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Definition of "intelligence service" []

  • A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "intelligence service" in a sentence
  • "In spook history, it also stands for (a) the Special Intelligence Service of theFBI, the WWII American overseas intelligence service in the Western Hemisphere; (b) the Signal Intelligence Service, the communications intelligence service of the United States Army; (c) Servizio Informazioni Segrete, the intelligence service of the Italian Navy."
  • "The German intelligence service had been fairly accurate about conditions in Russian-occupied Poland, but badly at fault about those beyond the original Russian frontier."
  • "In Massachusetts, the rebel intelligence service was run by Joseph Warren, who sat on the Committee of Public Safety and who, as mentioned, had drafted the Suffolk County Resolves."