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Noun department has 3 senses

department, section - 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"
--₁ is a kind of division
--₁ has particulars:
academic department; business department; personnel department, personnel office, personnel, staff office; government department; payroll, payroll department; security, security department
department - the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
--₂ is a kind of administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
--₂ is a member of country, state, land
department - a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
--₃ is a kind of sector, sphere