English-Swedish translations for department

• avdelning en
  Därför är det rimligt att inrätta en avdelning för fredsbevarande insatser.For this reason, it makes sense to establish a peacebuilding department.
  Är den en administrativ avdelning?Is it a special administrative department?
  De har en juridisk avdelning som kan hantera detta.They have legal departments and they do it.
• departement
  Mitt departement har en 37 mil lång gemensam gräns till Belgien.My department shares a 370 kilometre border with Belgium.
  Jag talar också i egenskap av folkvald från ett franskt departement.I also speak as the representative of a French department.
  Denna görs endast för internt bruk inom mitt departement.But this is only done for internal use by my department.
• ministerium
• verk ett
  Vill ni beskåda mitt nya verk?

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