PC

A2
US /ˌpiː ˈsiː/
noun verb adj Freq #10917

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    Initialism of protective custody.

    The prison likes to force people out of PC by threatening them with disciplinary reports and taking away our property; also being made to sleep on a concrete slab with a blast of cold air constantly blowing into the cell.

  2. 2
    noun

    Abbreviation of percentage.

    The honest casino operator obtains it either by levying a direct charge or by extracting a favorable P.C. (percentage) […]

  3. 3
    verb

    To make politically correct.

    1991 December, Renée Gearhart Levy, “PC’ed Out,” Syracuse University Magazine, quoted in Steven Mailloux, Reception Histories, Cornell University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 169.

  4. 4
    noun

    a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time

  5. 5
    adj

    Initialism of politically correct.

  6. 6
    adj

    Initialism of pro-choice.

  7. 7
    adj

    Initialism of Progressive Conservative.

  8. 8
    adj

    Initialism of partially continuous.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
4 noun · a small digital computer... personal computer

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