NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Security Agency mean? 

• NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Security Agency; NSA

Hypernyms ("National Security Agency" is a kind of...):

United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)

Holonyms ("National Security Agency" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

Holonyms ("National Security Agency" is a member of...):

IC; Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; United States Intelligence Community (a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence)