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    FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillanceplay

    Synonyms:

    FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" is a kind of...):

    legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

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