gao

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsGovernment Accounting OfficeUnited States Government Accounting Office

   Broaderagency

Other forms of gao

plural

gaos·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gao

What does gao mean?

gao means "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".

How many syllables are in gao?

gao has 1 syllable: gao. In IPA it is /ˈɡaʊ/.

What is another word for gao?

Close synonyms include Government Accounting Office, United States Government Accounting Office. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gao a common word?

gao is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.