Definition of Department

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Department

Act of departing; departure.

A part, portion, or subdivision.

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

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.

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.

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

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Department Quotations

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
Andy Warhol

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
Tom Peters

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
Julia Child

Department Translations

department in Afrikaans is afdeling, vak, departement
department in Danish is afdeling
department in Dutch is departement
department in Finnish is lokero
department in German is Ressort {n}, Abteilung {f], Gebiet {n}
department in Italian is compartimento, area
department in Norwegian is avdeling, departement
department in Portuguese is departamento
department in Spanish is seccion, recinto
department in Swedish is avdelning, varuhus, departement

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