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maaltijdverstrekking
=
meals-on-wheels (social)
/ maatregel
= strand (EU;
Leonardo
da Vinci programme) / macerals
= homogeneous organic
materials in
coal, main ones: vitrinite, exinite, inertinite / machine
alternative =
reciprocating blower (steelm.)
/ machine
tournante = rotary blower (steelm.)
/
machtigingswet
= enabling act / macoré
= makore (timber)
/ Mahnverfahren
= order for payment procedure (EU)
/ la main invisible des marchés = the
invisible hand (of
the
market) (Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,
1759, and
The Wealth of Nations, 1776) /
maison d'enfants
= kindergarten /
maître
d'oeuvre = project manager;
chief architect; master builder (construction)
/ maître d'ouvrage
= client (construction)
/ Malakowturm
=
Malakoff tower (coalm.)
(shafthead tower which houses the winding
gear. Named after military fortifications in Sebastopol; common in
19th-century German mines; 14 examples still extant in the Ruhr)
/
the Mann-Whitney test
(stat.)
/ manodétendeur
see
détendeur
/
marché de
gré à gré
see
freihändige
Vergabe
/ marémoteur
= tidal (energy)
/ marinier
= inland bargeman (transport)
/ Marktbereinigung
= market shake-out (comm.)
/ marktwerking
= operation of the market; market
forces; can equate to
free competition, a free price system (comm.)
/ Maschinenstall
= stable (coalm.)
/ Mashrek countries =
Egypt,
Jordan,
Lebanon, Syria / masselotte
= (top) discard (ingot
casting) /
Massentierhaltung
= factory farming / mazout
see
gasole
/ médiation
culturelle = information and
communication / meerdadse
samenloop = multiple offences (law)
/ megabyte
=
1024 Kb / mehrlagiges
Rundlitzenausgleichseil =
multiflat
stranded round
balance rope / Mehrseil-Treibscheibenförderung
= multi-rope
friction
hoist
/ mention de
responsabilité =
statement of responsibility
(library
science) /
mer intérieure
= (of archipelago)
archipelagic waters
(area within a border which
consists of straight lines linking the
outermost points of all the islands, as opposed to territorial waters,
EEZ, continental shelf etc. which are outside that line and measured
outwards from it (concepts defined in UN Convention on the Law of the
Sea) / Meßplatform
= force
platform (erg.)
/ Metallhalogendampflampe
= metal halide lamp / remise sur
le métier =
starting from
scratch,
reappraisal (textile metaphor)
/ meulage =
grinding (cleaning
of pipes) / middelvoorschrift
= (suggest)
"prescribed
method" rule / European Convention on the Legal Status of Migrant
Workers
/ midi = lunch-and-learn event; "brown bag lunch" (training)/
Milieustraat
= container
park (waste
dumps) / miljard;
milliard; Milliarde = 1000
million,
see
billion
/
Mineralöl
= petroleum; mineral oil / minerval
=
minerval (B:
educ.)
/ mini-jump
= mini-trip (elec.)
/ revue à
mi-parcours
=
mid-term review (EU:
development)
/ Mischkonzern
= conglomerate / mise
en forme
= formatting (information
technology) / mise
à niveau =
?
upgrading (vocat.
training e.g.) / mise
à plat = examination,
careful
analysis,
explanation / mitage
= urban sprawl / Mitarbeitergesellschaft
(or
Beteiligungsgesellschaft)
= employee-interest company / Miteinandersein
= (suggest)
single European identity (polit.)
/ Mitnahmeeffekt
= deadweight effect (defined: verzeichneter Effekt, der auch
ohne eine
öffentliche Intervention eingetreten wäre (e.g.
labour market); (Keynesian) windfall
effect; bandwagon effect
(politics, consumer behaviour) / mixité
= (depending on context)
gender balance;
social balance / mobiliser
= (suggestedmocktet
= megabyte / modacrylic
fibre (fire resistant)
/ moduler
= to scale; differentiate; set a sliding scale (of
charges) /
création,
financement monétaire
= "printing money"
/ Money
Employed
Account at the Bank of England /
Montageschaum
= expanding builder's foam (usually
polyurethane, used as sealant
and/or
as cavity fill insulation in doors and roof
spaces. Terminology reflects the method or purpose: spray foams;
injection foams; sprayed-in-place foams; in-situ foams; insulating
foams; foam sealants; foam-in-place insulation.
German definition (from SWI
newspaper): "Formaldehyd-Harnstoffschaum
ist vor allem zur Nachisolation geeignet.
Er wird als
sog. "Ortsschaum" direkt am Objekt erzeugt;
das Material
wird entweder mit Druck in die zu isolierenden Hohlräume
eingebracht oder
auch auf Oberflächen aufgeschäumt."
/ mort-aux-rats = rat poison / mothballing =
(nuclear facilities)
/ mouvance =
body of
sympathisers, following, influence, changing scene / multiplicatorproject
= multiplier-effect project (EU;
Leonardo
da Vinci programme) /
mutuelle
de santé = health
mutual /
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by Alison Gaunt
Last
updated: 6 October 2024
