division vs department

department vs division

division and department both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
division	Yes	No	No	No
department	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, department is a hyponym of division; that is, department is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than division:

division: an administrative unit in government or business
department: a specialized division of a large organization

Other hyponyms of division include section, arm, branch, subdivision.

division (noun)	department (noun)
the act or process of dividing	a specialized sphere of knowledge
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed	a specialized division of a large organization
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart	the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
discord that splits a group
an army unit large enough to sustain combat
a group of ships of similar type
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
an administrative unit in government or business
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
a league ranked by quality

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