Department Head

Definition: Department Head

Department Head

Noun

1. The head of a department.

Specialty Definitions: Department Head

Domain	Definitions
Occupations	Directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisors, department activities in commercial, industrial, or service establishment: Reviews and analyzes reports, records, and directives, and confers with supervisors to obtain data required for planning department activities, such as new commitments, status of work in progress, and problems encountered. Assigns, or delegates responsibility for, specified work or functional activities and disseminates policy to supervisors. Gives work directions, resolves problems, prepares schedules, and sets deadlines to ensure timely completion of work. Coordinates activities of department with related activities of other departments to ensure efficiency and economy. Monitors and analyzes costs and prepares budget, using computer. Prepares reports and records on department activities for management, using computer. Evaluates current procedures and practices for accomplishing department objectives to develop and implement improved procedures and practices. May initiate or authorize employee hire, promotion, discharge, or transfer. Workers are designated according to functions, activities, or type of department managed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Department Head

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	President, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister; senator, representatative, president pro tem, speaker of the house; department head, section head, section chief; federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice; treasurer, secretary of the treasury; director of the FBI.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Department Head

English words defined with "department head": Agriculture Secretary, attorney general, Attorney General of the United States ♦ Commerce Secretary, Commissary general of subsistence ♦ Defense Secretary ♦ Education Secretary, Energy Secretary, ex officio ♦ fire chief, fire marshal ♦ Interior Secretary ♦ Labor Secretary ♦ minister ♦ Navy Secretary ♦ portfolio ♦ secretary, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of War, security, serve ♦ Transportation Secretary, Treasury Secretary ♦ undersecretary ♦ War Secretary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "department head": accounting department ♦ department chairperson, college or university, DEPARTMENT HEAD, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, doll-wig maker, rooted hair ♦ EDITOR, NEWSPAPER, editor-in-chief, newspaper ♦ GENERAL CLAIMS AGENT ♦ hair-rooting-machine operator ♦ insulting a foreign state, Ivan Sutherland ♦ land department head ♦ music department head ♦ PORTER, BAGGAGE, porter, luggage ♦ rejected-items clerk, RETURNED-ITEM CLERK, ROOTER OPERATOR ♦ SUPERVISOR, SAWING AND ASSEMBLY ♦ TELEPHONE OPERATOR, CHIEF, TEST FIXTURE DESIGNER, transportation department head. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Department Head

Domain	Title
Books	Hospital Salary Survey Report on Department Head Positions 1988-1989 (reference) The effective school department head (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Department Head

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The housing department head resigned shortly afterwards. (references)
	Bhutan	By September a department head and all staff were in place. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Department Head

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
department head	4
department head nag police	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Department Head

Language		Translations for "department head"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		院長 (dean, president). (various references)

French		chef de service (departmental head, head of department), chef de departement. (various references)

German		Abteilungsleiter (department manager, departmental head, floorwalker, floorwalkers, head, head of department, head of the department, heads of the department). (various references)

Pig Latin		epartmentday eadhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Department Head

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-e-h-m-n-p-r-t-t"
	-4 letters: attempered, department, heptameter, penetrated, pentahedra, pentameter, threatened.
	-5 letters: antedated, apartment, deaerated, deathtrap, depredate, determent, emendated, entreated, heartened, meandered, patterned, penetrate, permeated, preheated, pretended, readapted, temperate.
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