About The Word Department
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Department
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What's The Definition Of Department?
[n] a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
[n] 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" [n] the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) Synonyms | Synonyms for Department: section Related Terms | Find terms related to Department: airspace | ambit | area | arena | bailiwick | beat | belt | border | borderland | branch | bureau | circle | circuit | commissariat | concern | confines | constablery | constablewick | constabulary | continental shelf | control | corridor | country | demesne | discipline | district | division | domain | dominion | environs | field | ground | heartland | hemisphere | hinterland | judicial circuit | jurisdiction | land | march | milieu | ministry | municipality | neighborhood | office | offshore rights | orb | orbit | pale | part | parts | place | precinct | precincts | premises | province | purlieus | quarter | realm | region | responsibility | round | salient | secretariat | section | segment | sheriffalty | sheriffwick | shrievalty | soil | space | sphere | subdiscipline | subdivision | terrain | territory | three-mile limit | twelve-mile limit | unit | vicinage | vicinity | walk | worry | zone See Also | academic department | administrative district | administrative division | business department | country | division | government department | land | sector | security | sphere | state | territorial division Department In Webster's Dictionary \De*part"ment\, n. [F. d['e]partement, fr.
d['e]partir. See {Depart}, v. i.]
1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.]
Sudden departments from one extreme to another.
--Wotton.
2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like;
appointed sphere or walk; province.
Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department
of literature. --Macaulay.
4. 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. 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. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of
the Potomac.
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