departmental

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French départemental. By surface analysis, department +‎ -al. Doublet of départemental.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪpɑːtˈmɛntəl/, /ˌdiːpɑtˈmɛntəl/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /dɪpɑɹtˈmɛntəl/, /ˌdiːpɑɹtˈmɛntəl/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪpaːtˈmentəl/, /ˌdiːpaːtˈmentəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

departmental (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a department.

Antonyms

• non-departmental, nondepartmental

Derived terms

• departmentalism
• departmentalitis
• departmentalization
• departmentalize
• departmentally
• departmental store
• extradepartmental
• intradepartmental
• multidepartmental
• predepartmental

 

Translations

of or pertaining to a department

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 部門的／部门的 (bùmén de)

• French: départemental (fr)
• Hindi: विभागीय (vibhāgīya)
• Irish: rannach
• Italian: ministeriale (it), dipartimentale, ripartimentale
• Japanese: 部門の (ぶもんの, bumon no)
• Kazakh: департаменттік (departamenttık)
• Russian: департаментский (ru) (departamentskij), ве́домственный (ru) (védomstvennyj)
• Spanish: departamental (es)