Definitions

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  • noun A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under bureau.

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  • noun a subordinate department, bureau

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ department

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Examples

  • Because if you are Jewish or Asian, you may belong to what is admittedly a minority; you may, in fact, belong to a minority whose history and culture merits its own subdepartment in many universities; but no way, no how, will you be regarded as a “minority applicant” at any university or professional school.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Slippery Slopes 2010

  • Because if you are Jewish or Asian, you may belong to what is admittedly a minority; you may, in fact, belong to a minority whose history and culture merits its own subdepartment in many universities; but no way, no how, will you be regarded as a “minority applicant” at any university or professional school.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Slippery Slopes 2010

  • How can we come within our subdepartment to a common understanding of how we intend to contextualize the students' experience with these texts so that the students will NOT fall into the most obvious and most predictable patterns of misreading, which are all too often created by their desire to reduce any of these complex texts to a sound bite?

    Text and Context: The Ongoing Dialogue Bruce Schauble 2007

  • How can we come within our subdepartment to a common understanding of how we intend to contextualize the students' experience with these texts so that the students will NOT fall into the most obvious and most predictable patterns of misreading, which are all too often created by their desire to reduce any of these complex texts to a sound bite?

    Archive 2007-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • This is not despite, but because of, the fact that it consists mostly of lists: a list of every department of the Gulag (the word is an acronym for Glavnaya Upravlenia Lagerei, or Main Camp Administration); a list of every subdepartment of the Gulag; and a list of all 476 camps whose existence has so far been identified in the archives.

    Inside the Gulag Applebaum, Anne 2000

  • Vidal's boss at the Department of Commerce, because the bureau of air commerce was at -- was a subdepartment in the Department of

    East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart 1997

  • Five others with comparable agencies made provision for a subdepartment having responsibility for the mentally ill.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Five others with comparable agencies made provision for a subdepartment having responsibility for the mentally ill.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Generally speaking, it is all right to communicate with the people in your subdepartment.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • Generally speaking, it is all right to communicate with the people in your subdepartment.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

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