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Department
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision.
(2):
(v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(v. i.) A territorial division; a district; esp., 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.
(5):
(v. i.) Act of departing; departure.
(6):
(v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Department'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/department.html. 1828.
