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de·part·ments
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departmentsnoun
Plural noun of the word department.
The management team invited the head of each of its business departments to a weekly meeting for one hour at the start and end of every week to ensure they all kept each other and all employees updated with what they needed to know and learn from each other.
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Rank popularity for the word 'departments' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2416
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Rank popularity for the word 'departments' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3255
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of departments in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of departments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of departments in a Sentence
What I've done, I've basically instituted a very traditional emergency response posture, so I'm pulling on all the departments in the federal government, asking them to fill those resources and ? see what we have because we have declared the emergency.
I think we have made it very clear that if they [the police] continue the violent way of clearing up the place, we will have further actions, the further actions include a possibility of some escalations pointed at government-related buildings or some of the government-related departments.
That these police departments can go to these corporations and get things that that our elected officials haven’t given to them…this is a dangerous cocktail, what shareholder would be comfortable with corporations moving money if it didn’t have something to do with influence?
There are so few people who've spent a lot of time in the state and local, especially local and city health departments [and] that's really quite a major issue.
I've been here for 30 years, i've had problems getting promoted because of the color of my skin. I've worked in different departments and yet I'm still part time.
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