BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Intelligence and Research mean? 

• BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH (noun)
  The noun BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH has 1 sense:

1. an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community

  Familiarity information: BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR

Hypernyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" is a part of...):

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)

Holonyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" is a member of...):

IC; Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; United States Intelligence Community (a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence)