secret service

Questions about secret service

What does secret service mean?

secret service means "the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents".

What is another word for secret service?

Close synonyms include United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, SS. 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 secret service a common word?

secret service 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.