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Department of State   /dɪpˈɑrtmənt əv steɪt/   Listen
Department of State

noun
1.
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.  Synonyms: DoS, State, State Department, United States Department of State.



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"Department of state" Quotes from Famous Books



... in President Wilson's Cabinet for which Page had been considered. The early plans to make him Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture have already been described. Of all cabinet posts, however, the one that would have especially attracted him would have been the Department of State. But President Wilson believed that the appointment of an Ambassador at one of the belligerent capitals, especially of an Ambassador whose sympathies for the Allies were so pronounced as were Page's, would have been ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick



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