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
• S: (n) academic department (a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject)
• S: (n) business department (a division of a business firm)
• S: (n) personnel department, personnel office, personnel, staff office (the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management)
• S: (n) government department (a department of government)
• S: (n) payroll, payroll department (the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee)
• S: (n) security, security department (a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers) "the head of security was a former policeman"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• 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"