3syllables
departments
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Definitions ofdepartments
1noun
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Example: "Technical things are not his department; he's a people person."
- A subdivision of an organization.
- 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
Example: "the Department of the Potomac"
- Act of departing; departure.
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