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Synonyms for department
dɪˈpɑrt məntde·part·ment

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. department

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

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

Princeton's WordNet2.5 / 2 votes

  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, department, 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  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. Jason Healey:

    The concern at [ the Department of Homeland Security ] and the Pentagon will be that ransomware will hit at the county and state level to disable voting registers, vote tallying and reporting, and result reporting, election machines themselves should be harder [ to compromise ], as they're less connected.

  2. Lloyd Austin:

    The overwhelming majority of the men and women of the Department of Defense serve this country with honor and integrity, we owe the men and women of the Department of Defense an environment free of extremist activities, and we owe our country a military that reflects the founding values of our democracy.

  3. Rahm Emanuel:

    We are not going to be between picking our values of who we are as a welcoming city, and strengthening our police department.

  4. Antony Blinken:

    We've surged resources to make sure that we could make good by the people who are seeking Special Immigrant Visas, we've added about 50 people here at the State Department. A lot of the work actually gets done here at State. We have additional people in the field. We've reduced and in fact eliminated some backlogs that existed.

  5. Michael McKinley:

    The timing of my resignation was the result of two overriding concerns : the failure in my view, of the State Department to offer support to Foreign Service employees caught up in the impeachment inquiry ; and, second, by what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives.


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