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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoDnoun

    the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of department of defense in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of department of defense in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of department of defense in a Sentence

  1. Mark Green:

    If we spend a Department of Defense dollar on non-war fighting capability it decreases our war fighting ability, we must not use a single dollar of the Department of Defense budget to address the climate change issue.

  2. Kim Jong-un Rogers:

    I fully expected, sadly in some ways, that in my time as the commander of United States Cyber Command the Department of Defense would be tasked with attempting to defend the nation against those kind of attacks, i didn't realize that it would be against a motion picture company, to be honest.

  3. Jeffrey Thorpe:

    DCIS special agents will use every tool at their disposal to pursue and bring to justice those who attack the Department of Defense.

  4. Frank Kendall:

    I appreciate the value to industry and (the Department of Defense) in allowing industry to place its own bets on technology that might increase a firm's competitiveness.

  5. Defense Patrick Shanahan:

    As Department of Defense Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller for the past 19 months, David Norquist has had insight into virtually every tenet of this department. I have the greatest confidence in Defense Chief Financial Officer abilities to lead a phenomenally talented team while performing the duties as Deputy Secretary of National Defense.

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