Departmental

Definition: Departmental

Departmental

Adjective

1. Of or relating to a department; "departmental policy".

Date "departmental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Departmental

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	Ruling; Verb: regnant, gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; authorized; (due).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Departmental

Specialty definitions using "departmental": AS/400, AS400 ♦ BACK-SHOE WORKER, BALLISTICS EXPERT, FORENSIC, BATTALION CHIEF, BLENDING SUPERVISOR ♦ Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency, CHIEF BANK EXAMINER, claims administrator, COMMANDER, IDENTIFICATION AND RECORDS, COMMISSIONER, CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES, COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR, coordinator, program planning, custodial services manager ♦ departmental assistant, departmental seniority, departmental store, DEPUTY SHERIFF, CHIEF, dietitian, administrative, DIETITIAN, CHIEF, director of financial aid and placements, DIRECTOR OF PUPIL PERSONNEL PROGRAM, director of student aid, DIRECTOR, CONSUMER AFFAIRS, DIRECTOR, CORRECTIONAL AGENCY, director, data processing, DIRECTOR, DENTAL SERVICES, director, dietetics departmen, director, housekeeping, DIRECTOR, LICENSING AND REGISTRATION, director, management information systems, DIRECTOR, NURSING SERVICE, DIRECTOR, STATE-ASSESSED PROPERTIES, director, underwriter sales, DIRECTOR, UNDERWRITER SOLICITATION ♦ ELIGIBILITY WORKER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RED CROSS, EXECUTIVE HOUSEKEEPER ♦ FINANCIAL-AIDS OFFICER, firearms expert ♦ GENERAL SUPERVISOR ♦ Hospital Shared Services, housekeeper, administrative, housekeeper, head ♦ IMMIGRATION INSPECTOR ♦ MANAGEMENT TRAINEE, MANAGER, DATA PROCESSING, MANAGER, DEPARTMENT STORE ♦ nurse supervisor, industrial nursin, NURSE, SUPERVISOR, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING ♦ PERMANENT-MOLD SUPERVISOR, PRINT CONTROLLER, PROGRAM PROPOSALS COORDINATOR ♦ RADIATION-PROTECTION ENGINEER, REVENUE OFFICER ♦ safe deposit manager, STANDARDS ENGINEER, SUPERVISOR, CLAIMS, SUPERVISOR, LINE DEPARTMENT, SUPERVISOR, RADIO INTERFERENCE, SUPERVISOR, SAFETY DEPOSIT, SUPERVISOR, VARNISH, SUPERVISOR, VENDOR QUALITY, SUPERVISOR, WORD PROCESSING, Surgery Department, Hospital ♦ tankroom supervisor ♦ WATER CONTROL SUPERVISOR, Windows 2000. (references)

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Modern Usage: Departmental

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Departmental Case (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Departmental

Domain	Title
Books	Royal Commissions and Departmental Committees in Britain: A Case Study in Institutional Adaptiveness and Public Participation in Government (reference) Barrack-room ballads and Departmental ditties (reference) Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads (Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling) Vol. 7 (reference) Commercial's a Practical Handbook of Departmental Proceedings (Under Cda Rules and Certified Standin (reference) A Departmental Chairperson's Survival Manual (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Agronomy And Soils Departmental Series (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Departmental

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U.S. Customs Service, Departmental Auditorium, and the Interstate Commerce Commission Building. Departmental Auditorium from front.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Departmental

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Regional and departmental governments also provide assistance but it is generally restricted to their respective local regions. (references)
Civil Liberties	Bolivia	The Government requires NGO's to register with the appropriate departmental government. (references)
Economic History	Peru	Authorities below the departmental level are elected. (references)
	Peru	Superior courts in departmental capitals review appeals from decisions by lower courts. (references)
Human Rights	Mauritania	A total of 13 regional tribunals accept appeals in commercial and civil matters from the departmental tribunals and hear misdemeanors. (references)
	India	In April 2000, the Madhya Pradesh government instituted a departmental inquiry into the matter and found that the Gwalior police had tried the brothers on a false complaint and had misused police authority to settle private scores. (references)
	Mauritania	The 53 departmental tribunals, composed of a president and magistrates with traditional Islamic legal training, hear civil cases involving sums less than $39 (10,000 ouguiya) and family issues, such as domestic, divorce, and inheritance cases. (references)
Political Economy	Uruguay	Departmental governments have budgetary independence from the central government and may set local tax rates. (references)
	Colombia	In October 2000, departmental and municipal elections were held at which Liberals and independents fared well, and the Conservatives lost several key strongholds. (references)
	Colombia	His administration has worked with the International Monetary Fund to correct dangerous imbalances, obtaining passage of austere budgets for 2000 and 2001. Congress has passed a revenue-enhancing tax reform, and is a needed cap on revenue sharing ("territorial transfers") with departmental and local governments. (references)
Political Rights	Bolivia	The National Electoral Court (CNE) and its lower departmental courts oversee the electoral process, including voter registration, tabulation, and certification of ballots. (references)
	Bolivia	On May 9, CNE Justice Jorge Lazarte Rojas resigned in protest against perceived politicization of the electoral courts, specifically the alleged party quota-based nomination of departmental electoral judges. (references)
	Bolivia	In July the Congress elected a new CNE, expanding its number from five to seven judges, declared the departmental electoral court positions vacant, and instructed the CNE to select new departmental electoral court judges and modify the Electoral Code so that head departmental electoral judges are selected by congressional vote. (references)
Women	South Africa	The Office on the Status of Women, located in the Office of the Deputy President, coordinates departmental gender desks, which develop strategies to ensure integration of gender concerns into governmental policy and planning. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	The Labor Ministry plans to give these regional offices supervisory authority over branch offices in the departmental capitals of each region. (references)
	Colombia	In March state workers from the national, departmental, and municipal governments staged a 24-hour general strike to protest state sector layoffs and proposed reforms to the national pension system. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Departmental

"Departmental" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.90% of the time. "Departmental" is used about 902 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.9%	883	8,052
Noun (proper)	1.99%	18	82,615
Noun (singular)	0.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	902	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Departmental

Expressions using "departmental": departmental assistant ♦ departmental computer ♦ departmental database ♦ departmental seniority ♦ departmental store. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "departmental": cross-departmental, inter-departmental, non-departmental.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Departmental

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
departmental store	10
departmental	10
departmental stors syms	3
accountable compromising departmental hold individual manager meeting need productivity without	2
departmental diagram mall medical project sequence shop shopping store store store	2
alberta departmental exam	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Departmental

Language		Translations for "departmental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ministrisë, i dikasterit. (various references)

Arabic		‏مقسم الى دوائر, ‏مصلحى, ‏إداري (administrative, executive, manager, managerial, trustee). (various references)

Bulgarian		който се отнася до даден отдел, ведомствен. (various references)

Chinese		部门 (Department, departmentally). (various references)

Czech		sekèní, resortní, odborový, ministerský (ministerial), katedrový. (various references)

Danish		tjenstlig meddelelse (departmental communication), statsvirksomheder (departmental enterprises), statslig koncession (departmental lease), ministerielt cirkulære (departmental circular), ministeriel standard (departmental standard), afdelings-database (departmental database). (various references)

Dutch		dienstmededeling (departmental communication), departementsconcessie (departmental lease), vakgroepsbestuur (departmental board), ministeriele circulaire (departmental circular), ministeriële norm (departmental standard), Algemeen Directiesecretariaat (Departmental Secretariat), afdelingsgevensbank (departmental database), afdelingscomputer (business microcomputer, business minicomputer, departmental computer), afdelingschef (departmental head, head of a department, head of department). (various references)

Finnish		valtion konsessio (departmental lease), toimistotietokone (business microcomputer, business minicomputer, departmental computer), osastotietokanta (departmental database), osastopäällikkö (chief a department, departmental manager), osaston tietokanta (departmental database), ministeriön kiertokirje (departmental circular). (various references)

French		départemental. (various references)

German		ministerial- (ministry), abteilungs-. (various references)

Greek		κλαδικόσ, τμήματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מחלקתי (divisional). (various references)

Hungarian		ágazati. (various references)

Italian		dipartimentale. (various references)

Korean		부문. (various references)

Manx		rheynnagh (distributive, partitive). (various references)

Pig Latin		epartmentalday

Portuguese		departamental. (various references)

Romanian		departamental. (various references)

Russian		ведомственный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odsek (department, desk, intercept, section, subdivision), koji se odnosi na odelenje, katedru. (various references)

Spanish		departamental. (various references)

Swedish		departements-, institutions- (institutional), avdelnings- (divisional, sectional). (various references)

Turkish		kısmi (fractional, local, part, partial), bakanlık ile ilgili, şubeye ait. (various references)

Ukranian		що стосу�"ться діяльності відділу, кафедральний (cathedral), відомчий, поділений на департаменти. (various references)

Vietnamese		thuộc cục; thuộc sở. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Departmental

Derivations
	Words beginning with "departmental": departmentalization, departmentalizations, departmentalize, departmentalized, departmentalizes, departmentalizing, departmentally. (additional references)
	Words ending with "departmental": interdepartmental, nondepartmental. (additional references)
	Words containing "departmental": interdepartmentally. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Departmental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Departamento, Departamentul, Departementale, departmently, departmento, departmentof. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Departmental"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "departmental" (pronounced dupÄ'rtme"nul or dupÄ'rtme"ntul)
4	-e" n u l	fennel, kennel.
3	-n u l	abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, infernal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, penal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, renal, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational.
10	-p Ä' r t m e" n t u l	compartmental.
6	-m e" n t u l	detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, incremental, instrumental, intergovernmental, judgmental, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, ornamental, regimental, sentimental, supplemental, temperamental, unsentimental.
5	-e" n t u l	accidental, coincidental, continental, dental, gentle, incidental, intercontinental, lentil, occidental, oriental, parental, rental, transcendental, transcontinental.
4	-n t u l	Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, infantile, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle.
3	-t u l	acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, infertile, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Departmental

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-l-m-n-p-r-t-t"
	-2 letters: alternated, department, maltreated.
	-3 letters: alternate, apartment, letterman, nameplate, patterned, replanted.
	-4 letters: alderman, aldermen, alterant, anteater, antedate, antlered, attemper, attender, dampener, emanated, emplaned, endplate, lamented, lamenter, malapert, maltreat, mantelet, maternal, mattered, napalmed, nattered, palmated, palmette, paltered, panetela, parament, parental, parented, parlante, patented, paternal, pattered, permeant, prattled, prenatal, rattened, replated, talented, tampered, tapenade, tarletan, template.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-l-m-n-p-r-t-t"
	+2 letters: departmentally.
	+3 letters: departmentalize, nondepartmental.
	+4 letters: departmentalized, departmentalizes.
	+5 letters: compartmentalised, compartmentalized, departmentalizing, interdepartmental.
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