noun
the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
• Syn: ↑Department of Homeland Security
• Hypernyms: ↑executive department
• Part Meronyms:
↑Federal Emergency Management Agency, ↑FEMA, ↑Immigration and Naturalization Service, ↑INS, ↑Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, ↑FLETC, ↑United States Secret Service, ↑US Secret Service, ↑USSS, ↑Secret Service, ↑SS
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Homeland Security UK US noun [uncountable]
the US government department responsible for protecting the US from attacks by terrorists , or the work of this department http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/homeland-security.htm
Thesaurus: us government departments and organizationshyponym
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the activities and organizations whose aim is to prevent ↑terrorist attacks in the US
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the Department of Homeland Security
Useful english dictionary. 2012.