Department
WordNet
noun
(1) A specialized sphere of knowledge
"Baking is not my department"
"His work established a new department of literature"
(2) 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"
(3) The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
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- Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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- 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 instructions; 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.
- Act of departing; departure.
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- Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.
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