NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does National Reconnaissance Office mean? 

• NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE has 1 sense:

1. an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

National Reconnaissance Office; NRO

Hypernyms ("National Reconnaissance Office" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("National Reconnaissance Office" 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 Reconnaissance Office" 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)