DEA
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- noun
- /diː iː eɪ/
- US
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DEA
- Just verify with the doctor and verify with the state's DEA.
- DEA agent
- DEA license
The thing is the DEA called the Mexican Army.
- The thing is the DEA called the Mexican Army.
- And I had a unmarked, I had a plain clothes DEA car, a nice car.
- And nobody really knew we were DEA or police entities on that airplane.
- Do you think the public should trust the CIA and the DEA?
- So if you lose your medical license, you also lose your your DEA registration.
- But in the book The Big White Lie by Clavell, James Clavell, he was a top DEA agent.
- It's like the French DEA, related to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, like, like big cops.
- I was in the DEA elevator with the DEA Houston director when his phone rang.
- They go to meet, do the exchange and the guy they meet pulls out a badge and says, I'm with the DEA, you're busted.
- You know, they were the DEA, for example, The, the, the, the drug squad.
- Now imagine you weren't after the fact that it turns out a top DEA chemist actually agreed with you.
- Journalist was killed in the fire in when Arturo Beltran level was taken down on DEA information.
- But then eventually my chief, they kept me and my partner up there in the, in the DEA Drug Enforcement.
- You don't know one of my boys, DEA, another's FBI, another dude's a lawyer.
- And so the DEA had the source, the ambassador was getting, you know, all kinds of threat information through the reporting.
Examples
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Some of these drugs require a DEA permit (pentobarbital and amphetamine), which has recently become expensive ($70 for a federal permit plus the cost of state fees, which vary).
Academic text (1996) -
The thing is the DEA called the Mexican Army.
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I want you to get the DEA on him.
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OK, let's just say we, the DEA, were the black pieces.
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So, since you and I come from the same place, what is the DEA going to assume about you?
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So if you lose your medical license, you also lose your your DEA registration.
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Did you know that there is an undercover DEA agent out in the courtyard?
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I was in the DEA elevator with the DEA Houston director when his phone rang.
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The DEA calls for a bunch of news trucks, runs in with guns and more guns, jumps up and down, and convinces people that something illegal must have occurred or the almighty DEA would not have shown up with sixty men wearing black masks and carrying automatic weapons.
Blog text (4) -
The DEA works tirelessly to combat drug trafficking across the United States.
Synonyms
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A United States government agency that enforces laws about illegal drugs
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A United States agency that enforces laws about illegal drugs and arrests people who sell them
Surface Forms
Morphology
DEA = D + E + A
This is an acronym formed from initial letters; the letters themselves do not transparently convey the agency's meaning without knowing the full phrase.
Etymology
DEA stands for Drug Enforcement Administration, where enforcement means 'making people follow rules' and administration means 'a government office'. So, the DEA is the United States agency that works like a national police to stop illegal drugs.