If you say that a task or area of knowledge is not your department, you mean that you are not responsible for it or do not know much about it. `I'm afraid the name means nothing to me,' he said. `That's not my department.'. department store Third Department Gosudarstvenny Universalny Magazin Russian: State Department Store United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop. the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare He moved to the sales department. the jewelry department
An instructional division within a college, such as Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts
a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature" 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 branch of administration of a college/university usually divided by subject (e g Mathematics department) through which instruction in the field is given
An organizational device used by county management to group programs of a like nature
A ten-character identifier which uniquely identifies organizational units It does not represent a funding source but, rather, the name of the unit See "GEMS Department ID "
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
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province
The department of water supply of the county of Maui, excluding the board of water supply unless the context so indicates (As stated in Section 1-2 of the Rules and Regulations )