national security agency

1. 1.

   the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information

   SynonymsNSA

   BroaderUnited States intelligence agency

   Part ofDepartment of DefenseIntelligence Community

Questions about national security agency

What does national security agency mean?

national security agency means "the United States cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect United States information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information".

What is another word for national security agency?

Close synonyms include NSA. 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 security agency a common word?

national security 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.