"department" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "department",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "departments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "de‧part‧ment",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The Department of Health is planning to build three new hospitals in the area."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's often difficult to get the various government departments to work together."
        },
        {
          "text": "He was in the Department of Law at the Keele University for nearly 20 years."
        },
        {
          "text": "Professor Swallow, became Head of the English Department at Rummidge University."
        },
        {
          "text": "The toy department is over there past"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A department is a part of a business, school, hospital or other institution that has a particular job."
      ],
      "id": "simple-department-en-noun-t1zrh4Xy"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can find balls in the sporting goods department."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A department is a part of a large store, which sells one kind of product."
      ],
      "id": "simple-department-en-noun-b6sxbIAP"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sorry, I can't help you. That's not my department."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somebody's department is the things that they are good at or responsible for."
      ],
      "id": "simple-department-en-noun-kptbUgrg"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈpɑrtmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-department.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "department"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "department",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "departments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "de‧part‧ment",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The Department of Health is planning to build three new hospitals in the area."
        },
        {
          "text": "It's often difficult to get the various government departments to work together."
        },
        {
          "text": "He was in the Department of Law at the Keele University for nearly 20 years."
        },
        {
          "text": "Professor Swallow, became Head of the English Department at Rummidge University."
        },
        {
          "text": "The toy department is over there past"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A department is a part of a business, school, hospital or other institution that has a particular job."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You can find balls in the sporting goods department."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A department is a part of a large store, which sells one kind of product."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Sorry, I can't help you. That's not my department."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Somebody's department is the things that they are good at or responsible for."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dəˈpɑrtmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "department"
}