Merc or MERC may refer to:

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Merc (MUD) DikuMUD is a multiplayer text-based role-playing game, which is a type of multi-user domain (MUD). It was written in 1990 and 1991 by Sebastian Hammer, Tom Madsen, Katja Nyboe, Michael Seifert, and Hans Henrik Stærfeldt at DIKU (''Datalogisk In ...

, a text-based online game software platform *

Merc (role-playing game) ''Merc'' is a modern combat role-playing game published by Fantasy Games Unlimited (FGU) in 1981. Description ''Merc'' is a military role-playing system in which the players assume the roles of modern mercenaries engaged in counter-insurgency. T ...

, 1981 * Merc (script) or Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egyptian *

Merc 2000 Merc: 2000 is an alternative setting for the Twilight: 2000 role playing game by Game Designers' Workshop. Whereas Twilight: 2000 was set in the immediate post-World War III era, with characters representing soldiers trying to survive, characters i ...

, an alternative setting for the ''Twilight 2000'' role-playing game *

Merc Clothing Merc Clothing is a United Kingdom–based clothing company which specialises in the production of shirts, trousers, suits, parkas, harrington jackets, shoes and accessories for men and women (primarily focusing on the former). History Founded b ...

, classic British clothing brand * '' Mark Hazzard: Merc'', a comic book series published by Marvel Comics

Merc. as an abbreviation

Mercury (automobile) Mercury was a brand of medium-priced Car, automobiles that was produced by American manufacturer Ford Motor Company between the 1939 and 2011 motor years. Created by Edsel Ford in 1938, Mercury was established to bridge the gap between the Ford ...

, a former division of Ford Motor Company *

Chicago Mercantile Exchange The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Chicago Merc", or "the Merc") is an American derivatives marketplace based in Chicago and located at 20 S. Wacker Drive. The CME was founded in 1898 as the Chicago Butter and Egg Board ...

, or the building where it operates, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Center *

Mercantile National Bank Building The Mercantile National Bank Building (known colloquially as The Merc) is a 31-story, skyscraper at 1800 Main Street in the Main Street district of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the former home of the Mercantile National Bank, which later bec ...

, a building in Downtown Dallas *

Mercury Marine Mercury Marine is a marine engine division of Brunswick Corporation headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The main product line is outboard motors. It also produces the MerCruiser line of sterndrives and inboard engines, as well as a li ...

, and their line of outboard motors *

Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz (), commonly referred to simply as Mercedes and occasionally as Benz, is a German automotive brand that was founded in 1926. Mercedes-Benz AG (a subsidiary of the Mercedes-Benz Group, established in 2019) is based in Stuttgart, ...

, a motor manufacturer and its products (primarily U.K. slang) * Merc, a slang term for a

mercenary A mercenary is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military. Mercenaries fight for money or other forms of payment rather t ...

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The Mercury News ''The Mercury News'' (formerly ''San Jose Mercury News'', often locally known as ''The Merc'') is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published by the Bay Area News Group, a subsidia ...

'', a newspaper *

Mercian Regiment The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, which is recruited from five of the counties that formed the ancient kingdom of Mercia. Known as 'The Heart of England's Infant ...

, an infantry regiment of the British Army

Acronyms

Mobile emission reduction credit A mobile emission reduction credit (MERC) is an emission reduction credit generated within the transportation sector. The term “mobile sources” refers to motor vehicles, engines, and equipment that move, or can be moved, from place to place. M ...

, used in pollution reduction *

Middle East Rally Championship The Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) is a motor Rallying, rally championship run under the auspicies of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA. History First held in 1984 the championship encompasses a series of rallies held a ...

Sir Peter Blake Marine Education and Recreation Centre Sir Peter Blake Marine Education & Recreation Centre (MERC) is a not for profit charity (Registration Number CC29903) based in Long Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. MERC offers marine-based environmental education Environmental education (EE) re ...

, an outdoor leisure complex in New Zealand *

Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) (http://www.merc.gov.in) is a governing body to control certain regulatory and safety functions in Maharashtra based in Mumbai. It was incorporated under the Electricity Regulatory Commission ...

, an electricity regulatory commission in Maharashtra, India * Media Education Research Centre,

Kashmir University University of Kashmir (UoK), informally known as Kashmir University (KU), is a collegiate public state university located in the Hazratbal neighbourhood, on the western side of Dal Lake in the city of Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir, India, w ...

Mineral Exploration Research Centre The Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) is a semi-autonomous research centre associated with the Harquail School of Earth Sciences at Laurentian University in Greater Sudbury, Sudbury Ontario, Canada, and one of the largest mineral exploratio ...

, a geological research centre at Laurentian University

Merc

Merc. as an abbreviation

Acronyms

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