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departmentalism

departmentalism noun: excessive adherence to departmental methods, rules or structure.

Noun

departmentalism (uncountable)

  1. Excessive adherence to departmental methods, rules or structure.
  2. Organization by government departments, as opposed to other mechanisms, such as NGOs.
    • Lord Whitelaw, then Chairman of the Conservative Party Policy Committee, considered that departmentalism would be more effective than umbrellaism.1989, David Paterson, Mary Palmer, The Status of Animals: Ethics, Education and Welfare, page 2

departmentalism meaning in Tamil

departmentalism in Tamil

பகுப்பாளுகை

Origin of departmentalism

From departmental + -ism.

Questions about departmentalism

What does departmentalism mean?
Departmentalism means excessive adherence to departmental methods, rules or structure.
What is departmentalism in Tamil?
Departmentalism in Tamil is பகுப்பாளுகை. See Departmentalism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is departmentalism?
Departmentalism is a noun.

Words near departmentalism in the dictionary

  1. departmentalisations
  2. departmentalise
  3. departmentalised
  4. departmentalises
  5. departmentalising
  6. departmentalism
  7. departmentalitis
  8. departmentalization
  9. departmentalizations
  10. departmentalize
  11. departmentalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: departmentalism (page history and authors); departmentalism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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