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US SECRET SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does US Secret Service mean?
• US SECRET SERVICE (noun)
The noun US 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: US SECRET SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("US Secret Service" is a kind of...):
United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)
Holonyms ("US Secret Service" is a part of...):
Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security (the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security)
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