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Austria / B
Belgium / CoE
Council of Europe / D
Germany / ECOM
European Commission / ECSC European
Coal &
Steel Community / EIB European
Investment Bank
/
EP European Parliament / EU
European
Union / Eurostat
Statistical office
of the
European Communities / F
France / FT
Financial Times / G&C
Gunston & Corner's Ger.-Eng. Glossary of Financial &
Economic
Terms / ILO
International Labour
Office / ITI
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Translation & Interpreting / Lx
Luxembourg
/ NL
Netherlands / NS
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Oxford English Dictionary / SWI
Switzerland
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aanloopkosten
=
inward charges: entire cost of a ship
calling at a
port (port dues, pilotage, etc.)
(ITI)
/ abattis
= groundwood; (wind) slash (forestry)
/ Abbauhammer
=
pick (coalm.)
/ Abbaustrecke =
gate road (coalm.)
/ Abmahnung = cease-and-desist letter (copyright,
e.g.) / abscissa
=
horizontal
axis (graph)
/ abstufen
= grade (product
quantities) / Absaugung
= drainage
(coalm.:
firedamp e.g.)
/ société absorbante =
acquiring company
(mergers) / Abwanderung von
Hochqualifizierten = brain drain
/ abwickeln
=
reel out (ropes)
/ personnes accompagnées =
people with learning
difficulties; people with a learning (or intellectual) disability /
pour accord = (suggest) signed
as correct / accostage =
connection, connecting
up (pipes)
/ installation d'accrochage =
landing equipment (coalm.)
/ accueillante
conventionnée =
registered childminder (B)
/
centrale d'achats =
central purchasing unit (comm.)
/ acoustic
radiation / Action
Committee
for the
United States of Europe (source:
FT)
/ acte d'engagement
= formal undertaking / activité
indépendante =
self-employment / advertorial
= blend
of "advertisement" and "editorial"; newspaper or magazine
advertisment giving information about a product in the style of an
editorial or
objective journalistics article (source:
OED)
/
affacturage
= factoring (fin.)
/ affrètement
au
"tour de rôle" =
chartering by rotation (EU
transport)
/ affûteuse
d'électrodes = electrode sharpener / afgeleide
rechten =
derived rights e.g.
on motion pictures, i.e. income from merchandising
/ aftrek van voorbelasting
= (defined)
a business can offset VAT on goods it supplies against VAT it has to
pay on
goods it supplies to others (NL)
/ afvoerrooster
= extract grille (ventilation)
/ Agence des droits
fondamentaux = Fundamental
Rights Agency (EU)
/ agneau
pré-salé =
salt
marsh lamb (culin.
) / agrafé
=
interlocked (lining
of flexible hose) / aiguille
(crayon) combustible = fuel pin
(nucl.)
/ aimant permanent =
permanent magnet / Air Quality
Guidelines (WHO
Regional
Office for Europe) / air:
minimum air
space per person is 11.5 m3
(ventil.)
/ minimum
fresh air
per person is
4.27 l/s (ventil.)
/ respirateur à air
pulsé =
positive
pressure respirator, cartridge respirator / aktive
Geräuschunterdrückung = noise cancelling (headphones
e.g.) / aléa
moral = moral hazard / aliquot
(used as adverb)
= pro
rata, proportionately (to) / alkoholauffällig
= (motorist,
road user) with a drink-driving conviction / allège
à moteur, à remorque =
powered
lighter, tug-drawn lighter (transport)
/ allègements
fiscaux
= tax relief / allochthonous:
"(rocks)
not formed in situ" (geol.), thus fig. by extension = pertaining to
immigrants, ethnic minorities; antonym autochthonous:
"formed
of
indigenous rocks"; nouns: allochthon and autochthon. Suggested best
translation: "(persons of) ethnic origin; (persons of) non-immigrant
origin" / alternerend
= sandwich (courses); work-linked
(training) / Altersabhängigkeitsrate
= age dependency ratio (social
security) /
Altlast
= legacy debt (int. finance)
/ Altlastenstandort
= redeveloped (= former
industrial)
site (envir.)
/ Comité
restreint
de pilotage des ambassades de
démocratie locale
= Select monitoring Committee on local democracy
embassies (CoE,
in
ex-Yugoslavia) / Ambassadors:
to address in writing begin
"Sir", end
"I have the
honour to be, Sir, your Excellency's obedient servant" /
supplément d'âme
= moral dimension, moral edge / aménagement
du territoire =
development planning; regional development planning / Anbruchslager
=
partial pallet warehouse (logistics) / Anfangsausgasungsgeschwindigkeit
= initial gas
emission
speed
/ angemessene Unterbringung = adequate shelter (refugees, asylum) / Anlagen-Daten
=
Design Information (Euratom)
/ Anlagenspezifischer
Anhang =
Facility Attachment (Euratom)
/ Anschlag
(machinery)
= stop, end-stop, guard, "fence", e.g.
Parallelanschlag = parallel fence / Anschlagpunkt
= attachment
point (OSH:
safety harness
/ Anstehendes =
solid rock, bedrock / anstehende
Kohle = solid coal mass,
uncut coal / Anstoßkappe
= bump cap (OSH:
head
protector,
usually plastic, offering light protection only - less robust than a
hard
hat/safety helmet) /
antisélection =
antiselection (health
insurance, defined:
"The tendency of persons
presenting
a
poorer-than-average risk to apply for, or continue, insurance to a
greater
extent than persons with average or better-than-average expectations of
loss.
Also called adverse selection or selection against the insurer."
/
antizipativ
see
dekursiv
/ Aperçu
=
Review (EU:
Council activities) / apparente
= can be done from outside, i.e.
no
prior
dismantling needed (lubrication
e.g.) / appel
d'air = 'an open
invitation' (immigration: when
a mass amnesty is given to illegals; the idea is that there will then
be a huge influx) / frais d'approche
=
forwarding costs (EU)
/
surface d'appui
=
mating surface (engineering)
/ Arab Maghreb Union:
comprises
Algeria, Libya, Mauretania, Morocco, Tunisia; treaty signed Marrakech
Feb.
1989; source: Keesing
/ Arbeitnehmerüberlassung
= secondment (employment)
/ maximale Arbeitsfähigkeit
=
peak
working capacity (erg.)
/ Arbeitsgericht
see Gericht
/ erster Arbeitsmarkt = regular jobs market (not
subsidised) /
zweiter Arbeitsmarkt = subsidised jobs market / Arbeitsstiftung
= outplacement foundation (AU)
(body
jointly sponsored by firm, employees & government, set up if
more
than 20
workers are laid off, to help with retraining and placement)
/ Arbeitsteilung der Wirtschaft
= use of (global) supply chains;
(global) sourcing / Arbeitsverwaltung
= manpower service / Arbeitszeitkonto
= work-time account / Arbeitszeugnis
= testimonial;
confirmation of
employment / arc alpin; arc
Atlantique = Alpine arc;
Atlantic
arc (EU
regional policy) / Sommet de
l'Arche:
meeting of the G7
group of
western economic powers held 14-16 July 1989 in Paris (the "Arch" is
the Arche de la Défense).
Best
rendered as "the
1989
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Last updated: 21 May 2021
