department

Noun

department (plural: departments)

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.

   • Superior to Pope in Pope"s own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.

3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
6. (Obsolete) Act of departing; departure.

   • Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

10 letters in word "department": A D E E M N P R T T.

No anagrams for department found in this word list.

• departings ←
• departing ←
• departers ←
• department
• → departmental
• → departmentalisation
• → departmentalisations