pmc
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of private military company or corporation.
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Example Sentences
- "That the PMCs working in Iraq operate in a legal black hole is, in my mind, a huge problem but also an eminently solvable one."
- "The first time he ever shot somebody, and knew about it, “was as a PMC. The firefights were a lot closer, a lot more personal.”"
- "The story of the rise and development of the PMC is simultaneously the story of the rise of the modern bourgeoisie and the modern proletariat as they have taken form in monopoly capitalist society."
- "Meanwhile, the radical journalist Barbara Ehrenreich and social policy expert John Ehrenreich argue that even members of the professional-managerial class (PMC), which they alternately call the “professional middle class,” have seen a degradation of work that has left many of them outside the middle class. “PMC,” like “middle class”, amalgamates people in very different social relations within the process of production, […]"
- "Stephanie Foster, the PMC deputy secretary of governance, told the finance and public administration estimates hearing that Morrison convenes meetings attended by others."