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department

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 A department is a part of a large store, which sells one kind of product. You can find balls in the sporting goods department. 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.

department

(= section) a specialized division of a large organization you'll find it in the hardware department she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) a specialized sphere of knowledge baking is not my department his work established a new department of literature

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division component

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Simple sentences

A very pleasant young woman waited on me in the department store.
I'm in charge of the book department.
Sami called the fire department to put the fire out.
Sami wanted to join the accounting department.
This department is supervised by Tom.
Where's the nearest department store?
Hello, is this the personnel department?
Bob operates an elevator in the department store.
I got a new hat at the department store.
The document was distributed to all department heads.
He insisted on going to the department store with his mother.
There is a bookstore in front of the department store.
Excuse me, but where is the men's shoe department?
Kelly carries the news department.
The toy department is on the fifth floor.
Do you have a children's department?
I like to shop at that department store.
I bought it at a department store.
Please go to the Surgery Department.
I will not be dictated to by some idiot in the personnel department.
There is an advertising balloon flying above the department store.
Our department doesn't have that information.
This department store is closed today.
The research director had the department do a thorough job in testing the new product.

Movie subtitles

Designate theatre area Red Zone, rest of Emergency Department Amber.
I had to challenge her, for the good of the department.
The only thing Lorraine ever did was challenge the way you run this department.
Patients in our department?
And Sutton finally got her job offer in the fashion department.
Hey, yo, fashion department coming through.
Fashion department right.
Anne Arundel county sheriff's department's reporting a downed aircraft burning two miles outside of Crofton.
French Republic (Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood) Police Department Security service Paris, June 5th, 1911 The inspector Juve is responsible for the inquiry concerning the disappearance of Lord Beltham.
At the Police Department someone had had the same idea.
ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENTIAL Inspector Juve resumes his duties at the Police Department.
A lot of drafts and white paper were circulating in a certain department.
You'll have to take that up with the commissary department.
Photo department.
He knows every operator in my department.
The Treasury Department's report.
Kemp's car going over the cliff was another of Charlie Baker's, and his Universal miniature department's efforts. As usual, a first-rate one.
Fire department searchlights on the roof.
I fight crowds in department stores, dying of the heat, killing myself trying to get a nice mountain outfit together!
I'd start a new department.
It didn't last long, they found me in a department store.
Agnes, you call the police department.
You are with the police department?
I want to bring it to the police department in the morning.
But I'll be there, all right, in one department or another.
Your department is trying to solve two murders.
Seconded from his regiment for duty with the Political Department.
Not my department.
A covert department of the CIA, the Special Activities Division has activated a kill contract on you.
Hello. I'm Korean People's Army's Defense Department's First Lieutenant, Ri Gang Seok.
Hello. I'm from the Tactical Operations Department of the Korean People's Army, Gwon Yeong Bae.
The Justice Department made this decision.
Anne Arundel County Sheriff's Department is reporting a downed aircraft burning 2 miles outside of Crofton.
If you got any complaints to make we got a special department for them.
GUERCHARD, YOU CAN HAVE ANYTHING IN THE DEPARTMENT YOU LIKE.
You might try the Personnel Department around on 47th.
I told you once, I don't need any more girls in my department.
The Publicity Department's waiting to take stills of you for the fan magazines.

News and current affairs

In 1977, when I served in President Jimmy Carter's State Department, I was sent to India to dissuade that country's leaders from developing a nuclear bomb.
Secretary Abraham said it did not; that his department was only studying adaptations of existing weapons.
In fact, the Central Propaganda Department's ideological control can be maintained only through internal notices and telephone calls, which are widely scorned.
I recently met an official working for a provincial Department of Propaganda and was impressed by his bold and straightforward comments on current affairs.
Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.
The fact that the International Monetary Fund, the US Department of Justice, and anti-poverty NGOs all joined in opposing the vulture funds is revealing.
A central bank is not a university economics department, where diversity is almost invariably a source of strength.
Signor Cavallo, who returned to the Treasury Department in order to save his baby, is right when he asserts that the budgetary problems are simply not as awful as many people believe.
A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
For a quarter-century starting in 1950, the US Department of Defense - to cite one crucial example - combined both roles to build the underpinnings of today's digital economy.
A telling example is the shift in jurisdiction over British universities since 1992 from the Department of Education and Science to the Department for Education and Employment, and, in 2009, to a new Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills.
The truth is that over the last three years, some regional insiders, including me, had several lengthy discussions with Bush's advisors on the National Security Council (NSC) and in the State Department.
Putin's lawyers will reverse that decision; the party will have cells or committees in every factory, corporation, military unit, university department, etc.
On the same day, the US State Department released its annual report on religious freedom, in which Myanmar was included among the world's eight worst offenders.
One reason is that the State Department also issued a statement that America would help India to become a major world power in the twenty-first century, involving both a strategic and economic dialogue.
My apartment mate explained that everyone in her office, in the US Department of Education, had used the excuse of a birthday party to watch the US-Germany match.
They owned everything from paper mills to department stores and supermarket chains.
The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the profit and loss statement of any central bank - or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.
A college-age Libyan woman's father recently denied her the opportunity to accept a scholarship from the US State Department to attend a training workshop in Washington, DC, because he could not accompany her overseas.
Similarly, the government cut the department governors' revenue in order to finance an expanded pension plan and weaken them politically and economically.
The Country Reports on Human Rights worldwide, published annually by the State Department, maintain the high standard of accuracy and comprehensiveness that they achieved during the Clinton administration.
The keenest proponent of a revitalized OSCE now is the US State Department.
CCTV falls under the control of the Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television.
The department heads and oversight committees that meet to evaluate programming seldom dictate content, but merely pass their complaints and recommendations down to programming heads.

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