pac
1 Americannoun
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pack.
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Also pack a soft, flexible, heelless shoe worn as a liner inside a boot or overshoe.
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PAC's, PACs-
political action committee: an organization established by a corporation or other special interest to raise money from individuals for a political campaign or other political cause.
a labor-union PAC that backs Democratic candidates.
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Pacific.
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Pan-Africanist Congress
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Pacific
Etymology
Origin of pac2
An Americanism first recorded in 1870–75; extracted from shoepac by false analysis as shoe + pac
Origin of PAC3
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Top single career corporation pac contributor is coal company Arch Resources.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2021
At the Barnes & Noble in Tampa, Sousa’s Super pac was outside in the parking lot, selling T-shirts and giving away copies of his book.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015
I’m in Nevada with Hype lookin at spots for this new video we are shooting for that single I told you pac is going to be on once he is out, called California love.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2011
Edwards' retreat will include a good-size contingent of trial lawyers--he used to be one himself--who also account for 86% of the money his pac has raised so far.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will have your choice of three kinds of moccasin—the oil-tanned shoe pac, the deerhide, and the moosehide.
From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward
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