state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
President of the United States President Chief Executive | the office of the United States head of state, a President is elected every four years |
Attorney General Attorney General of the United States | the position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, the post of Attorney General was created in |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
American Civil War United States Civil War War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
Great Seal of the United States | the seal of the United States government |
National Library of Medicine United States National Library of Medicine U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory USACIL | a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command, the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence |
United States Mint U.S. Mint US Mint | the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks, processes gold and silver bullion |
states' rights | the rights conceded to the states by the United States constitution |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
states' rights | a doctrine that federal powers should be curtailed and returned to the individual states |
United States Constitution U.S. Constitution US Constitution Constitution Constitution of the United States | the constitution written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in and subsequently ratified by the original thirteen states |
United States Code U. S. Code | a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States, is prepared and published by a unit of the United States House of Representatives |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
United States Postal Service US Postal Service USPS | an independent federal agency that provides mail processing and delivery service for individuals and businesses in the United States |
United States Postal Inspection Service US Postal Inspection Service | the primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service |
United States Trade Representative US Trade Representative | the executive agency that administers the President's policies on international trade |
Department of Defense Defense Department United States Department of Defense Defense DoD | the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States, created in |
United States Public Health Service PHS | an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General, includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health |
United States Border Patrol US Border Patrol | the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States |
Department of State United States Department of State State Department State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service US Fish and Wildlife Service FWS | an agency in the Department of the Interior that conserves and protects fish and wildlife and their habitats, assesses the environmental impact of pesticides and nuclear power site and hydroelectric dams and thermal pollution |
Department of the Treasury Treasury Department Treasury United States Treasury | the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances, the Treasury Department was created in |
United States Marshals Service US Marshals Service Marshals | the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system |
United States Post Office US Post Office Post Office PO | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States |
United States Senate U.S. Senate US Senate Senate | the upper house of the United States Congress |
Congress United States Congress U.S. Congress US Congress | the legislature of the United States government |
United States House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives US House of Representatives House of Representatives U.S. House US House | the lower legislative house of the United States Congress |
Government Accounting Office GAO United States Government Accounting Office | an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States |
States General | assembly of the estates of an entire country especially the sovereign body of the Dutch republic from th to th centuries |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state renegade state rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
Organization of American States OAS | an association including most countries in the western hemisphere, created in to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation |
church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |