Drug Enforcement Administration
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- proper noun
- /drʌg ɪnˈfɔrsmənt ˌædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən/
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Administración de Control de Drogas
- Two years ago, Saul received a call from a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who needed immediate help identifying a suspected drug trafficker to make an arrest.
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Examples
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Many arrests were made during the operation led by the Drug Enforcement Administration targeting illegal drug distribution networks.
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I'm Agent Flood with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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MAN: (ON RADIO) This is the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
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From January 2000 to June 2003, the DEA reported that almost 1.4 million tablets of OxyContin were lost or stolen through 2,494 separate incidents (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, 2005).
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If the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration were to announce that its domestic target-selection process would give high priority to distributors supplied by Mexico's designated "most violent organization," the result would likely be a scramble to find new sources.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) held a first-time, daylong, little-publicized event last September that allowed people to turn in their expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs.
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Agent Smith from the Drug Enforcement Administration worked tirelessly to combat drug trafficking in the region.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration announced new initiatives to address the growing opioid crisis in America.
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
drug + enforcement + administration
The name is fully compositional: 'drug' + 'enforcement' denotes enforcement relating to drugs, and 'administration' denotes the organizational body responsible for that function. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer this refers to the agency or leadership that enforces drug-related laws and regulations, so the meaning is transparent.
Etymology
Drug Enforcement Administration is a name that simply says what the agency does: drug for illegal medicines, enforcement for enforcing the law, and administration for a government office. It was set up in the 1970s to join smaller teams fighting drug crime, so the name now means the U.S. government agency that enforces drug laws.