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N.C.C.
abbreviation for
- National Council of Churches.
NCC
abbreviation for
- (the former) Nature Conservancy Council
Example Sentences
With her interest in medicine sparked by that class and subsequent science courses she took at N.C.C., which is in Garden City, she went on to earn a medical assistant’s certificate from a local campus of the Sanford-Brown Institute, which is now defunct.
Indeed, the corporate philosophy of Netflix, which was once thought to be outgunned in Washington by the East Coast media conglomerates and their vast lobbying forces, now seems so pervasive that the Federal Communications Commission, or F.C.C., is being referred to by some media executives — half-jokingly and half-enviously — as the “N.C.C.”
For instance, the shrunken Presbyterian staff, just moved from the N.C.C. building in New York City to Louisville, has been cut by 400, in part to ward off a $7 million shortfall.
Although it formerly symbolized mainline ascendancy, the N.C.C. is now shaken by a crisis that signals the decline of the religious Old Guard.
Similar woes affect the N.C.C.'s most successful agency, Church World Service, the overseas relief and development arm.
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