economics department
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- noun
- /ˌiːkəˈnɑːmɪks dɪˈpɑːrtmənt/
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departamento de economía
- They gave us Brian Strow of the economics department, a young man in his fifth year on the tenure track.
One from Andrew Lowe actually, who's in the economics department here at MIT on using secure multi party computation to attack this problem.
- One from Andrew Lowe actually, who's in the economics department here at MIT on using secure multi party computation to attack this problem.
Examples
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The McIntire School has launched a multi-million dollar, privately funded construction of a new building, and the economics department, long eager to escape its decrepit home in Rouss Hall, may not be far behind.
Academic text (2002) -
I wangled a job as secretary in the economics department.
Fiction book (1993) -
When he went to the chair of his economics department, the idea came to study hospital administration instead.
Blog text (15) -
And I, I, I, I do still teach a, a seminar in the economics department in the fall.
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I understand you are going to reduce your Economics department and get rid of one of your most important professors, Steve Keen.
Blog text (14) -
Within the economics department and the university, Schumpeter was never as influential as one might expect, given his worldwide reputation.
Academic text (1991) -
I enrolled in the 5-year B.S./M.A. dual degree program that the economics department began to offer in my junior year.
Blog text (16) -
The announcements of a new sustainability major and university-wide business minor are promising, as was the creation of a unified economics department.
Blog text (6) -
Law students might learn better negotiation skills at the business school or learn more nuances about the implications of cross-border transactions by studying in the economics department, he says.
Academic text (2007) -
She graduated with honors from the economics department at her university.
Synonyms
A part of a college or university that teaches and studies economics
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'economics' (the academic discipline) with 'department' (an organizational division); the compound straightforwardly denotes the division responsible for economics. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common across languages (e.g. departamento de economía, département d'économie), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Economics department comes from the idea that a department is a 'part' of a school and economics is the subject about how people manage money and resources. So, the phrase names the part of a college or university that teaches and studies economics.