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Definition of Subdepartments
1. subdepartment [n] - See also: subdepartment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subdepartments
Literary usage of Subdepartments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Budget Function Classification: Agency Spending by Subfunction & Object by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Arraying subdepartments by the budget subfunction(s) that they perform provides
a more detailed view of the relationship between the varied missions of the ..."
2. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"In the United States, the offices belonging to the subdepartments, ... By the
words National Defence, as applied to these two subdepartments considered as ..."
3. Budget Issues: Fiscal Year 1996 Agency Spending by Budget Function by Paul L. Posner (1997)
"If the analysis is continued to subdepartments and subfunctions, the picture is
often more complex. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Practically every department and many subdepartments of the railroads throughout
the United States as a whole or in smaller sections are affiliated through ..."
5. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"... departments and subdepartments into which the Law of Persons should be divided,
with the order of those departments and of their several subdepartments. ..."
6. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... departments and subdepartments into which the Law of Persons should be divided,
with the order of those departments and of their several subdepartments. ..."