DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Defense Intelligence Agency mean? 

• DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (noun)
  The noun DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition

  Familiarity information: DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (noun)

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Meaning:

An intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Defense Intelligence Agency; DIA

Hypernyms ("Defense Intelligence Agency" is a kind of...):

military intelligence; military intelligence agency (an agency of the armed forces that obtains and analyzes and uses information of strategic or tactical military value)

United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("Defense Intelligence Agency" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

Holonyms ("Defense Intelligence Agency" 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)