academic department

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   a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject

   Broaderdepartment

   Narroweranthropology departmentart departmentbiology departmentchemistry departmentdepartment of computer scienceeconomics departmentEnglish departmenthistory departmentlinguistics departmentmathematics department

Questions about academic department

What does academic department mean?

academic department means "a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject".

Is academic department a common word?

academic department is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.