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NIC en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of network interface card or network interface controller, used to interface a computer to a network.
  2. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of network information center.
  3. (UK, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of) Acronym of national insurance contribution.
    • Despite propelling the tax burden to its highest peacetime level – through a combination of next April’s national insurance contributions (NICs) increase and a sharp rise in corporation tax due to take effect in 2023 – the chancellor painted himself as the champion of low taxes. 2021 October 27, Heather Stewart, “Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?”, in The Guardian:

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Source: en.wiktionary, “NIC” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.