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English Dictionary: department	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
department n 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" Synonym(s): department, section the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Department \Depart"ment\, n. [F. d[82]partement, fr. d[82]partir. See {Depart}, v. i.] 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.