'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]

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