Department Synonyms & Definitions

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• DepartmentDefinition & Meaning in English

(v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision.
(v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) Act of departing; departure.
(v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(v. i.) 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.

• DepartmentalDefinition & Meaning in English

(a.) Pertaining to a department or division.

• Department storeDefinition & Meaning in English

() A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.