state department

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state department - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  State Department
      n 1: the federal department in the United States that sets and
           maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was
           created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State
           , State Department, State,
           DoS]
      2: a department of government in one of the 50 states