(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A ~ is also one of the sections in a large shop.
...the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
He moved to the sales ~.
...the jewelry ~.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you say that a task or area of knowledge is not your ~, 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 ~.’
PHRASE: V inflects