gao

comparative more gao · superlative most gao

1. SingaporealternativecolloquialAlternative form of gau.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism 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.

   2020 January 16, Jeremy Herb, “Government watchdog concludes Trump administration broke law by withholding Ukraine aid”, in CNN

plural Gaos · alternative Gau · alternative Kao

1. countableuncountableA surname.

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

   [1979, Hilary J. Beattie, “Land and taxation”, in Land and Lineage in China: A Study of Tʻung-chʻeng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Chʻing Dynasties, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 86

1. A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.