branch > define

noun

• A division of some larger or more complex organization.
  • usage: "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
  • synonyms: subdivision, arm
• A division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant.
• A part of a forked or branching shape.
  • usage: "he broke off one of the branches"
  • synonyms: leg, ramification
• A natural consequence of development.
  • synonyms: outgrowth, offshoot, offset
• A stream or river connected to a larger one.
• Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm.
  • usage: "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"
  • synonyms: arm, limb

verb

• Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.
  • usage: "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  • synonyms: ramify
• Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
  • usage: "The road forks"
  • synonyms: ramify, fork, furcate, separate

• (v.t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
• (v.i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
• (v.t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers or twigs.
• (a.) Diverging from or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
• (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
• (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
• (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
• (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
• (v.i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
• (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
• (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.

Branch is an operation in a foreign country incorporated in the home country.