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# cbc

«cbc» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's public…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation (CBC)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's public radio and TV broadcaster (in French: Radio-Canada). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#m1)

2) (medicine) A complete blood count, a common blood test that counts the different kinds of cells in your blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Canada, children know CBC for news, radio and kids' shows (CBC Kids); it is like the BBC in the UK or the ABC in Australia. In health, a doctor may order a CBC to check for illness. It is an abbreviation, not a word.

### examples

- We watched the news on CBC. (Canada) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x1)
- CBC Kids has lots of cartoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x2)
- The doctor ordered a CBC blood test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x3)
- CBC is Canada's public broadcaster, like the BBC. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x4)
- My aunt works for CBC radio in Toronto. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x5)
- A CBC counts red cells, white cells and platelets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/#x6)

### note

An abbreviation, written in capital letters: CBC, said letter by letter «see-bee-see». The input is lower case only because of the word list. Not to be confused with the BBC (UK) or the ABC (Australia).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cbc» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cbc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.