Crossword-Solution: DEPARTMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Department | v. i. | Act of departing; departure. |
| Department | v. i. | A part, portion, or subdivision. |
| Department | v. i. | A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. |
| Department | v. i. | 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 instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics. |
| Department | v. i. | 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. |
| Department | v. i. | A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEPARTMENT (5)
When she looked for Emil, she found him sitting on a step of the staircase that led up to the clothing and carpet department.
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Kehoe The composition of this booklet was originally started because the Computer Science department at Widener University was in desperate need of documentation describing the capabilities of this "great new Internet link" we obtained.
The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but, even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.
This term is one of the oldest in the jargon and no one is sure of its etymology, but it is suggestive that there is a Cruft Hall at Harvard University which is part of the old physics building; it's said to have been the physics department's radar lab during WWII.
Quotes with DEPARTMENT (3)
Shithead Boss Man, eh? You know, Dylan, I really lucked out in the assistant department. The other partners in the firm have ended up with someone awful, who soothes them, is at their beck and call and agrees with them all the time. I got one who is sarcastic, argumentative, scruffy, rarely where he should be, and calls me Shithead Boss Man rather than Sir.” Jude laughs at him, before reaching out and swiping one of the prawns from my carton of sweet and sour. “He’d call you Sir if you spanked him.
I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel amazed and scared. They can nibble around a midway getting amazed here and scared there, or both. And do you know what else? Hope. Hope they’ll win a prize, break the jackpot, meet a girl, hit a bull’s-eye in front of their buddies. In a carnival you call it luck or chance, but it’s the same as hope. Now hope is a good feeling that needs risk to work. How good it is depends on ho…
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know — you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’I told him …
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1977–2021).