national reconnaissance office

1. 1.

   an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations

   SynonymsNRO

   BroaderUnited States intelligence agency

   Part ofDepartment of DefenseIntelligence Community

Questions about national reconnaissance office

What does national reconnaissance office mean?

national reconnaissance office means "an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations".

What is another word for national reconnaissance office?

Close synonyms include NRO. 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 reconnaissance office a common word?

national reconnaissance office 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.