DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Homeland Security mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY has 1 sense:

1. the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security

Hypernyms ("Department of Homeland Security" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Homeland Security"):

Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA (an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities)

Immigration and Naturalization Service; INS (an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States)

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; FLETC (a center in the Department of Homeland Security that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies)

Secret Service; SS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; USSS (the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents)

 Context examples 

Four men trapped under as much as 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris have been rescued in Nepal thanks to a new search-and-rescue technology developed in partnership by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

(DHS and NASA Technology Helps Save Four in Nepal Earthquake Disaster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)