GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Government Accounting Office mean? 

• GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States

  Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

GAO; Government Accounting Office; United States Government Accounting Office

Hypernyms ("Government Accounting Office" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)