Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
DEPARTMENTS
Noun
departments
plural of department
Source: Wiktionary
DEPARTMENT
De*part"ment, n. Etym: [F. département, fr. départir. See Depart, v. i.]
1. Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.
2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature. Macaulay.
4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
5. A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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