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PCC

British  

abbreviation

  1. Press Complaints Commission

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Manso said the PCC provides what recruits feel they can’t get elsewhere: escape from “the utter misery of urban life.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Prosecutors and police in Brazil are calling on President Trump to label the PCC a Foreign Terrorist Organization, joining more than a dozen other Latin criminal networks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The PCC is a household name in villages like Urucurituba, 1,600 miles north of São Paulo’s squalid jails, where the vast milky Madeira River cuts through the rainforest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

PCC said it had been advised by the Royal Navy bomb disposal team that enhanced scanning equipment was expected to arrive on site, which would help determine the safest way to make the device safe.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

Where they might’ve lived in peace if it weren’t for a committee called the PCC.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner