communications intelligence

1. 1.

   technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients

   SynonymsCOMINT

   Broadersignals intelligence

Questions about communications intelligence

What does communications intelligence mean?

communications intelligence means "technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients".

What is another word for communications intelligence?

Close synonyms include COMINT. 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 communications intelligence a common word?

communications intelligence 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.