Department in spanish
pronunciation: depɑɹ̩tɑmentoʊ part of speech: noun
department1 = departamento, negociado.
Example: In some organisations microcomputers will be maintained (that is, mended) by a central computer department, but if this is not the case it may be necessary to take out separate maintenance contracts.more:
» academic department = departamento universitario.
Example: It was decided that checking of content and format should be left to the graduate school and academic departments = Se decidió que la comprobación del contenido y el formato debería dejarse a la facultad y a los departamentos universitarios.» accounting department = departamento de contabilidad.
Example: This is a reminder that the order was to be prepaid and that the accounting department has already received the request to pay the vendor.» acquisitions department = sección de adquisiciones, sección de compras, departamento de adquisiciones. [Sección de una biblioteca que se encarga de la compra de libros]
Example: Nobody outside of the acquisitions department gives a damn about the prices of books.» adult department = sección de adultos. [En una biblioteca grande, sección que contiene el material de lectura que normalmente leen los adultos]
Example: Some librarians anxious to make the transfer from the children's to the adult department as smooth as possible, often create a 'young adults' fiction section within the children's department.» binding department = departamento de encuadernación.
Example: If the index for a periodical is received at the end of January, the binding trigger might contain a '1' in the third position so that the binding department will be reminded in March that the title should be checked.» building department, the = departamento de urbanismo, el.
Example: No sleeping room of a hotel shall include cooking facilities unless the they have been approved by the building department having jurisdiction over the hotel.» catalogue department = departamento de catalogación.
Example: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.» cataloguing department = centro de catalogación, departamento de catalogación, sección de catalogación. [Sección que se encarga de la descripción bibliográfica del material de la biblioteca]
Example: It is important to make sure that there is close liaison between the cataloguing department and the order department, otherwise cards are liable to be ordered twice or in insufficient quantity to meet the total demand.» children's department = sección infantil.
Example: Some librarians anxious to make the transfer from the children's to the adult department as smooth as possible, often create a 'young adults' fiction section within the children's department.» circulation department = departamento de circulación, departamento de préstamo.
Example: I cannot tell you how happy we in the circulation department will all be to put an end once and for all to the smiling delinquent patron who rejoices in paying his fine because he is thereby 'supporting a worthy cause'.» consumer protection department = departamento de defensa del consumidor.
Example: Most CACs occupied office-type accommodation in town halls, libraries and consumer protection departments.» customer service department = departamento de atención al cliente.
Example: The introduction of a customer service department has improved relations between library staff and the public.» department head = director de departamento.
Example: The department head had hoped the latter request would lend credence to the seriousness of the situation.» department library = biblioteca de departamento.
Example: The document is treated for loan purposes as if it belonged to the new branch or department library.» department of corrections = departamento de corrección de menores.
Example: This article gives a sampling of the types of data these agencies provide, covering the areas of agriculture, department of corrections, transportation and highway patrols, natural resources and revenues.» department store = grandes almacenes.
Example: Take the prosaic problem of the great department store.» fire department = bomberos, cuerpo de bomberos, brigada de bomberos.
Example: This article describes the use of PLUS in work carried out by the London, Ontario, fire department = Este artículo describe el uso de PLUS en el trabajo que realiza la brigada de bomberos de London, Ontario.» health department = departamento de sanidad.
Example: At present, the library board consists of: a housewife, who is serving as chairwoman, a stockbroker, a retired head of the health department, an owner of a hardware store, and an attorney = En la actualidad, la comisión de biblioteca consta de un ama de casa, que actúa de presidenta, un agente de bolsa, un director del departamento de sanidad jubilado, el propietario de una ferretería y un abogado.» interlibrary loan department = departamento de préstamo interbibliotecario.
Example: The document should not be shelved, but returned to the interlibrary loan department.» local studies department = sección de fondos locales, sección de temas locales.
Example: Some cataloguing may be conducted by a technical services department, whilst other cataloguing may be executed in the local studies department, or the children's library.» marketing department = departamento de marketing.
Example: Marketing departments are recognizing that the Internet can provide an effective marketing strategy due to its potential capability of exposure to millions of people.» meat department = carnicería. [De un supermercado]
Example: Their marked-down food products are right after the meat department.» order department = sección de adquisiciones, sección de compras. [Sección de una biblioteca que se encarga de la compra de libros]
Example: It is important to make sure that there is close liaison between the cataloguing department and the order department, otherwise cards are liable to be ordered twice or in insufficient quantity to meet the total demand.» payroll department = sección de nóminas.
Example: Separate systems were developed for, say, the personnel and payroll departments.» personnel department = sección de personal.
Example: Separate systems were developed for, say, the personnel and payroll departments.» popular department = departamento de lectura "formativo-recreativa". [Dentro de una biblioteca, aquella sección que contiene fondos dirigidos a un público general para hacer normalmente un tipo de lectura de ocio]
Example: The popular department could be divided into 'interest areas' by book stacks, display units and interior landscaping, so as to assure a sense of identity and enclosure without inhibiting circulation between the areas.» processing department = departamento de procesos técnicos.
Example: The world's largest processing department's plans and policies are always of deep interest.» sales department = departamento de ventas.
Example: The new process facilitates gathering information for the sales department.» serial department = sección de publicaciones periódicas.
Example: The situation described may have its physical locus in the reference division, the serial department, the adult services section, or the director's office.» service department = servicio de atención al cliente.
Example: The largest revenue earners were those museums where money was assigned directly back to the service department to offset or recouped against costs.» technical services department = departamento de servicios técnicos, departamento de catalogación.
Example: Through the use of automation, libraries are able to reorganise technical services departments more efficiently and reassign professional cataloguers to other positions in the library.» young adult department = sección juvenil.
Example: Her first positions were with the New York Public Library, South Bend Public Library, and the Free Library of Philadelphia in the Reference and young adult department.department2 = ministerio.
Example: One of the aims of this department is to promote a climate for British industry and commerce as conducive to enterprise and competition as that in any other industrialized country.more:
» Department of Defense (DOD) = Departamento de Defensa. [Equivalente en los Estados Unidos al Ministerio de Defensa en España]
Example: ARPANet is the precursor to the Internet, developed in the late 60's and early 70's by the US Department of Defense.» Department of Education and Science = Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
Example: All four types of libraries relate either directly or indirectly to one national authority with statutory powers -- the Department of Education and Science.» Department of Labor = Ministerio de Trabajo.
Example: For the first time there are decidedly more government employees than goods-producing employees according to the Department of Labor.» Department of the Environment = Ministerio del Medio Ambiente.
Example: Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.» Department of Trade = Ministerio de Comercio.
Example: Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.» Department of Trade and Industry = Ministerio de Comercio e Industria.
Example: The Department of Trade and Industry has undergone many changes over the years; it has been split into two separate departments and welded together again.» government department = ministerio.
Example: Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.» Road Department, the = Ministerio de Obras Públicas, el.
Example: Road Department officials said that using paver tiles to cover potholes on asphalt roads was slipshod.» USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) = USDA (Ministerio de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos).
Example: The sister publication, American statistics index, covers all material from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).