TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Transportation Security Administration mean? 

• TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (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 ("Transportation Security Administration" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("Transportation Security Administration" is a part of...):

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