DEA (disambiguation)

DEA is the commonly used acronym for the Drug Enforcement Administration, a United States law enforcement agency.

DEA or Dea may also refer to:

Organizations

• Drug Enforcement Agency, Liberian equivalent to the Drug Enforcement Administration
• Think Global (charity), UK charity formally Development Education Association or DEA
• Department of Economic Affairs (UK), a former UK government department headed by the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• Internationalist Workers' Left (Greece), abbreviated ΔΕΑ or DEA, a socialist political organization in Greece
• RWE Dea AG, German public utility that purchased oil producer Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft
• Detectives' Endowment Association

Science and technology

• Data Encryption Algorithm, the block cipher algorithm defined in (and often referred to as) the Data Encryption Standard
• Data envelopment analysis, nonparametric method in operations research and econometrics
• Dielectric thermal analysis, or Dielectric Analysis, measures changes in dipole orientation and ion mobility in polymers
• Diethanolamine, organic compound soluble in water
• Disposable e-mail address, creation of unique mail alias for each mail contact
• Docosatetraenoylethanolamide, a biologically active lipid molecule
• Dog Erythrocyte Antigen, see Blood type (non-human)
• Droplet Execution Agent, a process in Cloud computing that stages, runs, and manages the lifecycle of cloud applications.

Education and society

• Diploma de Estudios Avanzados, Spanish graduate degree
• Diplôme d'études approfondies, former French graduate degree
• Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA), part of the G.I. Bill

Media and entertainment

• DEA (1990 TV series), reality-TV show
• DEA (2008 TV series), reality-TV show
• Dea (album), full-length album by the Russian Power Metal band Catharsis

People

• Billy Dea, professional ice hockey player and head coach
• Dea Birkett (born 1958), British writer
• Dea Ecker, architect
• Dea Norberg, Swedish singer
• Dea Sumantri, professional tennis player

Mythology

• Dea Dia, goddess of growth in Roman mythology
• Dea Matrona, or "Divine mother goddess", goddess of the river Marne in Gaul
• Dea Sequana, goddess of the river Seine in Gallo-Roman religion
• Dea Syria, or Atargatis, "Goddess of Syria"
• Dea Tacita, or "Silent goddess", goddess of the dead in Roman mythology