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GAO

Noun CEFR C2 Standard

Definitions

  1. Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office).
  2. A surname.
  3. A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.

Equivalents

3 more languages
Bosanskigao
Hrvatskigao
Српскиgao

Examples

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.”
“At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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