department

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/    美 /dɪˈpɑɹtmənt/|/dɪˈpɐːtm(ə)nt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
  2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
    — Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
  3. A specified aspect or quality.
    — The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. A subdivision of an organization.; One of the principal divisions of executive government
    — the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
  5. A subdivision of an organization.; One of the divisions of instructions
    — the physics department; the history department; the math department
  6. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
    — The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
  7. A military subdivision of a country historical
    — the Department of the Potomac
  8. Act of departing; departure. obsolete
    — For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.

词形变化

departments plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cabinet department casualty department departmental departmentally departmentation departmentize Department of Redundancy Department department store departmentwide emergency department fire department interdepartmental multidepartment police department state department subdepartment superdepartment treasury department trouser department
相关词
province state

词源

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