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

1. intransitive verb. Act of departing; departure.
2. intransitive verb. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. intransitive verb. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
4. intransitive 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.
5. intransitive 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.
6. intransitive verb. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
7. noun. a specialized sphere of knowledge

   "baking is not my department"

   "his work established a new department of literature"

8. noun. 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"

   Synonyms: section

9. noun. the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

Synonyms

section

Common word forms

departments, departmental, departmentize

Words from these letters

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