PWC

plural PWCs

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of personal water craft.

   Clearly, Yamaha saw a trend coming when it designed this big PWC. Since the Callaway Gardens introduction, Bombardier debuted its own 3-person watercraft, the Sea-Doo GT.

   1990 March, Cliff Gromer, “Firsthand Report: Yamaha WaveRunner III”, in Popular Mechanics, page 104

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   Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, serious criticism of our culture of consumption and domination, symbolized nicely by PWC, was very often thought un-American and unacceptable.

   2000, South Carolina Environmental Law Journal, volumes 9-10, page 17

   (g) Personal water craft (PWC). (1) PWC may operate on Lake Meredith except in the following closed areas: stilling basin below Sanford Dam, within 750 feet of the Sanford Dam intake tower, and on the waters of the Canadian River.

   2010, Office of the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property, page 120

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

   A majority of companies in the S&P 500 have at least one woman on their boards, but only about a quarter have more than two, according to a study from PwC.

   2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business