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UAC en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of unaccompanied alien child: a child sent to cross an international border without a formal adult guardian.
    • “The only change pursuant to the Big Beautiful Bill is expanding this option to return home to UACs from additional countries beyond Mexico and Canada,” the spokesperson added. 2025 July 23, Priscilla Alvarez, “Exclusive: Trump administration moves to rapidly deport migrant children, asking teens if they want to leave”, in CNN:
    • “The program will continue to evaluate needs and capacity in order to care for the hundreds of UAC that cross the US border daily,” Stauffer said. 2019 March 29, Geneva Sands, “CBP projects unaccompanied children will surpass 2014 crisis”, in CNN:

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

UAC en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:Microsoft Windows) Initialism of User Account Control: a technology that limits application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes further privileges.