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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
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occupation
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupation, from Latin occup?tio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)
- An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
- The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Synonyms
- (activity with which one occupies oneself) employment, interest, line of work, profession, vocation
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occup?tio, occup?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as occuper +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ky.pa.sj??/
Noun
occupation f (plural occupations)
- occupation (the occupying of a territory; something that one spends one's time on, such as a job or a hobby; act of occupying, of being an occupant)
Related terms
- occuper
Further reading
- “occupation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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