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NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency mean? 

NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY has 1 sense:

1. a combat support agency that provides geographic intelligence in support of national securityplay

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A combat support agency that provides geographic intelligence in support of national security

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; NGA

Hypernyms ("National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency" 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 ("National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency" 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)


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