1. department - Noun
2. department - Verb
Act of departing; departure.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
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.
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.
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Source: Webster's dictionaryCould I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. Paul Robeson
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. Arthur Miller
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. Arthur Machen
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee Williams
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. Andy Warhol