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FISA

• FISA (noun)
The noun FISA has 1 sense:

1. 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; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance

Familiarity information: FISA used as a noun is very rare.

• FISA (noun)

Sense 1

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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; separate from ordinary law enforcement surveillance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

FISA; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Hypernyms ("FISA" is a kind of...):

legislative act; statute (an act passed by a legislative body)

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