Whitehall

Proper noun

Whitehall (countable and uncountable, plural Whitehalls)

1. A wide street in Westminster between Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square; it houses several government offices.
2. (UK, broadly, metonymically) The British government or civil service
   • […] both Whitehall and Downing Street are in a blue funk lest they should do the wrong thing, either let the man slip away with the papers or arrest him without them.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
   • Britain's securocracy — Whitehall spymasters, backed up by government lawyers, engaged in the increasingly thankless task of preserving state secrets — are faced with an intriguing conundrum. What do they do when the bulwark they have been relying on for so long to protect their secrets crumbles...2000 July 27, Richard Norton-Taylor, “Analysis: The secret's out”, in the Guardian
3. An eastern suburb of Bristol (OS grid ref ST6174).
4. A hamlet in Hemyock parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1214).
5. A hamlet in Marwood parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5337).
6. A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7452).
7. A hamlet in Sandon parish, North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3331).
8. A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6920).
9. A hamlet in Shipley parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1321).
10. A village on the isle of Stronsay, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY6528).
11. A northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1638).
12. An unincorporated community in Poinsett County, Arkansas.