department
noun/dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/
(abbreviation Dept)
Слово англійською: department
Переклад department українською: ві́дділ, відді́лення (в держа́вному у́ряді і т. д.), ка́федра (об'є́днання викладачі́в), кате́дра, міністе́рство
Детальний опис
- a section of a large organization such as a government, business, university, etc.
- department of something the Department of Health
- He is a lecturer in the department of psychology at Trinity College, Dublin.
- the Treasury Department
- a government/university, etc. department
- the marketing/sales, etc. department
- The children's department (= in a large store) sells a wide range of good quality clothes.
- the English department
- in a department She used to work in the IT department.
- He later served as head of the art history department.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French departement, from departir, based on Latin dispertire ‘to divide’. The original sense was ‘division or distribution’, later ‘separation’, hence ‘a separate part’ (core sense, mid 18th cent.).
Idioms
be somebody’s department
- (informal) to be something that somebody is responsible for or knows a lot about
- Don't ask me about it—that's her department.
in the… department
- (informal) in a particular aspect or quality
- He doesn't have much going for him in the brains department, to be honest.
- Movies lacking in the story department can still succeed.