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English
Noun
secret service (plural secret services)
- A governmental agency that deals with espionage and other acts of secrecy.
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.
Translations
government organization
- Afrikaans: geheime diens
- Arabic: خِدْمَة سِرِّيَّة f (ḵidma sirriyya)
- Basque: zerbitzu sekretu
- Catalan: servei secret m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 特工 (zh) (tègōng), 情報機關 / 情报机关 (qíngbào jīguān)
- Danish: sikkerhedspoliti n, hemmelig tjeneste c, efterretningstjeneste c, sikkerhedstjeneste c
- Dutch: geheime dienst m
- Esperanto: sekreta servo
- Finnish: salainen palvelu
- French: service secret (fr) m
- Galician: servizo secreto m
- German: Geheimdienst (de) m, Nachrichtendienst (de) m
- Greek: μυστική υπηρεσία f (mystikí ypiresía)
- Hebrew: שֵׁרוּת חֲשָׁאִי m
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: servizio segreto m
- Japanese: 諜報機関 (ちょうほうきかん, chōhō kikan)
- Korean: 첩보 기관(諜報機關) (cheopbo gigwan)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sikkerhetstjeneste m
- Polish: służby specjalne f pl
- Portuguese: serviço secreto m
- Romanian: serviciu secret n
- Russian: секре́тная слу́жба f (sekrétnaja slúžba), агенту́ра (ru) f (agentúra), спецслу́жба (ru) f (specslúžba), разве́дка (ru) f (razvédka)
- Spanish: servicio secreto m
- Swedish: säkerhetspolis (sv) c, säkerhetstjänst (sv) c
- Turkish: gizli servis (tr)
- Turkmen: razwedka
- Uzbek: razvedka (uz)
- Vietnamese: cơ quan mật vụ, mật vụ (vi)
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