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w/c

w/c is the abbreviation of wheelchair.

w/c is the abbreviation of week commencing.

Meaning of wheelchair

Noun

wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)

  1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
    • "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9
  2. (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
  3. (broadly) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a nonhuman animal with locomotion.
    • To build the wheelchair, Dale Ryder attached wheels from a toy plane to an axle that fits over Mrs. T’s shell.2020 March 1, Gabe Bergado, “Watch this tortoise zip around town in a giant wheelchair”, in The Daily Dot

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Questions about w/c

What is w/c the abbreviation of?
W/c is the abbreviation of wheelchair.

Words near w/c in the dictionary

  1. W.O.s
  2. w.p.
  3. w.r.t.
  4. W.Va.
  5. w/
  6. w/c
  7. w/d
  8. w/e
  9. w/es
  10. w/h
  11. w/i

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