Adistinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Technical things are not hisdepartment; he's a people person.
2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, inThe Scotsman[1]:
Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in thatdepartment.
The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperaturedepartment; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, inCNN.com[2]:
While the Chiefs superstar trails legendary quarterback Tom Brady in the Super Bowl winsdepartment – the former Patriot and Tampa Bay Buccaneer has seven to Mahomes’ three – the chatter will only get louder and louder as to whether or not the 2023 Super Bowl MVP is the greatest of all time or not as he continues his career.
A subdivision of an organization.
(often in proper names) One of the principaldivisions of executive government
the TreasuryDepartment;theDepartment of Agriculture;policedepartment
(in a university) One of the divisions of instructions
the physicsdepartment;the historydepartment;the mathdepartment
Aterritorial division; adistrict; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to acounty in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101départements organized in 18régions, each department is divided intoarrondissements, in turn divided intocantons.
2002,Colin Jones,The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99, Penguin, published2003, page427:
Thedepartments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
1624,Henry Wotton,The Elements of Architecture,[…], London:[…] Iohn Bill,→OCLC, II. part,page104:
For thoughContraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that ourSight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſuddendepartments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather aDuskiſh Tincture, then an abſoluteblacke.
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