- (v.i.) A part, portion or subdivision.
- (v.i.) A distinct course of life, action, study or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
- (v.i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
- (v.i.) Act of departing; departure.
- (v.i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
- (v.i.) A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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