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UNITED STATES NAVY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Navy mean? 

UNITED STATES NAVY (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES NAVY has 1 sense:

1. the navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forcesplay

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES NAVY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNITED STATES NAVY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The navy of the United States of America; the agency that maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Navy; United States Navy; US Navy; USN

Hypernyms ("United States Navy" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "United States Navy"):

Naval Research Laboratory; NRL (the United States Navy's defense laboratory that conducts basic and applied research for the Navy in a variety of scientific and technical disciplines)

Marine Corps; Marines; United States Marine Corps; United States Marines; US Marine Corps; USMC (an amphibious division of the United States Navy)

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division; NAWCWPNS (the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems)

Naval Special Warfare; NSW (the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare)

Naval Surface Warfare Center; NSWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for all aspects of surface warfare)

Naval Underwater Warfare Center; NUWC (the agency that provides scientific and engineering and technical support for submarine and undersea warfare systems)

United States Naval Academy; US Naval Academy (a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Navy)

Office of Naval Intelligence; ONI (the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy)

Holonyms ("United States Navy" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)


 Context examples 


The United States Navy confirmed the discovery.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)



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