department

A part, portion, or subdivision.

A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

• Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.

A specified aspect or quality.

• The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

A subdivision of an organization.; One of the principal divisions of executive government

• the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department

A subdivision of an organization.; One of the divisions of instructions

• the physics department; the history department; the math department

A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements,

• The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.

A military subdivision of a countryhistorical

• the Department of the Potomac

Act of departing; departure.obsolete

• For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudd