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War Department

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Noun1.War DepartmentWar Department - a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947
executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
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War Department
n (old US) → Kriegsministerium nt (old)


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We have only to add that the affairs of the captain have been satisfactorily arranged with the War Department, and that he is actually in service at Fort Gibson, on our western frontier, where we hope he may meet with further opportunities of indulging his peculiar tastes, and of collecting graphic and characteristic details of the great western wilds and their motley inhabitants.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
To his thinking the navy was one of the current expenses of the war department, like the artillery, cavalry, infantry, and commissariat.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
And though the war departments of the nations have continued to experiment in their secret laboratories, they have so far failed to light upon the slightest trace of the secret.
The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context
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