secret service
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
Example Sentences
- "True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents."
- "On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services."