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Definition of 'Department'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) department
a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.

2.  department
one of the branches of a governmental organization.

3.  department
(cap.) one of the principal divisions of the U.S. government, headed by a secretary who is a member of the president's cabinet:
the Department of State.

4.  department
a division of a company dealing with a particular activity.

5.  department
a section of a store selling a particular kind of goods.

6.  department
one of the sections of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge.

7.  department
one of the districts into which certain countries, as France, are divided for administrative purposes.

8.  department
a division of official business, duties, or functions.

9.  department
a sphere of activity, knowledge, or responsibility.

Etymology: (1730–35; < F département, OF: division, act of dividing)

Definition of 'Department'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) department, section
a specialized division of a large organization
"you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"

2. (noun) department
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

3. (noun) department
a specialized sphere of knowledge
"baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"

Definition of 'Department'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) department
a division of a large institution
the company's finance/marketing department; the U.S. Department of Energy; a professor in the English department; She works in the lingerie department.

Definition of 'Department'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Department
act of departing; departure

2. (verb) Department
a part, portion, or subdivision

3. (verb) Department
a distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province

4. (verb) Department
subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics

5. (verb) Department
a territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire

6. (verb) Department
a military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac

Definitions of 'Department'

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

1. Department
a territorial division in France instituted in 1790, under which the old division into provinces was broken up; each department, of which there are now 87, is broken up into arrondissements.

Translation of 'Department'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a part or section of a government, university, office or shop The Department of Justice; the sales department.
Afrikaans: afdeling, departement	Arabic: وِزارَه، دائِرَه، قِسِم	Bulgarian: отдел
Brazilian: departamento	Czech: oddělení	German: die Abteilung
Danish: ministerium; departement;	Greek: υπουργείο, τμήμα	Spanish: departamento, sección
Estonian: ministeerium, osakond	Farsi: بخش؛ قسمت	Finnish: osasto
French: service, rayon départemen	Hebrew: מַחלָקָה	Hindi: विभाग
Croatian: odsjek, katedra	Hungarian: (szak)osztály, tagozat; t	Indonesian: bagian
Icelandic: deild	Italian: dipartimento; ministero;	Japanese: 部 (門)
Korean: 부문	Lithuanian: skyrius, departamentas	Latvian: departaments; nodaļa; (un
Malay: bahagian	Dutch: afdeling	Norwegian: avdeling, departement
Polish: dział, wydział	Persian: بخش؛ قسمت	Pashto: څانګه: دايره، شعبه
Portuguese: departamento	Romanian: departament, secţie, mini	Russian: департамент; факультет;от
Slovak: oddelenie, ministerstvo,	Slovenian: oddelek	Serbian: odeljenje
Swedish: avdelning, institution, d	Thai: แผนก	Turkish: bölüm, departman
Taiwanese: 部門	Ukrainian: факультет; кафедра	Urdu: حصہ ، شعبہ ، صیغہ
Vietnamese: bộ; ban	Chinese: 部门
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