national institute of justice

1. 1.

   the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice

   SynonymsNIJ

   Broaderlaw enforcement agency

   Part ofDepartment of Justice

Questions about national institute of justice

What does national institute of justice mean?

national institute of justice means "the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice".

What is another word for national institute of justice?

Close synonyms include NIJ. 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 national institute of justice a common word?

national institute of justice 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.