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BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bureau of Justice Statistics mean? 

BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS (noun)
  The noun BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS has 1 sense:

1. the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makersplay

  Familiarity information: BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

BJS; Bureau of Justice Statistics

Hypernyms ("Bureau of Justice Statistics" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Bureau of Justice Statistics" is a part of...):

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)


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