Usually means: Units organizing specialized functions within organizations.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. departments: Merriam-Webster
  2. departments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. departments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Department's, Departments, Departments, department's, departments, departments: Wordnik
  5. departments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. departments: Wiktionary
  7. Departments: Dictionary.com
  8. departments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Departments: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Departments: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Departments: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (department)

noun:  A part, portion, or subdivision.
noun:  A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
noun:  A specified aspect or quality.
noun:  A subdivision of an organization.
noun:  (often in proper names) One of the principal divisions of executive government
noun:  (in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
noun:  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.
noun:  (historical) A military subdivision of a country
noun:  (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
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