OIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does OIS mean? 

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

1. agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Office of Intelligence Support; OIS

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

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

Holonyms ("OIS" is a part of...):

Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)

Holonyms ("OIS" 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)

 Context examples 

At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and François were compelled to make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake itself.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

François was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

François came up last, after the sled and load.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Dat Buck two devils,” was François’s rejoinder.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Buck learned easily, and under the combined tuition of his two mates and François made remarkable progress.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As François’s whip backed him up, Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Perrault and François, having cleaned out their part of the camp, hurried to save their sled-dogs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As Buck sprang to punish him, the lash of François’s whip sang through the air, reaching the culprit first; and nothing remained to Buck but to recover the bone.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

So snug and warm was it, that he was loath to leave it when François distributed the fish which he had first thawed over the fire.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They had eaten a pair of Perrault’s moose-hide moccasins, chunks out of the leather traces, and even two feet of lash from the end of François’s whip.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)