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  pc

  picocurie; picocuries.
• PC
  PC

  abbreviation

  Peace Corps.
• pc.
  pc.

  abbreviation

  piece.
• P/C
  P/C

  abbreviation

  petty cash.
• p.c.
  p.c.

  abbreviation

  (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.
• P.C.
  P.C.

  abbreviation

  Past Commander.

pc

¹ American  

1. picocurie; picocuries.

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PC ² American  

abbreviation

1. Peace Corps.

2. personal computer.

3. player character.

4. politically correct.

5. printed circuit.

6. professional corporation.

7. pubococcygeus.

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pc. ³ American  

abbreviation

• pcs
  plural

1. piece.

2. prices.

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P/C ⁴ American  

Or p/c

abbreviation

1. petty cash.

2. price current.

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p.c. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. (in prescriptions) after eating; after meals.

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p.c. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. percent.

2. petty cash.

3. postal card.

4. price current.

5. printed circuit.

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P.C. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. Past Commander.

2. British. Police Constable.

3. politically correct.

4. Post Commander.

5. British. Prince Consort.

6. British. Privy Council.

7. professional corporation.

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pc ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. per cent

2. postcard

3. obsolete (in prescriptions) post cibum

4. parsec

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PC ² British  

abbreviation

1. personal computer

2. Parish Council(lor)

3. Past Commander

4. (in Britain and Canada) Police Constable

5. politically correct

6. Prince Consort

7. (in Britain and Canada) Privy Council(lor)

8. (in Canada) Progressive Conservative

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P/C ³ British  

abbreviation

1. petty cash

2. price current

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p.c. Cultural  

1. An abbreviation for “p olitically c orrect.” It refers to social, political, and educational changes designed to redress historical injustices in areas such as race, gender, ethnic background, and sexual orientation: “Haven't you read the latest directive on p.c. language? Please refer to our colleagues as ‘women,’ not ‘ladies’ or ‘girls.’” The phrase and abbreviation, which also appears as PC, both debuted in the late twentieth century.

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PC Idioms  

1. Also, p.c. An abbreviation for politically correct.

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Etymology

Origin of p.c.

From Latin post cibōs

Example Sentences

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pc PC pc. p.c. P.C.

Comedy superstar Jerry Seinfeld previously said he's been warned against performing at colleges because their too "pc."

From Fox News ● Nov. 26, 2019

Bill Gates promised a pc on every desktop and delivered.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018

He went on: “I don’t play colleges but I hear a lot of people tell me, ‘Don’t go near colleges, they’re so pc.’

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2015

To conduct the test, we use a pooled proportion, pc.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013

When he woke from a coughing fit, he noticed that all of his things were gone including the little case that had his passport and the pocket pc that contained his novel about Gabriele.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

The move gives Nvidia an important foothold in the PC market while Microsoft seeks to target AI power users.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Smartphone and PC shipments are plummeting, but Apple and Dell are expected to keep revenue climbing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Even as unit shipments fall, analysts expect device revenue to climb this year for smartphone players Samsung Electronics and Apple as well as PC makers Lenovo, Dell Technologies and HP.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Former PC Danny Tomkins, 35, denied dangerous driving before the crash took place.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The first big breakthrough in work flow was actually the combination of the PC and e-mail.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

To the naked eye, the hats may be mistaken for an overturned bucket of the chain's signature 8 pc. fried chicken meal.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023

There's a lot about the p.c. world we'd all like to see disappear, but freedom to make our own choices is not one of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010

More telling is Jobs' view that the p.c. world is "slipping away."

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010

"Maxim came at the end of a long, dreary, p.c. era," says Golin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Standing of the teams after last week's games: Won Lost Tied p.c.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sikhs.—Notwithstanding heavy losses by plague Sikhs have increased by 37 p.c.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie

Assuming that’s the case, Neil Carbone, a trusts and estates partner at the law firm Farrell Fritz, P.C., believes that would be feasible.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026

Attorneys at the James & Hoffman, P.C., law firm are arguing in their proposed class action that this mass firing constitutes a reduction-in-force action, which would require a 60-day notice.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

The plaintiffs' counsel Seeger Weiss LLP and Douglas & London P.C. said the settlement will resolve litigation against AstraZeneca for about 11,000 claims.

From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2023

"After using equations that describe the flow of granular materials," says James Gilchrist, the Ruth H. and Sam Madrid Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Lehigh's P.C.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

With dinner about to be served, this was hardly the moment to be summoning P.C.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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