Definitions for secret-service

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Secret-Service is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in secret-service (-cceeeeirrsstv).

Definitions for secret-service

noun

1. the branch of governmental service that conducts secret investigations, especially investigations into the military strength of other nations.
2. (initial capital letters) the branch of the U.S. Department of the Treasury charged chiefly with the discovery and apprehension of counterfeiters and with providing protection for the president and the president's immediate family.
3. secret work for a government, especially espionage.

Origin of secret-service

First recorded in 1730-40

Examples for secret-service

The city relented, but the mayor asked the secret service to formally request the closure in a letter that could be made public.

Only five African-American females hold a rank higher than GS-14 within the secret service.

Then we will have a man fit to run the secret service on this railroad.

The police and secret service organizations of the world searched for him.

It is my business to correct this misapprehension by telling you what the secret service is not.

Had the secret service men known it, they would have been in a pickle.

The more the secret service investigates, the less of a threat the man, who has not been identified publicly, appears to be.

Site agents and shift agents have the hardest jobs in the secret service.

One with a toned figure, black suit and dark sunglasses looks more like a US secret service agent than a financier.

I believe these men to be officers—one, at least—the other may belong to the secret service.