security intelligence | intelligence on the identity and capability and intentions of hostile individuals or organizations that may be engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism |
censoring censorship security review | counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy |
security security measures | measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc., military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising |
Social Security | social welfare program in the U.S., includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
security blanket | a blanket (or toy) that a child carries around in order to reduce anxiety |
security blanket | anything that an adult person uses to reduce anxiety |
security system security measure security | an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in |
security system | (computing) a system that enforces boundaries between computer networks |
Social Security number | the number of a particular individual's Social Security account |
security surety | a guarantee that an obligation will be met |
security | freedom from anxiety or fear, the watch dog gave her a feeling of security |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah-RC Abu Nidal Organization ANO Arab Revolutionary Brigades Black September Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |
security security department | a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers, the head of security was a former policeman |
Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
National Security Council NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
Social Security Administration SSA | an independent government agency responsible for the Social Security system |
Department of Homeland Security Homeland Security | the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security |
Bureau of Diplomatic Security DS | the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas |
Transportation Security Administration TSA | an agency established in to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel |
legislative council | a unicameral legislature |
security force private security force | a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry |
Security Council SC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for preserving world peace |
Trusteeship Council TC | a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory |
Economic and Social Council ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
council | a meeting of people for consultation, emergency council |
North Atlantic Council NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |
council | a body serving in an administrative capacity, student council |
city council | a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc. |
executive council | a council that shares the supreme executive power |
privy council | an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown) |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
council | (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine |
ecumenical council | (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline, the first seven councils through are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church |
Nicaea First Council of Nicaea | the first ecumenical council in which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism |
Constantinople First Council of Constantinople | the second ecumenical council in which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
Ephesus Council of Ephesus | the third ecumenical council in which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius |
Chalcedon Council of Chalcedon | the fourth ecumenical council in which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ |
Constantinople Second Council of Constantinople | the fifth ecumenical council in which held Origen's writings to be heretic |
Constantinople Third Council of Constantinople | the sixth ecumenical council in - which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human |
Nicaea Second Council of Nicaea | the seventh ecumenical council in which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images |
Constantinople Fourth Council of Constantinople | the council in that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches |
Lateran Council | any of five general councils of the Western Catholic Church that were held in the Lateran Palace |
First Lateran Council | the first council of the Western Church held in the Lateran Palace in , focused on church discipline and made plans to recover the Holy Lands from the Muslim `infidels' |
Second Lateran Council | the second council of the Western Church in which put an end to the dogmatic errors of Arnold of Brescia |
Third Lateran Council | the Lateran Council in that condemned the heresies of the Albigenses and the Waldenses |