cdc

1. 1.

   a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)

   SynonymsCenter for Disease Control and Prevention

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Health and Human ServicesAtlanta

Other forms of cdc

plural

cdcs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cdc

What does cdc mean?

cdc means "a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)".

How many syllables are in cdc?

cdc has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˌsiˌdiˈsi/.

What is another word for cdc?

Close synonyms include Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cdc a common word?

cdc is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cdc?

37 words rhyme with cdc. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.