sbu
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Initialism of sensitive but unclassified.
name
The Security Service of Ukraine, the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian government.
Example Sentences
- "People entrusted with SBU information must safeguard it and employ the most stringent access control available."
- "At the outset, let me say that at least some uses of control markings (such as SBU) for nonclassified information are intended to address real concerns about the release of information in relation to the need to protect privacy and security."
- "Since 2008, in response to a presidential memorandum that replaced SBU information with "controlled unclassified information (CUI) as the single categorical designation for SBU infoemation, the executive branch is attempting to overhaul its CUI framework."
- "Ukraine’s SBU security service and police have raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”. […] The SBU did not give details about the outcome of Tuesday’s raid."
- "Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, said one of the soldiers was captured on Thursday."
Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainian СБУ (SBU), initialism of Слу́жба безпе́ки Украї́ни (Slúžba bezpéky Ukrajíny, literally “Security Service of Ukraine”).
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law, Military.