Pentagon
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4.1
- proper noun
- /ˈpɛntəˌɡɒn/
:
Pentágono
- The Secretary of Defense gave a speech at the Pentagon about military strategy.
- Pentagon officials
- Pentagon budget
- the Pentagon Papers
Examples
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Setting priorities would also help the Pentagon make better investment decisions.
Academic text (2011) -
The U.S. State Department budget famously has fewer foreign service officers than the Pentagon has military band musicians.
Academic text (2011) -
On the ride back to the Pentagon, General Smith was thinking to himself.
Fiction book (1994) -
I know a colonel in the Pentagon.
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Most reform proposals focus on changing the way the Pentagon and Congress operate.
Academic text (1990) -
I think the Pentagon has given us an exercise to check our readiness.
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Most reform proposals focus on structural changes at the Pentagon or on Capitol Hill.
Academic text (1990) -
Since its inception in 1947, the Pentagon has existed as a loose confederation of the armed services.
Academic text (1999) -
Recent testimony by Lowell Jacoby, director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, supports the critics' claims.
Academic text (2008) -
To take one prominent case, the Pentagon has shrouded the B-2 bomber program in secrecy.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.6
A large five-sided building in Arlington where US military leaders work
Compounds
- NSFW
A violent group in the Philippines that kidnaps people and takes money by force
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Pentagon comes from the Greek parts penta ('five') and gon ('angle' or 'corner'), because the building has five sides. So the name is a simple description of its five-sided shape.