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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Initialism of planning review committee. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
2. 2
   Initialism of protocol Review Committee. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3. 3
   Initialism of Preschool Referral Committee. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
4. 4
   Initialism of Private Commercial Organisation. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
5. 5
   Initialism of personal radio communications, e.g. the PRC-77 portable secure FM radio set. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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6. 6
   Initialism of Police Record Check. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
7. 7
   A person from the People's Republic of China, especially in contrast to native-born Singaporean Chinese. Singapore, countable, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable

   ""It doesn't matter," she said. "They may still think you're a PRC who obtained a British passport.""

Proper Noun

1. 1
   Initialism of Protestant Reformed Church. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. 2
   Initialism of Pesticide Residues Committee. British, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
3. 3
   Initialism of People's Republic of China. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

   "Near-synonym: China"

4. 4
   Initialism of People's Republic of the Congo, the predecessor state of the Republic of the Congo. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. 5
   Initialism of Palm Resource Code, the file format for Palm OS applications. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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6. 6
   Initialism of Professional Regulatory Commission, a commission of the Philippine government. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
7. 7
   Initialism of Philippine Red Cross. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

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chinachinaprcatdk

Example

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"All children in the PRC learn the Roman alphabet for phonemic pinyin."

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