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foreign intelligence surveillance court

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
for-eign in-tel-li-gence -surveil-lance -court
IPA
50
Scrabble Score
36
Letters
8
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies

Synonyms

F.I.S.C.

Questions

What does foreign intelligence surveillance court mean?
a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies

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