FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT

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

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

1. a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE COURT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

F.I.S.C.; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

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

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Holonyms ("Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court" is a part of...):

Federal Judiciary (the judiciary of the United States which is responsible for interpreting and enforcing federal laws)