Pronunciation Noun
department (plural departments)
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
- 1881, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Johnson,_Samuel Samuel Johnson]”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:
- superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature
- A subdivision of an organization.
- (often, in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
- (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
- the physics department; the gender studies department
- (often, in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- (historical) A military subdivision of a country
- the Department of the Potomac
- (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another
- Portuguese: departamento
- Russian: отде́л
- Spanish: sección
- French: (government) ministère
- German: Abteilung
- Italian: (government or university) dipartimento, (university) facoltà, (factory, office, shop, etc.) reparto
- Portuguese: departamento, setor
- Russian: отде́л
- Spanish: departamento
- French: département
- Portuguese: departamento
- Russian: департа́мент
- Spanish: departamento
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