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单词 pac
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pacn.1

Brit. /pak/, U.S. /pæk/
Forms: 1800s– pac, 1800s– pack, 1900s– 'pack.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: shoepack n.
Etymology: Shortened < shoepack n.
North American.
Originally: a moccasin with an added sole of leather or deerskin. In later use chiefly: a boot liner or boot with an integral galosh of rubber or other waterproof material (also more fully boot-pac, pac boot). Cf. shoepack n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > heavy or strong
stogy1853
pac1875
pit boot1894
bovver boot1969
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > made from specific material > skin or hide > moccasin > types of
shoepack1755
opanka1778
pampootie1846
pac1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1590/1 Pac; Pack, a moccasin having a sole turned up and sewed to the upper. Though now made of leather of various kinds, the pac, as used by the Indians of the Six Nations, for instance, was made of hide boiled in tallow and wax; or of tawed hide subsequently stuffed with tallow or wax.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 715 Loggers' Footgear [Figures of] India-rubber brogan. Old-fashioned boot-pack. Modern rubber-soled boot-pack. Buck~skin and leather moccasin.
1922 Outing May 68/1 Footwear, pac boots 16 inches; rubber boots.
1931 ‘Grey Owl’ Men of Last Frontier 181 And here is where my hard-soled 'packs came in.
1973 B. Wright Four Seasons North 12 The trails are slippery in our rubber-soled pacs.
1994 Bowhunting World Feb. 51/2 Where you must do a great deal of walking, lighter pac boots tailored for hiking..are best suited.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

PACn.2

Brit. /pak/, U.S. /pæk/
Forms: 1900s– P.A.C., 1900s– PAC, 1900s– pac.
Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English Political Action Committee.
Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of Political Action Committee (see political action committee n. at political adj. and n. Compounds 2).
U.S. Politics.
= political action committee n. at political adj. and n. Compounds 2; esp. that of the U.S. Congress of Industrial Organizations (now historical).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > committee collecting electoral funds
PAC1944
super PAC1980
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > congress of industrial organizations committee
PAC1944
1944 New Republic 24 Jan. 100/1 In New York State, the CIO Political Action Committee has run into serious trouble... Sidney Hillman, chairman of the PAC, proposes that control of the ALP be turned over to the CIO trade unions.
1975 Business Week 2 Dec. 56/1 The ruling that permits business to form political action committees (PACs) presents a tougher problem.
1977 Industr. & Labor Relations Rev. 30 242/1 In this well-written account of the activities of the CIO's Political Action Committee (PAC), James Foster demonstrates that the PAC's influence was over-rated by contemporaries.
1982 Times 3 Nov. 17 With the rise of the pacs has come the creation of a new kind of power-broker on the American scene—the dispenser or controller of pac funds.
2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Oct. 64/1 Keelen's work..soon took him to the political action committee, or PAC, for the National Restaurant Association... He went into business as a PAC fund-raiser.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

PACn.3

Brit. /pak/, U.S. /pæk/
Forms: 1900s– PAC, 1900s– P.A.C..
Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English Pan-African Congress.
Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of Pan-African Congress (see Pan-Africanist Congress n. at pan-Africanist adj.).
= Pan-Africanist Congress n. at pan-Africanist adj.
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1961 Surv. Race Relations 1959–60 (S. Afr. Inst. Race Relations) 15 Mr. Soboukwe said that the P.A.C. rejected apartheid, but it also rejected multi-racialism.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 June 14/4 The government banned the ANC and its recent offshoot, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC).
2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 July 52/3 The PAC split off from the African National Congress in the late 1950s.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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