DSS
1 Americanabbreviation
abbreviation
abbreviation
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Director of Social Services
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Department of Social Security
Example Sentences
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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
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