OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Office of Homeland Security mean? 

• OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY (noun)
  The noun OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY has 1 sense:

1. an independent agency established by and accountable to the President in 2001; develops and implements a national strategy to make the United States safe from terrorist threats or attacks

  Familiarity information: OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An independent agency established by and accountable to the President in 2001; develops and implements a national strategy to make the United States safe from terrorist threats or attacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Homeland Security; Office of Homeland Security

Hypernyms ("Office of Homeland Security" is a kind of...):

independent agency (an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments)