Making good on a promise, language authority Merriam-Webster recently published an entry for super PAC in its online unabridged dictionary — a subscription-only product. Inclusion of super PAC in its free online dictionary is forthcoming, Associate Editor Kory Stamper told the Center for Public Integrity.The Merriam-Webster entry reads:Super PAC, noun: a type of political action committee that is legally permitted to raise and spend larger amounts of money than the amounts allowed for a conventional PAC; specifically: an independent PAC that can accept unlimited contributions from individuals and organizations (such as corporations and labor unions) and spend unlimited amounts in support of a candidate but that cannot directly contribute money to or work directly in concert with the candidate it is supportingThe entry also includes quotations from campaign finance reform advocate Fred Wertheimer and New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore to illustrate the use of super PAC in speech and writing.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:03:28 +0000