Usually means: Unit within organization with specific function.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word department:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. department: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. department: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. department: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. department: Collins English Dictionary
  5. department: Vocabulary.com
  6. Department, Department, department, department: Wordnik
  7. department: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. department: Wiktionary
  9. department: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. department: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. department: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Department, department: Dictionary.com
  13. department: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Department (Colombia), Department (France), Department (United States Army), Department (administrative division), Department (country subdivision), Department (disambiguation), Department (film), Department (subnational entity), Department, The Department (film), The Department (play), The Department: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Department: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. department: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. department: Rhymezone
  18. department: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. department: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. department: Free Dictionary
  21. department: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. department: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Department: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. department: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. department: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. department: Idioms

(Note: See departmental as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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