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de|odor|ize /dioʊ dəra I z/ (deodorizes , deodorizing , deodorized ) in BRIT, also use deodorise VERB If you deodorize something, you remove unpleasant smells from it. [FORMAL ] □ [V n] The product cleans and deodorises carpets in one action. □ [V -ing] …a deodorising foot spray.

de|part /d I pɑː ^r t/ (departs , departing , departed )

1 VERB When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place. □ [V + from ] Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April. □ [V + for ] In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney. □ [V n] The coach departs Potsdam in the morning. [Also V ]

2 VERB If you depart from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way. □ [V + from ] Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense?

3 VERB If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job. □ [V + from ] Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded. □ [V ] It is not unusual for staff to depart at this time of year. □ [V n] He departed baseball in the '60s.

de|part|ed /d I pɑː ^r t I d/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] Departed friends or relatives are people who have died. [FORMAL ] □ …departed friends. ● N‑PLURAL The departed are people who have died. □ We held services for the departed.

de|part|ment ◆◆◆ /d I pɑː ^r tmənt/ (departments )

1 N‑COUNT [oft n N ] A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop. □ [+ of ] …the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. □ He moved to the sales department. □ …the jewelry department.

2 PHRASE If you say that a task or area of knowledge is not your department , you mean that you are not responsible for it or do not know much about it. □ 'I'm afraid the name means nothing to me,' he said. 'That's not my department.' SYNONYMS department NOUN 1

office:…Downing Street's press office.

division:…the sales division.

de|part|men|tal /diː pɑː^r tme nt^ə l/ ADJ [ADJ n] Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization. □ …the departmental budget.

de|pa rt|ment store (department stores ) N‑COUNT A department store is a large shop which sells many different kinds of goods.

de|par|ture ◆◇◇ /d I pɑː ^r tʃə^r / (departures )

1 N‑VAR [oft with poss] Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere. □ [+ for ] …the President's departure for Helsinki. □ [+ of ] They hoped this would lead to the departure of all foreign forces from the country. □ [+ from ] The airline has more than 90 scheduled departures from here every day.

2 N‑VAR [with poss] The departure of a person from a job, or a member from an organization, is their act of leaving it or being forced to leave it. [FORMAL ] □ [+ from ] This would inevitably involve his departure from the post of Prime Minister.

3 N‑COUNT If someone does something different or unusual, you can refer to their action as a departure . □ [+ from ] In a departure from tradition, some union leaders condemned the strikes. COLLOCATIONS departure NOUN