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department
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French département.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??p??tm(?)nt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??p??tm?nt/
- Hyphenation: de?part?ment
Noun
department (plural departments)
- A part, portion, or subdivision.
- A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
- A specified aspect or quality.
- The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
- A subdivision of an organization.
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
- (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
- the physics department; the gender studies department
- (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
- A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin 2003, p. 427:
- (historical) A military subdivision of a country
- (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
- sudden 'departments from one extreame to another
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture
Synonyms
- (distinct course): province, specialty
- (division of executive government): ministry
Derived terms
- departmental
- departmentally
- Department of Redundancy Department
- department store
- fire department
- interdepartmental
- police department
- state department
- trouser department
Translations
See also
- province
- state
department From the web:
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calling
English
Etymology
call +? -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??l??/
- Rhymes: -??l??
Verb
calling
- present participle of call
Noun
calling (plural callings)
- A strong urge to become religious.
- A job or occupation.
Synonyms
- vocation
Translations
calling From the web:
- what callings come from the stake presidency
- what calling apps work in dubai
- what calling out means
- what calling restrictions mean
- what callings does the bishop extend
- what callings does the stake president extended
- what callings come from high council
- what callings are extended by stake president
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