CSA may refer to:

Arts and media

* Canadian Screen Awards, annual awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television * Commission on Superhuman Activities, a fictional American government agency in Marvel Comics * Crime Syndicate of America, DC Comics supervillains * '' C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America'', 2004 alternative history mockumentary

Law

* Combined statistical area, defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget *

Commission sharing agreement A Commission Sharing Agreement (CSA), or in the US named Client Commission Agreement (CCA), is a type of soft dollar Soft may refer to: * Softness, or hardness, a property of physical materials Arts and entertainment * ''Soft!'', a 1988 novel by ...

, in financial services *

Controlled Substances Act The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) is the statute establishing federal government of the United States, federal drug policy of the United States, U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture, importation, possession, use, and distribution of ...

, in U.S. drug policy * Credit Support Annex, a legal document regulating collateral for derivative transactions

Organizations

For-profit businesses

* CSA (database company) (formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) * Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly Zigbee Alliance) * Czech Airlines (ICAO designator CSA; abbreviated ČSA) *

Czech Sport Aircraft Czech Sport Aircraft, a.s. (successor of Czech Aircraft Works) is an aircraft manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. Czech Sport Aircraft company formally entered the market in 2009. In 2011 the company's aircraft line included the amphibio ...

, an aircraft manufacturer

Government and military

* Canadian Securities Administrators, an organization of provincial and territorial securities regulators *

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; french: Agence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The president is Lisa Campbell, who took the position on September 3, 2020 ...

, the national space agency of Canada * Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia * Chief of Staff of the United States Army *

Civil Services Academy Lahore Situated in Lahore, Pakistan, the Civil Services Academy Lahore is an academy for training the young bureaucrats of the country who are commissioned by the Federal public service commission through a very competitive and tough exam known as Cent ...

, Pakistan * Compliance, Safety, and Accountability, an American commercial vehicle driver safety program; see Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration * Confederate States of America, a break-away republic in North America that lasted from 1861 to 1865 ** Confederate States Army * Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, a French broadcast content monitoring agency * CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association, or CSA), a standards organization based in Canada * Cyber Security Agency (Singapore)

Professional and trade organizations and unions

Autonomous Trade Unions Centre The Autonomous Trade Unions Centre is a trade union centre in Benin. It has a membership of 20,000 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. It also works with the National Union of the Unions of the Workers of Benin. S ...

(Central des Syndicats Autonomes du Bénin), a trade union centre in Benin *

California Society of Anesthesiologists The California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), Inc., is a component society of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc., in the state of California. History CSA was founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1953 as a voluntary, non-profit asso ...

CarSharing Association CarSharing Association (CSA) is a federation of 25 carsharing organizations worldwide representing more than 4,000 shared vehicles and more than 125,000 member-drivers in total. The goal of CSA is "to provide a respected authority and unified indus ...

, a federation of carsharing organizations *

Casting Society of America The Casting Society, formerly known as Casting Society of America (CSA), was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 as a Professional association, professional society of about 1,200 Casting (performing arts), casting directors and associate ...

, acronym commonly seen in the beginning and ending credits of media programs *

Central Student Association The Central Student Association (also known as the CSA) is the student union for all undergraduate students at the University of Guelph. History The current CSA is the third iteration of a central student union on the Guelph campus. It was foun ...

, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada *

Civil Service Alliance The Civil Service Alliance was a trade union federation bringing together civil servants in the United Kingdom. Predecessors The organisation's origins lay in the Civil Service Federation, established by nine unions in 1911. By the following yea ...

, former British trade union federation *

Civil Service Association The Civil Service Association (CSA) is a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which changed its name in 1971 to the Public Services Association See also * List of trade unions This is a list of trade unions and union federations by coun ...

, Trinidad and Tobago * Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society * Cloud Security Alliance, which promotes IT security best practices * College Student Alliance, a federation of student unions, based in Ontario, Canada * Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, a New York City-based trade union * Czech Society of Actuaries

Sport

* Canadian Soccer Association, the governing body of soccer in Canada * Cano Sport Academy, a football club in Equatorial Guinea * Centro Sportivo Alagoano, a football club, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil * Cricket South Africa

Other organizations

Campaign for a Scottish Assembly The Scottish Constitutional Convention (SCC) was an association of Scottish political parties, churches and other civic groups, that developed a framework for Scottish devolution. It is credited as having paved the way for the establishment of t ...

, an association of Scottish political parties and civic groups established in 1989 * Canadian Snowbird Association, for travelling Canadians * Celiac Sprue Association, a disease support group in the United States * Certified Senders Alliance, a German whitelist for bulk email senders *

Child Support Agency The Child Support Agency (CSA) was a delivery arm of the Department for Work and Pensions (Child Maintenance Group) in Great Britain and the former Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland. Launched on 5 April 1993, the CSA was to ...

(UK) * Child Support Agency Australia *

City School of Architecture A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be de ...

, an architecture school in Colombo, Sri Lanka *

Colegio San Agustin (disambiguation) Colegio San Agustín may refer to the following Augustinian schools: ;''Philippines'' *Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod in Negros Occidental, Philippines * Colegio San Agustin – Biñan in Laguna, Philippines *Colegio San Agustin – Makati in Metr ...

, several Catholic schools * The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, a 1970s-1980s white supremacist group in Arkansas, United States

Science, mathematics, and technology

Mathematics and computing

* Cartan subalgebra *

Central simple algebra In ring theory and related areas of mathematics a central simple algebra (CSA) over a field ''K'' is a finite-dimensional associative ''K''-algebra ''A'' which is simple, and for which the center is exactly ''K''. (Note that ''not'' every simple a ...

Client SMTP Authorization Certified Server Validation (CSV) is a technical method of email authentication intended to fight spam. Its focus is the SMTP HELO-identity of mail transfer agents. CSV was designed to address the problems of MARID and the ASRG, as defined in d ...

* Common Scrambling Algorithm * Intel Communication Streaming Architecture * Curved

Surface Area The surface area of a solid object is a measure of the total area that the surface of the object occupies. The mathematical definition of surface area in the presence of curved surfaces is considerably more involved than the definition of arc ...

* Cross sectional area

Medicine and psychology

* Cationic steroid antibiotics, a family of compounds used to treat diseases * Central sleep apnea, a sleep disorder *

CernySmith Assessment The CernySmith Assessment (CSA) is a comprehensive online questionnaire developed by Leonard J. Cerny II and David S. Smith that inquires about the impact of change and stress on productivity and resilience. This self-discovery assessment for pe ...

, a psychological stress questionnaire *

Clinical Skills Assessment Step 2 Clinical Skills (Step 2 CS) of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) was an exam administered to medical students/graduates who wish to become licensed physicians in the U.S. It is similar to the COMLEX-USA Level 2-PE e ...

exam *

Cockayne syndrome A DNA excision repair protein ERCC-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''ERCC8'' gene. This gene encodes a WD repeat protein, which interacts with the Cockayne syndrome type B (CSB) and p44 proteins, the latter being a subunit of the ...

or ERCC8, a gene whose mutation causes Cockayne syndrome * Cognitive styles analysis, a computerized measure of cognitive styles * Cyclosporin A, an immunosuppressant drug

Other uses in science, mathematics, and technology

* Camphorsulfonic acid * Cardioid subwoofer array * Common Support Aircraft * Köppen classification of hot-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csa * Chemical Safety Assessment * Carry-save adder or Carry-skip adder, two different types of adders * Chief Scientific Adviser (disambiguation) * CSA keyboard layout, keyboard layout used in Canada * Complex segregation analysis, a technique within genetic epidemiology

Other uses

Chief Scout's Award (disambiguation) The Chief Scout's Award or Chief Scout Award is a Scouting award issued by several national Scouting organizations: * Chief Scout's Award (Scouts Canada) The Chief Scout's Award is the highest award which can be achieved at the Scout level in Scout ...

* Child sexual abuse * Community-supported agriculture, an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution * Competition Stableford Adjustment, a golf scoring adjustment for handicapping purposes * Customer Service Advisor, a job title {{disambiguation