Meanings
CLSC1
plural CLSCs
- QuebecA nonprofit community center in Quebec that offers public health service; a community medical clinic.
The CLSC will not carry out its mission by resigning itself to satisfying the requests it receives for care and assistance.
1982, Canadian Council on Social Development, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, A Reader on Prevention and Social Policies, →ISBN, page 2322 more examples
In 1985-1986, the budget per capita (in real dollars) of the CLSCs created since 1981 was about half the budget of those opened between 1972-1977.
1993, Steven H. Zarit, Leonard Irving Pearlin, Klaus Warner Schaie, Caregiving Systems: Informal and Formal Helpers, →ISBN, page 220Interviews conducted for this project indicate that neither the professionals at the CLSC nor the representatives of voluntary associations used the virage ambulatoire to date their relationship.
2000, Keith G. Banting, The nonprofit sector in Canada: roles and relationships, page 40
CLSC2
plural CLSCs
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of closed loop supply chain, a business model that relies on the reuse of waste from production processes.
Product recovery via a CLSC is not philanthropy.
2012, Pratima Bansal, Andrew J. Hoffman, The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, →ISBN2 more examples
The dynamics and key processes found in both the general RL process and the related CLSC business management model are also described in depth, based on anecdotoal and pragmatic experience, surveys, benchmarking, and historical industry-based rules of thumb.
2004, Donald F. Blumberg, Introduction to Management of Reverse Logistics and Closed Loop Supply Chain Processes, →ISBNThe difficulties of CLSC management are enlarged by lots of partners and their flexibility.
2007, Li D. Xu, A. Min Tjoa, Sohail S. Chaudhry, Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II, →ISBN
Origin
- FrenchCLSC
- EnglishCLSC
Borrowed from French CLSC.
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