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administrative
Adjective
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Administrative staff or positions are those related to organizing and managing a company or institution.
The teacher was removed from teaching duties and placed in an administrative position.
department
Noun
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A department is a part of a business, school, hospital or other institution that has a particular job.
The Department of Health is planning to build three new hospitals in the area.
It's often difficult to get the various government departments to work together.
He was in the Department of Law at the Keele University for nearly 20 years.
Professor Swallow, became Head of the English Department at Rummidge University.
The toy department is over there past
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A department is a part of a large store, which sells one kind of product.
You can find balls in the sporting goods department.
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Somebody's department is the things that they are good at or responsible for.
Sorry, I can't help you. That's not my department.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
local
Adjective
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Something is local if it comes from a specific place. It often it means a place near the person who is speaking.
We do not like fruit grown in other countries. We like to eat local fruit.
local
Noun
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A person is local if the person comes from a specific place.
They did not trust people from other places. They only trust locals.
administration
Noun
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The administration are the people who run and organise an organisation such as a business or government.
In short, the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station.
The Bush administration has one of the worst records of any American government.