se´cret-serv´ice

se´cret-serv´ice
1. a branch of a government that makes secret investigations.
2. official service of a secret nature.
3. = Secret Service. (Cf.Secret Service)
se´cret-serv´ice, adjective.
the branch of the United States Treasury Department concerned with discovering and preventing counterfeiting, with protecting the President, and, in wartime, with espionage.

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