department
- department
- noun (C)
1 one of the groups of people working together to form part of a large organization such as a hospital, university, or company: the English/sales etc department: She's in charge of the personnel department.
(+ of): the Department of Genetic Research
2 one of the parts that the government is divided into which is responsible for a particular problem or part of people's lives: the State Department | the Department of Transport
3 (C) one of the areas that sells a particular type of product in a large shop: the toy department
4 one of the separate areas that some countries are divided into, for example in France
5 be sb's department spoken to be something that a particular person is responsible for: Don't ask me - cooking's John's department.
—see also: fire department, police department
— departmental
adjective: a departmental meeting
Longman dictionary of contemporary English.
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