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General Accounting Office

American  

noun

U.S. Government.
  1. an independent auditing and accounting agency that assists Congress and government departments and agencies and settles claims for the federal government. GAO


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It established the General Accounting Office, specifying that it “shall be independent of the executive departments.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Perhaps the most significant critique of such separations came in 1978 when the federal government's General Accounting Office, now known as the Government Accountability Office, released a report that called for ending the practice.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2023

General Accounting Office, chemical recycling uses heat and/or chemical reactions to break down used plastics into new plastic, fuel or other chemicals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

According to militarymachine.com, each F/A-18 Hornet costs more than $34 million, and they cost $6.5 million a year to operate, statista .com has reported, citing General Accounting Office data.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

He had been dragged from his job in the General Accounting Office, for every field man and ex-field man was needed to conduct the sweeping investigation.

From Insidekick by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

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