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State Department   /steɪt dɪpˈɑrtmənt/   Listen
State Department

noun
1.
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.  Synonyms: Department of State, DoS, State, United States Department of State.
2.
A department of government in one of the 50 states.






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... weeks, considering car fare, lunches, savings, a portion toward family support, and an allowance for clothes. The literature for this course is obtained from the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, the State Department of Factory Legislation, the Consumers' League, the National and State Labor Committees, and current magazines. Mr. Arthur M. Dunn's, "The Community and the Citizen," especially such chapters as those on the ...
— The Making of a Trade School • Mary Schenck Woolman

... I care to say about the Belgian charges is that I have officially informed the State Department in Washington that there is not one word of truth in the statements made to the President yesterday by the ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various

... that of you," was the soft reply. "But come, a fair exchange, you know, since our quarry seems to be the same. Although passing as Prince Koltsoff's secretary, in reality I am Turnecki, of the Austrian State Department. You are of the secret service ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry

... "My information in the State Department is of the most positive kind. The prisoners have been put in the dungeon set apart for condemned felons and they but wait the word of the execution of the men from the Savannah, to be led to certain death. It may be talk. We must know. ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... received at the State Department of the loss of the whale ships Arabella and America, of New Bedford; the Henry Thompson and Armada, of New London; the Mary Mitchell, of San Francisco, and the Sol Sollares, ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various


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