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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Synonyms:
Department of Homeland Security; Homeland Security
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Department of Homeland Security" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Department of Homeland Security"):
Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA (an independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities)
Immigration and Naturalization Service; INS (an agency in the Department of Justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the United States)
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; FLETC (a center in the Department of Homeland Security that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies)
Secret Service; SS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; USSS (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)
