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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies
Synonyms:
Central Intelligence Machinery; CIM
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Central Intelligence Machinery" 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)