N.C.C.

American  

Or NCC

abbreviation

1. National Council of Churches.

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NCC British  

abbreviation

1. (the former) Nature Conservancy Council

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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.

From New York Times

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.”

From New York Times

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similar woes affect the N.C.C.'s most successful agency, Church World Service, the overseas relief and development arm.

From Time Magazine Archive