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business department

business department

1 2.7
A part of a company that handles one area of work, like sales or marketing
  • noun
translation icon : departamento de negocios
  • The results of this study demonstrate that community college business departments can address their staffing needs by targeting business professionals completing the MBA degree.
  • college business department
  • community business department

Examples

  • The results of this study provide evidence that business professionals with an MBA degree are a promising pool of potential applicants for faculty vacancies in business departments at community colleges.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Our next debate will be November 14th presented by the business department with a discussion about government spending.

    A Matter of Faith (2014)

  • Along with Computer Applications in the business department, all of the technological studies courses count towards this requirement.

    Academic text (2008)

  • A major donation to UMSL's College of Business department came from the Anheuser-Busch Company.

    Blog text (12)

  • In other words, business departments overall would require more management and organization courses for the CIS program and fewer CIS courses.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The research goal was to assess the impact of recruitment advertisements on the reactions of a randomly selected sample of applicants for a community college business department vacancy.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The business department at our university organizes career fairs for students.

  • She manages the marketing team within the business department, focusing on promotional strategies.

  • The business department conducted a study to improve customer service practices among local firms.

Synonyms

department
vsbusiness department
∞ 1.8

A part of a company or organization that does a particular job

is specific to company sections responsible for a particular function or area
division
vsbusiness department
358 3.2

A part of a larger organization that has its own work

is focused on business firms and specific functional responsibilities rather than any part
dept
vsbusiness department
  • Informal
16 2.9

A part of an organization that does one kind of work, like marketing or IT

is the full formal expression rather than the shortened written form
directorate
vsbusiness department
3 5.8

A department in an organization that manages one area, like research or finance

is a company unit that performs the work rather than mainly managing it

How Big

branch
431 1.3
division
358 3.2
business department
1 2.7
unit
∞ 2.8
team
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

business department singular
business departments plural

Morphology

business + department

The meaning 'a division of a business' is directly compositional from 'business' (a commercial company) + 'department' (an organizational unit). This noun–noun compound follows a very common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Business department comes from the idea of dividing a company into parts. A department is one part where people do a certain job and business shows what kind of work, so the phrase means 'the part of a company that handles a particular area'.