District vs Department - What's the difference?
district | department |
An administrative division of an area.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
(UK) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
(obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh
* Foxe
A part, portion, or subdivision.
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
* {{quote-news, year=2014
, date=November 14
, author=Stephen Halliday
, title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero
, work=The Scotsman
* (and other bibliographic particulars), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
A subdivision of an organization.
# One of the principal divisions of executive government
# One of the divisions of instructions
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to the 1715-99 , Penguin 2003, p. 427:
(label) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
(label) Act of departing; departure.
* (and other bibliographic particulars), Wotton
In obsolete terms the difference between district and department
is that district is rigorous; stringent; harsh while department is act of departing; departure.As a verb district
is to divide into administrative or other districts.As an adjective district
is rigorous; stringent; harsh.As a proper noun District
is the District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States.district
English
(wikipedia district)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War. […]’}}
- the Soho district of London
- the Lake District in Cumbria
- South Oxfordshire District Council
Derived terms
* congressional district * districthood * electoral district * school districtDerived terms
* redistrictAdjective
(en adjective)- punishing with the rod of district severity
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English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department .}}
- the Treasury Department'''''; ''the '''Department''' of Agriculture''; ''police '''department
- the physics department'''''; ''the gender studies '''department
- The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
- sudden 'departments from one extreme to another