state : Idioms & Phrases

• the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.

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• noun a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands
  Hawai'i; HI; Hawaii.
  

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• noun one of the 50 states of the United States
  

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• . See Argillite.

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• noun a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
  protectorate.
  

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• noun the weather or climate at some place
  atmosphere.
  
  • the atmosphere was thick with fog

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• noun the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
  Attorney General.
  
  • the post of Attorney General was created in 1789

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• noun one of the several states constituting Australia
  

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• noun a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people
  authoritarian regime.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north central United States
  Wisconsin; WI.
  

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• noun any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula
  Balkan country; Balkan nation.
  

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• noun European countries bordering the Baltic Sea
  Baltic Republic.
  

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• noun a state in the southwestern United States
  Nevada; Battle Born State; NV; Sagebrush State.
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
  MA; Massachusetts; Old Colony.
  

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• noun a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
  Oregon; OR.
  

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• noun a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young
  UT; Utah; Beehive State.
  

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• noun a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
  KY; Kentucky.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
  Ohio; OH.
  

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• noun a small neutral state between two rival powers
  buffer country.
  

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• noun a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran
  Kaplan Group; Association of Islamic Groups and Communities.
  

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• noun a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  Alabama; AL; Heart of Dixie.
  

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• noun the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791
  Washington D.C.; Washington; American capital.
  

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• (Law), a statement in writing of facts agreed on and submitted to the court for a decision of the legal points arising on them.

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• noun a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
  CO; Colorado.
  

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• noun a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person
  

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• noun the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics
  

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• verb undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
  turn.
  
  • We turned from Socialism to Capitalism
  • The people turned against the President when he stole the election

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• noun the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
  chief of state.
  

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• noun a state ruled by religious authority
  

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• noun a state consisting of a sovereign city
  city state.
  

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• noun a state consisting of a sovereign city
  city state.
  

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• the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states.

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• noun the state of a person's cognitive processes
  cognitive state.
  

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• noun formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia
  KGB; Soviet KGB.
  

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• noun an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
  CIS.
  

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• noun the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  Dixie; Dixieland; Confederacy; Confederate States; South.
  

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• noun the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
  Dixie; Dixieland; Confederacy; Confederate States; South.
  

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• noun the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states
  Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; Constitution; US Constitution.
  

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• noun a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies
  Constitution State; Connecticut; CT.
  

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• (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.

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• noun a midwestern state on the Great Plains
  Nebraska; NE.
  

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• noun a state in north central United States
  South Dakota; Coyote State; SD.
  

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• noun the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
  DoS; State Department; State; Department of State.
  
  • the Department of State was created in 1789

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  Diamond State; Delaware; DE.
  

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• noun the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
  East.
  

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• noun a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances
  religious trance.
  

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• noun the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)
  spirit.
  
  • his emotional state depended on her opinion
  • he was in good spirits
  • his spirit rose

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  

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• noun a skyscraper built in New York City in 1931; 1250 feet tall
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  Empire State of the South; Georgia; GA.
  

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• noun a definite stable energy that a physical system can have; used especially of the state of electrons in atoms or molecules
  energy level.
  
  • according to quantum theory only certain energy levels are possible

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• noun a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east
  Wyoming; WY.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  FL; Everglade State; Florida.
  

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• noun a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
  Washington; WA.
  

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• noun a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
  TT; Micronesia.
  

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  Diamond State; Delaware; DE.
  

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• a siliceous slate; basanite is here included. See Basanite.

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  MD; Maryland; Free State.
  
• noun any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
  
• noun a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
  Free State.
  

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies
  NJ; Jersey; New Jersey.
  

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• noun the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
  gas.
  

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• noun a state in the Rocky Mountains
  Idaho; ID.
  

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• noun a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
  CA; Calif.; California.
  

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• noun a midwestern state
  Gopher State; MN; Minnesota.
  

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• noun a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon
  Arizona; AZ.
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies
  NH; New Hampshire.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
  Great Lakes State; Michigan; MI.
  

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• noun the seal of the United States government
  

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• noun a state in New England
  Vermont; VT.
  

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• noun (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle
  

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• noun a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas
  
• noun the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf
  

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• noun a state in midwestern United States
  IA; Iowa.
  

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• noun the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
  chief of state.
  

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• noun a state in midwestern United States
  Indiana; IN.
  

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• . (a) Naked as when born; nude . (b) In a condition of sin; unregenerate . (c) Untamed; uncvilized.

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• noun a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
  Papua New Guinea.
  

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• noun a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific
  Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa; Samoa.
  

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• (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body.

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• noun a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
  Afghanistan.
  
  • Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  Pennsylvania; PA.
  

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• noun the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
  liquidness; liquidity; liquid.
  

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• noun the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico
  TX; Texas.
  

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• noun a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
  Mississippi; MS.
  

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• noun (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
  psychological condition; mental state; mental condition.
  
  • a manic state

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• noun a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland
  

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• noun the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)
  middle west; Midwest.
  

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• noun a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young
  UT; Utah; Beehive State.
  

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• noun a state in north central United States
  South Dakota; Coyote State; SD.
  

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• noun a state in east central United States
  West Virginia; WV.
  

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• noun an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent
  
  • this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day

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• (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer.

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• noun a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
  wild; natural state.
  
  • he lived in the wild
  • they collected mushrooms in the wild

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  New York; NY; Empire State.
  

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• noun a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
  

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• noun a midwestern state
  Gopher State; MN; Minnesota.
  

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• noun the northeastern region of the United States
  Northeast.
  

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• noun the northwestern region of the United States
  Northwest.
  

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• noun a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies
  Constitution State; Connecticut; CT.
  

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• noun a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state
  RI; Rhode Island; Little Rhody.
  

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• noun a university in Columbus, Ohio
  

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• noun a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War
  Old Dominion; Virginia; VA.
  

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• noun a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
  MD; Maryland; Free State.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  Old North State; NC; North Carolina.
  

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• noun a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
  Free State.
  

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• noun an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation
  OAS.
  

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• noun the degree of oxidation of an atom or ion or molecule; for simple atoms or ions the oxidation number is equal to the ionic charge
  oxidation number.
  
  • the oxidation number of hydrogen is +1 and of oxygen is -2

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• noun a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies
  SC; South Carolina.
  

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• noun the temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy)
  

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• noun a physical condition that is caused by disease
  

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• noun a state of north central United States bordering on Canada
  ND; North Dakota.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  Empire State of the South; Georgia; GA.
  

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• noun a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  Louisiana; LA.
  

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• noun the condition or state of the body or bodily functions
  physiological condition; physical condition.
  

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• noun a state in New England
  ME; Maine.
  

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• noun a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north-central United States
  Land of Lincoln; IL; Illinois.
  

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• noun the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
  President; President of the United States; Chief Executive.
  
  • the President likes to jog every morning
• noun the office of the United States head of state
  President; Chief Executive.
  
  • a President is elected every four years

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• noun (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
  psychological condition; mental state; mental condition.
  
  • a manic state

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• noun a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed
  puppet government; pupet regime.
  

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• noun a state that does not respect other states in its international actions
  renegade state; rogue nation.
  

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• noun a state that does not respect other states in its international actions
  renegade state; rogue nation.
  

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• noun a state in the southwestern United States
  Nevada; Battle Born State; NV; Sagebrush State.
  

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• noun the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of State
  
  • the first Secretary of State was Thomas Jefferson
• noun a government minister for foreign relations
  foreign minister.
  
• noun the position of the head of the State Department
  
  • the position of Secretary of State was established in 1789

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• . See Secretary, n., 3.

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• noun the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office
  Home Secretary.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
  MO; Missouri.
  

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• noun a state in the southwestern United States
  Nevada; Battle Born State; NV; Sagebrush State.
  

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• noun any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War
  

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• noun the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
  solid; solidness.
  

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• adjective satellite characteristic of or relating to the physical properties of solid materials especially electromagnetic or thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids
  
• adjective satellite consisting of semiconductor materials and components and related devices
  

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• noun the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals; superconductivity; photoconductivity
  

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• noun a state in south central United States
  Oklahoma; OK.
  

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• noun the southeastern region of the United States
  Southeast.
  

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• noun the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
  Southwest.
  

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• a state which administers its own government, and is not dependent upon, or subject to, another power.

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• (Physics.), the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated surface, a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a cushion of nonconducting vapor, and the cooling effect of evaporation.

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• noun a prosecuting attorney for a state
  state attorney.
  

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• noun a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government
  

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• a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.

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• an elaborately carved or decorated bed.

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• noun the boundary between two states
  state boundary.
  

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• noun the capital city of a political subdivision of a country
  

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• noun an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production
  

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• a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.

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• noun a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
  phase transition; phase change; physical change.
  

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• noun the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
  DoS; State Department; State; Department of State.
  
  • the Department of State was created in 1789
• noun a department of government in one of the 50 states
  

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• noun the government of a state in the United States
  

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• noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
  motorway; thruway; pike; freeway; throughway; superhighway; expressway.
  

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• noun the boundary between two states
  state boundary.
  

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• noun the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
  situation.
  
  • the present international situation is dangerous
  • wondered how such a state of affairs had come about
  • eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt

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• noun an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia; oil revenues funded progressive programs until reserves were exhausted in 1970s
  Bahrain; Bahrein.
  

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• noun an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993
  Eritrea.
  

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• noun a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
  flux.
  
  • the flux following the death of the emperor

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• noun (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence
  grace; saving grace.
  
  • the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin
  • it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church
  • the Virgin lived in a state of grace

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• noun Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
  Israel; Zion; Yisrael; Sion.
  

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• noun an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil
  Katar; Qatar; State of Katar.
  

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• noun an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
  Kuwait; Koweit.
  

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• noun (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
  state.
  
  • the solid state of water is called ice

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• noun a temporary psychological state
  frame of mind.
  
• noun the state of a person's cognitive processes
  cognitive state.
  

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• noun a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
  wild; natural state.
  
  • he lived in the wild
  • they collected mushrooms in the wild

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• noun an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil
  Katar; Qatar; State of Katar.
  

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• noun the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time
  
  • the state of the art in space travel

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• noun the smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929
  Holy See; The Holy See.
  

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• noun a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
  war.
  
  • war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring

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• an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. Jay.

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• noun a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.
  

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• a public prison or penitentiary; called also State's prison.

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• one is confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.

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• the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. U.S.

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• noun a member of a state senate
  

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• noun an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed
  

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• noun the highest court in most states of the United States
  supreme court; high court.
  

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• a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.

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• noun a lien on the property of a taxpayer that the tax collector can use upon default of payment of taxes
  

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• noun the treasurer for a state government
  

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• a trial of a person for a political offense.

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• noun a state police officer
  trooper.
  

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• noun a prosecuting attorney for a state
  state attorney.
  

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• noun evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings
  

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• . See Probator, 2, and under Evidence.

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• adjective satellite subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
  collectivised; collectivistic; collectivized; collectivist.
  

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• adjective satellite the highest level of development at a particular time (especially the present time)
  
  • state-of-the-art technology

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• noun terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism
  

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• adjective satellite supported and operated by the government of a state
  
  • a state university

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• noun assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from 16th to 18th centuries
  

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• . See under Ecclesiastical.

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• noun a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states
  
• noun the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution
  

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• noun a former political party in the United States; formed in 1948 by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman
  Dixiecrats.
  

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States"-gen"er*al noun

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1. In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
2. In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.

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• noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other
  continuous creation theory.
  
  • the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory

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• noun a state in midwestern United States
  KS; Kansas.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  FL; Everglade State; Florida.
  

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• noun the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation
  Supreme Court; Supreme Court of the United States.
  

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• noun a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  Old North State; NC; North Carolina.
  

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• noun a state that continues for a limited time
  

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• noun North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
  USA; the States; U.S.A.; U.S.; United States; US; America.
  

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• . To assume state or dignity. Obs. "Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it." Beau. & Fl.

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• noun a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures
  totalitation regime.
  

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• noun a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
  MT; Montana.
  

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• a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.

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• noun a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
  Mexico.
  

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• noun North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
  USA; the States; U.S.A.; U.S.; United States; US; America.
  
• noun the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
  U.S.; United States; US Government; U.S. government.
  

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• noun the airforce of the United States of America; the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space
  US Air Force; USAF; U. S. Air Force; Air Force.
  

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• noun a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force
  US Air Force Academy.
  

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• noun the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare
  Army; U. S. Army; USA; US Army.
  

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• noun a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence
  US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL.
  

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• noun a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army
  

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• noun a division of the United States Army that is specially trained for guerilla fighting
  Special Forces; U. S. Army Special Forces.
  

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• noun the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department
  Attorney General; US Attorney General.
  
  • Edmund Randolph was the first Attorney General, appointed by President Washington

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• noun the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States
  US Border Patrol.
  

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• noun a board to advise the President; members are the secretaries of executive departments; the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet
  US Cabinet.
  

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• noun civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
  United States Civil War; American Civil War.
  

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• noun an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce
  U. S. Coast Guard; US Coast Guard.
  

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• noun a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States; is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives
  U. S. Code.
  

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• noun the legislature of the United States government
  US Congress; Congress; U.S. Congress.
  

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• noun the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states
  Constitution of the United States; U.S. Constitution; Constitution; US Constitution.
  

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• noun the system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint that dates back to colonial America but differs in some respects from the British Imperial System; today in the United States this system exists side by side with the SI system
  

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• noun the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
  Defense Department; Defense; DoD; Department of Defense.
  

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• noun the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
  DoS; State Department; State; Department of State.
  
  • the Department of State was created in 1789

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• noun the basic unit of money in the United States
  

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• noun a unit of measurement of capacity for dry substances officially adopted in the United States Customary System
  

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• noun an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats; assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution
  US Fish and Wildlife Service; FWS.
  

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• noun the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
  U.S.; United States; US Government; U.S. government.
  

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• noun an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
  GAO; Government Accounting Office.
  

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• noun an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
  Government Printing Office; GPO; US Government Printing Office.
  

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• noun the lower legislative house of the United States Congress
  House of Representatives; US House; U.S. House of Representatives; US House of Representatives; U.S. House.
  

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• noun an intelligence service in the United States
  

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• noun a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
  Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; IC.
  

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• noun a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System
  

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• noun an amphibious division of the United States Navy
  Marine Corps; US Marine Corps; USMC; United States Marine Corps.
  

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• noun an amphibious division of the United States Navy
  Marine Corps; US Marine Corps; USMC; United States Marine Corps.
  

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• noun the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system
  US Marshals Service; Marshals.
  

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• noun a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Army
  US Military Academy.
  

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• noun the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks; processes gold and silver bullion
  US Mint; U.S. Mint.
  

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• noun the world's largest medical library
  National Library of Medicine; U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  

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• noun a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy
  US Naval Academy.
  

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• noun the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
  US Navy; USN; Navy.
  

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• noun North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
  USA; the States; U.S.A.; U.S.; United States; US; America.
  

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• noun an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
  PO; US Post Office; Post Office.
  

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• noun the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service
  US Postal Inspection Service.
  

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• noun an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States
  US Postal Service; USPS.
  

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• noun the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
  President; President of the United States; Chief Executive.
  
  • the President likes to jog every morning

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• noun an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health
  PHS.
  

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• noun the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
  SS; USSS; US Secret Service; Secret Service.
  

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• noun the upper house of the United States Congress
  Senate; US Senate; U.S. Senate.
  

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• noun the highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation
  Supreme Court; Supreme Court of the United States.
  

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• noun the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade
  US Trade Representative.
  

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• noun the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
  Treasury; Department of the Treasury; Treasury Department.
  

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• noun more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
  American Virgin Islands; VI.
  

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• noun territorial waters included within a distance of 12 nautical miles of the coasts of the United States and its territories
  U.S. waters.
  
  • ships operating in United States waters must adhere to United States laws and regulations

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• noun the vice president of the United States who presides over the United States Senate
  

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• noun a state in east central United States
  TN; Tennessee.
  

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• noun civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865
  United States Civil War; American Civil War.
  

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• noun a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
  

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• noun the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
  West.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
  Great Lakes State; Michigan; MI.
  

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