federal security service

1. 1.

   the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin

   SynonymsFederal Security BureauFSB

   BroaderRussian agency

Questions about federal security service

What does federal security service mean?

federal security service means "the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin".

What is another word for federal security service?

Close synonyms include Federal Security Bureau, FSB. 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 security service a common word?

federal security service 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.