English-Dutch translations for department

• afdeling
  Vooralsnog houdt een andere afdeling zich daarmee bezig. That, for the moment, is the concern of another department.
  U weet dat een afdeling van Europol speciaal belast is met terrorismebestrijding. As you know, there is a Europol department dedicated to combating terrorism.
  Elk Commissielid is voor zijn afdeling verantwoordelijk en moet daarvan rekenschap afleggen. Each Member of the Commission is responsible and answerable for his department.
• ministerie
  Zelfs de Verenigde Naties zouden toch ergens goed voor zijn. het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken! Even the United Nations was deemed to have its uses. the State Department.
  Dit maakt namelijk nadrukkelijk onderdeel uit van de toezegging van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid. The Department of Homeland Security undertaking expressly acknowledged this.
  Het vierde lid van het comité is ambtenaar bij het Ministerie van Energievoorziening. The remaining member is a civil servant in the Department of Energy.

Definition of department

• A part, portion, or subdivision
• A subdivision of an organization
• 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
• A military subdivision of a country
• Act of departing; departure

Examples

• Technical things are not his department; hes a people person
• the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
• the physics department; the gender studies department
• the Department of the Potomac

Related words

• departmental
• interdepartmental
• extradepartmental
• department store
• department club
• Department of the Treasury
• Department of State
• department head
• Department of Education