Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A contraction of department.
- noun An abbreviation of deputy.
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Examples
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The Beantown Police Dept. is renowned for their racial strife and biases.
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No book till the US Justice Dept. is finished .......
Cheney: Threat to Iran's nuclear program crucial for negotiations 2009
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I get the need to travel to conferences but going to Oz when the Parks Dept. is considering closing all of the Environmental Learning Centers (Discovery, Carkeek, and Camp Long) seems pretty silly to me. straw girl
Update: Parks Chief’s Travel Expenses For March and April Totaled $7,140 « PubliCola 2010
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Defense Dept. is conducting the first deep space inspection of a crippled U.S. military spacecraft.
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The Justice Dept. is investigating him on numerous fronts.
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Defense Dept. is conducting the first deep space inspection of a crippled U.S. military spacecraft.
Craig Covault is Back - With Quite a Scoop - NASA Watch 2009
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They would like to adopt again but the State Dept. is discouraging adoptions from Guatemala.
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The massive albatross known as the Dept. of Homeland Security has sucked up so many hundreds of Billions of Taxpayer dollars, America could have afforded Universal Health Care for ALL Americans and saved a great many more American lives if that Dept. had never been created by Bush-Cheney.
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First, and unavoidably, the appointment of Gen. Eric Shinseki to head the Veterans Affairs Dept. is a reminder of just how repudiated Rumsfeld is.
The Truth Of Revolution, Brother, Is Year Zero | ATTACKERMAN 2008
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One of the things that's great about being a medievalist in Columbia's English Dept. is the sense of community and tradition that has been handed down through the years.
CFP: Columbia University Medieval Guild Conference Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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