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Definition of Secret Service
1. Noun. The United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents.
Group relationships: Department Of Homeland Security, Homeland Security
Generic synonyms: United States Intelligence Agency
Definition of Secret Service
1. Noun. A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secret Service
Literary usage of Secret Service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"During the Civil War period he was\ employed in the United States Secret Service
and afterward entered his father's office. On the death of his father, ..."
2. The Bookman (1911)
"He said that during that year the Secret Service had carried on its ... That the
Secret Service, like the Civil Service, has an eligible list from which it ..."
3. Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington by Claude Halstead Van Tyne (1907)
"Secret Service DIVISION. The work of the Secret Service Division is chiefly
concerned with the detection of counterfeiting and of other frauds and crimes ..."
4. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Secret Service Secret Service represents another phase of the Civil War from that
portrayed in ... Secret Service."
5. Inside History of the White House: The Complete History of the Domestic and by Gilson Willets (1908)
"The actual number of Secret Service guards in attendance upon the President is
never made public. But certain it is that at all receptions a number of such ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"Secret Service. During the Civil War Col. Baker's corps of secret service agents
was utilized in a limited way in the detection and prosecution of ..."
7. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"Now, with respect to the sum paid out of the secret- service money on account of
the Milan commission, the hon. member would find it by no means so large as ..."
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