PCS

American  

abbreviation

1. Personal Communications Service: a system of digital wireless communications, used especially for mobile phones and often including additional features, as caller ID or paging.

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PCS British  

abbreviation

1. Public and Commercial Services Union

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Etymology

Origin of PCS

1995–2000

Example Sentences

Designed to keep desktop PCs going briefly after an outage occurs, these extra-chunky power strips can keep a modem running for hours.

From The Wall Street Journal

The PCS union, which represents civil servants, said some of its members had been left unable to pay bills, facing bank charges or relying on family support.

From BBC

Called “residential proxy” networks, these online services are built out of apps that are installed on virtually any type of internet-connected device—among them media players, PCs and mobile phones.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company did flag a “short-term shipment adjustment” for PCs and smartphones due to rising component cost and weaker consumer sentiment.

From MarketWatch

ASML’s Fouquet said customers are ramping up to meet very tight supply both for HBM as well as the DDR chips that are used in PCs and laptops.

From MarketWatch