Word Meaning

departments definition and meaning

v. i. Act of departing; departure.
v. i. A part, portion, or subdivision.
v. i. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
v. i. 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.
v. i. 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.
v. i. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Crossword clues for departments

- Deep art, meant to sound like a kind of store
- Division of a large organisation
- Emporium, ... store
- Go, men, to head government division
- Office section
- Office sections
- Organisation sections
- Parts of store
- Retail store areas
- Specialised divisions
- Specialised divisions used damper tents
- Store sections