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branch | Business English

branch
noun[ C ]
uk /brɑːnʃ/us
COMMERCE
one of the local offices of a large company, such as a bank, which is open to the public:
to close/open a branchMany banks have promoted online services and closed branches.
a branch of sthYou should be able to walk into a branch of the building society anywhere in the country to deposit or withdraw money.
Contact your local branch to arrange an appointment with a consultant.
She has been a customer of the same bank branch for decades.
The company operates in 18 states and has 45 branch offices.
a domestic/foreign/overseas branch
GOVERNMENT
a division of a government or large organization with a particular responsibility:
the executive/legislative/judicial branchThe authority lets the executive branch draft trade deals that Congress could reject but not change.
This latest investigation is being held by the disciplinary branch of the accountancy profession.

Examples of branch

branch
For the arterial trunks, this is an easy matter, since the pattern of branching permits ready distinction of an aorta from a pulmonary trunk.
The reaction rule edit represents the edition of any branch.
Thus, an enormous block on a branch defined by a right endpoint can be essentially replaced by large subblocks corresponding to left endpoints.
The former tries to delay some computations while the second drives different computations through a tree of branching paths.
Three independent branches can be seen: degeneracy has been removed by breaking symmetry through displacement of one of the jets.
The level of expression of the 6 isoform in the cells of the right bundle branch was always lower than that of the surrounding myocardium.
Structural damage to each tree was recorded: trunk snap, branch damage, bark damage, or a leaning bole.
Periods of maps on trees with all branching points fixed.
A gap between sparsely and profusely branched trees was apparent.
The data are means of the number of fruits formed on branches of three different trees.
The practice of inferring the activity of either autonomic branch from heart rate alone is outdated and unlikely to be fruitful in the future.
Unlike a quasi-judicial agency, this quasilegislative agency was neither independent of the executive, the judicial, nor the legislative branch, respectively.
The sicula is not visible; one first-order branch divides quickly producing two second-order stipes with five and seven autothecae respectively.
The notion of sectoral specialisation is supported by another branch of recent analysis which involves understanding differences in the characteristics of firm owners.
The probability of different outcomes at each branch was derived from data collected during this programme.
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Collocations withbranch

branch

These are words often used in combination with branch.

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axon branch
It has fewer terminal collaterals than axon branch 2 and the collaterals are short, unbranched processes with terminal boutons.
branch of government
From the questions propounded by visitors one is convinced that too little is known of this branchofgovernment service.
branch of mathematics
Rather, they appear as a tacit code shared by practitioners of a given branchofmathematics.
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