engineering department
collocation in Englishmeaningsofengineeringanddepartment
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engineering
noun[U]
uk/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪə.rɪŋ/us/ˌen.dʒɪˈnɪr.ɪŋ/
the work of an engineer (= a person who designs or builds machines, engines, electrical systems, or large structures such as roads or bridges using scientific principles), or the study of ...
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition ofengineeringanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The operational department is entirely separate from theengineeringdepartment.
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In theengineeringdepartmentthere are 215 non-manual employees and 257 manual.
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The company may have anengineeringdepartmentwhich constructs or part-constructs a tool.
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Theengineeringdepartmentthought they were so satisfying that they should supersede all others.
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Itsengineeringdepartmenthas not been visited by them in the past 10 years.
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The strike was resolved by management as soon as it started to affect theengineeringdepartment.
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Civil engineering comes under theengineeringdepartment, and naval arms come under the victualling yard.
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Of this number about 123 will be employed in theengineeringdepartment.
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An engineering officer is, of course, in charge of theengineeringdepartmentat the main dockyards.
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The prestige thing to do is to go into anengineeringdepartment.
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I found that this method of working overtime was not confined to theengineeringdepartment.
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Then there is theengineeringdepartment, ruled by a naval officer.
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One goes to serve his time in the dockyard and the other enters theengineeringdepartment.
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For example, theengineeringdepartmenthas considerable expertise in building and especially repairing waterways.
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Unfortunately, theengineeringdepartmentwas not prepared to devote resources to developing the product.
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There were a constructional, a mechanical engineering, and an electricalengineeringdepartment.
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About 2,300 skilled men in theengineeringdepartmentand 250 in the supplies department left the service during this period.
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It is now faced with the closure of theengineeringdepartmentat its main further education college.
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In a technical college, for example, there might be an ordinary milling machine in theengineeringdepartment.
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Of the total of 282 schemes, 130 involved detailed examination and criticism by the civilengineeringdepartment, and 120 by the mechanicalengineeringdepartment, and 110 by the traffic department.
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Together they ran theengineeringdepartmentfor a while.
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Theengineeringdepartmentwas also a new product development group.
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From 1937, he was head of the opticalengineeringdepartment.
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Previously, this had been done by the group'sengineeringdepartment.
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Although the school has no nuclearengineeringdepartmentor anyengineeringdepartmentfor that matter chemistry and physics students use it as a resource.
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