CSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CSIS mean? 

• CSIS (noun)
  The noun CSIS has 1 sense:

1. Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Canada's main foreign intelligence agency that gathers and analyzes information to provide security intelligence for the Canadian government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Canadian Security Intelligence Service; CSIS

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

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

Vanessa Hull, a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve, most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.

(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)