Thesaurus results for DEPARTMENTS

departments

noun

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plural of department

as in agencies

a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization the Department of the Interior

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as in areas

a region of activity, knowledge, or influence that's not my department, but maybe I can help you anyway

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Recent Examples of departments The Firefighter Cancer Initiative at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center has spent more than a decade researching how cancer affects firefighters, working with local departments across South Florida to improve prevention, screenings and treatment for those facing elevated risks on the job. —

Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026 The radio silence has left local health departments in the dark about threats lurking in their communities. —

Lisa Jarvis, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026 This story is republished via CT Community News, a service of the Connecticut Student Journalism Collaborative, an organization sponsored by journalism departments at college and university campuses across the state. —

Anna Heqimi, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2026 Recruiting is ongoing, but the pool of candidates are the same for seven other departments within Mecklenburg County which is competitive. —

Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026 These are mourning bands, which are protocol for police departments around the country to wear to honor a fellow officer who has died in the line of duty. —

Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026 These moves to various bureaus and departments reflected attempts to curtail corruption, reduce the influence of the prohibitionists on staffing, and increase effectiveness. —

Richard F. Hamm, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2026 But there was never much of a rollout beyond Barneys departments inside the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship in Manhattan and store in Greenwich, Conn. —

David Moin, Footwear News, 20 Feb. 2026 Scott also has more than 15 years of experience creating, implementing and managing content initiatives while working across departments to grow companies. —

Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 20 Feb. 2026

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Potential projects will demonstrate ways to improve energy utilization, process efficiency and manufacturing throughput to ensure a steady supply of extreme environment materials for industrial markets and federal agencies, according to the details available.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
After surveillance abuses in the 1960s — when federal agencies monitored Americans based on associations and viewpoints — public outrage forced new guardrails into law.

— Bob Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026