foreign intelligence surveillance act

1. 1.

   an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance

   SynonymsFISA

   Broaderlegislative act

Questions about foreign intelligence surveillance act

What does foreign intelligence surveillance act mean?

foreign intelligence surveillance act means "an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; intended to increase United States counterintelligence; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance".

What is another word for foreign intelligence surveillance act?

Close synonyms include FISA. 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 foreign intelligence surveillance act a common word?

foreign intelligence surveillance act 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.