NRO
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- noun
- /ɛn ɑr oʊ/
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Oficina Nacional de Reconocimiento
- The National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO, plays a crucial role in America's national security by gathering intelligence from space.
He's an NRO guy, National Reconnaissance Office.
- He's an NRO guy, National Reconnaissance Office.
- Is it true that NRO officers or people in the NRO have to be cleared through CIA, NASA and something else?
Examples
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In a recent article, the NRO highlighted its advancements in reconnaissance technologies that aid military operations.
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(The government officially admitted the existence of the NRO in 1992, although its budget and specific functions remain classified.)
Academic text (1996) -
Thus, the NRO can collect its photographic information in real time, just seconds after the pictures are taken.
Fiction book (1994) -
David French wrote a post at NRO that seems to have resonated with many who served overseas:
Blog text (19) -
The budget of the NRO was $3.5 billion (in 1994 dollars) in 1980, half of its current level.
Academic text (1996) -
The linked article by Andrew McCarthy at NRO ("Decoding Libya") is excellent.
Blog text (1) -
During the briefing, the director of the NRO explained the importance of satellite surveillance for national defense.
Synonyms
A United States agency that builds and operates spy satellites to collect information for the government and military
Surface Forms
Morphology
NRO = N + R + O
An initialism formed from the initials of a proper name; the letters do not function as independent English morphemes, so learners cannot derive the meaning from the components.
Etymology
The word NRO is a short name for the United States National Reconnaissance Office, and reconnaissance here means 'to watch' or 'to look' from far away. Think of the NRO as the nation's 'eye in the sky' that uses satellites to gather secret information, so the name fits the agency that runs spy satellites.