bjs

English Thesaurus

1. the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers (noun.group)

hypernym	:	agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office,
definition	:	an administrative unit of government (noun.group)

part meronym	:	department of justice, doj, justice, justice department,
definition	:	the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870 (noun.group)