PMC

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Noun

PMC (plural PMCs)

  1. (military) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
  2. (military) Initialism of private military contractor.
    • 2007 September 29, Matthew Yglesias, “The Case for PMCs?”, in The Atlantic‎, retrieved 2022-11-26:
      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.
    • 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:
      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.”
  3. (real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
  4. Initialism of professional–managerial class. [from 1977]
    • 1979, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Ehrenreich, “The Professional-Managerial Class”, in Pat Walker, editor, Between Labor and Capital, South End Press, →ISBN, page 10:
      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.
    • 2022, David Roediger, The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right‎, Haymarket Books, →ISBN:
      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, […]
  5. Initialism of professional middle class.

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PMC

  1. (military) Initialism of People's Mobilization Committee.
  2. (military) Initialism of President of the Mess Committee.
  3. (software) Initialism of project management committee (a committee of the Apache Software Foundation)
  4. (Philippines, military) Initialism of Philippine Marine Corps.
  5. (Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.
    • 2020 March 2, Paul Karp, “Scott Morrison’s one-man cabinet committee an ‘abuse of process’, Labor says”, in The Guardian‎:
      Stephanie Foster, the PMC deputy secretary of governance, told the finance and public administration estimates hearing that Morrison convenes meetings attended by others.

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