Department - English meaning

noun

A business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group.

Usage examples:

An advertising agency

noun

A business acting for or representing a person, an organization, or another business

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An advertising/employment agency, a real estate agency, federal agencies, the environmental protect…

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A business that provides a service to other people or organizations

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Background checks may be done in-house or by an outside agency., she now runs an agency which last …

noun

Each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand.

Usage examples:

She held the baby in her arms

verb

Supply or provide with weapons.

Usage examples:

The security forces are armed with automatic rifles

noun

Either of the two long parts of the upper body that are joined to the shoulders and have hands at the end

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Her arm was bandaged from elbow to wrist., he held his young son in his arms (= closely)., the arm …

noun

A part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough.

Usage examples:

Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple

verb

(of a road or path) divide into one or more subdivisions.

Usage examples:

Follow this track south until it branches into two

noun

A part of something larger

Usage examples:

Branch of immunology is a branch of biological science., one branch of their family (= one group of…

noun

A writing desk with drawers and typically an angled top opening downwards to form a writing surface.

Usage examples:

They later found that the writing bureau had been broken into but nothing has been stolen.

noun

A department of government, or a division that performs a particular job

Usage examples:

You’ve got to go to the bureau of motor vehicles to renew your driver’s license.

noun

An organization or a business that collects or provides information

Usage examples:

The citizen's advice bureau can advise you about debt problems., she reported the problem to the be…

noun

A separate section or part of a structure or container.

Usage examples:

There's some ice cream in the freezer compartment

verb

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.

Usage examples:

The buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls

noun

Any of the enclosed parts into which a space, a vehicle, or an object used for storing things is divided

Usage examples:

She folded her coat and put it in the overhead luggage compartment.

noun

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

Usage examples:

The division of the land into small fields

noun

The separation of something into parts or groups, or one of the parts or groups that has been separated

Usage examples:

[ u ] the division of responsibilities among the officers of the company was spelled out in detail.…

noun

One of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into

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The year-on-year profit figure for the division fell by 36%., investment/services/international div…

noun

(in certain countries) a government department headed by a minister.

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The ministry of defence

noun

A government department led by a minister

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All the ministries were represented at the meeting – justice, foreign affairs, economic affairs, an…

noun

A room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work.

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An office job

noun

A place in a building where a business is carried on by people working at desks (= special tables) used for writing and for holding telephones and computers

Usage examples:

An office building, i didn’t leave the office until nearly 8 o’clock., the doctor’s office was fill…

noun

A room or building in which people work, especially sitting at desks with computers, phones, etc., as a part of a business or other organization

Usage examples:

The meeting is at their offices in san diego., local/regional/overseas office it would be so much e…

noun

Any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.

Usage examples:

I unscrewed every section of copper pipe, from the roof tank to the hot-water cylinder

verb

Divide into sections.

Usage examples:

She began to section the grapefruit

noun

A part of something

Usage examples:

Dad always reads the sports section of the newspaper., he lived in a poor section of town., you’ll …

noun

An area or portion that is distinct from others.

Usage examples:

Operations in the southern sector of the north sea

noun

A part of society that can be separated from other parts because of its own special character

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The farm sector, the nonprofit sector, she works in the private/public sector (= for a business/gov…

noun

One of the areas of activity that a country's economy is divided into

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The agricultural/industrial/manufacturing sector, the banking/business/financial sector, the it/tec…

noun

Each of the parts into which something is or may be divided.

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A large segment of the local population

verb

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.

Usage examples:

The unemployed are segmented into two groups

One of several parts that fit with others to make a whole

noun

The action of subdividing or being subdivided.

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The subdivision of existing subjects

noun

A subdivision is also an area of land containing many homes built at about the same time

Usage examples:

We moved to a brand-new subdivision in 1965.

noun

One of the parts into which something is divided, or the act of creating these

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He has been responsible for the subdivision of work., the index shows the subdivisions of the prosp…

noun

A division of a section.

Usage examples:

Each chapter has a different theme and numerous subsections

noun

One of the smaller parts into which the main parts of a document or organization are divided

Usage examples:

Further details can be found in section 7 subsection 4 of the report.

noun

An individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole.

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Large areas of land made up of smaller units

A single undivided whole

noun

(in a bird) a modified forelimb that bears large feathers and is used for flying.

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Besides having forelimbs that resemble the wings of modern birds, the animal sported long feathers …

verb

Travel on wings or by aircraft; fly.

Usage examples:

George satisfied his keen urge to fly by winging homewards with the royal air force