Dictionary Entry
department
department is a 10-letter English word with 9 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Act of departing; departure. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
Act of departing; departure.
- 2intransitive verb
A part, portion, or subdivision.
- 3intransitive verb
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
- 4intransitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
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.
- 6intransitive verb
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
- 7noun
a specialized sphere of knowledge
"baking is not my department"
"his work established a new department of literature"
- 8noun
a specialized division of a large organization
"you'll find it in the hardware department"
"she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
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- 9noun
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
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