intelligence service
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- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəns ˈsɜrvɪs/
- Specialized
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servicio de inteligencia
- The intelligence service gathers data on potential threats to national security.
- military intelligence service
- foreign intelligence service
- police and intelligence services
And thirdly, are you working with any intelligence service other than the than the CIA?
- And thirdly, are you working with any intelligence service other than the than the CIA?
- And as you know, we were going to use militias, an intelligence service was just set up.
- One of the jobs of the FBI was to recruit individuals who were working for hostile intelligence services.
- And apparently all signs point to a Russian hacking group with ties to the Russian intelligence services by the name of fancy bear.
- And he said that the the competent authorities, which is the term they use for the intelligence services.
- It was, it was kind of comic and the intelligence services would bug my phone and I could actually hear them coughing in the background.
- You know this what is the the fixation of domestic intelligence services around the world.
- But after World War Two, he trained Egyptian like special OPS and intelligence services.
- But you know, I think when people look at it and go right with the intelligence services have no idea what went on.
- We are very fortunate to have an incredible intelligence services in the United Kingdom and American intelligence.
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Countries in the "high GDP/high military" group have historically allowed the armed forces and intelligence services to play crucial roles in politics and society.
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The method was always the same yet neither the police, nor the intelligence service connected the dots.
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So all these other governments and intelligence services, friendly or not, suddenly knew something we were doing.
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Intelligence services continue to block attempts to clear up the case.
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The United States must do more than transform its armed forces and repair its broken intelligence services.
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In recent years, police and intelligence services have become increasingly aware of the threat of homegrown terrorism.
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Some 65 percent of Americans polled believe that reforming the intelligence services is the best way to significantly strengthen U.S. security.
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Undoubtedly, transactional relationships between local and federal intelligence services can facilitate efficiency and elicit community cooperation.
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Jaabri was also the main interlocutor of the Egyptian intelligence service in reaching ceasefire understandings.
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In 1996, the Pasdaran, Iran's intelligence service, helped to blow up the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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Government or army team that collects and studies secret information
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A group that collects and studies secret information about other countries and threats
How Powerful
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organization that collects and analyzes secret information' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'intelligence' (secret information) with 'service' (an organization providing a public function). This institutional noun–noun composition is cross‑linguistically common and follows standard word-combination logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Intelligence service comes from the simple idea of a group that finds and gives important intelligence ('information') as a service ('help') to the government. Imagine quiet teams collecting facts and warning leaders about danger, so today it means an organisation that gathers and checks secret information to protect a country.