SEC

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sec"

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SEC

  1. (US, government, finance) Initialism of Securities and Exchange Commission.
    • 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 71:
      “Anyway, Kaspersky took her story to the SEC. I’m sorry, it’s rude to throw obscure acronyms around. I mean the Securities and Exchange Commission. They’re the people who look after my industry.” Vincent knew what the SEC was, because she made an effort to follow the financial news, but she only nodded.
    • 2023 January 6, Manu Raju and Devan Cole, “SEC closes insider trading probe into former Republican senator”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Burr sold $1.65 million in stock on February 13, 2020, previous court filings by the SEC revealed.
  2. (US, college, sports) Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference
  3. (Australia) Initialism of State Electricity Commission.

Noun

SEC (plural SECs)

  1. Initialism of scavenger endothelial cell.

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