department

Meaning of department

noun
  1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
  2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
    Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
  3. A subdivision of an organization.
  4. 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.
  5. A military subdivision of a country
    the Department of the Potomac
  6. Act of departing; departure.

Information about department

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of department is: departments.
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Hyphenation of department

de-part-ment

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • department is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

department synonyms

Meaning section:

section

Meaning :

province, specialty, ministry

Translation of department

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