Department
Department can mean several things:
- Departmentalisation, the division of a larger organisation into parts with specific tasks
- Academic department, a division of a school's faculty devoted to a particular subject
- Ministry (government department), a division of a government with a specific responsibility
- Department (country subdivision), a type of administrative division within a country
- Fire department, an organisation that provides firefighting services
- Police department, a body empowered by the state to enforce the law
The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for:
department.
Other uses
- Department store, a retail store that has several departments dedicated to different types of products, such as clothing or household items
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