IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Immigration and Naturalization Service mean? 

• IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (noun)
  The noun IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States

  Familiarity information: IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Immigration and Naturalization Service; INS

Hypernyms ("Immigration and Naturalization Service" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Meronyms (parts of "Immigration and Naturalization Service"):

United States Border Patrol; US Border Patrol (the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States)

Holonyms ("Immigration and Naturalization Service" is a part of...):

Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)