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gao
/ɡaʊ/
name 3adj 1
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3VERB + GAO
budget, know, told
GAO + NOUN
dao
ADV.
usually
Definitions
name
1
Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office).
The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO’s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument.
adj
1
Alternative form of gau.
name
1
A surname.
At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.
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The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong
Wiktionary02
At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.
Wiktionary03
Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend.
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Do you know Mr Gao?
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