cc

plural ccs · plural cc's

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of carbon copy.

   I had meant to cc you on this earlier. Please reply by next Thursday. Thanks.

2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of courtesy copy.
3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of closed caption or closed captioning.
4. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of cubic centimeter.

   This plastic syringe delivers one cc of medicine to the mouth of the animal. The medicine is peanut-flavored.

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   It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).

   2025 August 28, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2025, page 147

   Synonyms: cm³, mL

1. abbreviationpluralplural onlyAbbreviation of chapters.

present singular third person cc's · participle present cc'ing · participle past cc'd · past cc'd · participle past cc'ed · past cc'ed · participle past cc:d · past cc:d

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismtransitiveInitialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”).

   Please cc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away.

   2012, Doug Fine, quoting Colleen Brand, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Penguin, →ISBN

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   For messages I'm cc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox.

   2014, Alexandra Samuel, Work Smarter, Rule Your Email, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: carbon copy, copy

2. abbreviationinitialismtransitivevideo gamesInitialism of crowd control.

   Just cc him, bro.

plural CCs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of carbon copy.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cricket club.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cycling club.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Circuit Court.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of community college.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of credit card.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of courtesy copy.
8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cryptocurrency.
9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableastronomyInitialism of cosmological constant.
10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of contrasting colour.

    Change to larger needles and knit 1 rnd in CC, inc 3 (4, 5) sts evenly[…]

    2011, Barb Brown, Knitting Knee-Highs: Sock Styles from Classic to Contemporary, page 55

11. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableSIInitialism of cubic centimetre.
12. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebroadcastingInitialism of closed caption.

    Synonyms: S, sub

13. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableclimatologyInitialism of cirrocumulus.
14. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablesound engineeringengineeringInitialism of compact cassette.
15. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableMIDIInitialism of control change.
16. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of chief complaint.
17. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of cervical cancer.
18. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of City College.
19. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of community college.

    Community Colleges […] Four-year schools are losing ground to CCs.

    2010, Peggy Whitley, Susan Williams Goodwin, Catherine Olson, 99 Jumpstarts to Research: Topic Guides for Finding Information on Current Issues, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN

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    […] is transforming on a global scale, and U.S. community colleges (CCs) are an important part of that transformation.

    2021 January 11, Meryl Siegal, Elizabeth Gilliland, Empowering the Community College First-Year Composition Teacher: Pedagogies and Policies, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 182

20. abbreviationcountableuncountablegovernmentAbbreviation of cruiser, a type of warship.
21. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of company commander.

    At the helm of Company Eleven was Chief Quartermaster Pritchard. Officially he was known as the Company Commander (CC) and had been assigned to Camp Moffett for the purpose of being our CC. […] Successful CC's often had their detractors in the form ofjealous and less successful CC's.

    2013, David Banagis, Twenty-Three Days at Sea: A Sailor's Story, Bloomington, IN: Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 9

22. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablevideo gamesInitialism of crowd control.
23. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of content creator.
24. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of constructive criticism.

    This is my attempt at brightening a photo, CC welcome.

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    Constructive criticism (CC) consists of four steps that can be practiced: 1 Facts: what happened when? (Example: you did not look at me when we just discussed something); 2 Experience: what irritates me about it?

    2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN

25. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of cross country.
26. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of Central Committee.

    Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the CC of the CPSU.

27. CanadacountableuncountableCompanion of the Order of Canada.
28. UScountablehistoricaluncountablegovernmentThe US Navy hull classification symbol for a Lexington-class battlecruiser
29. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of carbon capture.

    Near-synonyms: CCS, CCU, CCUS

    Synonyms: CCS, CCU, CCUS

30. abbreviationcountableslanguncountablebusinessAbbreviation of covered call.

1. abbreviationinitialismlawInitialism of Creative Commons.

present singular third person CCs · participle present CCing · participle past CCed · past CCed

1. InternetabbreviationinitialismtransitiveInitialism of carbon copy.

   Please email me a summary and CC my manager too.

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   Please email the file to me and CC it to my manager.

1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableengineeringInitialism of cement-coated.
2. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablesocial workhuman sciencesInitialism of client-centered.

   EFT was found to be more effective in reducing interpersonal problems than either Client-Centered (CC) or Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), in promoting more change in symptoms than the CC treatment, and […]

   2017 September 19, Herman de Mönnink, The Social Workers' Toolbox: Sustainable Multimethod Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN