department

n. துறை, இலாகா, பணியரங்கம், தொழிற்களப்பகுதி, செயலரங்கக் கூறுபாடு, பிரஞ்சு நாட்டு ஆட்சித் துறை வட்டாரம்.

Synonyms

section division portion function office branch province line

Antonyms

institution establishment art science literature service state whole organization community society body

De*part"ment, n. Etym: [F. département, fr. départir. See Depart, v. i.] 1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] 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 instructions; 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.

department - Similar Words

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