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department

1. [at] департамент [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

department

n. [F. dpartement, fr. dpartir. See Depart, v. i.]1. Act of departing; departure. ()

Sudden departments from one extreme to another. (Wotton.)

2. A part, portion, or subdivision. ()

3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. ()

Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. (Macaulay.)

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. ()