SRS

American  

abbreviation

1. the system of airbags within a motor vehicle.

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Etymology

Origin of SRS

First recorded in 1985–90; abbreviation of s(upplemental) r(estraint) s(ystem)

Example Sentences

As part of this push, Home Depot agreed to buy building-supply distributor GMS for $4.3 billion during the second quarter, expanding on last year’s $18.25 billion acquisition of distribution company SRS.

From The Wall Street Journal

"I'm as mad as a hornet that SRS didn't explain where the radioactive waste came from or if there is some kind of leak from the waste tanks that the public should be aware of," spokesman Tom Clements told the Associated Press.

From BBC

USC’s football team is playing in something called the SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl, while UCLA’s squad is staying home and probably doing steps up and down Young Research Library.

From Los Angeles Times

For the purposes of the playoff odds simulation, we are calculating a value of SRS using each team’s previous 100 games, adding in 50 games of .500 ball for regression to the mean.

From Los Angeles Times

"Driven by a keen interest in lipid droplet functions in aging and disease, we initiated this fruitful collaboration to harness cutting-edge SRS technology for studying lipid metabolism in tauopathy mouse brains."

From Science Daily