FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an act passed by Congress in 1978 to establish procedures for requesting judicial authorization for foreign intelligence surveillance and to create the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
   • intended to increase United States counterintelligence
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   Synonym(s)
   • FISA (what does FISA mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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