department

Definition

A part, portion, or subdivision.

Etymology

From Middle English departement (“ceasing, end”), from Middle French département. Later senses borrowed from Modern French département. Doublet of département.

Example Sentences

• "Technical things are not his department; he's a people person."
• "Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department."
• "superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature"

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