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  2. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    department département: French-speaking countries: department desa Indonesia: village district Suriname: district distrik Indonesia: district distrito Portugal: group of municipalities São Tomé and Príncipe: municipality Philippines: district Spanish-speaking countries: distrito, distritu East Timor: municipality distrito federal Brazil ...

  3. Department (administrative division) - Wikipedia

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    A department (French: département, Spanish: departamento) is an administrative or political division in several countries. Departments are the first-level divisions of 11 countries, nine in the Americas and two in Africa .

  4. Ministry (government department) - Wikipedia

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    In September 2021, Prime Minister Boris Johnson reverted the ministry to a department, renaming it the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and giving it the responsibility of overseeing his government's levelling up policy. It was then subsequently reverted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under the ...

  5. Departments of France - Wikipedia

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    The departmental seat of government is known as the prefecture (préfecture) or chef-lieu de département and is generally a town of some importance roughly at the geographical centre of the department. This was determined according to the time taken to travel on horseback from the periphery of the department.

  6. Corporate structure - Wikipedia

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    These five divisions represent the major departments within a publicly traded company, though there are often smaller departments within autonomous firms. Many businesses have a CEO and a Board of Directors, usually composed of the directors of each department, potentially with the addition of one or more non-executive directors.

  7. List of federal agencies in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Defense; Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation; Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs

  8. Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom

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    Executive non-departmental public bodies, which do work for the government in specific areas Advisory non-departmental public bodies , which provide independent and expert advice to ministers Tribunal non-departmental public bodies , which are part of the justice system and have jurisdiction over a specific area of the law

  9. Organizational structure of the United States Department of ...

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    The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...