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Secret Service

 
 
noun [no plural]

Definition

INFORMATION in the UK, a department of the government that tries to find out secret information about foreign countries
PROTECTION in the US, a government organization that protects the president
(Definition of Secret Service noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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