MI6

/em"uy'siks"/, n. (in Great Britain)

the government's secret intelligence service.

[M(ilitary) I(ntelligence, Section) 6]

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MI6 noun

Secret Intelligence Service (initials based on wartime Military Intelligence departments)

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Main Entry: ↑MI

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MI6 UK [ˌem aɪ ˈsɪks] US

the British government organization that secretly sends people to other countries to get important military and political information about them http://www.macmillandictionary.com/med2cd/weblinks/mi6.htm

Thesaurus: uk and commonwealth government departments and organizations_hyponym

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(in the UK) the governmental agency responsible for dealing with matters of internal security and counter-intelligence overseas. Formed in 1912, the agency was officially named the Secret Intelligence Service in 1964, but the name MI6 remains in popular use

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MI6 7 [MI6] [ˌem aɪ ˈsɪks] [ˌem aɪ ˈsɪks] noun uncountable

the British government organization that deals with national security from outside Britain. Its official name is ‘the Secret Intelligence Service’.

 

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MI6 is an abbreviation of Military Intelligence section 6. Like ↑MI5, its role changed in the early 1990s and its activities became much less secret.