National Security Agency
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3.8
- proper noun
- /ˈnæʃənəl sɪˈkjʊrɪti ˈeɪdʒənsi/
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Agencia de Seguridad Nacional
- "Do we know where the data comes from, and can we document the history of the data?" asked Neal Ziring, technical advisor to the Information Assurance Directorate of the National Security Agency.
- National Security Agency
- the NSA
- director of the National Security Agency
Examples
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I was invited to Washington DC to attend this meeting that was being put together by the National Security Agency called the Critical Thinking Consortium.
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The National Security Agency conducts worldwide surveillance.
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Talk to National Security Agency.
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Did Outi realize that the National Computer Security Center is part of the National Security Agency?
Fiction book (1999) -
Carl Dayton, National Security Agency.
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But what we have going on in this country is we have infiltration and spying that goes on not only at the-- well, all the way from the campus police, practically, aiming up to the Pentagon and the National Security Agency.
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If you ever had top-secret clearance with the CIA, the Pentagon, or the National Security Agency, you would never be sharing that information on this thread.
Blog text (19) -
On the same date, more than fifty years later (in 2014), President Barack Obama announced that some minor changes may be made to a fraction of the National Security Agency's warrantless mass surveillance of all digital communications worldwide.
Academic text (2015) -
The National Security Agency is tasked with protecting the nation's information systems from cyber threats.
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The director of the National Security Agency provided a briefing on the importance of cybersecurity.
Synonyms
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3.8
A United States government organization that collects secret information and protects US computer systems
A joking name for the US spy agency used to say it is secret or not real
How Effective
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3.8
- Specialized
64
2.8
- Specialized
346
3.0
- Specialized
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The overall meaning is compositionally built from 'national' (country-level), 'security' (protection) and 'agency' (organization), so a learner who knows those words can infer it is an organization that handles national security. This NP follows a transparent, cross-linguistic pattern; only specialized aspects (e.g. cryptology, signals intelligence) exceed what the constituents alone specify.
Etymology
National Security Agency takes its name from its work: National means the whole country, Security means protection, and Agency means an official organization. It was set up to 'protect the country' and to 'watch foreign messages and codes', so the name tells you what it does today.