fbi

• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fbi, abbr. (in the US) Federal Bureau of Investigation.

THESAURUS

fbi

AEC, Appalachian Regional Commission, Atomic Energy Commission, Bow Street runner, CAB, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, Cheka, Civil Aeronautics Board, District of Columbia, Domestic Council, EDA, EEOC, EIB, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, FAA, FBI agent, FCA, FCC, FDA, FPC, FTC, Federal, Federal Aviation Agency, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Maritime Commission, Federal Power Commission, G-man, GAO, GSA, General Accounting Office, General Services Administration, Gestapo, Government Printing Office, ICC, Indian Claims Commission, Interpol, Interstate Commerce Commission, Library of Congress, MP, MVD, Mounties, NASA, NKVD, NLRB, NSF, National Mediation Board, National Science Foundation, National Security Council, OEO, OGPU, Panama Canal Company, RCMP, Railroad Retirement Board, SEC, SP, Scotland Yard, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes, Smithsonian Institution, T-man, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority, USIA, VA, constabulary, county police, detective, fed, highway patrol, hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, investigator, law enforcement agency, military police, narc, operative, plainclothesman, police, police detective, police force, political police, posse, private detective, private investigator, provincial police, revenuer, riot police, secret police, security force, shore patrol, sleuth, special police, state police, store detective, tactical police, treasury agent, troopers, vigilance committee, vigilantes

ROGET THESAURUS

fbi

Government

N government, legal authority, soveriegn, sovereign authority, authority, master, direction, national government, nation, state, country, nation- state, dominion, republic, empire, union, democratic republic, kingdom, principality, state government, state, shire, province, county, canton, territory, duchy, archduchy, archdukedom, woiwodshaft, commonwealth, region, property, county, parish city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune, wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, ward, precinct, bailiwick, command, empire, sway, rule, dominion, domination, sovereignty, supremacy, suzerainty, lordship, headship, chiefdom, seigniory, seigniority, rule, sway, command, control, administer, govern, lead, preside over, reign, possess the throne, be seated on the throne, occupy the throne, sway the scepter, wield the scepter, wear the crown, state, realm, body politic, posse comitatus, judicature, cabinet, seat of government, seat of authority, headquarters, accession, installation, politics, reign, regime, dynasty, directorship, dictatorship, protectorate, protectorship, caliphate, pashalic, electorate, presidency, presidentship, administration, proconsul, consulship, prefecture, seneschalship, magistrature, magistracy, monarchy, kinghood, kingship, royalty, regality, aristarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy, commonwealth, dominion, heteronomy, republic, republicanism, socialism, collectivism, mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy, vox populi, imperium in imperio, bureaucracy, beadledom, bumbledom, stratocracy, military power, military government, junta, feodality, feudal system, feudalism, thearchy, theocracy, dinarchy, duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy, duumvirate, triumvirate, autocracy, autonomy, limited monarchy, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, home rule, representative government, monocracy, pantisocracy, gynarchy, gynocracy, gynaeocracy, petticoat government, legislature, judiciary, administration, office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet, senate, house of representatives, parliament, council, courts, supreme court, state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Postal Service, Post Office, Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, president, vice president, cabinet member, prime minister, minister, senator, representatative, president pro tem, speaker of the house, department head, section head, section chief, federal judge, justice, justice of the supreme court, chief justice, treasurer, secretary of the treasury, director of the FBI, governor, state cabinet member, state senator, assemblyman, assemblywoman, regal, sovereign, governing, royal, royalist, monarchical, kingly, imperial, imperiatorial, princely, feudal, aristocratic, autocratic, oligarchic, republican, dynastic, ruling, regnant, gubernatorial, imperious, authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute, hegemonic, hegemonical, authorized, government, public, national, federal, his majesty's, her majesty's, state, county, city, N, a dog's obeyed in office, cada uno tiene su alguazil, le Roi le veut, regibus esse manus en nescio longas, regnant populi, the demigod Authority, the right divine of kings to govern wrong, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.