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Joint Chiefs

Definition: Joint Chiefs

Joint Chiefs

Noun

1. The executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the Army and Navy and Air Force and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Joint Chiefs

Synonym: Joint Chiefs of Staff (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Joint Chiefs

English words defined with "Joint Chiefs": Joint Chiefs of Staff. (references)

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Modern Usage: Joint Chiefs

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Screenplays

You know, the Joint Chiefs are gonna be upset if you mess with their chain of command. (Thirteen Days; writing credit: Ernest R. May; Philip D. Zelikow)

Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they're not the enemy. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Joint Chiefs

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Books

  • Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Joint Chiefs

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers.

At a luncheon meeting, circa 1943. Present are (from left to right): General Henry H. Arnold, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Air Forces; Admiral William D. Leahy, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Admiral Ernest J. King, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet; and General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY.

Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Eisenhower (l to r) Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Gen. Matthew Ridgeway, Admiral Arthur Radford and Admiral Robert B. Carney gather behind a globe. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Joint Chiefs

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Business

The RSCs forward their requirement proposals to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) for validation. (references)

Through the Joint Staff Council (JSC) and the Joint Chiefs Meeting (JCM), the JCS validates requirements, establishes the Required Operational Capability (ROC) against a timeline, and produces the Joint Strategic Objectives Plan (JSOP). (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Under the Provisional Constitutional Order and its amendments, all power flows from and to the Chief Executive, who also holds the posts of Chief of Army Staff and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Joint Chiefs

Expression using "Joint Chiefs": joint Chiefs of Staff. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Joint Chiefs

Language Translations for "Joint Chiefs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

統合参謀本部 (Joint Chiefs of Staff). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

とう"うさ"ぼうほ"ぶ (Joint Chiefs of Staff). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ointjay iefschay

   

Russian 

  

объединенный комитет начальников штабов (Joint Chiefs of Staff). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Joint Chiefs

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-h-i-i-j-n-o-s-t"

-3 letters: fictions, ichnites, nitchies, notifies.

-4 letters: chitins, chitons, confits, eosinic, ethions, ethnics, fiction, finches, finites, fishnet, fitches, histone, ichnite, incites, infects, injects, inosite, nifties, nitchie, notches, notices, section, sthenic, thionic.

-5 letters: centos, cestoi, chiefs, chines, chinos, chints, chitin, chiton, chosen, cities, confit, conies, contes, cosine, echini, ethics, ethion, ethnic, ethnos, feints, fetich, fetish, fiches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Joint Chiefs


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 6F 69 6E 74      43 68 69 65 66 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101000 01101001 01100101 01100110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#105 &#101 &#102 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 006F 0069 006E 0074      0043 0068 0069 0065 0066 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

44817580862377475717285

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Joint Chiefs"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", японский, японец

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеロシア語 , ロシア", русский

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийский
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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