TERMIUM Plus Terminology Data Bank
TERMIUM Plus Terminology Data Bank holds millions of terms in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, published by the Translation Bureau of the Government of Canada. Its records carry terms, abbreviations, definitions and usage examples across specialized fields, among them corporate management, accounting, finance, advertising, personnel management and workplace organization. The Language Portal's writing tools and the Translation Bureau's glossaries sit beside it.
100% Free (unlimited): The whole data bank is open to any reader: every search, every record and all four languages, with no account and no sign-up. The Translation Bureau's glossaries and the Language Portal's writing tools are open on the same terms.
How It Helps Your Business English
A search box with three settings: the term, where to look (exact terms, words in terms, words in definitions and contexts, or whole records, in any of the four languages) and the subject field, from all fields down to corporate management, meetings and assemblies, occupation names, accounting, finance and advertising. The Translation Bureau's glossaries and the writing tools sit beside it.
You type the term you have met and read the record that comes back: the definition, the field it belongs to and the equivalents in the other languages, which is how you confirm an official Canadian title or an acronym. Narrowing the subject field to corporate management or finance holds a word with several meanings to the sense you want, and searching words in definitions finds a term when you know the idea but not the name.
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