how to pronounce departments

/dɪˈpɑːɹtmənts/

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departments is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of departments in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… of about 475 in departments that sound a …”

meanings of departments

noun:

Plural of department.

departments frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word departments occurs in english on average 8.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics departments can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that departments can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;