Department
Act of departing; departure.
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
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.
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.
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
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Department Quotations
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur
There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
Steven Wright
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
Andy Warhol
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.
John Walters
Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
Henry L. Stimson
I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Joseph R. McCarthy
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas Sowell
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
Department Translations
department in Afrikaans is afdeling, vak, departement
department in Danish is afdeling
department in Dutch is departement
department in Finnish is lokero
department in German is Ressort {n}, Abteilung {f], Gebiet {n}
department in Italian is compartimento, area
department in Norwegian is avdeling, departement
department in Portuguese is departamento
department in Spanish is seccion, recinto
department in Swedish is avdelning, varuhus, departement
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