CSA may refer to:

Arts and media

Canadian Screen Awards The Canadian Screen Awards () are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media ( web series) productions. Given annually by the Academy ...

, annual awards given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television *

Commission on Superhuman Activities In-Commission or commissioning may refer to: Business and contracting * Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered ** Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of anot ...

, a fictional American government agency in Marvel Comics *

Crime Syndicate of America The Crime Syndicate or Crime Syndicate of America (CSA, with America sometimes spelled Amerika) is a team of supervillains featured in DC Comics. The team is composed of evil Multiverse (DC Comics), parallel-universe counterparts of the Justice Le ...

, DC Comics supervillains * '' C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America'', 2004 alternative history mockumentary

Educational institutes

* Crescent School of Architecture, one of the constituent professional schools of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India

Law

* Combined statistical area, defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget * Commission sharing agreement, 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 Credit Support Annex (CSA) is a legal document that regulates credit support ( collateral) for derivative transactions. Effectively, a CSA defines the terms under which collateral is posted or transferred between swap counterparties to mitigate ...

, a legal document regulating collateral for derivative transactions

Organizations

For-profit businesses

CSA (database company) Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (later simply CSA) was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland, before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2007. CSA hosted databases of ...

(formerly Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) *

Connectivity Standards Alliance The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), formerly the Zigbee Alliance, is a group of companies that maintain and publish the Zigbee and Matter standard, along with several others. Membership Over the years, the Alliance's membership has gr ...

(formerly Zigbee Alliance) *

Czech Airlines Czech Airlines (abbreviation: ČSA, ) is a Czech Republic, Czech aviation brand and privately held holding company. Between 1923 and 2024, it operated as an independent airline and served as the flag carrier of the Czech Republic. 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 amphibi ...

, an aircraft manufacturer

Government and military

Canadian Securities Administrators The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA; , ACVM) is an umbrella organization of Canada's provincial and territorial securities regulators whose objective is to improve, coordinate, and harmonize regulation of the Canadian capital markets. ...

, an organization of provincial and territorial securities regulators *

Canadian Space Agency The Canadian Space Agency (CSA; ) is the national space agency of Canada, established in 1990 by the ''Canadian Space Agency Act''. The President of the Canadian Space Agency, president is Lisa Campbell (civil servant), Lisa Campbell, who took ...

, the national space agency of Canada *

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency, also known as the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS; Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ስታቲስቲክስ አገልግሎት), is an Ethiopian government agency designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that ...

of Ethiopia *

Chief of Staff of the United States Army The chief of staff of the Army (CSA) is a statutory position in the United States Army held by a general officer. As the highest-ranking officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Army, the chief is the principal military advisor and a ...

Civil Services Academy Lahore Situated in Lahore, Pakistan, the Civil Services Academy Lahore is an academy for the training of young bureaucrats who are commissioned by the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) through a very competitive Central Superior Services exam, ...

, Pakistan * Compatriots of South Africa, a South African political party * Compliance, Safety, and Accountability, an American commercial vehicle driver safety program; see

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, an ...

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or Dixieland, was an List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies, unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United State ...

, a break-away republic in North America that lasted from 1861 to 1865 **

Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the Military forces of the Confederate States, military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) duri ...

Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel The (, ), abbreviated CSA, was a French institution created in 1989 whose role was to regulate the various electronic media in France, such as radio and television. The creation of the (High Authority for Audiovisual Communication) was a measure ...

, a French broadcast content monitoring agency *

CSA Group The CSA Group (formerly the Canadian Standards Association; CSA) is a standards organization which develops standards in 57 areas. CSA publishes standards in print and electronic form, and provides training and advisory services. CSA is composed ...

(formerly the Canadian Standards Association, or CSA), a standards organization based in Canada * CSA -

Northern Ireland Child Support Agency The Northern Ireland Child Support Agency (CSA) was the government body responsible for the calculation, enforcement and collection of Child Maintenance in Northern Ireland. The CSA was an executive agency of the Department for Social Developmen ...

Cyber Security Agency (Singapore) The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) is a government agency under the Prime Minister's Office (Singapore), Prime Minister's Office, but is managed by the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of the Government of Singapore. It provides cen ...

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. ...

(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 as ...

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 the Casting Society of America (CSA), is a professional association of about 1,200 casting directors and associate casting directors for film, television, theatre, and commercials in Canada, Europe, Austral ...

, acronym commonly seen in the beginning and ending credits of media programs * Central Student Association, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada * Civil Service Alliance, former British trade union federation * Civil Service Association, Trinidad and Tobago *

Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is a division of the American Chemical Society. It is a source of chemical information and is located in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Print periodicals ''Chemical Abstracts'' is a periodical index that provid ...

, a division of the American Chemical Society *

Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with the mission to “promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, cloud computing, and to provide education on the uses of cloud computi ...

, which promotes IT security best practices *

College Student Alliance The College Student Alliance (CSA) is a provincial advocacy organization in Ontario that represents students attending community college A community college is a type of undergraduate higher education institution, generally leading to an asso ...

, 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 Canadian Soccer Association (; branded as Canada Soccer) is the governing body for soccer in Canada. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, the federation is a full member of FIFA and governs Canadian soccer at the international, professional, a ...

, the governing body of soccer in Canada * Cano Sport Academy, a football club in Equatorial Guinea *

Centro Sportivo Alagoano Centro Sportivo Alagoano, commonly referred to as CSA, is a Brazilian professional football club based in Maceió, Alagoas. It competes in Série C, the third tier of Brazilian football, and Campeonato Alagoano, the top flight of the Alagoas ...

, a football club, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil *

Cricket South Africa Cricket South Africa aka CSA is the governing body for both professional and amateur cricket in South Africa. In 1991, the separate South African Cricket Union and the South African Cricket Board merged to form the United Cricket Board of South ...

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. History Campaign for a Scottish Assembly The Conventi ...

, an association of Scottish political parties and civic groups established in 1989 *

Canadian Snowbird Association The Canadian Snowbird Association (CSA; ) is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to defending and improving the rights and privileges of traveling Canadians (Also known as '' snowbirds''). Founded in 1992 in Lakeland, Florida, the ...

, 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 (Northern Ireland), Department for Social Development in Nor ...

(UK) * Child Support Agency (Australia) * City School of Architecture, an

architecture school This is a list of architecture schools at colleges and universities around the world. An architecture school (also known as a school of architecture or college of architecture), is a professional school or institution specializing in architectura ...

in Colombo, Sri Lanka * Colegio San Agustin (disambiguation), 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 In mathematics, a Cartan subalgebra, often abbreviated as CSA, is a nilpotent subalgebra \mathfrak of a Lie algebra \mathfrak that is self-normalising (if ,Y\in \mathfrak for all X \in \mathfrak, then Y \in \mathfrak). They were introduced by ...

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'' that is simple, and for which the center is exactly ''K''. (Note that ''not'' every simple ...

* Client SMTP Authorization *

Common Scrambling Algorithm The Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) is the encryption algorithm used in the DVB digital television broadcasting for encrypting video streams. CSA was specified by ETSI and adopted by the DVB consortium in May 1994. It is being succeeded by CSA ...

Intel Communication Streaming Architecture Intel's Communication Streaming Architecture (CSA) was a mechanism used in the Intel Hub Architecture to increase the bandwidth available between a network card and the CPU. It directly connected the network controller to the Memory Controller ...

* Curved

Surface Area The surface area (symbol ''A'') 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 d ...

* Cross sectional area

Medicine and psychology

* Cationic steroid antibiotics, a family of compounds used to treat diseases *

Central sleep apnea Central sleep apnea (CSA) or central sleep apnea syndrome (CSAS) is a sleep-related Disorder (medicine)#Disorder, disorder in which the effort to Breathing, breathe is diminished or absent, typically for 10 to 30 seconds either intermittently o ...

, a sleep disorder * CernySmith Assessment, a psychological stress questionnaire * Clinical Skills Assessment exam * Cockayne syndrome A or ERCC8, a gene whose mutation causes Cockayne syndrome * Cognitive styles analysis, a computerized measure of cognitive styles *

Cyclosporin A Ciclosporin, also spelled cyclosporine and cyclosporin, is a calcineurin inhibitor, used as an immunosuppressant medication. It is taken orally or intravenously for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, nephrotic syndrome, eczem ...

, an immunosuppressant drug

Other uses in science, mathematics, and technology

Camphorsulfonic acid Camphorsulfonic acid, sometimes abbreviated CSA or 10-CSA is an organosulfur compound. Like typical sulfonic acids, it is a relatively strong acid that is a colorless solid at room temperature and is soluble in water and a wide variety of organic ...

* Cardioid

subwoofer A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies, known as bass and sub-bass, that are lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer. The typical frequency range that is ...

array *

Common Support Aircraft The Common Support Aircraft (CSA) was a proposed concept, which has been considered by the United States Navy since at least the early 1990s, to replace a number of different fixed-wing aircraft capable of operating from an aircraft carrier and w ...

* Köppen classification of

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...

, abbreviated Csa *

Chemical Safety Assessment A Chemical safety assessment (CSA) is an analysis used in many situations where chemical are used and where there is a possibility that they may present a risk to life, health or the environment. The European Union has adopted this phrase to de ...

Carry-save adder A carry-save adder is a type of digital adder, used to efficiently compute the sum of three or more binary numbers. It differs from other digital adders in that it outputs two (or more) numbers, and the answer of the original summation can be ach ...

Carry-skip adder A carry-skip adder (also known as a carry-bypass adder) is an adder implementation that improves on the delay of a ripple-carry adder with little effort compared to other adders. The improvement of the worst-case delay is achieved by using sever ...

, two different types of adders * Chief Scientific Adviser (disambiguation) *

CSA keyboard The CSA keyboard, or CAN/CSA Z243.200-92, is the official keyboard layout of Canada. Often referred to as ACNOR, it is best known for its use in the Canadian computer industry for the French ACNOR keyboard layout, published as CAN/CSA Z243.200 ...

layout, keyboard layout used in Canada * Complex segregation analysis, a technique within genetic epidemiology

Other uses

Chelsea railway station, Melbourne Chelsea railway station is a commuter railway station on the Frankston line, which is part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Chelsea, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Chelsea station is a ground level u ...

* Chief Scout's Award (disambiguation) *

Child sexual abuse Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in Human sexual activity, sexual activit ...

Community-supported agriculture Community-supported agriculture (CSA model) or cropsharing is a system that connects producers and consumers within the food system closer by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms. It is an altern ...

, an alternative socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution * Competition Stableford Adjustment, a golf scoring adjustment for handicapping purposes *

Corporate sociopolitical activism Corporate sociopolitical activism (CSA) refers to a firm's public demonstration of support or opposition to a partisan sociopolitical issue. CSA has become increasingly prominent in the 2010s and 2020s, as firms have taken stances on issues such ...

, a firm's public demonstration of support or opposition to a partisan sociopolitical issue * CSA Mine, Australia *

Customer Service Advisor Customer service representatives, customer service advisors, customer service agents, or customer service associates are employees who interact with customers to handle and resolve complaints, process orders, and provide information about an organ ...

, a job title {{disambiguation