federal bureau of prisons

1. 1.

   the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes

   SynonymsBoP

   Broaderlaw enforcement agency

   Part ofDepartment of Justice

Questions about federal bureau of prisons

What does federal bureau of prisons mean?

federal bureau of prisons means "the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes".

What is another word for federal bureau of prisons?

Close synonyms include BoP. 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 federal bureau of prisons a common word?

federal bureau of prisons 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.