NRC

English

Alternative forms

  • N.R.C., N. R. C.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

NRC

  1. (religion) Initialism of Netherlands Reformed Congregation.
  2. (US) Initialism of Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    Synonyms: USNRC, U.S.N.R.C., U. S. N. R. C., U.S. NRC, U. S. NRC
    • 2025 March 4, John Fritze, “Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste”, in CNN[1]:
      The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled the NRC does not have the authority to issue licenses to store nuclear fuel away from reactors.
  3. (Canada) Initialism of National Research Council.
    Synonyms: NRCC, N.R.C.C., N. R. C. C.
  4. (Indian politics) Initialism of National Register of Citizens.
    Coordinate term: NPR (National Population Register)
    • 2019 April 12, James Griffiths and Manveena Suri, “Outrage over BJP promise to ‘remove every single infiltrator’ from India”, in CNN[2]:
      He promised to do so by implementing the National Registry of Citizens nationwide. The NRC is a hugely controversial policy mooted last year in Assam, a region of India which shares a porous border with Bangladesh.
  5. (Korea) Initialism of National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
  6. (US) Initialism of Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.
    • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN[3]:
      “The Budget proposes to end Federal support for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NRC), commonly known as NeighborWorks, a statutorily chartered non-profit that receives the vast majority of its funding from Federal funds. A strong return on these funds has not been documented.”

Noun

NRC (plural NRCs)

  1. (agriculture) Initialism of non-rice crop.

Adjective

NRC (not comparable)

  1. (Australia, dated) Initialism of not recommended for children, a former film classification.

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