Definitions for departments
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1. departments

   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.

   Submitted by MaryC on July 2, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'departments' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2416

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'departments' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3255

How to pronounce departments?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say departments in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of departments in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of departments in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of departments in a Sentence

1. Karen Bass:

   No, I dont believe that we should defund police departments.

2. Honolulu Police spokeswoman Michelle Yu:

   Law enforcement in American Samoa initially expressed interest in acquiring some of the guns, but there was a change in administration and the new administration is no longer interested, the local sheriff’s department recently replaced their guns, and other county police departments( Kauai, Maui and Hawaii) are looking to replace their Smith Wessons in the future.

3. William Schaffner:

   This is very, very important, and I think The CDC recognizes that, i think they're working literally day and night to get these testing kits assembled and training done so state health departments can do this testing.

4. Gerald McSwiggan:

   The English department faculty saw a need for additional scholarship in Black studies, and decided to focus doctoral admissions this year on prospective PhD students with an interest in working in and with Black Studies, as with other departments in the University, the departments faculty will decide which areas of scholarship they wish to focus on for PhD admissions in future years.

5. Brian Anderson:

   It's an emerging opportunity that Ebola has really brought to light, we're actively looking for public health departments that want this data and want to partner with us to use it.

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