NAVY DEPARTMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1798 and combined with the War Department in 1947

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Navy Department" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

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