pac

¹

[pak]

noun

1. pack.

pac

²

[pak]

noun

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

2. shoepac.

PAC

³

Or P.A.C.

[pak]

noun

plural

PAC's, PACs 

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.

Pac.

⁴

abbreviation

1. Pacific.

PAC

¹

abbreviation

1. Pan-Africanist Congress

Pac.

²

abbreviation

1. Pacific

Word History and Origins

Origin of pac¹

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

Origin of pac²

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Bush was initially elected to Congress in 2018 with the support of the Justice Democrats, a group that supports Democrats running for Congress who, among other criteria, refuse to accept corporate PAC money for their campaigns.

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“Then I realized also, I am against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and she is a recipient of a bunch of pro-Israel PAC money from AIPAC, J Street, and she refuses to even sign on to the Block the Bombs Act, which are definitely all red lines for me,” Blaha said.

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Yasser Salem, who ran a private investment firm and is leading a pro-Mamdani super PAC, said the same question would arise when he spoke to Wall Street and real-estate executives about the mayor-elect: “Is he going to appoint folks based on ideology or capability?”

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Leger-Walker tormented her coach before she joined her cause, helping seventh-seeded Washington State make an improbable run in the 2023 Pac-12 tournament.

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Fresh on the heels of another focus group and poll-tested report from the centrist Welcome PAC, the Democratic consultant class is once again arguing that the party should stick to bland policy platform-driven campaigns.

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Related Words

• lobbyist 
• pressure group