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United States government - the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States

U.S., U.S. government, US Government, United States

federal government - a government with strong central powers

executive branch, Executive Office of the President - the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws

legislative branch - the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating

judicial branch - the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice

Public-spirited citizens wrote to the papers, declaiming against the maintenance of such a danger to the community, and demanding that the United States government build a national leprosarium on some remote island or isolated mountain peak.

Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context

Among the company at breakfast was a mild old gentleman, who had been for many years employed by the United States Government in conducting negotiations with the Indians, and who had just concluded a treaty with these people by which they bound themselves, in consideration of a certain annual sum, to remove next year to some land provided for them, west of the Mississippi, and a little way beyond St.

American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context

The people of Chicago saw the government inspectors in Packingtown, and they all took that to mean that they were protected from diseased meat; they did not understand that these hundred and sixty-three inspectors had been appointed at the request of the packers, and that they were paid by the United States government to certify that all the diseased meat was kept in the state.

The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context

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