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Department of State

noun

The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies. Synonyms: DoS, State, State Department, United States Department of State.

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"Department of State" Quotes from Famous Books

... any other belligerent power since the year 1791, and also of an act placing the commerce of America in English ports upon the footing of the most favored nation, I now transmit them a report of the Secretary of State of such of them as have been attainable in the Department of State and are supposed to have entered into the views ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. • James D. Richardson

... see Mr. Hughes in the Department of State. He is remarkably handsome and has not only a striking intelligence, but charming manners. We said nothing worth recording. I told him what, alas! he must have heard a thousand times: the profound ...

— My Impresssions of America • Margot Asquith

... right to close the ports by proclamation, but stating the Government's decision not to exercise the right. Lyons believed this was the end of the matter[524]. Yet on August 12, he presented himself formally at the Department of State and stated that he had instructions to declare that "Her Majesty's Government would consider a decree closing the ports of the South actually in possession of the insurgent or Confederate States as null and void, ...

— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

Words linked to "Department of State" : executive department, Foggy Bottom, INR, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Foreign Service, ds, United States Department of State