TSA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tsa"

English

Proper noun

TSA

1. (government, US) Initialism of Transportation Security Administration.

   Coordinate terms: CBP, CATSA, Frontex

   • 2008 February 2, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

     Your next story of a travel pitfall the TSA isn't warning you about comes from Adam Felber.

   • 2025 July 8, Pete Muntean and Alexandra Skores, “TSA will no longer require all passengers to take shoes off at airport security checkpoints”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The requirement for passengers to take their shoes off at TSA security checkpoints came nearly five years later due to “intelligence pointing to a continuing threat,” an official TSA history notes, following a foiled August 2006 terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives onboard transatlantic flights. The TSA introduced its 3-1-1 liquids rule for carry-on luggage in response.

2. (Hong Kong, education) Initialism of Territory-wide System Assessment.

Noun

TSA (plural TSAs)

1. (nautical) Initialism of towed sonar array
2. (microbiology) Initialism of trypticase soy agar.

Anagrams

• S.A.T., Sta., ats, ast, TAs, Sat., Sta, sta, S. A. T., AST, sat, Ast, ATs, tas, sat., Tas., ATS, Sat, at's, SAT, as't, TAS, T.A.s, Tas, -ast, TA's, STA

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English TSA (“Transportation Security Administration”).

Proper noun

TSA f

1. Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte; TSA.
   • 2025 April 30, Alexandra Skores, “La fecha límite para la REAL ID es en una semana. Esto es lo que la TSA quiere que sepas”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Si bien la fecha del 7 de mayo parece haber desatado una carrera loca por la documentación, “antes de la fecha límite, la TSA ha estado trabajando intensamente con los estados, las aerolíneas, los aeropuertos, el Congreso y la industria de viajes para alentar el cumplimiento entre los viajeros”, dijo a CNN un portavoz de la Administración de Seguridad del Transporte.

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