Synonyms for department
dɪˈpɑrt məntde·part·ment

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1. department

   Synonyms:
   section, division, portion, function, office, branch, province, line

   Antonyms:
   institution, establishment, art, science, literature, service, state, whole, organization, community, society, body

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1. department, sectionnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   surgical incision, discussion section, division, section, incision, plane section, part, subdivision, segment

2. departmentnoun

   the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

   Synonyms:
   section

3. departmentnoun

   a specialized sphere of knowledge

   "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"

   Synonyms:
   section

Matched Categories

1. • Administrative District
   • Sector

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1. departmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   part, portion, division (especially a territorial division)

2. departmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   province, function, office, station, sphere of duty, course of life

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1. departmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   division, section, part, category, district, precinct, branch, province, station, sphere, capacity

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1. List of paraphrases for "department":

   ministry, ministère, département, departments, dept., departmental, administration, secretariat, service, departamento, dept, management, prosecutor, dipartimento, office, ministries, ministã, branch, governing, minister, division, directorate, sector, dpko

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1. Acting Police Commissioner Stuart Cameron:

   She wouldn’t get off and the fire department wouldn’t leave with her in there.

2. Bill Weld:

   I spent seven years in the Justice Department trying to keep the politics out of law enforcement, Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld's trying to put it in.

3. Lovely Warren:

   At the heart of it, we need to place the sanctity of human life at the core of RPD's [ Rochester Police Department ] policing philosophy.

4. Jeb Bush:

   I don't know about you, but I'm betting that when it comes to doing the right and good thing, the Little Sisters of the Poor know better than the regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services.

5. Attorney General Loretta Lynch:

   Let me say to our LGBT friends and family ... this Department of Justice, and your country, stands with you in the light, we stand with you to say that the good in the world far outweighs the evil; that our common humanity transcends our differences; and that our most effective response to terror and hatred is compassion, unity and love.