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.