department
/dɪˈpɑɹtmənt/ nom B1En français : département, ministère
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like. · Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
- A specified aspect or quality. · The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
- One of the principal divisions of executive government · the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
- One of the divisions of instructions · the physics department; the history department; the math department
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- A military subdivision of a country · the Department of the Potomac
Pluriel departments
Dans la bibliothèque
I have a position in one of the city departments.
You know I never had tea at a manse before, and I’m not sure that I know all the rules of etiquette, although I’ve been studying the rules given in the Etiquette Department of the Family Herald ever since I came here.
I don’t really know which department was the most interesting.
that of the home department, or of the observatory?”
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