4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
5. A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
DEPARTMENTAL
De`part*men"tal, a.
Defn: Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
DEPARTMENT STORE
De*part"ment store.
Defn: A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.
DEPARTURE
De*par"ture, n. Etym: [From Depart.]
1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. Milton.