DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Drug Enforcement Administration mean? 

• DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

1. federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations

  Familiarity information: DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

DEA; Drug Enforcement Administration; Drug Enforcement Agency

Hypernyms ("Drug Enforcement Administration" is a kind of...):

law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)

Holonyms ("Drug Enforcement Administration" is a part of...):

Department of Justice; DoJ; Justice; Justice Department (the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870)

 Context examples 

A terminology subset for the NCPDP that contains concepts within the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Schedule of Controlled Substances.

(NCPDP DEA Schedule Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)