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White House

Proper noun

Meaning

(US) The official home and workplace of the President of the United States of America.

(US, metonymically) The US presidency and its administration.
The White House announced its support for the new law.

Synonym of Russian White House

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people. Boris Yeltsin

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. Helen Thomas

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. Robin Williams

Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. James Buchanan

The White House is the finest prison in the world. Harry S. Truman

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