Word: ABC Part of Speech: name Etymology: Initialisms. 1. Initialism of American Broadcasting Company, an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program. 2. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: One of the terrorists who carried out the shooting attack at a Bondi Beach Hanukkah party was likely a Muslim man of Pakistani origin, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News. The man's name is Naveed Akram, from Bonnyrigg, and his house had been raided. 3. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 4. Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 5. Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 6. Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 7. Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 8. Initialism of Aerated Bread Company, which ran a network of shops and cafeterias. Labels: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Example: It was not worth while to go back to Barnes for the interval between the closing of the Museum and his meal in an ABC shop, and the time hung heavily on his hands. Example: He turned into an A.B.C. shop and ordered eggs and bacon and coffee. 9. Initialism of Advance Booking Charter. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 10. Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Example: The first was the Asian Games, held every 4 years, and the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC), held every 2 years. Example: The most memorable championship of his life, the 1967 ABC (now Fiba Asia), was also the most dramatic for the Philippines in the entire 1960s. 11. Initialism of American Bowling Congress. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism 12. Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, attributive, initialism, often Example: ABC countries 13. Initialism of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul, satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 14. Initialism of Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad. Labels: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism 15. Initialism of American Book Center, an English-language bookstore in Amsterdam founded in 1972. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Example: The American Book Center in Amsterdam is home to one of the largest collections of English literature in continental Europe. Its rickety shelves, spread over four floors, are crammed with American masterpieces from the likes of Hemmingway and Flannery O’Connor. If non-fiction is more your buzz, there are dozens of lavishly illustrated books on subjects such as art and design. ABC also runs The Treehouse, a series of events designed to nourish literary souls from the roots upwards. Example: In addition to sharing American-style storytelling with audiences throughout Finland and France, including a featured presentation at the ELSA conference in Paris this month, Marblehead storyteller Judith Black will be helping to organize and host a story slam at ABC Treehouse, an institution that promotes and supports intercultural exploration in Amsterdam. 16. An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping. 17. Initialism of Anglican Book Centre, the publishing house and bookshop of the Anglican Church of Canada until 2013. Labels: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism