SHIN BET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Shin Bet mean? 

• SHIN BET (noun)
  The noun SHIN BET has 1 sense:

1. the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency

  Familiarity information: SHIN BET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIN BET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

General Security Services; Shin Bet

Context example:

the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline

Hypernyms ("Shin Bet" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)