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  • DSS
    DSS
    abbreviation
    digital satellite system.
  • D.S.S.
    D.S.S.
    abbreviation
    Doctor of Social Science.

DSS

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. digital satellite system.


D.S.S. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor of Social Science.


DSS British  

abbreviation

  1. Director of Social Services

  2. Department of Social Security

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DSS officials said the new report “supersedes” prior findings.

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

Indeed, everything that happened inside the DSS office was meant to hammer into these women the notion that society considered them criminals of a kind.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson