Definitions for state department
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1. Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoSnoun

   the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

   "the Department of State was created in 1789"

2. State Departmentnoun

   a department of government in one of the 50 states

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1. state department

   United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, and representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; "Foggy Bottom" is thus sometimes used as a metonym. Established in 1789 as the first administrative arm of the U.S. executive branch, the State Department is considered among the most powerful and prestigious executive agencies. It is headed by the secretary of state, who reports directly to the U.S. president and is a member of the Cabinet. Analogous to a foreign minister, the secretary of state serves as the federal government's chief diplomat and representative abroad, and is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presidential line of succession. The position is currently held by Antony Blinken, who was appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 2021, by a vote of 78–22.As of 2019, the State Department maintains 273 diplomatic posts worldwide, second only to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It also manages the U.S. Foreign Service, provides diplomatic training to U.S. officials and military personnel, exercises partial jurisdiction over immigration, and provides various services to Americans, such as issuing passports and visas, posting foreign travel advisories, and advancing commercial ties abroad. The department administers the oldest U.S. civilian intelligence agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and maintains a law enforcement arm, the Diplomatic Security Service.

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1. state department

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of state department in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of state department in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of state department in a Sentence

1. The President:

   We need only look around to see that. I'm speaking... to a nearly empty lobby. The people who are here are wearing masks. To date, the pandemic has claimed the lives of five State Department American employees and 42 locally employed staff around the world. Many more have gotten sick, and outside our doors, our government buildings are surrounded by new barricades.

2. Trey Gowdy:

   The fact is, the State Department cannot certify that they produced all of Secretary Clinton’s emails because they do not have all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails nor do they control access to them.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   They may have been demoralized, but they seemed in good spirits, they are hopeful that State Department will get State Department swagger back, that we will be out doing the things that they came onboard at State Department to do : to be professional, to deliver diplomacy, American diplomacy around the world.

4. Secretary Powell:

   I did n’t have a BlackBerry. What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line( sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without it going through the State Department servers, i even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in State Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.

5. John Bolton:

   The impression left is that there’s favoritism involved, and it’s just very unusual in State Department real estate and housing transactions overseas to have this kind of focus on someone with such clear financial connections to even the departed secretary of state. Normally, there’s much more competitive activity involved, [of] which we haven’t seen any evidence from the State Department.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=state department
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Department