DEA
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DEA may refer to:
Organizations
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a United States Department of Justice law enforcement agency, tasked with enforcing the Controlled Substances Act of 1970
- Dance Educators of America (USA)
- Davis Education Association (USA)
- Development Education Association
- Directorate of Environmental Affairs (Namibia)
- Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
- Department for Economic Affairs, a former United Kingdom Government department (1964–1969)
Science and technology
- Data Encryption Algorithm, a cipher originally used as an official United States Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), now used internationally
- Data Envelopment Analysis, a nonparametric method in operations research and econometrics
- Dielectric Analysis or Dielectric Analyzer
- Diethanolamine, a chemical compound
- Disposable e-mail address
- Dissociative Electron Attachment
- N,N-Diethyl Aniline, a chemical compound.
Education and society
- Dependents Education Assistance, part of the G.I Bill (USA)
- Diploma de Estudios Avanzados, a Spanish graduate degree
- Diplôme d'études approfondies, a former French graduate degree
- The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, an award for personal achievement for anyone aged from 14 to 25, in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
[edit] Other
- dea or deac, means deacon on grave stones and in genealogical research
- dea-, an unofficial non-SI unit prefixes.