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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Office of Naval Intelligence

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See the quotation.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy

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Examples

  • Even if the original Final Report were entered into evidence, and even if the memoranda from the FBI, the FCC, and the ONI were also admitted, Fahy would have been clever enough to dis-credit that evidence as irrelevant, not probative, taken out of context, not sufficiently expert, or simply a minority report.

    Is That Legal?: Who's to Blame? 2006

  • (Here are links to the eight pages of the Office of Naval Investigation's ( "ONI") report on the Kotoshirodo case in February of 1942: page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 page 7 page 8.)

    IsThatLegal? 2004

  • And the Office of Naval Intelligence ( "ONI") and the FBI were, for quite some time before Pearl Harbor, gathering names of Japanese aliens who might need to be apprehended in the event of war.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • There has never been an effective noise control effort in Portland, owing in large part to the feckless head of the program that has migrated between ONI and BDS, allegedly misplacing its records during its relocations.

    Your tax dollars at play (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • From my experience with neighborhood involvement, most times when a vote has been delayed by the city, ONI, or developer interests (it has for several weeks), it is because THEIR interests are on the losing side.

    More hemming and hawing on Lents meeting procedure (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • What the hell is wrong with this former ONI operative who raised money for Obama?

    McCain blasts decision on terror suspects 2009

  • Heh, I was just going to point that out (disclosure: I work for ONI).

    Global Voices in English » Oman: Random Internet Censorship 2009

  • The head of ONI let a contract to her very own corporation, and that corporation knowingly failed to comply with the prohibition against discrimination.

    Portland auditor: Nobody's watching for fraud at City Hall (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The ONI report fingers several American companies, including Intel-owned McAfee, Inc., San Diego-based Websensce, Inc., and Palo Alto Networks, for selling software that red lists websites and blocks all access.

    Timothy Karr: Censorship: Made in the USA Timothy Karr 2011

  • According to a new report by the not-for-profit OpenNet Initiative ONI, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, UAE and Sudan have joined the ranks of censors, using software to block access to homegrown protest sites.

    Timothy Karr: Censorship: Made in the USA Timothy Karr 2011

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