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COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does counterintelligence mean? 

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (noun)
  The noun COUNTERINTELLIGENCE has 1 sense:

1. intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorismplay

  Familiarity information: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("counterintelligence" is a kind of...):

intelligence; intelligence activity; intelligence operation (the operation of gathering information about an enemy)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "counterintelligence"):

counterespionage (spying on the spies)

security intelligence (intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism)

censoring; censorship; security review (counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy)

countersubversion (the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities)

counter-sabotage (counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage)


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