White House
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2.7
- noun
- /waɪt haʊs/
- Literature
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Casa Blanca
- You can write to the White House!
- the White House press
- the White House press secretary
- the White House staff
I was in the George W Bush White House for for seven years.
- I was in the George W Bush White House for for seven years.
- Fox News just cut off the Trump White House for being misleading.
- And it doesn't help that the White House turned off its lights.
- Who needs Russian smoke when the White House is on fire?
- And at that point, they have the meetings in the White House about Laos.
- That's panic from Trump, from his White House, from his pet congressman.
- And whatever pressures there were from the White House to to get results.
- Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, the White House tweeted this scare video.
- We are doing the official White House tour today.
- And so I resigned from the White House to go and take that job.
- So last year, the White House launched this housing supply action plan.
Examples
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- Next stop, the White House.
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Tomorrow morning, the White House is sending a bill to Congress for its consideration.
Fiction book (1995) -
Man, does anybody in the White House listen to John Kelly?
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We are doing the official White House tour today.
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So last year, the White House launched this housing supply action plan.
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Are you guys in the White House or on a terrible first day?
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What was it like inside the Trump White House when you were there?
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The White House chief of staff is on his way up.
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We go now to the White House for an announcement from the President of the United States.
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The President gave an important speech from the White House lawn today.
Synonyms
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2.3
The elected leader of the United States who runs the national government
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3.9
The part of a government that carries out laws, led by a president or prime minister
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5.5
An official title for the US President as the leader who runs the government
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2.0
Leader of the United States who represents the country and runs the federal government
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3.5
An elected leader of the United States who runs the national government and speaks for the country
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4.4
A group of government offices that help the United States President carry out duties and make policy
Surface Forms
Morphology
White + house
Literally, the phrase is composed of 'white' + 'house', so a learner would readily infer a house that is white. However, the conventionalized proper-name use referring to the U.S. presidential residence and metonymically to the administration is not predictable from the constituents without cultural/political knowledge or prior exposure. Because the literal sense is transparent but the institutional/metonymic meaning is conventional and requires learning, the expression is best classified as semi-transparent.
Etymology
White House is often used to mean the President's team or the government because official statements and decisions come from that building, so people started using the building's name for the people who work there. That's why when you hear 'the White House said', it usually means the administration, not just the building.