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SECRET SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secret Service mean? 

SECRET SERVICE (noun)
  The noun SECRET SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documentsplay

  Familiarity information: SECRET SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SECRET SERVICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Secret Service; SS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; USSS

Hypernyms ("Secret Service" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Secret Service" is a part of...):

Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)


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