branch
分支机构,分公司,分部,分支
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant.
- : a limb, offshoot, or ramification of any main stem: the branches of a deer's antlers.
- : any member or part of a body or system; a section or subdivision: the various branches of learning.
- : a local operating division of a business, library, or the like.
- : a line of family descent stemming from a particular ancestor, as distinguished from some other line or lines from the same stock; a division of a family.
- : a tributary stream or any stream that is not a large river or a bayou.
- : Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. branch water.
- : Linguistics. a category of a lower order than a subfamily and of a higher order than a subbranch or a group, as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.Compare group.
- : Computers. a point in a computer program where the computer selects one of two or more instructions to execute, according to some criterion.
- : Nautical. a warrant or license permitting a pilot to navigate in certain waters.
Phrases
- branch off
- branch out
- olive branch
- root and branch
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The new safety branch of California’s Public Advocate Office has lodged some of its first complaints against SDG&E’s wildfire mitigation plans, arguing that it lacks credible science and could actually make wildfires worse.
In heavily forested Northern California, where trees tower over power lines in some cases, branches can fall on a line and cause a spark.
That’s because the independent agency of the executive branch is a service that touches every person in the country, every residence, and every business.
With bank branches closed, it has been harder to make large cash deposits.
Its branches have donated to Republican politicians and it controversially purchased the Silent Sam Confederate statue that was torn down at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
And that solution came from a homemade brew Branch and her sister created together.
Through her haircare line, named for her grandmother, Jessie Branch, Titi Branch was revolutionary.
Branch helped women feel beautiful by encouraging them to embrace their natural selves as she had.
Branch grew up in Queens, NY, the daughter of an African American man and a Japanese woman.
But at 45, Branch died of a reported suicide, leaving behind family, friends and a legacy that goes beyond the beauty industry.
I had those words in my thoughts four years ago, when I cut him down from the branch of the Patriarch.