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WAC

WAC

4 8.7
A part of the U.S. Army for women during World War II
  • noun
  • /wæk/
  • Archaic
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  • She might have been a WAC who had fallen for a serviceman and ended up in New York.
  • WAC title
  • WAC champion
  • WAC tournament

Examples

  • During World War II, many women served in the WAC to support the armed forces.

  • I was in the Army when we were still WACs.

    Blog text (25)

  • She'd met him, married him, when she was a WAC in England.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • My father and uncles fought in the European theater, and an aunt in the WAC.

    Blog text (11)

  • She recognized her cousin Rosanne, proudly posed in her WAC uniform in front of a great swirl of red, white, and blue bunting.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Betsy proudly wore her WAC uniform during the parade honoring veterans.

  • The history of the WAC highlights the contributions of women in the military.

Synonyms

Women's Army Corps
vsWAC
  • Formal
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A former branch of the United States Army for women soldiers during World War II

is the abbreviated form used instead of the full branch name

Surface Forms

WAC singular
WACs plural

Morphology

WAC = W + A + C

This is an initialism formed from the initials of 'Women's Army Corps'; the meaning cannot be derived from the individual letters by learners.

Etymology

WAC stands for Women's Army Corps. Think of Corps as meaning a 'group' or 'body' of people, so WAC names the group of women who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.