BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Diplomatic Security mean? 

• BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY (noun)
  The noun BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY has 1 sense:

1. the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas

  Familiarity information: BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUREAU OF DIPLOMATIC SECURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bureau of Diplomatic Security; DS

Hypernyms ("Bureau of Diplomatic Security" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Bureau of Diplomatic Security" is a part of...):

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)