UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States government mean? 

• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:

1. the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("United States government" is a kind of...):

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

Meronyms (members of "United States government"):

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)

 Context examples 

A department of the United States government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.

(Department of Health and Human Services, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

For some years the organisation flourished in spite of the efforts of the United States government and of the better classes of the community in the South.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)