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  pac

  noun

  pack.
• PAC
  PAC

  noun

  political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.
• Pac.
  Pac.

  abbreviation

  Pacific.

pac

¹ American  

[pak] / pæk /

noun

1. pack.

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pac ² American  

[pak] / pæk /

noun

1. Also pack a soft, flexible, heelless shoe worn as a liner inside a boot or overshoe.

2. shoepac.

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PAC ³ American  

[pak] / pæk /

Or P.A.C.

noun

PAC's, plural PACs plural

1. political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.

   a labor-union PAC that backs Democratic candidates.

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Pac. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Pacific.

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PAC ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Pan-Africanist Congress

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Pac. ² British  

abbreviation

1. Pacific

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Etymology

Origin of pac²

An Americanism first recorded in 1870–75; extracted from shoepac by false analysis as shoe + pac

Origin of PAC³

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Top single career corporation pac contributor is coal company Arch Resources.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2021

At the Barnes & Noble in Tampa, Sousa’s Super pac was outside in the parking lot, selling T-shirts and giving away copies of his book.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015

I’m in Nevada with Hype lookin at spots for this new video we are shooting for that single I told you pac is going to be on once he is out, called California love.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2011

Edwards' retreat will include a good-size contingent of trial lawyers--he used to be one himself--who also account for 86% of the money his pac has raised so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

You will have your choice of three kinds of moccasin—the oil-tanned shoe pac, the deerhide, and the moosehide.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

Related Words

• lobbyist
• pressure group