Intelligence Community
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- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns kəˈmjunɪti/
- Formal
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Comunidad de Inteligencia (EE. UU.)
- At seventy-nine years of age, Stansfield was an icon in the intelligence community.
- U.S. Intelligence Community
- role of the Intelligence Community
- the Intelligence Community collects
And then the intelligence community got really sloppy.
- And then the intelligence community got really sloppy.
- And he basically says he doesn't believe an American intelligence community.
- And the Air Force, because the Air Force intelligence community works hand in glove with CIA a lot.
- You know, that was a big deal for me was to have it confirmed by the intelligence community.
- And that claim was that DEI policies improve the operational performance of the intelligence community.
- But like many of us in the intelligence community, his wife was an NSA officer, just like mine was ACIA officer.
- And the US intelligence community actually made a statement that they see they saw no evidence that the alert level actually was raised.
- Now Rolling Stone, you know, editor of note, Rolling Stone, Noah Schlachman has deep relationships with the intelligence community, Salon, Daily Kos.
Examples
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The time has come for the intelligence community to seriously consider making satellite imagery available to U.S. businesses.
Academic text (1994) -
A new report from the US intelligence community says that Putin and the Russian government conspired to help President-elect Donald Trump's election chances.
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Look, I had access to the entire intelligence community.
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I have always supported the intelligence community.
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You have been associated with the government, the intelligence community, and the military for many years.
Blog text (4) -
I was born into a family deeply connected to the U.S. intelligence community.
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To be sure, the intelligence community does collect a great deal of information from open sources.
Academic text (1994) -
We in the intelligence community need to be as informed as possible about what the Russians and others are doing.
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The U.S. intelligence community did not have a solid grasp on al Qaeda's financing.
Academic text (2008) -
The intelligence community plays a crucial role in protecting national security and gathering information.
Synonyms
A group of United States government agencies that collect and share secret information to protect the country
A group of US agencies that collect and share secret information to protect the country
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the group of agencies/organizations responsible for intelligence' is directly derivable from combining 'intelligence' (secret/security information) with 'community' (a group sharing a common function). This is a straightforward compositional naming pattern (common across languages) so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the general institutional meaning, even if they might not know the specific U.S. organizational details.
Etymology
The name Intelligence Community may come from the clear image of many people working together: intelligence is the 'secret information' they collect, and community is the group that shares it. So, the phrase means all the government groups that collect and share that information to tell leaders and keep the country safe.