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Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.
Agnes Bruckner

Meaning of "department" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEPARTMENT

From French département, from départir to divide.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DEPARTMENT

department  [dɪˈpɑːtmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEPARTMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Department is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEPARTMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Department

Department may refer to: ▪ Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility...

Definition of department in the English dictionary

The first definition of department in the dictionary is a specialized division of a large concern, such as a business, store, or university. Other definition of department is a major subdivision or branch of the administration of a government. Department is also a branch or subdivision of learning.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEPARTMENT


adjustment
əˈdʒʌstmənt
allotment
əˈlɒtmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
appointment
əˈpɔɪntmənt
assortment
əˈsɔːtmənt
commitment
kəˈmɪtmənt
compartment
kəmˈpɑːtmənt
comportment
kəmˈpɔːtmənt
disappointment
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt
enactment
ɪnˈæktmənt
excitement
ɪkˈsaɪtmənt
fitment
ˈfɪtmənt
investment
ɪnˈvɛstmənt
mistreatment
ˌmɪsˈtriːtmənt
ointment
ˈɔɪntmənt
pretreatment
priːˈtriːtmənt
recruitment
rɪˈkruːtmənt
statement
ˈsteɪtmənt
treatment
ˈtriːtmənt
understatement
ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEPARTMENT

departer
department chairman
department chairmen
Department for Education and Employment
department head
Department of Defense
Department of External Affairs
Department of Health
Department of Social Security
Department of State
Department of the Environment
Department of the Navy
department store
departmental
departmentalisation
departmentalise
departmentalism
departmentalization
departmentalize
departmentally

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEPARTMENT

advertisement
capital investment
contentment
cost-of-living adjustment
education department
enlistment
fire department
foreign investment
graphic design department
heat treatment
indictment
Justice Department
one-room apartment
police department
power of appointment
resentment
sales department
service department
State Department
studio apartment
the treatment

Synonyms and antonyms of department in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEPARTMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «department» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of department

Translation of «department» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEPARTMENT

Find out the translation of department to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of department from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «department» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

部门
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

departamento
570 millions of speakers

English

department
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विभाग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قِسْم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отдел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

departamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভাগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

service
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jabatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abteilung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

部門
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Departemen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विभाग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bölüm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

reparto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dział
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відділ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

departament
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τμήμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Departement
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avdelning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avdeling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of department

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEPARTMENT»

The term «department» is very widely used and occupies the 1.626 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEPARTMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «department» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «department» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about department

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10 QUOTES WITH «DEPARTMENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word department.
1
Ted Allen
I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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Sean Bean
Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.
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Betsy Brandt
In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
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Agnes Bruckner
Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.
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Amanda Burton
Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
6
Roy Clark
As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.
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Roy Clark
So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.
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Kresley Cole
My toughest criticism usually comes from myself. As my editor can attest to, I'm never done tweaking a book until the production department has to rip it from my hands!
9
Monique Coleman
My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.
10
Richard H. Davis
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEPARTMENT»

Discover the use of department in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to department and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Department 19
Jamie Carpenter's father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous creature named Frankenstein.
Will Hill, 2011
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U.S. Department of State: A Reference History
The book is supplemented with three appendixes and a comprehensive bibliography. A complete and up-to-date major reference, this will be an asset to the reference collections of both academic and public libraries.
Elmer Plischke, 1999
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Fire Department Strategic Planning: Creating Future Excellence
In this second edition, author Mark Wallace succinctly points out that if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Mark Wallace, 2006
4
Fire Department Incident Safety Officer
This book primes aspiring and current Safety Officers to meet and exceed the specific job functions outlined in the 2007 Edition of NFPA 1521: Standard for Fire Department Safety Officer, as well as to aggressively pursue the operation of a ...
David Dodson, 2007
5
Running a Public Relations Department
Good management practice is essential if a PR department is to be highly valued and cost effective. This updated edition aims to show business practitioners exactly how this can be achieved.
Mike Beard, 2001
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Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department
This pocket book succinctly describes 400 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in the emergency department, and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding ...
Amal Mattu, Arjun S. Chanmugam, Stuart P. Swadron, 2012
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Oakland Fire Department
After waging an internal battle of racial integration--a 35-year struggle that began in 1920--the Oakland Fire Department became one of the first in the nation to hire women firefighters beginning in 1980.
Geoffrey Hunter, 2005
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Litigation Support Department
Litigation Support Department tackles the copious amount of work faced by Litigation Support in the age of electronic discovery by offering strategic methods designed to improve the management of case technology, department operations and ...
Mark R. Lieb, 2005
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Detroit Police Department
This photographic book highlights the Detroit Police Department's rich history, resplendent with groundbreaking advancements in the field of law enforcement.
Lt. Stephen W. White, Charles Wilson, Officer Michael Woody, 2008
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BMC's Competition Department Secrets
This book reveals the inner workings of one of the most successful motorsport teams Britain has ever seen.
Marcus Chambers, Stuart Turner, Peter Browning, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEPARTMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term department is used in the context of the following news items.
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Baltimore Police Union Criticizes Department's Response to Rioting
BALTIMORE—The city's police union sharply criticized the Baltimore Police Department's response to rioting here in late April, issuing a report ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
2
As Hollywood Lobbied State Department, It Built Free Home …
Asked about its gifts to the State Department, the lobby group declined to say how many embassies got donations or how much they were worth ... «Techdirt, Jul 15»
3
US State Department begins the nearly impossible task of banning …
The US State Department is trying to get out ahead of this one by banning the distribution of 3D printing gun files online. To call this an uphill ... «ExtremeTech, Jul 15»
4
Hong Kong Buildings Department under fire for failure to remove …
Hong Kong's Buildings Department had been too slow to remove illegal constructions, the Legislative Council's public accounts committee said ... «South China Morning Post, Jul 15»
5
FBI, Justice Department ask for greater access to encrypted data
FBI and Justice Department officials say encryption technology built into smartphones makes it harder for them to monitor and intercept ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
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Transport department to probe East London plane crash
A plane crashed at East London Airport on Wednesday morning, critically injuring five people. Watch.WATCH ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Department approves funding for emerging farmer projects
MULTIMILLION-rand funding for emerging black farmers has been approved by the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. «BDlive, Jul 15»
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Second freestanding emergency department to open in November
Construction inside the freestanding emergency department at 119 and 280. Brookwood Medical Center owns the facility, which will offer ... «AL.com, Jul 15»
9
Amid transition at New York ed department, Ken Wagner decamps …
Ken Wagner, a top state education official who helped manage the department after former Commissioner John King's resignation last year, ... «Chalkbeat Indiana, Jul 15»
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Education Department Dismisses Admissions Complaint
The U.S. Department of Education has dismissed a complaint filed against Harvard this spring by 64 Asian-American groups accusing the ... «Harvard Crimson, Jul 15»

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