'Secret Service' definitions:
Definition of 'Secret Service'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: United States Secret Service, US Secret Service, USSS, Secret Service, SS]
Definition of 'Secret service'
From: GCIDE
- Secret service \Se"cret serv"ice\ The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department, and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'Secret Service'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Bow Street runner,
- detective,
- FBI,
- FBI agent,
- fed,
- Federal,
- G-man,
- hotel detective,
- house detective,
- house dick,
- inquiry agent,
- investigator,
- narc,
- operative,
- plainclothesman,
- police detective,
- private detective,
- private investigator,
- revenuer,
- Sherlock Holmes,
- sleuth,
- store detective,
- T-man,
- treasury agent
Synonyms of 'secret service'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bugging,
- cloak-and-dagger work,
- counterespionage,
- counterintelligence,
- electronic surveillance,
- espial,
- espionage,
- following,
- intelligence,
- intelligence bureau,
- intelligence service,
- intelligence work,
- military intelligence,
- naval intelligence,
- observation,
- secret police,
- shadowing,
- spying,
- stakeout,
- surveillance,
- tailing,
- trailing,
- wiretap,
- wiretapping