Department vs. Ministry: What's the Difference?
Department and Ministry Definitions
Department
A principal administrative division of a government
The department of public works.
Ministry
The act of serving; ministration.
Department
A division of a business specializing in a particular product or service
The personnel department.
Ministry
One that serves as a means; an instrumentality.
Department
A division of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge
The physics department.
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Ministry
The profession, duties, and services of a minister.
Department
Department One of the principal executive divisions of the federal government of the United States, headed by a cabinet officer.
Ministry
The Christian clergy.
Department
A section of a department store selling a particular line of merchandise
The home furnishings department.
Ministry
The period of service of a minister.
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Department
An administrative district in France.
Ministry
A governmental department presided over by a minister.
Department
A unit of a warship's crew, organized by function, such as gunnery or engineering.
Ministry
The building in which such a department is housed.
Department
An area of particular knowledge or responsibility; a specialty
Getting the kids to bed is my department.
Ministry
The duties, functions, or term of a governmental minister.
Department
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Ministry
Often Ministry Governmental ministers considered as a group.
Department
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
Ministry
Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
She works for the ministry of finance.
He works for the ministry of defence.
I work for the ministry of education.
They work for the ministry of agriculture.
Thesaurus:government ministry
Department
A specified aspect or quality.
The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
Ministry
The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
The premier offered his last ministry's resignation to the monarch, and is asked to form a new one in accordance with the election results.
Department
A subdivision of an organization.
Ministry
A ministration
Department
One of the principal divisions of executive government
The Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
Ministry
The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
Department
One of the divisions of instructions
The physics department; the history department; the math department
Ministry
(Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
Department
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.
Ministry
(Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
The present ministry of the Holy Spirit
Department
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
The Department of the Potomac
Ministry
The act of ministering; ministration; service.
Department
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
Ministry
Agency; instrumentality.
The ordinary ministry of second causes.
The wicked ministry of arms.
Department
Act of departing; departure.
Sudden departments from one extreme to another.
Ministry
The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
Department
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Ministry
The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.
Department
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature.
Ministry
Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.
Department
Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
Ministry
Religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
Department
A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Ministry
Building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
Department
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Ministry
A government department under the direction of a minister
Department
A specialized division of a large organization;
You'll find it in the hardware department
She got a job in the historical section of the Treasury
Department
The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
Department
A specialized sphere of knowledge;
Baking is not my department
His work established a new department of literature
