NONPROLIFERATION CENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nonproliferation Center mean? 

• NONPROLIFERATION CENTER (noun)
  The noun NONPROLIFERATION CENTER has 1 sense:

1. an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems

  Familiarity information: NONPROLIFERATION CENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONPROLIFERATION CENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Nonproliferation Center; NPC

Hypernyms ("Nonproliferation Center" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Nonproliferation Center" is a part of...):

Central Intelligence Agency; CIA (an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council)