CCC

¹

abbreviation

1. Civilian Conservation Corps: the former U.S. federal agency (1933–1943), organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees, improving parks, etc.

2. Commodity Credit Corporation.

3. continuous chest compressions: a form of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

CCC

²

Symbol.

1. a quality rating for a corporate or municipal bond, lower than B and higher than CC.

c.c.c.

abbreviation

1. cwmni cyfyngedig cyhoeddus; a public limited company in Wales

Example Sentences

Earlier this month, S&P Global Ratings downgraded China Vanke’s credit rating further into junk territory, to CCC from B-minus, saying the company’s financial commitments appear to be unsustainable.

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The downgrade to 'CCC+' from 'B-' comes after authorities revealed that Senegal's government debt stood at 119 percent of GDP as of December 2024 -- more than 40 percentage points higher than previously reported.

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The research, titled "Testing CCC+TL Cosmology with Galaxy Rotation Curves," appears in the peer-reviewed journal Galaxies.

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Livestock numbers have been declining and are expected to fall further - but not at the rate needed to meet the CCC's targets.

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This is only one pathway towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2045, and the Scottish government does not have to follow the advice given to it by the CCC.

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