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department head

n. the head of a department

Usage examples of "department head".

Perhaps the department head had another, more occupied work area out at his experiment station.

Hanging from the ceiling were quantities and quantities of what was indubitably electronic equipment, but the kind of equipment the boys in the Physics Department might dream up, if the grant they'd just received from the government for military radiation research had been a million times larger than it was, and if Professor Bowles, the department head, had insisted that every gadget be carefully constructed to look substantially different from anything done in electronics to date.

Vorthys said, as the Waste Heat department head stepped past them toward the door.

Beyond them, rows of officers, each department head flanked by his or her senior assistants, ran down the sides of the table to meet at its foot, where he faced Vlad Chernikov, the man who had inherited the shipboard authority which had once been Anu’.

Since his promotion to department head last year, his censorship status had been raised to Clearance Level A.

It would take weeks for each department head to check the facts that involved his particular science.

In fact, I have a hunch that Graham may be leaving to take a job at Carolina, which will put me in line for department head.

Bret pretended to agree, but Bret won't survive as a Department head without his Brahms Four source.

Bret was a 'department head' looking for a department, and there was no more dangerous animal than that stalking through the corridors of Whitehall.

CALL-UP PERSON IS ADVISED TO ACQUIRE NTK AUTHORIZATION FROM DEPARTMENT HEAD.