de·part·ment /dɪˈpɑrtmənt/
部,部門;學部,系;司,局,處,科
department
部門 DEPT
department
部 部門 系
De·part·ment n.
1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.]
Sudden departments from one extreme to another. --Wotton.
2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
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department
n 1: a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find
it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the
historical section of the Treasury" [syn: section]
2: the territorial and administrative division of some
countries (such as France)
3: a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my
department"; "his work established a new department of
literature"