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NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations
Synonyms:
National Reconnaissance Office; NRO
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("National Reconnaissance Office" is a kind of...):
United States intelligence agency (an intelligence service in the United States)
Holonyms ("National Reconnaissance Office" is a part of...):
Defense; Defense Department; Department of Defense; DoD; United States Department of Defense (the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947)
Holonyms ("National Reconnaissance Office" 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)
