TSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does TSA mean? 

• TSA (noun)
  The noun TSA has 1 sense:

1. an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel

  Familiarity information: TSA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Transportation Security Administration; TSA

Hypernyms ("TSA" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("TSA" is a part of...):

Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation (the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966)

 Context examples 

They then injected the mice with TSA and tamoxifen.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)

They found that the commonly used anti-cancer agent trichostatin A (TSA) made critical regions of DNA accessible again.

(Researchers unlock regenerative potential of cells in the mouse retina, National Institutes of Health)