departmental
pronunciation
How to pronounce departmental in British English:
UK [ˌdi:pɑ:tˈmentl]
How to pronounce departmental in American English:
US [ˌdipɑrtˈmentl]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to a department
Word Origin
- departmental (adj.)
- 1791, "pertaining to a French department," from French départmental, from département (see department). Meaning "of departmental systems generally" from 1832.
Example
- 1. Its departmental bosses have crushing workloads .
- 2. One would halve the number of elected representatives to departmental and regional assemblies .
- 3. The departmental team gathers information requirements and tailors each data mart to meet the needs of the members in its group .
- 4. He was also able to find another 3.5 billion of savings outside the departmental budgets .
- 5. Mr osborne will present an emergency budget on june 22nd , then a departmental spending review this autumn .