ametiasutuse osakond või ruum (vahel ka omaette asutus), mis tegeleb ametliku kirjavahetuse jm asjaajamisega
a place for the transaction of private or public business of some kind; often including the ‘staff’ by which the business is conducted, or denominating the department of which they are officers. Applied to the room or department in which the clerkly work of an industrial or other establishment is done, a counting-house; also to that in which the business of any particular department of the operations of a large concern is conducted
