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PMC
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pmc
English
en <dab!>
Noun
en military en private military company or corporation.
en military en private military contractor.
en https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/09/the-case-for-pmcs/46492/ The Case for PMCs? 2007-09-29 2022-11-26 Matthew Yglesias w:The Atlantic 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260214152324/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/09/the-case-for-pmcs/46492/ 14 February 2026
en http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/06/the-return-of-the-dogs-of-war-whats-it-like-to-be-a-soldier-for-hire The return of the dogs of war: what's it like to be a soldier for hire? 2016-02-06 Emine Saner Stephen Friday w: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.”
en real estate en property management company or corporation.
en computing en performance monitoring counter.
en w:professional–managerial class. from 1977
en 1979 Pat Walker The Professional-Managerial Class w:Barbara Ehrenreich; w:John Ehrenreich Between Labor and Capital South End Press 9780896080379 10 https://archive.org/details/betweenlaborcapi00walkrich/page/10/mode/1up 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.
en 2022 David Roediger The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right https://books.google.com/books?id=mXZPEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT38&dq=%22PMC%22+middle-class&hl=&cd=3&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22PMC%22%20middle-class&f=false Haymarket Books 9781642597271 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,
en professional middle class.
en polar mesospheric cloud.
Translations
private military company
Russian: ru ЧВК f
Ukrainian: uk ПВК f
See also
private military contractor en mercenary
Proper noun
en military en w:Popular Mobilization Forces People's Mobilization Committee.
en military en president en of en the mess committee.
en software en project management committee a committee of the Apache Software Foundation
en Philippines military en w:Philippine Marine Corps.
en Australian politics en prime minister and cabinet.
en Paul Karp http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/02/scott-morrisons-one-man-cabinet-committee-an-abuse-of-process-labor-says Scott Morrison’s one-man cabinet committee an ‘abuse of process’, Labor says 2020-03-02 w: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.
Adjective
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en military en partial mission capable
en FMC
Anagrams
en cmp CMP CP/M CPM MCP MPC PCM pcm