Definitions for department

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department de·part·ment

Spelling: [dih-pahrt-muh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈpɑrt mənt/

Department is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 563 anagrams from letters in department (adeemnprtt).

Definitions for department

noun

1. a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
2. one of the principal branches of a governmental organization:
3. (initial capital letter) one of the principal divisions of the U.S. federal government, headed by a secretary who is a member of the president's cabinet.
4. a division of a business enterprise dealing with a particular area of activity:
5. a section of a retail store selling a particular class or kind of goods:
6. one of the sections of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge:
7. one of the large districts into which certain countries, as France, are divided for administrative purposes.
8. a division of official business, duties, or functions:
9. a sphere or province of activity, knowledge, or responsibility:
10. (usually initial capital letter) U.S. Army. (formerly) a large geographical division of the U.S. or its possessions as divided for military and defense purposes:

Origin of department

1730-35; French département, equivalent to départ(ir) (see depart) + -ment -ment

Examples for department

Within the department there are officers who can speak or understand more than 60 foreign languages.

No one department of human effort is specially His, or is His special expression.

The explanation belongs to the department of meteorology, and not to astronomy.

They will choose competent and faithful representatives for every department.

The four children were taken into custody by the department of Social Services.

You see, they put her in my department when she first came here to work.

In 1974, 75 members of the group descended on a Copenhagen department store.

Among other things, the bill appropriates $1.1 trillion in funding—including over $550 billion for the department of Defense.

But he was not certain of the view his department would take.

Exactly one year earlier, the department lost two firefighters.