(abbreviation Dept) a section of a large organization such as a government, business, university, etc:
the Department of the Environment * the Treasury Department * a government / university department * the marketing / sales department * the children's department (= in a large store) * the English department
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be sb's department (spoken) to be sth that sb is responsible for or knows a lot about:
Don't ask me about it-that's her department.
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