BRAC
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BRAC may stand for:
- BRAC (NGO)BRAC (NGO)BRAC, based in Bangladesh, is the world's largest non-governmental development organization. Established by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1972 soon after the independence of Bangladesh, BRAC is present in all 64 districts of Bangladesh, with over 7 million microfinance group members, 37,500 non-formal...
- Base Realignment and ClosureBase Realignment and ClosureBase Realignment and Closure is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense and Congress to close excess military installations and realign the total asset inventory to reduce...
for U.S. military bases- Base Realignment and Closure, 2005Base Realignment and Closure, 2005The preliminary 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It is the fifth Base Realignment and Closure proposal generated since the process was created in 1988. It recommends closing 33 major United States military bases and...
- Base Realignment and Closure, 2005
- Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, a United States labor union now formally known as the Transportation Communications International Union
- basic rest activity cycleBasic rest activity cycleThe Basic Rest Activity Cycle is a human biological cycle of approximately 90 minutes that is characterized by different level of excitement and rest. The cycle is controlled by the human biological clock. It is best observed in stages of sleep, for example, REM and the delta activity cycle....
s of the brain - Brigadier, Royal Armoured Corps - a staff position in both the British and Canadian armies in the Second World War.
- BRAC UniversityBRAC UniversityBRAC University is a private university in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The university was established by BRAC in 2001 under the Private University Act 1992. BRAC University had its first convocation in January 2006...
- Bureau for the Repression of Communist ActivitiesBureau for the Repression of Communist ActivitiesThe Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities was the secret police agency that Fulgencio Batista maintained in the 1950s, which gained a reputation for brutality in its fight against pro-Castro rebels.The bureau was headed by Mariano Faget, who had first gained fame as a Nazi hunter...
See also
- BračBracBrač is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of 396 km², making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic. Its tallest peak, Vidova Gora, or Mount St. Vid, stands at 778 m, making it the highest island point in the Adriatic...
, an island of Croatia - Brac, PolandBrac, PolandBrac is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drawno, within Choszczno County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Drawno, east of Choszczno, and east of the regional capital Szczecin....
- Brač, a type of tamburica, a lute-like instrument popular in South and East Europe