Noun

• S: (n) department, section (a specialized division of a large organization) "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) division (an administrative unit in government or business)
• S: (n) department, section (a specialized division of a large organization) "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
• S: (n) branch, subdivision, arm (a division of some larger or more complex organization) "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))
• S: (n) department (a specialized sphere of knowledge) "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"