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GAO

noun

An independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States. Synonyms: Government Accounting Office, United States Government Accounting Office.

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"GAO" Quotes from Famous Books

... in advance, ever and again with his head to the ground listening, his great arms bare, pieces of eight in his ears as ornaments, is the handsome Italian Cecco, who cut his name in letters of blood on the back of the governor of the prison at Gao. That gigantic black behind him has had many names since he dropped the one with which dusky mothers still terrify their children on the banks of the Guadjo-mo. Here is Bill Jukes, every inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got six dozen ...

— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie

Words linked to "GAO" : federal agency, Government Accounting Office, United States Government Accounting Office, government agency, agency, authority, bureau, office