What (who) is department - definition

TERM FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL ENTITY IN SOME COUNTRIES

Départment; Départements; Department (subnational entity); Departements; Department (country subdivision)

department

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Departments; Departament; Department (disambiguation); Dept.

division of a school, of a university

1) a strong; weak department

2) an accounting; anthropology; astronomy; biology; chemistry; classics; economics; English; French; geology; German; history; Italian; linguistics; mathematics; music; nursing; philosophy; physics; political science; psychology; Slavic, Slavonic; sociology; Spanish department

division of a company or government

3) an accounting; finance; fire (AE); health; personnel; police; recreation; sanitation; service department

division of a hospital

4) a casualty (BE), emergency (AE) department

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Departments; Departament; Department (disambiguation); Dept.

(departments)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.

...the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

He moved to the sales department.

...the jewelry department.

N-COUNT: usu with supp

If you say that a task or area of knowledge is not your department, you mean that you are not responsible for it or do not know much about it.

'I'm afraid the name means nothing to me,' he said. 'That's not my department.'

PHRASE: V inflects

Department

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Departments; Departament; Department (disambiguation); Dept.

·vi Act of departing; departure.

II. Department ·vi A part, portion, or subdivision.

III. Department ·vi A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

IV. Department ·vi A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.

V. Department ·vi 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.

VI. Department ·vi 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.

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Department (administrative division)

A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa. An additional 10 countries use departments as second-level divisions, eight in Africa, and one each in the Americas and Europe.

As a territorial entity, "department" was first used by the French Revolutionary governments, apparently to emphasize that each territory was simply an administrative sub-division of the united sovereign nation. (The term "department", in other contexts, means an administrative sub-division of a larger organization.) This attempt to de-emphasize local political identity contrasts strongly with countries divided into "states" (implying local sovereignty).

The division of France into departments was a project particularly identified with the French revolutionary leader the Abbé Sieyès, although it had already been frequently discussed and written about by many politicians and thinkers. The earliest known suggestion of it is from 1764 in the writings of d'Argenson.

Today, departments may exist either with or without a representative assembly and executive head depending upon the countries' constitutional and administrative structure.

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Pronunciation examples for department

1. department, the dairy department.

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2. Department.

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3. Department.

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4. department.

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5. Department.

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Examples of use of department

1. Suhail, the general manager of Health Affairs in Madinah, visited the hospital’s pediatric emergency department, physiotherapy department, pediatric rehabilitation department, x–ray department and infants incubation department.

2. State Department, Department of Defense and military.

3. Churches "receive the full benefits of the police department, the fire department, the building department.

4. State Department and the other for the Department of Defense.

5. Department of Justice; the Los Angeles Sheriff‘s Department; U.S.