division
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3.2
- noun
- /dɪˈvɪʒən/
:
división
- IBM Research division, here we go.
- division or department
- school division
- census division
Lennar has a home building division and a landlord division.
- Lennar has a home building division and a landlord division.
- Two of the managers who who who reported to the division director walked out.
- So Urban Outfitters has a new division called Without Walls.
- And now he's been promoted to another division, just like my friend Jim.
- This agent took it to the crime Division Three times and they turned it down.
- My title is division director of the Global Service Management.
- He had a good record building, running the divisions that he was given responsibility for.
- The antitrust and civil divisions, I know these like the back of my hand.
- So that company sells buys a division from Bernie Cantor.
- I got married and there is a very important division in Daniel called Daniel Welfare Center.
Examples
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So Urban Outfitters has a new division called Without Walls.
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Miyabi's father is the manager of the finance division at a bank.
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- Let the film division handle it.
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And I need it in two days, or the music division will be gone.
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You can volunteer at either the Division level or the Section level, or both.
Academic text (2012) -
Lennar has a home building division and a landlord division.
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I eventually moved to the University of Arizona-Tucson to become the division chief and residency program director.
Academic text (2017) -
David R. Martinez is an associate division head at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Academic text (2017) -
Scholarships: At ASME-IPTI's Petroleum Division, we believe that outstanding engineering begins with a solid educational foundation.
Academic text (2011) -
The finance division at the bank is responsible for managing the company's investments.
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of something that, with others, makes a whole
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1.0
A part of something larger, like a page, pipe, or fence
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1.8
A part of a company or organization that does a particular job
431
1.3
A division of a larger organization, like a local office
42
3.4
A smaller part of a section about one topic
4
7.2
A group in a company or sport that has teams and staff
3
5.8
A department in an organization that manages one area, like research or finance
1
4.7
A smaller part of an industry that focuses on one type of business
1
2.7
A part of a company that handles one area of work, like sales or marketing
1
3.7
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
A smaller part of a department that does specific tasks
A smaller part of a larger organization that works in a local area
An area set up for local government, like a region or district
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.8
A process in which a cell splits to make two or more new cells for growth and reproduction
1
3.7
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
- Specialized
The part of a body of water that includes the sea floor and nearby shore areas
- Specialized
A group of mostly single-celled living things with cells that have a nucleus, like slime molds and some algae
- Archaic
A former group of plants like ferns that have tubes and make spores not seeds
- Specialized
A large group of red seaweeds that grow mainly in the sea near the shore
- Archaic
An old scientific name for blue-green algae now called cyanobacteria
- Archaic
A group of single-celled life forms different from bacteria and from animals and plants
- Specialized
A group of small plants that do not make flowers, like mosses, liverworts and hornworts
- Archaic
A group of mostly freshwater microscopic algae with yellow or brown color
- Archaic
A group of bacteria like blue-green algae that make food from sunlight and live in water and soil
- Archaic
A large group of single-celled living things that have rigid cell walls
- Specialized
A group of small, free-swimming algae that move with a tail and live in fresh water
- Specialized
A main group of fungi like mushrooms and molds that have cells with walls made of chitin
- Archaic
An old scientific group for organisms where a fungus lives with algae or blue-green bacteria
- Specialized
A group of brown seaweeds like kelp used in some biology classifications
- Jargon
A group in the United States Air Force that has two or more wings and controls them
A main United States Navy group that designs and tests aircraft and missiles
- Specialized
A type of cell division that makes four sex cells, each with half the chromosomes
- Specialized
Separating a word into parts when it breaks at the end of a line in writing
How Big
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3.7
∞
1.0
358
3.2
∞
1.8
389
2.4
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2.8
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Division comes from the verb divide, which means 'to separate into parts'. So in a company or government, a division is one part of a larger organization.