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UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Border Patrol mean?
• UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL (noun)
The noun UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL has 1 sense:
1. the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States
Familiarity information: UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
United States Border Patrol; US Border Patrol
Hypernyms ("United States Border Patrol" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("United States Border Patrol" is a part of...):
Immigration and Naturalization Service; INS (an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States)
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