A specialized division of a large organization:
— You'll find it in the hardware department.

synonym: section.

Roget 625: business, occupation, employment; pursuit etc. 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.    matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty etc. 926.    part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career.    office, place, post, chargeship^†, incumbency, living; situation, berth, employ; service etc. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking etc. 676.    vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art; industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade etc. (commerce) 794.    exercise; work etc. (action) 680; avocation; press of business etc. (activity) 682.    ... show more

Roget 181: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale etc. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing.    [political divisions: see] (property) etc. 780 (Government) etc. 737.1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street etc. (abode) 189.    clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.    biosphere; lithosphere.    ... show more

Roget 75: class, division, category, categorema^†, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.    kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.    manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.    similarity etc. 17.    ... show more

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... show more

Roget 965: jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc; executive, commission of the peace; magistracy etc. (authority) 737.    judge etc. 967; tribunal etc. 966; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty [Brit.]; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve^†, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz [Sarc.]; constabulary, bumbledom^†, gendarmerie [Fr.].    officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop [Coll.], police constable, police sergeant; sbirro^†, alguazil^†, gendarme, kavass^†, lictor^†, mace bearer, huissier [Fr.], bedel^†; tithingman^†.    press gang; exciseman^†, gauger, gager^†, customhouse officer, douanier [Fr.].    coroner, edile^†, aedile^†, portreeve^†, paritor^†; posse comitatus [Lat.].    bureau, cutcherry^†, department, secretariat.    [extension of jurisdiction] long arm of the law, extradition.    ... show more

Dutch: tak, departement, afdeling, sectie
Polish: dział, wydział, pion, sekcja

The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France).

Dutch: departement, gewest
Polish: departament

A specialized sphere of knowledge.