central intelligence machinery

1. 1.

   the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies

   SynonymsCIM

   Broaderinternational intelligence agency

   United Kingdom

Questions about central intelligence machinery

What does central intelligence machinery mean?

central intelligence machinery means "the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies".

What is another word for central intelligence machinery?

Close synonyms include CIM. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is central intelligence machinery a common word?

central intelligence machinery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.