departments
di-PART-muhnts/dɪˈpɑɹtmənts/Saydi-PAHT-muhntsUK/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nts/AUS/dɪˈpɐːtm(ə)nts/
- 1Plural of department. Use this when talking about more than one department.
The store has many departments on different floors.
Several departments worked together on the school project.
Note
departments is a form of department
department, noun: One part of a big organization, like a company, store, school or government, that deals with one kind of work. Full entry
- Forms
- departmentdepartments plural
- Spelling
- department → departments: add -s
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