - A federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States.

Department of state and executive department are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Department of state" with "Executive department", this phrases are similar.