FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act mean? 

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT (noun)
  The noun FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT has 1 sense:

1. an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance

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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)