Department

Noun

 * 1) A part, portion, or subdivision.
 * 2) 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. Thomas Babington Macaulay.
 * 1) 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 instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
 * 4)  Act of departing; departure.
 * Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

Adjectives for Department
subsidiary; vast; systematized; countless(plural); elementary; remote; significant; drabbest; immense; irrational; beautiful; capable; experienced; vocational; public; vulgar; administrative; insular.

Verbs for Department
allot to—; assign to—; bestow upon—; boss—; branch into—s; break into—; close—; control—; convert—; create—; divide into—s; establish—; organize—; portion into—s; preside over—; regulate—; supervise—; —administers; —caters to; —handles ; —practises.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From département.

Translations

 * Finnish: jaosto
 * Russian: ,


 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: yksikkö, laitos
 * French:
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 * Greek:, διεύθυνση, ,


 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Russian:, департамент,  ,


 * Greek:, περιοχή


 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: دائرة
 * Bulgarian: ,
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Derived terms

 * departmental
 * departmentally