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名詞

HBC (countable and uncountable, plural HBCs)

1. (retail) Initialism of health and beauty care.
2. (medicine) Initialism of hormonal birth control.
3. (veterinary medicine) Initialism of hit by car.
4. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of hexabenzocoronene.

固有名詞

HBC

1. (Canada, historical) Initialism of Hudson's Bay Company, a major Canadian retailer and former British Crown corporation on the North American fur trade.
   • 2002, Jan Peterson, Black Diamond City: Nanaimo, the Victorian Era, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 25:

     Many ships played important roles in the HBC history. They maintained order and carried on trade with Alaska. On the West Coast those most familiar were the steamer Beaver and the schooner Cadboro, both armed with cannon.

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