CDA

CDA may stand for:

Associations and Businesses

*Canadian Dental Association, an association of dentists in Canada
*Canadian Dinghy Association
*Caran d'Ache, a famous Swiss fine arts products company.
*Child Development Associate, the CDA Credential awarded to those in the Early Care & Education by The Council for Professional Recognition to work with Infants, Toddlers, or Preschoolers
*Chinese Daoist Association
*"Christen-Democratisch Appèl", a political party of the Netherlands
*College Democrats of America, the national organization that oversees the direction and day-to-day management of 1300 College Democrats chapters around the country
*Conservative Democratic Alliance, a United Kingdom pressure group
*Co-operative Development Agency, advice agencies for people who wanted to start co-operatives set up as part of the community economic development effort in many British localities in the 1980s
* The Copper Development Association Inc. [http://www.copper.org/]
*Comprehensive Design Architects [http://www.cda-group.co.uk] , a firm of UK architects, with their HQ in Edinburgh.

Location

*Coeur d'Alene, a city in northern Idaho, United States

Other

*".cda", a filename extension for a CD Audio track shortcut
*Cda, the abbreviation for the orchid genus "Cochlioda"
*Completely Denatured Alcohol, the most heavily denatured alcohol
*Compress Da Audio, the first MP3 warez group
*Confidential Disclosure Agreement, another name for a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
*Congenital Developmental Abnormality/Abnormalities
*Continuous Descent Approach is an aircraft approach method designed to reduce fuel burn and noise
*Controlled Droplet Application: a concept in pesticide application
*Cellular Digital Accessory, a means to identify the software version of an Mobile phone.
*Chiral Derivitizing Agent, a type of chemical designed to react with enantiomers to indicate the enantiopurity
*Chlorproguanil hydrochloride-dapsone-artesunate, a new antimalarial drug that entered Phase III clinical trials in 2006
*Clean Dry Air, air that has been filtered and dehumidified to remove particulates and moisture so that it can be safely used in pneumatic devices or systems
*Clinical Document Architecture, an HL7 authored health care documentation standard
*The Cosmic Dust Analyser in the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
*Critical discourse analysis, a sociopolitically oriented approach within Discourse Analysis
*Criminal defense attorney
*Cytidine deaminase, an enzyme
*The Child Detection Agency from Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
* CD-Action - polish magazine about PC games.
* Corporate Data Authority - Framework for creating a business group to actively manager corporate data assets

Government and Law

*Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c.37)
*Capital Development Authority, Islamabad, Pakistan
*Christian Democratic Appeal, a Dutch Christian-democratic political party
*Contract Disputes Act
*Communications Decency Act, a US law which says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" and had provisions relating to letting children access pornography which were found to be unconstitutional