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predepartmental

predepartmental adjective: before the introduction of a department.

Adjective

predepartmental (not comparable)

  1. Before the introduction of a department.
    • Fortunately, during the predepartmental period, a number of the new arrivals had previously been introduced to sociological theories or methods, […]2012, F. Collyer, Mapping the Sociology of Health and Medicine

Origin of predepartmental

From pre- + departmental.

Questions about predepartmental

What does predepartmental mean?
Predepartmental means before the introduction of a department.
What part of speech is predepartmental?
Predepartmental is an adjective.

Words near predepartmental in the dictionary

  1. predentary
  2. predentate
  3. predentin
  4. predentine
  5. predentistry
  6. predepartmental
  7. predeparture
  8. predepartures
  9. predepleted
  10. predeploy
  11. predeployed

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