Meaning of department | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
2. A part, portion, or subdivision
3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like
4. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
5. A specified aspect or quality
6. A specified aspect or quality.
7. A subdivision of an organization. One of the principal divisions of executive government
8. A subdivision of an organization.
9. One of the principal divisions of executive government
10. One of the divisions of instructions
11. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
12. A military subdivision of a country
    historical
13. Act of departing; departure.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.”

“Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.”

“superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature”

“The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.”

“While the Chiefs superstar trails legendary quarterback Tom Brady in the Super Bowl wins department – the former Patriot and Tampa Bay Buccaneer has seven to Mahomes’ three – the chatter will only get louder and louder as to whether or not the 2023 Super Bowl MVP is the greatest of all time or not as he continues his career.”

“the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department”

“the physics department; the history department; the math department”

“The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.”

“the Department of the Potomac”

“For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.”

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