Glossary: European Union &
international affairs,
industry, trade, development aid, employment, social
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obligation de
sécurité résultat
= duty of care /
Obturateur
= disc (valve;
also clack, ball plug,
depending
on type of valve)
/ oculaire
= visor (respirator) / offenes
Seil see
Seil / öffentlich-rechtlicher
Rundfunk = public service
broadcasting / Ohrenrobbe
=
eared seal / Oikocredit
see
EDCS
/ onderminister
(USA)
=
assistant secretary of
state / ontgroenen
(used
in context of
demography/employment - a
paraphrase is usually needed):
"de bevolking veroudert en
ontgroent" = "the population is ageing and fewer young people are
coming through into
the workforce " / ontkoppelt
(B)
see
décroché
/ onusien = UN (as adjective) / opbouwwerk
=
(educational, social) development / het Openbare
Ministerium =
the
Public Prosecutor / opfokzeug;
opfokvarken = replacement gilt (young
sow before first service) / ophogen
= estimate / oproep
=
call for proposals (EU;
Leonardo
da
Vinci programme) /
densité optique =
optical density / orbite
terrienne moyenne = medium earth orbit (satellites)
/ ordinatique
=
hardware (IT)
/ ordonnée =
Y axis, vertical axis (math.)
/ ordre
permanent = standing order
(banking)
/ Organisation
mondiale des
milieux d'affaires see
World
Business
Organisation
/ Organzentrum
= centre of excellence / note d'orientation
=
(policy) brief; memorandum; paper /
Ortschaum;
Ortsschaum see
Montageschaum
/
Ortsstoß
= head (coalm.)
/ otarie
see
Ohrenrobbe
/ Otto-Motor =
petrol engine / van overeenkomstige
toepassing = applicable mutatis
mutandis / ozonation
=
(defined)
sterilizing
of sewage effluent using ozone gas
/
ozonator
=
(defined)
laboratory
apparatus for producing ozone / Ölschiefer
= oil shale: "the
term 'oil shale' is a misnomer, because most of the rock referred to is
not
shale, and it does not contain free oil. Rather, the rock consists of a
solid,
usually waxy substance from which hydrocarbons can be extracted by
distillation"
/ örtlich
=
site (tests e.g.)
/ overlopende rekeningen
=
accruals (acctg.)
/
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last
updated: 5 December 2018