ROC
English
Proper noun
ROC
- The Royal Observer Corps, a United Kingdom defence organisation (1925 to 1992).
- The Republic of China (all senses)
- (Canada) The "Rest of Canada", i.e. Canada excluding the province of Quebec.
- 2002, L. Yves Fortier, "A Mature Exercise of Sovereignty," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 3-4, p. 426:
- [T]he old and tired purveyors of separatism in Québec continue to harp on what they contend Québec is not—essentially, “not the ROC”—in order to peddle their snake oil.
- 2014 March 7, Jeffrey Simpson, "The rest of Canada will have choices to make," Globe and Mail (Canada) (retrieved 7 April 2014):
- If Quebeckers believe that voting PQ means putting a knife to Canada’s throat, they should think again. The ROC is fed up with these threats.
- 2002, L. Yves Fortier, "A Mature Exercise of Sovereignty," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 40, no. 3-4, p. 426:
- The Republic of (the) Congo.
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