RC
abbreviation
radio control.
RC
American
Or
R.C.
abbreviation
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radio control.
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Reserve Component: military units whose members serve part-time, as the Army National Guard or the Coast Guard Reserve.
RC
1
British
abbreviation
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Red Cross
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Reserve Corps
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Also: R.C.. Roman Catholic
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China (international car registration)
rc
2
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of RC
(sense 4) from R(epublic of) C(hina)
Example Sentences
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PSG have not conceded many goals this season but Chelsea, RC Lens and Bayern Munich have all attacked well against them.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
“OpenAI is Coke, Anthropic is Pepsi and Grok is RC Cola,” said Ben Pouladian, an engineer and tech investor based in Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
While Cohen’s RC Ventures owns 8.3% of GameStop shares, according to FactSet data, he won’t be participating in that vote “so that GameStop’s other stockholders have the opportunity to determine the outcome.”
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
But even at his peak, the Midwesterner knew he needed to be more valuable to RC companies than as a driver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
I opened a package of Tom’s peanuts and shook them carefully into my bottle of RC Cola.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
It is conventional to end the dot filename with rc, but some programs don't.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
This is techspeak under Unix, jargon elsewhere. :rc file: /R-C fi:l/ /n./
From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.
Instead, you can use the ? wildcard as shown here: ls /etc/rc?.d /etc/rc?.d expands to a list of filenames that begin with rc, followed by any single character, followed by .d.
From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John
Node:rc file, Next:RE, Previous:RBL, Up:= R = rc file /R-C fi:l/ n.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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