English-Estonian translations for department

• instituut
• osakond
  See osakond peab hakkama tegelema ka Abyeiga ja tegema seda kohe, mitte siis, kui meie ees on juba suur katastroof. This department must be alerted to Abyei now and not when we are faced with a huge disaster.
  Rumeenia välisministeeriumis on osakond, mis seisab välismaal elavate rumeenlaste huvide eest. Romania has a department within its Ministry of Foreign Affairs that looks after the interests of Romanians living abroad.
  Ma siiski ei tea, kas ta osakond lubab kodanikel esitada kaebusi ta enda töö kohta. I do not know, however, whether his department allows citizens to make complaints about the operation of his own department.

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