noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a department store/video store/food store etc chain
▪ Morgan was the owner of a computer store chain.
a government department
▪ the government department responsible for policing
a university department
▪ one of the oldest university departments in the country
Department For Innovation, Universities, and Skills, the
department store
fire department
police department
State Department
the Defence Department (=part of the government dealing with defence)
▪ This is secret information, known only to the Defence Department.
the education department (=the government organization that makes decisions about education)
▪ Newcastle City Council’s education department
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ It set separate cash limits for each central government department for pay and allied costs.
▪ The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department.
▪ Since then, central government departments have established regional offices.
▪ Each had a board of civil servants to bring together local representatives of central departments related to economic development.
▪ Central direction has increased since 1979 but local authorities are far more than simply field agents of central government departments.
▪ This report and the other earlier ones demonstrate the interest of central government departments in professional development.
▪ Some public trading activities, notably posts and telecommunications, have operated as parts of central government departments.
▪ They need not necessarily be totally stand-alone units but could be part of the central planning department.
different
▪ These lines were of various colours, each colour representing a different department.
▪ Numbers are handled by a different department altogether, in the next building.
▪ Very often this will be coming from a different department, who should be alerted in good time.
▪ Kopriva, for example, was in six different departments over 14 years.
▪ Protestors welcomed the official objection although some were concerned that different government departments had clashed over the matter.
▪ So many different police departments were involved that protecting the president at times became a logistical nightmare.
▪ He had the same qualifications as me but he was from a different department and had less experience.
▪ Some organizations operate different cultures in different departments.
large
▪ Integrix says the SEC160 makes the Sparcstation 10 useful as a large department server.
▪ Another novel approach was used by an applicant for a sales position with a large department store.
▪ Between a small, local shop where there is likely to be less security, and a large supermarket or department store?
▪ The largest concentration of departments is found in the George Square/Old College area.
▪ If you were asked to select the towns for two new large department stores, which two would you choose and why?
▪ Both are backed up by a large research department.
legal
▪ The leading Stockholm trade publisher Norstedts, also included in the 1990 takeover, has a significant legal publishing department.
▪ If you do not send a payment as soon as possible, we must forward your account to our legal department.
▪ The work covered by the larger legal departments in commerce and industry may cover all the legal services the company requires.
▪ This should ideally consist of a period in each of the different sections of a local authority legal department.
▪ In the spring of 1945, he decided to create a legal department and start suing bigots.
▪ I meant... well, the building, the legal department, my office.
local
▪ A guardian must be either a local social services department or a person accepted by them.
▪ However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
▪ In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.
▪ Her husband, Jim Gerlich, 30, is a sales manager with a local department store.
▪ Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store.
▪ Interested persons should call their local health department for information.
▪ Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.
▪ No federal resources are provided to state and local health departments to support the national notifiable disease system.
other
▪ Several of these tasks require the collaboration of production with other departments, notably Marketing and Finance. 21.
▪ What is peculiar, even unique compared with other departments of government, is a special brand of stuffiness.
▪ The office was to be separated by a party wall from other government departments.
▪ The picture of pupil participation in the assessment process was less obvious in the other two art departments visited.
▪ Then it was on to the chapel, where work from other faculties and departments was on show.
▪ Its chief task is to ensure that the charter and its offspring are being implemented by other departments.
▪ We can now turn to the possible conflicts that can occur between the marketing department and other departments.
▪ No alternative employment within the school or other university department could be identified.
social
▪ In greater detail, local authority social services departments would be responsible for: 1.
▪ A leaked letter from the Social Security department revealed that the benefit could be taxed.
▪ Peter Wiffen, who works for Darlington's social services department, collected £100 through a sponsored slim.
▪ And now Tony Newton's social security department is hoping a recent £7 million advertising campaign will boost that to 60 percent.
▪ Orkney Islands Council abdicated all responsibility to its social work department: my children were made to suffer accordingly.
various
▪ Information is now provided for various Government departments and senior and middle management throughout the organisation.
▪ At this point, the administration has only 55 confirmed officials in the various departments and agencies.
▪ Pearn and I wrote most of the leaders, though occasionally we had help from the various departments of government.
▪ Favorable reports, however, did continue to come in from the various departments and garrisons adhering to the Herrera government.
▪ Opportunities for school children to spend periods in various departments as part of their social studies or community placement should be encouraged.
▪ Top staff meetings at the White House and in the various agencies and departments are devoted to getting puff pieces written.
▪ The corporation for a number of years paid purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and used in its various departments.
▪ Aleman has begun his term with surprise inspections of various government departments.
■ NOUN
education
▪ The project has been organised by Newcastle City Council's education department.
▪ He retired as head of the men's physical education department at Central Missouri State University in 1976.
▪ The Physical Education department endeavours to provide a broadly based service for all students and staff within the University.
▪ It was Kelly who first approached Deirdre Ballou, education department manager at the park, with the idea late last year.
▪ Is the education department closed on public holidays?
▪ I welcome the commitment of Strathclyde's education department to co-operate fully with the commission's investigation.
▪ The agency's Education department runs regular campaigns that involve study and a practical response from participants.
▪ Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor.
fire
▪ The move follows a visit to the fire department in St Petersburg by a group of firemen from the county.
▪ When that happens and some one falls in a channel, the city and county fire department swift-water rescue teams must respond quickly.
▪ Other story ideas come from the police and fire department radio reports of crimes, fires, and accidents.
▪ The fire department estimates that damage at 50 Congress St. is about $ 500, 000, Caron said.
▪ Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
▪ The police, fire department, hotel, stock brokers, lawyers and gay leagues are among these indie leagues.
▪ Cost overruns for overtime for both the police and fire departments has been a chronic problem for years.
government
▪ Many large and medium size companies, government departments and Local authorities are putting Dataease to use somewhere within their organisations.
▪ The office was to be separated by a party wall from other government departments.
▪ It involved the co-ordination of a number of government departments which was extensive by the standards of nineteenth-century administration.
▪ Guidance by circular Every year all government departments send a score or more of circular letters to local authorities.
▪ The bodies which are most obviously subject to various forms of public accountability are central government departments and local authorities.
▪ But government departments have no method of discovering the origin of the timber and paper that they use.
▪ At present responsibility falls into several government departments.
▪ Funds from government departments committed to trade and employment fuel their conversations.
head
▪ This represented a move away from the department head receiving capitation and simply spending it because it was there.
▪ Brown said he would let his department heads lead, but that he would be involved in many of their decisions.
▪ The name will live on as a department head.
▪ I called Professor Sano, our former department head, and asked his advice.
▪ Each department head is responsible for briefing the Colonel.
▪ You receive a panicky call from a department head.
▪ One programme department head is believed to have rejected it.
▪ This summer, he held a retreat in Laguna Beach for 14 people, all department heads.
health
▪ But Keith Atkinson, director of the council's environmental health department, remains unconvinced that the allotment owners are blameless.
▪ Physicians performing abortions were obliged to file detailed reports on each case to the state health department.
▪ Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments.
▪ In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.
▪ Reporting would be received by state health departments as soon as cases are suspected or identified.
▪ Some one in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors.
▪ However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
housing
▪ Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
▪ So why are they different when met over the counter in a social security office or a housing department?
▪ Ask the local authority's housing department in the area to which you want to move for the addresses of local hostels.
▪ Education and housing departments, water and electricity boards have often failed to follow policy guidelines or to co-ordinate their work.
▪ If you are living in council property you must discuss adapting your house with the housing department.
▪ In two cases these policies had been developed as a result of dialogue between the housing department and local disability organisations.
marketing
▪ The objectives of a marketing department are directed towards the attainment of corporate aims, such as profitability growth and social responsibility.
▪ The programme developers and marketing departments must be more outward-looking.
▪ The association's own quantity surveyor and marketing department made detailed investigations.
▪ But what we see increasingly is the series which is the brainchild of a designer or a marketing department rather than of horticulturists.
▪ Ken joins as operations manager responsible for the marketing department.
▪ You are unlikely to find a word processor on your desk or fully computerised accounts, research and marketing departments.
▪ We can now turn to the possible conflicts that can occur between the marketing department and other departments.
planning
▪ In the end these separate plans are cobbled together by a central planning department and adjusted to make them compatible.
▪ The organisation of the planning process tends to be done in corporate head office by a central corporate planning department.
▪ The extent of the input by the business units themselves depends on the style of planning management adopted by the planning department.
▪ According to the state's traffic planning department, traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf.
▪ Simply ask your borough council planning department, who will be able to advise you.
▪ The purpose of the planning department is to control local development to preserve the aesthetic appearance of the region.
▪ A strategy should never be allowed to evolve as a by.product of the efforts of the planning department.
police
▪ In 1994, New Orleans hired a new police chief to rescue the corrupt, ineffective police department from itself.
▪ The Boca Raton police department gave him the name and phone number of a bank officer who could be reached in emergencies.
▪ I would guarantee him an exclusive, pictures and all, which is something he'd never get from the police department.
▪ There were some cases, nevertheless, of clear discrimination: age discrimination in the police department, for example.
▪ The police department, which once rounded up 50 youngsters a night, now picks up two or three.
▪ The organisation of the Catholic church is not to be confused with that of the Ministry of Transport or police department.
▪ So many different police departments were involved that protecting the president at times became a logistical nightmare.
service
▪ I have circulated the request to the various Regional Council service departments asking them to respond not later than 18 December 1992.
▪ What can the social services department do to help?
▪ All local authority social services departments offer different kinds of help and support.
▪ This study took place between 1981 and 1985 in a large northern, metropolitan social services department.
▪ This remains the situation that social service departments will inherit in April 1993, when social services assume responsibility for private care.
▪ Government funding to Social service departments who pay 230-pounds for each resident each week will be cut substantially in April.
▪ Peter Wiffen, who works for Darlington's social services department, collected £100 through a sponsored slim.
state
▪ When state department analysts are asked for their opinions, however, pragmatism will probably trump ideology.
▪ Another 75 or so live in the Burbank-Pasadena area, state department figures show.
▪ The state department spokesman, James Rubin, has done no more than take formal note of Mahuad's initiative.
▪ The U. S. Justice and State departments are supporting that demand.
▪ Yet Pomgol was little more than a conglomerate made up of other relevant state departments.
▪ Nine state departments or agencies had jurisdiction over at least one of the 70 programs.
▪ Among Bush's advisers there is a perceptible difference between the more conciliatory state department and the hardline military.
▪ In 1964 Johnson transferred Bundy to the state department.
store
▪ Ceilings and floors dangled from what had once been a department store.
▪ The London department store Liberty &038; Co., for example, was founded expressly for that purpose.
▪ Plans for the centre include two department stores, an open-air market, a 1,100-space car park and other stores and facilities.
▪ Those buildings include triple deckers with flat roofs and large roofs such as those on department stores and supermarkets.
▪ From department stores and kitchen shops.
▪ Recently I had a long conversation with the credit manager of a department store in Grand Rapids.
▪ The scissors have stainless steel blades and retail at £1.99 in department stores and toy shops.
▪ In San Jose, a jury convicted Anthony Garcia of shoplifting several pairs of pants from a department store.
■ VERB
run
▪ He will be responsible for setting up and running the department which will cover most of the Northern region.
▪ He was running the department from the chair, like Saint Louis dispensing justice from under a tree.
▪ It follows restructuring last year which created business units to run departments.
▪ I am confident that he will pursue this course and continue to run a department whose sales exceed our expectations.
▪ Otherwise he concentrated on a few vital issues and left his ministers relatively free to run their departments.
▪ The management experience of being a governor was important to my running a federal department this big and complicated.
▪ Over time she appointed more congenial ministers to run departments.
▪ Shoe Pavilion has an agreement to run Gordmans' shoe departments.
work
▪ He works in the rights department of a small publishing company and has two children from his first marriage.
▪ Who still works for the 60-officer department as a dispatcher.
▪ Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969.
▪ Telbis-Preis has been working on her manuscript, while her son works in the service department of Pep Boys in Temecula.
▪ We had worked together in that department for many years.
▪ Dave worked in the production department of a company that put on industrials, elaborate musical numbers for industrial conventions.
▪ James had studied law at university but now was working in the personnel department of Cadbury's.
▪ So does the assumption that the individual working in a department is the primary building block of performance.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Minister/Department of the Interior
▪ Former officers at the camp were arrested after the revelations and the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Col.-Gen.
▪ He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.
▪ The Department of the Interior and many other federal and state natural resource agencies are moving toward this broader approach to conservation.
the State Department
the Treasury (Department)
▪ As Secretary of the Treasury you planted the seeds for the most far-reaching tax reform in our history.
▪ Bills are three month assets issued by the Treasury and some companies.
▪ More crucially, the Treasury is developing a political and not just an economic position.
▪ Naval officers received no help from the Treasury for their outfits, though they were given a small tax allowance.
▪ Only then would the true drain on the Treasury begin.
▪ The return to gold was Churchill's decision, even though, within the Treasury, he at first was hard to convince.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At that time, Robert Kennedy was head of the Justice Department.
▪ Ellison is now head of the Department of Education.
▪ Fred has some problems in the humor department.
▪ Melissa is in charge of the Marketing Department.
▪ Our department deals mainly with exports.
▪ She works in the Humanities department
▪ the Department of Experimental Psychology
▪ the Department of Motor Vehicles
▪ the Department of Trade and Industry
▪ The movie tries to be both a comedy and a drama, without success in either department.
▪ Ties are in the men's department.
▪ Vera works in the public relations department.
▪ Which department do you work in?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month later, he was forced to step down as dean of the dental department at the college.
▪ All these departments provide a support service to the Group in their specialised fields.
▪ As the record department was within my view from my balcony office, I generally kept away.
▪ First runners up in the competition were Robert Fulton and John Cunningham, both from the weaving department.
▪ From both departments he received information that might help free the Stone family from harassment.
▪ It gets help in this department from a swirl of balsamic vinegar.
▪ The move comes at a tense time for the Los Angeles police department.
▪ This should ideally consist of a period in each of the different sections of a local authority legal department.