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In contrast to division of work, division of labour is the specialization of an individual workers' or organizations' skills, through education, training, and practice.
Definition of division. 1  1a : the act or process of dividing : the state of being dividedb : the act, process, or an instance of distributing among a number : distributionc obsolete : a method of arranging or disposing (as troops) 2  2 : one of the parts or groupings into which a whole is divided or is divisible.