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[syn: United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, Secret Service, SS]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Secret service \Se"cret serv"ice\
The detective service of a government. In the United States,
in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the
treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war
department in securing information concerning the movements
of the enemy.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Secret Service
n 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 [syn:
United States Secret Service, US Secret Service,
USSS, Secret Service, SS]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "Secret Service":
Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, Sherlock Holmes,
T-man, detective, fed, hotel detective, house detective,
house dick, inquiry agent, investigator, narc, operative,
plainclothesman, police detective, private detective,
private investigator, revenuer, sleuth, store detective,
treasury agent
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "secret service":
bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, counterespionage,
counterintelligence, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage,
following, intelligence, intelligence bureau, intelligence service,
intelligence work, military intelligence, naval intelligence,
observation, secret police, shadowing, spying, stakeout,
surveillance, tailing, trailing, wiretap, wiretapping