Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a department or division, as of a country.
- Of or pertaining to a department or branch, as of a government, a manufacturing or business undertaking or concern, public office, and the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to a department or division.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
department .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a department
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fellow is expected to attend and participate in departmental research conferences.
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Obviously I'll side with Trudie on a lot (most) issues in departmental meetings, but I'm not sure how much good that will do, either, given that we're both untenured and new to the department.
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Obviously I'll side with Trudie on a lot (most) issues in departmental meetings, but I'm not sure how much good that will do, either, given that we're both untenured and new to the department.
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As a young assistant professor naïve in departmental politics I was quite vulnerable, and had a difficult time during my subsequent years at Michigan.
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The scripts were allegedly found by members of the public who then called departmental officials.
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It is alleged that Gasa called her departmental employees as
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It is alleged that Gasa called her departmental employees as
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If we could find instances of what we may call departmental kings of nature, that is of persons supposed to rule over particular elements or aspects of nature, they would probably present a closer analogy to the King of the Wood than the divine kings we have been hitherto considering, whose control of nature is general rather than special.
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These, then, are examples of what I have called departmental kings of nature.
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These, then, are examples of what I have called departmental kings of nature.
qroqqa commented on the word departmental
Pronunciation oddity: the first syllable is long. You'd expect it to be short as in department, developmental. I thought this might be a recent development, but the OED only gives the pronunciation with i:.
July 7, 2010