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JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Joint Chiefs of Staff mean? 

JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (noun)
  The noun JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF has 1 sense:

1. the executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corpsplay

  Familiarity information: JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Joint Chiefs; Joint Chiefs of Staff

Hypernyms ("Joint Chiefs of Staff" is a kind of...):

executive agency (an agency of the executive branch of government)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)


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