NRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NRO mean? 

• NRO (noun)
  The noun NRO has 1 sense:

1. an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

  Familiarity information: NRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Reconnaissance Office; NRO

Hypernyms ("NRO" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("NRO" 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 ("NRO" 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)