NORC

[nawrk]

noun

1. an apartment building, housing complex, or neighborhood whose population has aged over the years and has a large percentage of older adults for whom support services are provided.

Word History and Origins

Origin of NORC¹

1985–90; n(aturally) o(ccurring) r(etirement) c(ommunity)

Example Sentences

An AP/NORC poll conducted in December found that only 24 percent of people want celebrities to speak up about political issues; those who want professional athletes to speak up on political issues ranked a smidgen higher at 26 percent.

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A slew of recent polls show that Trump’s job-approval rating has slid to the lowest of any new president in eight decades, with nearly six out of 10 Americans disapproving of his performance in surveys by Pew Research Center and AP/NORC.

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The Washington Post/ABC/Ipsos and the AP/NORC poll out in the last couple of days even show him with a 39% approval rating which is astonishing for a president this early in his term.

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But a new AP/NORC poll does find that Harris has sustained her improvement on the economy: The poll pegs her with slight advantages over Trump on the question of who will better handle “jobs and unemployment” and “the cost of housing” as well as a 12-point advantage on the issue of “taxes on the middle class.”

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A recent Associated Press/NORC survey found that 21% of all Black men and 22% of all Black voters aged 18 to 44 say Trump would make a good president.

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