département

From French département. Doublet of department.

département (plural départements)

1. An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.
   • 2016, Philippe Bezes, “Challenges to French Public Administration: Mapping the Vitality of Its Knowledge Sources”, in Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, Amy G[ale] Mazur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of French Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part III (Institutions), page 265:

     On the other hand, the political–territorial pattern has been maintained but also redirected at the départemental level by the transformation of former ministerial départemental directorates into inter-ministerial units, under the supervision of the prefects of the département.

• départemental

Inherited from Old French departement, from departir +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

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département m (plural départements)

1. department
2. département

• départemental

• “département”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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