parts department

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   the division of a business (e.g. a service garage) that sells replacement parts

   Broaderbusiness department

Questions about parts department

What does parts department mean?

parts department means "the division of a business (e.g. a service garage) that sells replacement parts".

Is parts department a common word?

parts 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.