'Department' definitions:
Definition of 'department'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: department, section]
noun
The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
noun
A specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
Definition of 'Department'
From: GCIDE
- Department \De*part"ment\, n. [F. d['e]partement, fr. d['e]partir. See Depart, v. i.]
- 1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Sudden departments from one extreme to another. --Wotton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. [1913 Webster]
- Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'department'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'Department'
- Depart,
- Departable,
- Departed,
- Departer,
- Departing,
- To depart with,
- depart from,
- Commissary Department,
- Department of the Interior,
- Department store,
- Home department,
- Subsistence Department,
- academic department,
- advertising department,
- agriculture department,
- anthropology department,
- art department,
- biology department,
- building department,
- business department,
- chemistry department,
- commerce department,
- defense department,
- departed spirit,
- department head,
- department of agriculture,
- department of anthropology,
- department of biology,
- department of chemistry,
- department of commerce,
- department of corrections,
- department of defense,
- department of economics,
- department of education,
- department of energy,
- department of english,
- department of history,
- department of justice,
- department of labor,
- department of linguistics,
- department of mathematics,
- department of music,
- department of philosophy,
- department of physics,
- department of psychology,
- department of sociology,
- department of state,
- department of the treasury,
- department of transportation,
- economics department,
- editorial department,
- education department,
- energy department,
- english department,
- executive department,
- federal department,
- fire department,
- government department,
- history department,
- interior department,
- justice department,
- labor department,
- linguistics department,
- local department,
- mathematics department,
- music department,
- navy department,
- parts department,
- payroll department,
- personnel department,
- philosophy department,
- physics department,
- plant department,
- police department,
- psychology department,
- purchasing department,
- sales department,
- sanitation department,
- security department,
- service department,
- sociology department,
- state department,
- treasury department,
- war department,
- department of commerce and labor,
- department of computer science,
- department of energy intelligence,
- department of homeland security,
- department of justice canada,
- department of local government,
- department of the federal government,
- department of veterans affairs,
- department of defense laboratory system,
- department of health and human services,
- department of health education and welfare,
- department of housing and urban development,
- secretary of state for the home department,
- united states department of defense,
- united states department of state