departments
- 1Plural of department.
The university merged two departments to cut costs.
Different government departments handle taxes and highways.
Note
A regular plural, made with a simple -s, that carries every meaning of the singular: the divisions of a university or company, the principal branches of executive government, and the territorial districts of France. For France, English writing sometimes keeps the French spelling, départements. The country has 101 of them, grouped into 18 régions and subdivided into arrondissements and cantons.
departments is a form of department
department, noun: A division of a large organization, such as a government, business, store, school or university, that deals with a particular subject or area of work. Full entry
- Forms
- departmentdepartments plural
- Spelling
- department → departments: add -s
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