NRC
English
Alternative forms
- N.R.C., N. R. C.
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Proper noun
NRC
- (religion) Initialism of Netherlands Reformed Congregation.
- (US) Initialism of Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
- Synonyms: USNRC, U.S.N.R.C., U. S. N. R. C., U.S. NRC, U. S. NRC
- (Canada) Initialism of National Research Council.
- Synonyms: NRCC, N.R.C.C., N. R. C. C.
- (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.
- (Korea) Initialism of National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
- (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)
- (agriculture) Initialism of non-rice crop.
Adjective
NRC (not comparable)
- (Australia, dated) Initialism of not recommended for children, a former film classification.