(v. i.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
(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.
(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.
(v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(4) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(5) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(8) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(12) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
(14) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(15) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(16) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(17) Neil Blessitt Bristol • We need to establish what the legal position is with regard to the establishment by the government of a private company co-owned by the Department of Health and the French firm Sopra Steria.
(18) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(19) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(20) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.
Departmental
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a department or division.
Example Sentences:
(1) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
(2) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(3) A survey of chairmen of United States departments of pathology (97% response rate) augmented with data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that roughly two thirds (65%) of departmental faculty are physicians, the great majority of whom are pathologists.
(4) The budget for the arts has been cut by 36% since 2010 and now faces the prospect of a similar cut as part of the £12bn of departmental savings in the Tory manifesto.
(5) Although the extra capital investment in schools is being portrayed as a reward for Gove for controlling his departmental budget, the government has little choice but to offer more cash due to the growing shortage of school places in the south-east caused by immigration and the baby boom.
(6) In seven cases nonperception errors occurred because established departmental routines were not followed, and in nine cases a new departmental routine was established after a complication occurred.
(7) This took the government's overall and departmental spending plans up to spring 2016.
(8) The American DRG system (diagnosis-related group system) is compared in this study with a Danish clinical economical analysis instrument which has been developed for assessment of quality at hospital departmental level.
(9) The authors experience with a pilot trial of a system purchased and adapted to departmental needs is reported.
(10) A hospital's pharmacy renovated its existing outdated and highly restricted departmental space to help ensure more efficient operation until the master plan for hospitalwide improvements could be completed and implemented.
(11) That is why we need SDG champions at the highest level and the right mechanisms to translate the strategy into departmental plans and budgets.
(12) Pharmacy directors interested in increasing the numbers of clinical services offered at their institutions should consider organizational factors such as departmental structure and number and types of personnel in conjunction with computerization.
(13) Those chairmen who had mentors were more likely to have these characteristics: (1) to have completed a subspecialty fellowship, (2) to command a larger departmental budget (greater than $4 million), (3) to have been a board examiner before appointment, and (4) to have received support in obtaining their appointment from recognized leaders in the specialty.
(14) A truly expert contracting group must be created that would be powerful enough to challenge departmental vested interests.
(15) As GI, just as other measurements of turnover, only provides an expression of the status at a given moment, the author considers that it is of importance both for the departmental and the political planning that the GI frequency is followed as part of the current assessment.
(16) Present scheduling systems range to the very sophisticated that not only smooth peaks and valleys but also eliminate examination conflicts and unnecessary, similar, and duplicate examinations to increase departmental productivity using the existing radiographic rooms and technologic staff.
(17) While non-occupation-related tuberculosis was found in both departmental groups with nearly equal incidence, the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis among pathologists and pathology technicians after engagement in their current specialist work was significantly higher than that in the control groups (odds ratio = 6.08-10.98).
(18) Inadequate prophylaxis (failure to prescribe or early discontinuation) was documented in over half of the patients who bled and in the patient requiring operation in spite of a departmental interest in stress gastritis prophylaxis.
(19) Monitoring the technologist efficiency variance over time could be one key piece of information for improving departmental productivity.
(20) By 2019–20, departmental spending is expected to be 13% lower than it was in 2010 after inflation is taken into account, with cuts of about 40% to the justice, business, culture and environment budgets.