SECURITY SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Security Service mean? 

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

1. the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECURITY SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

MI; Military Intelligence Section 5; Security Service

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

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)