(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.
Exchequer
Definition:
(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
(n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is that these revenues have been siphoned off to the London exchequer."
(2) Because pension incomes are taxable, and pensioners would have more to spend – generating indirect taxation – and the number of people on social security would be lower, the Exchequer would benefit by between £1.7bn and £3bn.
(3) It would make no difference if you were the chancellor of the exchequer handling an existential economic crisis.
(4) The exchequer will receive an extra £630m from the £2.5bn-a-year bank levy in 2011-12 and a further £590m by 2015-16.
(5) Public borrowing this year is projected to be £111bn, 7% of national income, and interest payments on the national debt will be a drain on the exchequer for years to come.
(6) In addition to outlining to ministers the list of parliamentary bills, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, also gave the cabinet an economic update, while the prime minister and home secretary outlined their determination to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.
(7) Whatever has happened to the chancellor of the exchequer?” he asked.
(8) In June the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the 1% cap on pay rises would be extended for another four years at time when wages have begun to rise in real terms in other parts of the economy.
(9) Over 70p of every pound spent on tobacco goes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yielding over 5 billion pounds.
(10) In the Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron said: "What I want is tax revenue from the banks into the exchequer, so we can help rebuild this economy."
(11) The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, who unveiled Help to Buy in 2013's budget , welcomed the Bank's moves to cool the housing market.
(12) Umunna argued that the sum paid directly in corporation tax to the exchequer is the best reflection of a bank's contribution to the country.
(13) "The SNP is selective about when money has flowed into the exchequer.
(14) The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now.
(15) The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that, excluding the cost of interventions to support the financial sector, public sector net borrowing (PSNB) – the gap between the exchequer's tax take and its spending – stood at £163.4bn for the financial year just ended.
(16) "I contribute tens of millions of pounds [to the exchequer].
(17) In 2010 the Labour administration introduced a new top rate of 50% on income over £150,000, but the current chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, cut the rate to 45% in the 2012 budget.
(18) The plan, overseen by the Tory exchequer secretary, David Gauke, has provoked a backlash from privacy campaigners and tax professionals.
(19) ACC: I went straight into the civil service, into the exchequer and audit department, and came to London and worked first in Whitehall, at the old Board of Education, and then went to the Post Office, and then the war began and we were evacuated.
(20) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".