(faculties)
1.
Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities.
He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...
It is also a myth that the ~ of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.
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2.
A ~ is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them. (BRIT)
...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
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3.
A ~ is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department. (AM)
The ~ agreed on a change in the requirements...
How can ~ improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
...eminent Stanford ~ members.
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