PMC
Hired military force
PMC most commonly stands for private military company—a business that provides armed combat or security services for hire.
These contractors operate in conflict zones alongside or instead of national armies: The embassy hired PMC guards after the attack.
In online discourse, PMC has become shorthand for the professional-managerial class—educated professionals whose work involves managing systems or people rather than producing goods: That's such a PMC take on labor issues.
Hired construction professional
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- securityProtection from threat
- operationsPlanned systematic activities
- defenseProtection against harm
armed · personnel · deployment · combat · tactical · overseas · warfare · services
Systematic fact-finding effort
- articlesWritten works or items
- biomedicalConcerning biology and medicine
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
- NIHFederal medical research agency
open access · journals · clinical · citations · abstracts · peer-reviewed · publications · scientific
Chemically strengthening raw rubber
- rubberElastic polymer from trees
- siliconeFlexible synthetic polymer
- elastomerStretchable polymer substance
- curingRestoring health or preserving
heat treatment · crosslinking · polymer · hardening · processing · molding · temperature · oven
Making or generating something
- music collectiveGroup of collaborating artists
- producerOne who makes things
- beatsPulses or defeats
- hip-hopRhythmic spoken-word music
studio · mixing · recording · label · artist · tracks · collaboration · sound
Deploying capital for returns
- assetsOwned items of value
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- fundReserved money supply
- advisoryNotice recommending action
fiduciary · allocation · securities · equity · management · returns · diversification · capital
contractor
Hired construction professional
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- securityProtection from threat
- operationsPlanned systematic activities
defense · armed · personnel · deployment · combat · tactical · overseas · warfare · services · Wagner
research
Systematic fact-finding effort
- articlesWritten works or items
- biomedicalConcerning biology and medicine
- databaseOrganized digital information collection
NIH · open access · journals · clinical · citations · abstracts · peer-reviewed · publications · scientific · literature
vulcanization
Chemically strengthening raw rubber
- rubberElastic polymer from trees
- siliconeFlexible synthetic polymer
- elastomerStretchable polymer substance
curing · heat treatment · crosslinking · polymer · hardening · processing · molding · temperature · oven · industrial
production
Making or generating something
- music collectiveGroup of collaborating artists
- producerOne who makes things
- beatsPulses or defeats
hip-hop · studio · mixing · recording · label · artist · tracks · collaboration · sound · engineering
investment
Deploying capital for returns
advisory · fiduciary · allocation · securities · equity · management · returns · diversification · capital · clients
- hired fightersmercenary, soldier of fortune, gun for hire, hired gun, sellsword
- Mercenariesmercenaries, mercenary, hired guns, hired gun, soldiers of fortune
- nonstate actorsmilitia, insurgent, rebel group, guerrilla, paramilitary
- Ammo BrandsRemington, Winchester, Blazer, Norma, Black Hills
- computer busesdata bus, local bus, PCI, AGP, USB
- Bioinformaticssequence alignment, DNA sequencing, homology, gene expression, gap
Continuously maintained military force
defense forces · national guard · conscript army · government forces · federal troops
One who enlists willingly