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BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community
Synonyms:
Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" is a part of...):
Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)
Holonyms ("Bureau of Intelligence and Research" 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)
