secret service

noun

1

: a governmental service of a secret nature

2

Secret Service : a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chiefly in charge of stopping crimes against the nation's financial system and protecting the president and other national officials and visiting world leaders

Examples of secret service in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Speaking to the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, Tusk said the two suspects had been collaborating with Russia's secret services for a long time. —CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025

The source also added that secret service isn’t a problem for dating. —Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2025

In the season’s fourth episode, Russell's character snaps at her secret service agent, who is meant to be her double and look like her, due to her very disheveled hair. —Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025

Following an intensive international search led by Israel’s secret services Mossad for nearly two years, the boy was eventually found in the U.S. and returned to his parents. —Annika Pham, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1706, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for secret service

• interservice
• disservice
• preservice
• nervous
• nervus

Kids Definition

Secret Service

noun

: a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chiefly in charge of stopping crimes against the nation's financial system and protecting the president and other national and visiting world leaders