Synonym: section. Similar words: apartment, compartment, depart, departure, depart from, contentment, take part, repartee. Meaning: [-mənt] 
n. 1. a specialized division of a large organization 2. the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) 3. a specialized sphere of knowledge.
n. 1. a specialized division of a large organization 2. the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) 3. a specialized sphere of knowledge. 
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(31) We have already succeeded in working out ground rules with the Department of Defense.
(32) Theoretically he had control over more than $400 million in US accounts. But, in fact, it was the US Treasury and State Department who controlled those accounts.
(33) Where's the shoe department?
(34) I'll see what I can do, but it's not really my department.
(35) The closure of the export department resulted in over 100 redundancies.
(36) The Labor Department figures underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery.
(37) The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.
(38) The company president has devolved decision-making to the department managers.
(39) The Department maintains many close contacts with the chemical industry.
(40) It was like a Whitehall farce the way I was sent from department to department and everyone said it was someone else's job to help me.
(41) The spokesman for the State Department declared his views to a group of reporters from radio,television,and newspapers.
(42) The college biology department has diversified by adding new courses in biotechnology.
(43) Each department in the company has its own mode of operation and none of them are compatible.
(44) Applicants interested in applying for the position should submit their CVs to the Anatomy Department no later than February 15.
(45) He deputed the running of the department to an assistant.
(46) The school has received various grants from the education department.
(47) The department is responsible for the provision of residential care services.
(48) The art department and the main college are in two separate buildings.
(49) The Tokyo police department is clamping down on organized crime.
(50) The department occupies an office just a mile from the White House.
(51) For months dentists and the health department have been at loggerheads over fees.
(52) The Personnel Department keeps a record of employees absent through sickness.
(53) If we want to send something to another department[http://sentencedict.com/department.html], we use the internal mail.
(54) Household waste is carted away by the city's Sanitation Department.
(55) The department was badly organized until she took charge of it.
(56) Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.
(57) You need to speak to someone in the finance department.
(58) A throng of shoppers pushed against one another to the display tables of the department store.
(59) The children were fascinated by the toys in the big department store.
(60) I find it so refreshing to work with young people in this department.
More similar words: apartment, compartment, depart, departure, depart from, contentment, take part, repartee, resentment, discontentment, on the part of, take part in, allotment, vestment, treatment, commitment, investment, adjustment, enchantment, appointment, disappointment, direct investment, investment banker, parchment, parliament, part and parcel, prepare, prepared, separate, preparing.