intelligence agency
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2.8
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns ˈeɪdʒənsi/
- Specialized
:
agencia de inteligencia
- The government relies on several intelligence agencies to gather information about foreign threats.
- U.S. intelligence agency
- cooperation with intelligence agencies
- military intelligence agency
Let me ask you about intelligence agencies outside of the CIA.
- Let me ask you about intelligence agencies outside of the CIA.
- I mean, Putin dominates his intelligence agencies, right?
- And then the threats come from the Israeli intelligence agencies.
- He was known to the UK intelligence agencies.
- And there's a guy in Washington, Michael Bagley, who runs a private intelligence agency called Jellyfish.
- It's time to put a real check on the growing vast powers of our intelligence agencies while we still can.
- Nobody ever sided with a guy like Putin against our intelligence agencies.
- The Central Intelligence Agency and the Monroe Institute have done a multitude of studies together on remote viewing.
- Everybody, all the, the American military, the intelligence agencies, NATO, his own staff advisors all told him to flee and he stayed.
- Now Russia has a huge intelligence agency, China.
- So the three components are intelligence agencies, press and formers.
- There's benefits in every intelligence agency sharing Intel.
- But that's got to be done and for the intelligence agencies.
- The Satanists do have their own people in the intelligence agencies, so that they make that.
- What you just described is what makes intelligence agencies crazy because there are no secrets.
Examples
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Many intelligence agencies cooperate to share critical information for national security.
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After analyzing the data, the intelligence agency concluded that there was no imminent danger.
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- We're a private intelligence agency.
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We have every major intelligence agency already hunting us down.
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An independent, international intelligence agency... operating at the highest level of discretion.
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But now our friendship is well known to intelligence agencies all over the world.
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Despite the best efforts of many intelligence agencies, his murder had remained a mystery.
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That's what the intelligence agencies are meant to do.
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Let me ask you about intelligence agencies outside of the CIA.
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For example, U.S. intelligence agencies are reported to have had knowledge about those who attacked Mumbai before they struck.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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2.8
A US government agency that gathers information about other countries to protect national security
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3.0
Government or army team that collects and studies secret information
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3.8
A United States government organization that collects secret information and protects US computer systems
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3.0
A group that gathers and studies secret information for a government
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6.7
A United States government agency that collects information about other countries' militaries
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4.7
An organization that collects and studies secret information for governments
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2.8
A United States government organization that collects secret information about other countries
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3.9
A team in the armed forces that gathers and studies information for military plans
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3.8
A US government agency that protects secret information and gathers foreign intelligence
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3.8
A part of the United States Army that gathers and studies information for military leaders
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5.8
A government group in Iraq that gathers secret information and runs secret operations to protect the country
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3.9
A British government group that gathers secret information overseas and protects Britain from foreign spies
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3.9
A part of the United States government that gives military information to help plan operations and buy weapons
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3.2
A group in the armed forces that collects and studies information about enemy plans and troops
A government body that gathers and reports information to protect Canada
A Russian government agency that gathers information and carries out operations abroad
The main spy agency of Pakistan that gathers information inside and outside the country
The main government spy agency in Pakistan that gathers secret information about security
United States government agency that makes and studies maps and satellite images for national security
A part of the United States State Department that studies events abroad and advises diplomats
A British government service that gathers secret information abroad and runs secret operations
A United States Navy agency that gathers and studies information for security and operations
A government group from another country that collects secret information
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'intelligence' (information gathering/analysis) + 'agency' (an organization) yields an organization that collects and analyzes intelligence. This noun–noun compound pattern is common across languages and follows standard English word-formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Intelligence agency joins intelligence (meaning useful information) and agency (a group that acts). Imagine a team collecting pieces of a puzzle, secret facts they then study to keep the country safe, so intelligence agency means a group that 'collects and studies information' about threats or other countries.