CLSC

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French CLSC.

Noun

CLSC (plural CLSCs)

1. A nonprofit community center in Quebec that offers public health services. A community medical clinic.
   • 1993, Steven H. Zarit, Leonard Irving Pearlin, Klaus Warner Schaie, Caregiving Systems: Informal and Formal Helpers, →ISBN, page 220:

     In 1985-1986, the budget per capita (in real dollars) of the CLSCs created since 1981 was about half the budget of those opened between 1972-1977.

   • 1982, Canadian Council on Social Development, Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, A Reader on Prevention and Social Policies, →ISBN, page 232:

     The CLSC will not carry out its mission by resigning itself to satisfying the requests it receives for care and assistance.

   • 2000, Keith G. Banting, The nonprofit sector in Canada: roles and relationships, page 40:

     Interviews conducted for this project indicate that neither the professionals at the CLSC nor the representatives of voluntary associations used the virage ambulatoire to date their relationship.

Hypernyms

• clinic

 

Coordinate terms

• CHSLD

 

Etymology 2

Initialism

Noun

CLSC (plural CLSCs)

1. Closed loop supply chain: a business model that relies on the reuse of waste from production processes.
   • 2004, Donald F. Blumberg, Introduction to Management of Reverse Logistics and Closed Loop Supply Chain Processes, →ISBN:

     The dynamics and key processes found in both the general RL process and the related CLSC business management model are also described in depth, based on anecdotoal and pragmatic experience, surveys, benchmarking, and historical industry-based rules of thumb.

   • 2007, Li D. Xu, A. Min Tjoa, Sohail S. Chaudhry, Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II, →ISBN:

     The difficulties of CLSC management are enlarged by lots of partners and their flexibility.

   • 2012, Pratima Bansal, Andrew J. Hoffman, The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, →ISBN:

     Product recovery via a CLSC is not philanthropy.

Anagrams

• CCSL, LCCs

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɛ.lɛs.se/, /se.e.lɛs.se/

Noun

CLSC m (plural CLSC)

1. Initialism of centre local de services communautaires. (lit. local community service center); a CLSC

Coordinate terms

• CHU
• CHSLD

Descendants

• English: CLSC