interdepartmental support
- noun
- Formal
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apoyo interdepartamental
- The success of the project relied on strong interdepartmental support from both the finance and marketing teams.
Examples
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Effective interdepartmental support can enhance collaboration between research and development departments.
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The committee emphasized the importance of interdepartmental support in achieving the organization’s goals.
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With the top administration promoting interdepartmental support, the CIS program will be more than successful.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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Help from one government department to another with things like transport or paperwork
Help that one branch of the military gives another with supplies and paperwork
How Coordinated
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'interdepartmental' (between departments) combined with 'support' (aid) yields 'assistance provided between departments.' This follows a standard, transparent noun-noun/adj+noun construction common in institutional language and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase interdepartmental support comes from a simple image of different offices or teams in the same organization sending people or resources to help one another, with interdepartmental meaning 'between departments' and support meaning 'help'. That's why today it means 'assistance between departments', often for organizing or admin tasks.