DSS
abbreviation
digital satellite system.
DSS
1 Americanabbreviation
D.S.S.
2
American
abbreviation
DSS
British
abbreviation
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Director of Social Services
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Department of Social Security
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Officials with The Terraces also questioned why DSS released a report on their evacuation in May, then rescinded it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025
The DSS managed to whisk away the 61-year-old bank boss - who again finds himself under arrest.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023
It previously helped Verizon expand its low-band Nationwide 5G with a technology called DSS, or Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.
From The Verge ● May 3, 2022
The prospect was unsettling to child-care providers from Fairfax to Lee counties who had been used to working with DSS.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
Ann was soon a power to be reckoned with at City Hall, at the DSS offices a few blocks away, at the public housing projects, and wherever poor black people protested unfair treatment.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
If they didn’t, he withheld payment to them or threatened to, which was often as effective, making D.S.S. an enforcer of the city’s housing code.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
D.S.S. is a social-services agency; the tools it has are social-service tools.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
As of mid-2021, excluding supportive housing, whose placement is largely determined by D.S.S., that number was 5,133.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
At D.S.S., he set out to create a total system, with each part aware of the others.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Her affect was “flat,” according to the D.S.S. report.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2018
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