COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Committee for State Security mean? 

• COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY (noun)
  The noun COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY has 1 sense:

1. formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia

  Familiarity information: COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMITTEE FOR STATE SECURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Committee for State Security; KGB; Soviet KGB

Hypernyms ("Committee for State Security" is a kind of...):

Russian agency (an administrative agency of the Russian government)