departmentalize

American  

[dih-pahrt-men-tl-ahyz, dee-pahrt-] / dɪ pɑrtˈmɛn tlˌaɪz, ˌdi pɑrt- /

especially British, departmentalise

verb (used with object)

departmentalized, departmentalizing

1. to divide into departments.

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departmentalize British  

/ ˌdiːpɑːtˈmɛntəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to organize into departments, esp excessively

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Other Word Forms

• departmentalization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of departmentalize

First recorded in 1895–1900; departmental ( def. ) + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

departmentalize departmentalized departmentalizing

Many of my students confess they were unaware of this history and the broader quest to departmentalize African American studies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Then as we began to make parts, we began to departmentalize so that each department would do only one thing.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

The Chinese did not departmentalize their learning to any considerable degree.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Our principal, however, has decided to restructure the entire third grade and move to a departmentalized model.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020

It was all very departmentalized and very like an industry: it was an industry.

From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2018

“We’ve departmentalized, just like a bigger school,” Gomez said, adding that in many ways the rural district faces the same challenges as larger schools.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2016

But whereas Time was rigidly departmentalized, each department having a more or less fixed position, it was intended that Newsweek would be departmentalized more fluidly on a news importance basis.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 5, 2015

From the beginning the outstanding feature of the work was its size, and the outstanding need was to get it housed and departmentalized, with department heads and an adequate clerical staff.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper

Carefully departmentalizing his subjects, the President discussed the status of the U.S. and his recommendations field by field, point by point: Broad Foreign Policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

He picked up new readers steadily, experimented with such ideas as departmentalizing the news, developed a staff studded with columnists and breezy local writers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The catastrophe of the war had shown me that this departmentalizing of life, which at one time I had myself considered a sort of ideal, was quite inconsistent with the needs of to-day.

From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs