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department Definition

de·part·ment (dē pärt′mənt, di-)

noun

  1. a separate part, division, or branch, as of a government, business, or school the police department, the accounting department, the history department
  2. a field of knowledge or activity rewriting is his department
  3. ☆ a specialized column or section appearing regularly in a periodical
  4. an administrative district in France, Greece, or certain Latin American countries

Etymology: ME & OFr departement < departir: see depart

department Synonyms

department

n.

  1. The field of one's activity

    jurisdiction, activity, interest, occupation, province, bureau, incumbency, business, capacity, dominion, administration, sphere, appointed sphere, sphere of duty, station, function, office, walk of life, avocation, vocation, specialty, field, duty, assignment, bailiwick, berth, niche, spot*; see also job 1.

  2. An organized subdivision

    section, office, bureau, division, branch, unit, district, precinct, tract, range, quarter, area, arena, corps, agency, board, commission, administration, circuit, territory, canton, parish, shire, constituency, commune, ward, geographical division, regional authority, district office, force, staff, beat*; see also authority 3, branch 1, committee, division 2, 5.

department Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • sociology: Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, January.
  • labor: Department of labor were provided with the marketplace and the more the.

Converse of object

  • contact: For more information either contact the department directly or the Alumni office.
  • dedicate: He also has departments exclusively dedicated to alternative financing, national lending ( can lend in 45 states ) and construction lending.
  • advise: In writing hoellein advises department of insurance such coverage on entitled to apply.
  • assist: This guideline will assist individual departments in the development and formulation of their own local protocols.

Adjective modifier

  • academic: In addition, Agency staff could be seconded to industry, public interest groups or academic departments to broaden their experience.
  • relevant: Each invoice raised is upon the instruction of the relevant department.
  • central: Guide to government departments Your guide to central government departments, what they do and how to contact them.
  • social: You should also contact your local social services department to find out what help or benefits you are entitled to.
  • various: Ethnology, in its various departments, can only find its explanation in the narrative of the families descended from Noah.
  • legal: Of the 61 usable responses nearly half said the company secretary or legal department were responsible for the code of ethics.

Modifies a noun

  • store: I did my research in the usual department stores to see what was on offer.
  • shirk: The department shirk has taken part the reality is if you have.

Noun used with modifier

  • government: The first Census in Scotland, under the new government department of the General Register Office for Scotland, was in 1861.
  • emergency: Around 70 % of night and weekend visits to accident and emergency departments are alcohol related.
  • outpatient: This book would have a useful place in a cancer information library or outpatients department.
  • university: They also teach in college, school or university drama departments.
  • marketing: Work out a good marketing angle for your product and get the marketing department on board, before the buyer.
  • engineering: Any university engineering department worth its salt should of course be doing that any way.
department Quotes

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

—Ayer, SirAlfred Jules

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

—Warhol, Andy

Now,Watson, the fair sex is your department.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

News, Opinion and Advertisment must all come under the head of Entertainment to a reasonable extentöor they will not be read.People do not read to be bored. Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

—Baron

It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.

—Stead,WilliamThomas

While I cannot take time off to name all the men in the State Department whohavebeennamedasmembers of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party, and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.

—McCarthy,Joseph R(aymond)