MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military intelligence mean? 

• MILITARY INTELLIGENCE (noun)
  The noun MILITARY INTELLIGENCE has 2 senses:

1. an agency of the armed forces that obtains and analyzes and uses information of strategic or tactical military value

2. information about the armed forces of another country that is useful in planning and conducting military policy or military operations

  Familiarity information: MILITARY INTELLIGENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY INTELLIGENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the armed forces that obtains and analyzes and uses information of strategic or tactical military value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

military intelligence; military intelligence agency

Hypernyms ("military intelligence" is a kind of...):

intelligence; intelligence agency; intelligence service (a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy)

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

Defense Intelligence Agency; DIA (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Information about the armed forces of another country that is useful in planning and conducting military policy or military operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("military intelligence" is a kind of...):

intelligence; intelligence information (secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy))

Domain category:

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