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IIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does IIS mean?
• IIS (noun)
The noun IIS has 1 sense:
1. the most notorious and possibly the most important arm of Iraq's security system
Familiarity information: IIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The most notorious and possibly the most important arm of Iraq's security system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
IIS; Iraqi Intelligence Service; Iraqi Mukhabarat
Context example:
the Iraqi Mukhabarat has been involved in numerous terrorist activities
Hypernyms ("IIS" is a kind of...):
international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)
Domain region:
Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)
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