RC
Americanabbreviation
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radio control.
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Reserve Component: military units whose members serve part-time, as the Army National Guard or the Coast Guard Reserve.
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Red Cross
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Reserve Corps
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Also: R.C.. Roman Catholic
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China (international car registration)
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Etymology
Origin of RC
(sense 4) from R(epublic of) C(hina)
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PSG have not conceded many goals this season but Chelsea, RC Lens and Bayern Munich have all attacked well against them.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“OpenAI is Coke, Anthropic is Pepsi and Grok is RC Cola,” said Ben Pouladian, an engineer and tech investor based in Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
While Cohen’s RC Ventures owns 8.3% of GameStop shares, according to FactSet data, he won’t be participating in that vote “so that GameStop’s other stockholders have the opportunity to determine the outcome.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
To Cavalieri’s right, Joseph Quagraine, a Finnish racer and designer for Mayako, a maker of RC vehicles, crafted a snarky post for Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
Everybody put coins in the jukebox and drank RC Cola, but the profits never amounted to much.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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Node:rc file, Next:RE, Previous:RBL, Up:= R = rc file /R-C fi:l/ n.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
It is conventional to end the dot filename with rc, but some programs don't.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
This is techspeak under Unix, jargon elsewhere. :rc file: /R-C fi:l/ /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond
Instead, you can use the ? wildcard as shown here: ls /etc/rc?.d /etc/rc?.d expands to a list of filenames that begin with rc, followed by any single character, followed by .d.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen
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