Meanings (ES + gloss)
sección
A part, portion, or subdivision.
departamento
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
Phrases
Department of Redundancy Departmentcabinet departmentcasualty departmentdepartment storedepartmentaldepartmentallydepartmentationdepartmentizedepartmentwideemergency departmentfire departmentinterdepartmentalmultidepartmentpolice departmentstate departmentsubdepartmentsuperdepartmenttreasury departmenttrouser department
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