Department of Defense

noun

1. the department of the U.S. federal government charged with ensuring that the military capacity of the U.S. is adequate to safeguard the national security. DOD

Department of Defense

1. A department of the federal executive branch entrusted with formulating military policies and maintaining American military forces. Its top official is the civilian secretary of defense. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.

Example Sentences

Department of Defense is working to reduce reliance on foreign adversaries, with a deal including an equity stake and price floor for MP Materials.

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He reverses a post-World War II decision that renamed the War Department the Department of Defense, returning its meaning to “war.”

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Brown wouldn’t allow him to defer and he had also landed a full-ride scholarship through the Department of Defense.

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But as a former political-military analyst and former senior adviser at the Department of Defense, I find it hard to discern a coherent strategy or objective.

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Department of Defense and more than 50 nonprofits.

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