department

department: noun

1 of a government

ADJECTIVE

▪ federal, government, state

▪ Education Department, Health Department, etc.

▪ fire, police (both AmE)

▪ The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.

DEPARTMENT + NOUN

▪ official, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman

▪ personnel (AmE), staff

PREPOSITION

▪ department for

▪ the Department for Transport (in the UK)

▪ department of

▪ the Department of Transportation (in the US)

2 of an organization

ADJECTIVE

▪ accident and emergency (BrE), casualty (BrE), emergency (AmE), hospital, outpatient

▪ design, finance, HR, legal, marketing, personnel, planning, publicity, sales, etc.

▪ biology, English, science, etc.

VERB + DEPARTMENT

▪ head, manage, run

▪ Staff criticized the way the history department was run.

▪ join

▪ A new member of staff has joined the department.

▪ create, establish

▪ contact

▪ Contact our sales department for more information.

DEPARTMENT + NOUN

▪ chair (esp. AmE), coordinator, head, manager

▪ member (esp. AmE), staff

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the department

▪ Complaints are dealt with in a different department.

▪ within a/the department

▪ to gain promotion within the department

▪ department of

▪ the Department of Planning

PHRASES

▪ the head of a/the department, the head of department

▪ a member of a/the department

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Synonyms:

Part, portion, division (especially a territorial division), province / Province, function, office, station, sphere of duty, course of life / Province, branch, division or subdivision (of a subject or notion)

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