"HBC" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} HBC
  1. (Canada, historical) Hudson's Bay Company, a major Canadian retailer and former British Crown corporation on the North American fur trade. Tags: Canada, historical
    Sense id: en-HBC-en-name-Lxe6Dz5u Categories (other): Canadian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 2 8 11 11

Noun

Forms: HBCs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} HBC (plural HBCs)
  1. (retail) health and beauty care
    Sense id: en-HBC-en-noun-FzW8dGAp Topics: business, commerce, retail
  2. (medicine) hormonal birth control Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-HBC-en-noun-y84W6kGd Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. (veterinary medicine) hit by car Categories (lifeform): Veterinary medicine
    Sense id: en-HBC-en-noun-mCykQ5v0 Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology
  4. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of hexabenzocoronene. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: hexabenzocoronene Categories (topical): Organic chemistry
    Sense id: en-HBC-en-noun-R0mDbpj~ Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for HBC meaning in English (3.3kB)

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