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WAR DEPARTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former executive department of the United States government; created in 1789 and combined with the Navy Department in 1947
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("War 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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