Meaning & use

Interdepartment

adjective·Academic

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Relating to or occurring between departments; used attributively much like "interdepartmental."

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The memo covered new interdepartment scheduling procedures.

They set up an interdepartment liaison to handle shared projects.

A note on using this word

Less common than "interdepartmental," which is generally preferred in formal writing; "interdepartment" appears mainly as a compact modifier before a noun.

Words with a similar meaning

interdepartmentalcross-departmental

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