Cbc

adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Canadian-born Chinese. Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "Like many Canadian-born Chinese (CBCs), Yao's parents are from Hong Kong. Brought up in multicultural Toronto, she, like other young CBCs, is stuck between two cultures."

  2. 2
    counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood wordnet
  3. 3
    Initialism of complete blood count. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Adjective
  1. 1
    Initialism of childless/child-free by choice. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”"

  2. 2
    Initialism of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company. Japan, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of Congressional Black Caucus. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

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blood profilecomplete blood countcomplete blood count

Antonyms

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CNBC

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"In 1980 the Ontario Censor Board banned the film "The Tin Drum," adapted from the Günter Grass novel, but the media found this silly, and so the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) showed the offending scene that night from coast to coast on the national news."

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