IOC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does IOC mean? 

• IOC (noun)
  The noun IOC has 1 sense:

1. organization responsible for organizing the modern Olympic Games

  Familiarity information: IOC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IOC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organization responsible for organizing the modern Olympic Games

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

I.O.C.; International Olympic Committee; IOC

Hypernyms ("IOC" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

 Context examples 

Scientists from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (IOC/FIOCRUZ) have identified eight genetic mutations in the yellow fever virus from the 2017 outbreak.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)

Myrna Bonaldo, head of the IOC Laboratory for Flavivirus Molecular Biology and another research coordinator, dismissed any possibility that the mutation may compromise the effectiveness of the vaccine used against yellow fever.

(Brazil scientists find mutations in yellow fever virus, Agência Brasil)