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CID
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
Synonyms:
CID; Criminal Investigation Command
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("CID" is a kind of...):
law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)
Meronyms (parts of "CID"):
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL (a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence)
Holonyms ("CID" is a part of...):
Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA (the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare)