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department s
 
Noun department has 3 senses
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
department of psychology department of sociology department of state department of the federal government department of the interior department of the treasury department of transportation department of veterans affairs department s department store department stores departmental departmentalize departmentalized departmentalizes departmentalizing departmentally

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