department

department englannista suomeksi

1. departementti

2. osasto, yksikkö

3. ala

0. Substantiivi

1. osasto, jaosto

2. ala

3. government ministeriö; university osasto, yksikkö, laitos

4. departementti French-speaking countries, maakunta otherwise, e.g. Argentina

department englanniksi

1. A part, portion, or subdivision.

2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.

(ux)

3. (quote-journal)

4. (RQ:Macaulay Johnson)

5. A specified aspect or quality.

6. *(quote-web)

7. A subdivision of an organization.

8. One of the principal divisions of executive government

''the Treasury Department''; ''the Department of Agriculture''; ''police department''

9. One of the divisions of instructions

''the physics department''; ''the history department''; ''the math department''

10. 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.

11. (quote-text)|title=The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99|page=427|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2003

12. A military subdivision of a country

(usex)

13. Act of departing; departure.

14. (RQ:Wotton Elements of Architecture)