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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 Statesplay

  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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