intelligence agency

1. 1.

   a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

   Synonymsintelligenceintelligence service

   Broaderadministrative unit

   Narrowermilitary intelligenceUnited States intelligence agencyIntelligence Communityinternational intelligence agency

Questions about intelligence agency

What does intelligence agency mean?

intelligence agency means "a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy".

What is another word for intelligence agency?

Close synonyms include intelligence, intelligence service. 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 intelligence agency a common word?

intelligence agency 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.