Department
Definition of Department
De`part´ment n. | 1. | Act of departing; departure. | | 2. | A part, portion, or subdivision. | | 3. | A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. | | 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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