ABC
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[edit] English
[edit] Initialism
ABC
- (Australian, radio, obsolete) Australian Broadcasting Company. [1929-1932]
- (Australian, television, radio, obsolete) Australian Broadcasting Commission. [1932-1983]
- (Australian television, radio) Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [From July 1983]
- (US television, radio) American Broadcasting Company
- (television, Japan) Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
- alcoholic beverage control
- (of chewing gum) already been chewed
- (business management) activity-based costing
- (US, Canada) American-born Chinese
- (Australian, New Zealand) Australian-born Chinese
- (sports) African Basketball Confederation
- ABC (B), a Belgian car market
- Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast Railroad
- aural brevity code
- (military) atomic, biological, and chemical
- (emergency medicine) Airway, breathing, and circulation
- American Book Center
- (Brazil) An acrostic for Saint Andre, Saint Bernardo and Saint Caetano, satellite cities around Sao Paulo City , a very important industrial area.
- anything but Chardonnay: a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous
[edit] See also
- (atomic, biological, chemical): NBC
- (American-born Chinese): CBC
- (American Broadcasting Company): NBC , CBS , PBS , NPR
[edit] Etymology
The first three letters of the Latin alphabet, standing for the whole alphabet
[edit] Pronunciation
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[edit] Noun
ABC (plural ABCs)
- (US also ABCs) (uncountable) The alphabet.
- Do you know your ABCs?
- (obsolete) A primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading.
- The rudiments of any subject.
- the ABC of finance
[edit] Synonyms
- (alphabet): absey
- (rudiments): basics, fundamentals
[edit] Translations
alphabet
obsolete: primer for learning the alphabet
rudiments
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] See also
Naming an alphabet after the initial letters is common; compare:
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Danish
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /abeseː/, [æb̥eˈseːˀ]
[edit] Noun
ABC c. (singular definite ABC'en, plural indefinite ABC'er)
- ABC (a primer for teaching the Latin alphabet and first elements of reading; the rudiments of any subject)
[edit] Inflection
Inflection of ABC
[edit] External links
ABC on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
ABC (bog) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:ABC (bog)
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