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Noun: State Department
  1. A department of government in one of the 50 states
     
  2. The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
    "the State Department was created in 1789";
    - Department of State, United States Department of State, State, DoS

Derived forms: State Departments

Type of: executive department, government department

Encyclopedia: State Department

Nearest

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state
State
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state bank
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state capital
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State Department
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State of Bahrain
State of Eritrea
state of flux
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State of Israel
State of Katar