transportation security administration

1. 1.

   an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel

   SynonymsTSA

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Transportation

Questions about transportation security administration

What does transportation security administration mean?

transportation security administration means "an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel".

What is another word for transportation security administration?

Close synonyms include TSA. 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 transportation security administration a common word?

transportation security administration 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.