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intradepartmental

intradepartmental

7.0
Relates to things that happen inside one department of a company or organization
  • adjective
  • /ˌɪntrəˌdɛpɑːrtˈmɛntəl/
translation icon : intradepartamental
  • The manager held an intradepartmental meeting to discuss the new project with his team.

Examples

  • The intradepartmental guidelines were designed to streamline processes within the marketing department.

  • To improve communication, the company implemented an intradepartmental email system.

  • Samuel P. Hayes, Jr., "President's Message on Point Four," 12 May 1949, Intradepartmental memo, box 1, Office of Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, Records Relating to Economic Aid Programs 1946-1959, RG 59.58

    Academic text (2013)

  • He does not imagine how conflicting inter- and intradepartmental divisions and "research interests" might be reshaped through the discovery of new definitions for problems that redefine existing interests and redeploy existing resources.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

departmental
vsintradepartmental
19 4.1

About a part of a company or university that has its own work

describes things happening inside one specific unit rather than about it

Antonyms

interdepartmental
2 5.8

Work between departments in the same organization

Surface Forms

intradepartmental positive

Morphology

intradepartmental = departmental (transparent) = intra + department + al

Meaning is directly 'within' + 'departmental'; the sense is literally within a department and follows standard, guessable composition.

Etymology

Intradepartmental breaks into intra- meaning 'within' and department, which comes from the idea of part or 'division'. So intradepartmental describes something that happens 'within' a single department, not between departments.