war department
IPA: wˈɔrdɪpˈɑrtmʌnt
noun
- a former executive department of the united states government; created in 1789 and combined with the navy department in 1947
Examples of "war-department" in Sentences
- It seems to me that it would be a great patriotic service to consult the war-department bookbuyers on some subsidy plan to bring out a tentative dozen of the most important as “an original scource tactical library of the lessons of the great war.”