DoD
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5.2
- noun
- /diː oʊ diː/
- Formal
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Departamento de Defensa (EE. UU.)
- The DoD is responsible for coordinating military operations and ensuring national security.
- DoD policy
- DoD directive
- oversee the DoD
But again, the procurement process of the DoD is so awful.
- But again, the procurement process of the DoD is so awful.
- Same thing at CIA, same thing at DoD, same thing at NSA.
- So these are four ways by which DoD is willing to intervene.
- You've advised presidential administrations, Congress, the VA and DoD on the effects of PTSD.
- So he's been, he's, he's a well established and published scientist that has been working for the DoD in various capacities for quite some time.
- It is amazing to me that we can have a system that the DoD today is saying is good and takes care of victims.
- And they wanted to be able to own the Recon asset and not have to share it with the DoD.
- If they were on loan from DoD to CIA, they did in fact, work for CIA, but they were not CIA officers.
- So Lynn was involved with Joe Mcmonagle and Project Stargate, and he was there through the changing of hands of the program from the CIA to the DoD.
- I mean, the scale of problems between DoD and Intel agencies, DoD just dwarfs it just dwarfs that budget.
- So like in the same way there's the investment in the military in the DoD is huge.
- If I could ask your sort of take your opinion of the different UFO sightings that the DoD has released videos on.
- So it was a big effort and DoD was looking around for who can we get to play in this now?
- So you saw, you saw Secret Service, you saw DoD, you saw all these like, and you're like, that's interesting, you know.
- And we've seen how DoD is operated just in the past few months, both in Texas, Florida and a lot in Puerto Rico.
- The Army or the DoD as a whole is allowing psychedelics for I mean, which is wild, you know, like we're so slow to get there.
Examples
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Contact the DOD surplus sales office.
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Finally, on October 21, 2016, the DoD issued the final version of the rule.
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So it was a big effort and DoD was looking around for who can we get to play in this now?
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We need to get DOD on the line.
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Everybody at DOD wanted it to work, and it did.
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And DOD confirmed it was a nuclear football.
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We work for the DoD.
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Moving forward, agreements ultimately may increase private sector participation with the DoD and the federal government at large.
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Defense committee members generally worried about DoD plans only when constituent interests were directly affected.
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Agreements provide several benefits that enable the DoD to effectively mitigate or potentially eliminate cyber threats.
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Synonyms
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3.7
The part of the United States government that runs the military and protects the country
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3.6
A large five-sided building in Arlington where US military leaders work
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3.4
A part of the United States government that protects the country and manages the military
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3.5
A United States government office that protects national security and manages the armed forces
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A United States government department that protects the country's security and runs the armed forces
The United States military leaders and officials who make defense decisions
Surface Forms
Morphology
DoD = Department of Defense (semi-transparent) = D + o + D
The sequence 'DoD' is an initialism that maps to the multiword phrase; learners can understand it only if they know the expansion rather than by internal morphology.
Etymology
DoD is short for Department of Defense, the U.S. government office that 'protects' the country. The word defense means 'protection', so the DoD is the part of government that looks after the armed forces and national security.