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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

His only copy of Gabriele was in that pocket pc.

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

Fuller also paid tribute to the two officers who died in the A66 crash - PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Worldwide PC shipments were down 4.9% in the second quarter of this year, according to International Data Corp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

So far, PC makers have found that enough businesses and consumers are buying the pricier computers to lift overall sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

In response to the furore over PC Harper's case, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said anyone convicted of unlawful killing - including all forms of manslaughter - will be excluded from the scheme.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market.

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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2010

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

The new grass-roots female militancy is not something that a women's studies professor would judge p.c.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether you call it p.c. or whatever, it is still a form of intimidation.

From Time Magazine Archive

The increase between 1901 and 1911 in these districts was 7½ 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

“As you wish. Agnes, telephone P.C. Morton, please. Tell him to make space in his cells for three shoplifters.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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