| 单词 | department |
| 释义 | department (once / 69 pages) n A department is one section or part of a larger group, like a company or a school. The philosophy department of a university is just one of many, including English, math, and sociology. Your local hospital has an emergency department, as well as surgical and mental health departments, or units. A company might have finance departments and hiring departments, and a town government has public works and fire departments. A "department store" is likewise split into sections. In each case, the departments specialize in one certain aspect of the organization. You can also say, "Making cookies is my department," if you're the person in your family who's the baking expert. WORD FAMILYdepartment: departmental, departments+/departmental: departmentally, interdepartmental, intradepartmental USAGE EXAMPLESFederal officials warned the state’s education department in a June letter that they plan to monitor more closely which states comply with the new guidelines. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Its decision was so ham-handed that the Justice Department hit Culpeper County with a lawsuit last month based on the Religious Land Use act. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Donelan said her department was not involved in the ejection. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a specialized division of a large organization you'll find it in the hardware department Syn|Hypo|Hyper section academic department a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject business departmenta division of a business firm personnel, personnel department, personnel office, staff officethe department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management government departmenta department of government payroll, payroll departmentthe department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee security, security departmenta department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers ministrya government department under the direction of a minister anthropology department, department of anthropologythe academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology art departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching art and art appreciation biology department, department of biologythe academic department responsible for teaching and research in biology chemistry department, department of chemistrythe academic department responsible for teaching and research in chemistry department of computer sciencethe academic department responsible for teaching and research in computer science department of economics, economics departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in economics English department, department of Englishthe academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature department of history, history departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching history department of linguistics, linguistics departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in linguistics department of mathematics, mathematics departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in mathematics department of philosophy, philosophy departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching philosophy department of physics, physics departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in physics department of music, music departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching music and music appreciation department of psychology, psychology departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in psychology department of sociology, sociology departmentthe academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology advertising department, advertising divisionthe division of a business that is responsible for advertising editorial departmentthe department of a publishing business that edits material for publication parts departmentthe division of a business (e.g. a service garage) that sells replacement parts building department, plant departmentthe division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant purchasing departmentthe division of a business that is responsible for purchases sales department, sales division, sales forcethe division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services service departmentthe division of a business that provides customer services treasurythe government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues department of local government, local departmenta permanent department created to perform the work of a local government Special Brancha government police department dealing with political security State Departmenta department of government in one of the 50 states department of the federal government, federal department, federal officea department of the federal government of the United States admiraltythe department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) division an administrative unit in government or business 2n the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) Hyper administrative district, administrative division, territorial division a district defined for administrative purposes 3n a specialized sphere of knowledge baking is not my department his work established a new department of literature Hyper sector, sphere a particular aspect of life or activity |
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