drug enforcement agency

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   federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations

   SynonymsDrug Enforcement AdministrationDEA

   Broaderlaw enforcement agency

   Part ofDepartment of Justice

Questions about drug enforcement agency

What does drug enforcement agency mean?

drug enforcement agency means "federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations".

What is another word for drug enforcement agency?

Close synonyms include Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug enforcement agency a common word?

drug enforcement agency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.