CDC

CDC

1. (business, historical) Initialism of Control Data Corporation.
2. (medicine, US politics) Initialism of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   • 2017 March 20, Nadia Kounang, “Prescriptions may hold clues to who gets hooked on opioids, study says”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In 2016, the CDC established guidelines for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain.

   • 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, pages 64–65:

     A 2009 multistate CDC survey off over seventy thousand adults found that more than 35 percent of people slept fewer than seven hours per night.

   • 2025 August 28, Robert Mackey, quoting Mark Zaid and David Lowell, “CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda. For that, she has been targeted.

3. (Java programming language) Initialism of Connected Device Configuration.
4. (Philippines, business) Initialism of Clark Development Corporation.

CDC (plural CDCs)

1. (computing) Initialism of change data capture.
2. (medicine) Initialism of centre for disease control.
3. (cooking) Initialism of chef de cuisine.
   • 2022 June 23, Christopher Storer, “System”, in Christopher Storer, director, The Bear, season 1, episode 1, via Hulu:

     Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri): You were the most excellent CDC at the most excellent restaurant in the entire United States of America. So, what are you doing here, I guess?
     Carmy Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White): Making sandwiches.

• CDC on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• CCD, DCC, cc'd

CDC

1. (politics, initialism) initialism of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, a Catalan nationalist party

Initialism for criador de conteúdo ("content creator"). Feminine form: criadora de conteúdo.

CDC m or f by sense (plural CDCs)

1. (Internet, initialism) content creator (forum or page editor)