national security council

1. 1.

   a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency

   SynonymsNSC

   Broaderexecutive agency

Questions about national security council

What does national security council mean?

national security council means "a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the Central Intelligence Agency".

What is another word for national security council?

Close synonyms include NSC. 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 council a common word?

national security council 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.