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    DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland securityplay

    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)

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