CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Central Intelligence Machinery mean? 

• CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY (noun)
  The noun CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY has 1 sense:

1. the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies

  Familiarity information: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Central Intelligence Machinery; CIM

Hypernyms ("Central Intelligence Machinery" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)