DEPARTMENT HEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does department head mean? 

• DEPARTMENT HEAD (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT HEAD has 1 sense:

1. the head of a department

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT HEAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT HEAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The head of a department

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("department head" is a kind of...):

chief; head; top dog (a person who is in charge)

 Context examples 

The authors of this study, Leila Wehbe, Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Department of the Carnegie Mellon University and Tom Mitchell, the department head, said the model is still inexact, but might someday be useful in studying and diagnosing reading disorders, such as dyslexia, or to track the recovery of patients whose speech was impacted by a stroke.

(Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)