departments

noun

plural of department
1
as in agencies
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization the Department of the Interior

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2
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence that's not my department, but maybe I can help you anyway

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Recent Examples of departments Only 27% of Americans view both the State and Justice departments positively, and while Republicans’ approval of those departments has held relatively steady, it’s also below 50%. — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Getting different departments to work together is another challenge. — Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026 The cuts will impact the company's product, technology, legal and human resources departments, Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters wrote in the memo. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 The incident underscores the tension between the financial and security departments in most businesses. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 Firefighter crews from several area departments responded just after noon to the area of 159th Street and Mission Road after reports of the incident. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026 State agencies that awarded UC Davis research funding include the departments of public health, water resources and transportation. — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026 Enterprises may eventually maintain marketplaces of agents that are verified, tested, vetted and approved for particular departments. — Doug Shannon, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Iran attacked roughly two ships for every 100 vessels that crossed the strait in the third quarter, said Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, which tracks ships for defense departments and governments. — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for departments
  1. agencies
  2. areas
  3. offices
  4. domains
  5. bureaus
  6. realms
  7. services
  8. fields
Noun
  • Both agencies have seen a notable decline in Republican support.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • While international observers initially blamed Moscow for the blasts, investigators later found suggestions that Ukrainian state security agencies may have been involved — even though Ukraine counts Germany as one of its closest allies.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of agencies
Noun
  • Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The bar for engaging in major conflicts outside the core strategic areas of Europe and East Asia should be quite high.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • Many metro stations were closed Saturday at police request, including those around the Champs-Elysées and near the presidential palace, Parliament and government offices.
    — SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • And in an office building near the county courthouse, Mana is making over existing legal offices and has plans to open a membership club for attorneys next door.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of offices
Noun
  • These technologies could support radicalization, recruitment and fundraising while helping groups conduct complex attacks across multiple domains.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The contest of networks will be nearly global, waged in multiple domains, with huge stakes riding on the outcome.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • For stronger protection, consider a credit freeze with all three major bureaus.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Register fraud alerts with Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, the three main credit reporting bureaus.
    — Brian Sloan,Dan Avery, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Definition of bureaus
Noun
  • These bog bodies tell stories of a time when humans were sacrificed to the gods in bogs, as otherworldly margins between the human and divine realms, or when social outcasts met a cruel, violent end for failing to conform to societal standards.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • The data breach involved Educational Testing Service or ETS, which provides extensive services to California.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Furthermore, using opioid abatement funds, the county has expanded youth and family support services, co-responder units and other harm-reduction services.
    — Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of services
Noun
  • Gomelsky told investigators there was no reason Wang would need the victim’s research notes because their fields of study at the university were unrelated, the affidavit said.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The schedule also introduces Banana Ball 360, a Notre Dame Stadium event with games alternating between two fields.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of fields

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“Departments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/departments. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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