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"the
three e's"; "the 3 e's":
"efficacy,
efficiency,
effectiveness" (econ., manuf.) / E-Skateboards
=
electric skateboards / E-Tretroller = electric kick
scooters / E-Wheels
= electric unicycles / "Earth Summit":
the UN Conference on Environment & Development (Rio
de Janeiro,
June 1992; "Eco
92"; "the Trinidad
terms" / transporteur à écailles
= plate conveyor (coalm.)
/ échéancier
de paiement = payment schedule
/ échelle
d'intérêts
= interest statement /
Eckpunktepapier
= key
issues paper (polit.)
/ Eckzahlen
= indicators (statistics)
/ écoulement =
airflow / ECU-cent =
1 ECU-cent
per litre
equals 10 ECU per 1000 litres, as in surtax on motor fuel e.g.
/ Effektivwert
= root-mean-square value; RMS value (math.)
/ effets d'annonce
= hype; promotional hype (in
figurative sense);
advertising effects (in
commercial sense) /
effets de retour
=
feedback / Eigenbetrieb
=
municipal enterprise; municipal
undertaking /
Eigentumsgarantie
= guarantee of ownership (law)
/
Einband
see
Seileinband
/ Einbauten =
fittings
(building)
/ eindafrekening
= final accounts; final
statement of
account (EU:
aid programmes)
/ eindkosten
= terminal dues (postal services)
/ eindtermen
= exit
qualifications (educ.)
/ einfachgesetzlich = in ordinary law / bei
verschiedenem Einfallen
=
at
different angles of dip (coalm.)
/ eingebunden =
socketed (ropes)
/ Einlegeringe =
table rings (machining)
/ Einreichungen
=
liquidation requests (finance)
/ Einschienenhängebahn
=
overhead
monorail conveyor / einseitig =
one-tailed (test) (math/stat.)
/ einseitiger
Prognosenbereich = one-sided
confidence interval (math/stat.)
/ Einstufung
= schedule (fees
e.g.) / Einweiser
= signaller (building
site traffic) / Einzelplan
=
section (EU
budget)
/ EJTN European Judicial Training Network /
élaboration publique
= public consultation / attaque
électrolytique
= electroerosion /
électronique
grand public = consumer
electronics (comm.)
/ Elektrokleinstfahrzeug see PLEV
/ Elektrozange
=
electrodes (animal slaughter)
/ Elfstedentocht =
Eleven
Cities
Tour (NL:
iceskating) /
embase
= collar (manhole)
/ embout =
hose end connection (flexibles)
/ emelt
(NL)
=
leatherjacket (cranefly larva)
/ bail emphytéotique
= long lease: (F:
since 1988, enables
owner to grant
a
lease of a building (as opposed to farmland or building land) for 18-99
years
giving the lessee a proprietary right
(ITI)
/ personnel d'encadrement
=
management; managerial staff; supervisory staff / en
clair = free-to-air (TV broadcasts) /
encarté =
card-carrying, fully paid-up (polit.,
fig.) / Endlosförderungen
= endless haulage (coalm.)
/ enfermement
= "lock-in" (industry
gets stuck with a technological option
which is
not the best) / enfournement
= charging (steelm.)
/ sur
base engagement
= on a commitment basis (development
aid)
/ engins
de creusement de galeries =
roadway drivage equipment (coalm.)
/ enquête européenne en
matière
pénale see EIO
/ enregistrement
= input (documentation)
/ enrichissement à
façon = toll
enrichment (nucl.)
/ enrouler
=
lap round (pipes)
/ enten (NL)
= to spawn (mushrooms
=
to inoculate or seed mushroom beds)
/
entente directe
see
freihändige
Vergabe
/ entgegentreten
=
suspend (sales)
/ entreprise
dérivée =
spin-off firm
(comm.)
/ entreprise
de travaux =
service supply agency (agric.:
hires out men and machinery) /
Entsenderrichtlinie
= posting of workers directive (96/71/EC)
(EU)
/
Entsorgung
= disposal (waste)
/ Entspannungsbohrloch =
relief hole, borehole (coalm.)
/ entwicklungsorientierte
Forschung = research for
development / envers =
root (of
a weld)
/ environmentally friendly,
NB also
environmentally
benign / équilibre des pouvoirs = checks
and balances
(polit.) /
robinet d'équilibre =
bypass valve (pipes)
/ Erschütterung
=
shatter (coalm.)
/ Erschütterungsschieβen
= volley
firing (coalm.)
/ Ertragsschein =
dividend coupon (finance)
/ Erwartungswert
=
expectation /
Es gilt das gesprochene Wort = Check against
Delivery (speeches,
press
statements, etc) / assistance en escale
= ground handling (airport
services) / Charte
europénne de l'espace
rural= European
Charter for
Rural Areas (CoE)
/ Comité
permanent de
l'espace rural
européen= Standing
Committee on European Rural
Areas (CoE)
/ Espoo Convention
(25/2/1991
Finland: the "Convention on environmental impact assessment in a
transboundary
context" / état-charnière = swing
state (politics) / état
contradictoire = agreed
inventory (i.e.
agreed by
both parties) / Eternit
=
asbestos cement / ontvangst via de ether
= reception of
terrestrial
broadcasting (as opposed to
cable or stellite) / étiquette
= tag
(IT)
/ Europa-Informationsstelle
=
Euro Info Centre (EU,
network set up 1987) / Europäischen
Behörde für Lebensmittelsicherheit, see
EFSA
/ Europäische
Ermittlungsanordnung in Strafsachen
see EIO
/ Europäischer
Freiwilligendienst see EVS
/ Europäisches Netzwerk Fortbildung, see
EJTN
/
Europäischer
Wirtschaftsrat = Council of EU
Environment
Ministers / Europees
Vakverbond = European
Trade Union Confederation, ETUC / Europese Autoriteit voor
voedselveiligheid, see EFSA
/ Eurozone
= euro
area (official term
as used by ECB); Eurozone (semi-official,
as used in
media); Euroland
(also used in media, sometimes
with slightly derogatory
undertones) /
zone d'évacuation
= run-out
area:
"at the end of the process the
product is run out on a roller table,
removed for testing and stocked."
(steelm.)
/ évaluation
par les
bénéficiaires =
beneficiary analysis (World
Bank:
development
projects) / mettre en examen = to charge (jur.
NB more than
just "hold for questioning") / canalisation
d'exhaure = sump piping (coalm.)
/
Convention on International Exhibitions
/ exobiology =
study
of potential life on other planets (source: Sunday
Times) / expansion
entre bancs = bed separation (coalm.)
/
experimental
animals, UK
has
category system for: "category* to category**** animals"
/ exploitation
= output (documentation)
/ chef d'exploitation =
farm
manager, farm owner / extinction
= quenching (steelm.)
/
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Last
updated: 27 February 2021 