UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Secret Service mean? 

• UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Secret Service; SS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; USSS

Hypernyms ("United States Secret Service" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("United States Secret Service" is a part of...):

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