DIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does DIA mean? 

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

1. an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Defense Intelligence Agency; DIA

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

military intelligence; military intelligence agency (an agency of the armed forces that obtains and analyzes and uses information of strategic or tactical military value)

United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Holonyms ("DIA" is a part of...):

Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)

Holonyms ("DIA" is a member of...):

IC; Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; United States Intelligence Community (a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence)

 Context examples 

Holmes shot out his long, thin arm and picked out Volume “H” in his encyclopædia of reference.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed altogether past belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the _Encyclopædia Britannica_.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Is to copy out the _Encyclopædia Britannica_.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)