PMC en · NOUN
Meanings
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of private military contractor.
alt of private military contractor
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.”
2016 February 6, Emine Saner, quoting Stephen Friday, “The return of the dogs of war: what's it like to be a soldier for hire?”, in The Guardian: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.
2007 September 29, Matthew Yglesias, “The Case for PMCs?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2025:
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of performance monitoring counter.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of professional–managerial class.
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, […]
2022, David Roediger, The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right, Haymarket Books, →ISBN: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.
1979, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich, “The Professional-Managerial Class”, in Pat Walker, editor, Between Labor and Capital, South End Press, →ISBN, page 10:
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of professional middle class.
alt of professional middle class
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of polar mesospheric cloud.
alt of polar mesospheric cloud
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| PMCs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
mercenary (private military contractor)
Translations (2)
ru ЧВК (private military company) · uk ПВК (private military company)