FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Foreign Intelligence Service mean? 

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime

  Familiarity information: FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Russia's intelligence service responsible for foreign operations, intelligence-gathering and analysis, and the exchange of intelligence information; collaborates with other countries to oppose proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism and organized crime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Foreign Intelligence Service; Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki; SVR

Hypernyms ("Foreign Intelligence Service" is a kind of...):

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

Domain region:

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)