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U.S. government

noun

The executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States. Synonyms: U.S., United States, United States government, US Government.

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... and wild, bear the privations and discomforts of long voyages better than would be supposed. The elephant, the giraffe, the rhinoceros, and even the hippopotamus, do not seem to suffer much at sea. Some of the camels imported by the U.S. government into Texas from the Crimea and Northern Africa were a whole year on shipboard. On the other hand, George Sand, in Un Hiver au Midi, gives an amusing description of the sea-sickness of swine in the short passage from the Baleares to Barcelona. ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

... funeral of notorious apache. Jean the Rat, convicted murderer and suicide and denied the offices of the Catholic Church, is buried by stalwart Americans. Department of Foreign Affairs reluctant to file protest at present time. Strange demonstration believed to be unofficial and without U.S. government sanction, although U. S. Navy chaplain delivers eloquent peroration ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... Washington: 1953 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

Words linked to "U.S. government" : judicial branch, federal government, executive branch, legislative branch, Executive Office of the President, U.S., United States government