A department is a part of a larger organization with a specific responsibility. For the division of organizations into departments, see departmentalization.

In particular:

• A government department in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, corresponding to a ministry in other systems:
  • Department (Australia)
  • Department (Canada)
  • Department (Sweden)
  • Department (Switzerland)
  • Department (United Kingdom)
  • Department (United States)

• Department (administrative division)- a geographical and administrative division within a country.

• One of the Departments of France, a département

• Part of an institution such as a commercial company (see departmentalization) or a non-profit organization such as a university.
  • Academic department

• A department store is a retail store that includes many specialized departments such as clothing or household items.

• Part of a state or municipal government:
  • Fire department
  • Police department

• In the US military:
  • "Department" is a term used by the U.S. Army, mostly prior to World War I.
  • A naval Department is a section devoted to one of several major tasks.

• In the magazine context:
  • Articles, essays and columns that follow a certain consistency under one topic.

Department may also refer to:

• Department (film), an upcoming Hindi film

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Noun

department (plural departments)

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
2. 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. Thomas Babington Macaulay.

3. 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 instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
4. 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.
5. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
6. (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.

   • Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

Derived terms

• departmental
• departmentally

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