U.S. GOVERNMENT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does U.S. government mean? 

• U.S. GOVERNMENT (noun)
  The noun U.S. GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:

1. the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States

  Familiarity information: U.S. GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• U.S. GOVERNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government

Hypernyms ("U.S. government" is a kind of...):

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

Meronyms (members of "U.S. government"):

executive branch; Executive Office of the President (the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws)

legislative branch (the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating)

judicial branch (the branch of the United States government responsible for the administration of justice)

 Context examples 

Released to the scientific community, the map visualizes data gathered by U.S. government sensors from 1994 to 2013.

(New Map Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population, NASA)

Medicare is the U.S. government's health insurance program for people age 65 or older.

(Medicare, NIH)

A minority is a group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it, often people with different nationality, religion, culture or lifestyle from that of the mainstream in the society; racial or ethnic groups officially recognized by the U.S. government as minority populations.

(Minority Group, NCI Thesaurus)