FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Federal Security Service mean? 

• FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Federal Security Bureau; Federal Security Service; FSB

Hypernyms ("Federal Security Service" is a kind of...):

Russian agency (an administrative agency of the Russian government)