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 cited The Terraces for violating the California Code of Regulations related to the personal rights of residents, and tasked the facility with updating its emergency disaster procedures.
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
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