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TSA en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of towed sonar array
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of trypticase soy agar.

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Source: en.wiktionary, “TSA” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

TSA en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Transportation Security Administration.
    • 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. 2025 July 8, Pete Muntean, Alexandra Skores, “TSA will no longer require all passengers to take shoes off at airport security checkpoints”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2025:
    • Your next story of a travel pitfall the TSA isn't warning you about comes from Adam Felber. 2008 February 2, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
  2. (Hong-Kong, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Territory-wide System Assessment.

Coordinates

CATSA · Frontex · CBP