Asia-Pacific

• APAC
• Asia Pacific

Asia-Pacific

1. (business) The part of the world in or near the western Pacific Ocean, typically including much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania.
   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, “Where We Stand”, in A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

     A special discriminatory formula is now applied to the immigration of persons who are attributable by their ancestry to an area called the Asia-Pacific triangle. This area embraces all countries from Pakistan to Japan and the Pacific islands north of Australia and New Zealand. Usually, the quota under which a prospective immigrant must enter is determined by his place of birth. However, if as much as one-half of an immigrant’s ancestors came from nations in the Asia-Pacific triangle, he must rely upon the small quota assigned to the country of his ancestry, regardless of where he was born. This provision of the law should be repealed.

   • 2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America‎, Threshold Editions, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 222:

     If current trends continue, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by 2020 the Chinese could have more than 350 submarines and missile-equipped surface ships in the Asia-Pacific. By contrast, the U.S. Navy projects that it will have 67 submarines and surface ships “stationed in or forward deployed to” the Asia-Pacific by 2020.

• Indo-Pacific
• Pacific Rim

• “Asia-Pacific, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Asia-Pacific”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.