Meanings
- CanadaabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Royal Canadian Navy.
- UKabbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of Royal College of Nursing, a registered trade union for nursing.
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The RCN’s general secretary, Pat Cullen, has stressed that nurses do not want to strike but feel obliged to do so because, with soaring inflation, the government’s pay offer amounts to a real-terms cut in their salaries after a decade in which the value of experienced nurses’ pay has already fallen by 20%.
2022 December 15, “Tens of thousands of UK nurses go on strike in first such industrial action in NHS history”, in The Guardian
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RCN. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/RCN
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