STATE UNIVERSITY OF MOLDOVA

Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Applied Linguistics

English to Romanian
Glossary
on Economy and Medicine
for English Specialized Texts classes

English term
1. adjustable peg

Definition
Exchange rate regimen

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2. advances

3. ambulating

4. average
propensity to
consume (APC)
5. back brace

6. baseline infection

7. bills of exchange

8. bond

9. bone incarceration

where a currency's
conversion rate is
'pegged' (fixed) in
relation to a stronger
currency (such as the
US dollar or Euro).
Sums paid or received
before the fulfillment of
an obligation, such as
supply of goods or
provision of services.
To move from place to
place <the patient was
allowed to ambulate in
her room>
Fraction or percentage
of disposable (after tax)
personal income spent
for consumer goods.
A brace worn to support
the back.

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A written,
unconditional order by
one party (the drawer)
to another (the drawee)
to pay a certain sum,
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either immediately (a
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date (a term bill), for
payment of goods
and/or services
received.
A written and signed
promise to pay a certain
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sum of money on a
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certain date, or on
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specified condition.
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10. break-even price

A price point whereby
sales revenue equals
expenses.

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11. breakthrough
infection

An infection, caused by
the shedding of live
virus from a vaccine.

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12. broad money

As % of GDP; the sum of

currency and deposits in
the central bank
(M0),plus transferable
deposits and electronic
currency (M1),plus time
and savings deposits,
foreign currency
transferable deposits,
certificates of deposit, and
securities repurchase
agreements (M2),plus
travellers checks, foreign
currency time deposits,
commercial paper, and
shares of mutual funds or
market funds held by
residents.

13. bullet loan

14. bundle

15. buyout

16. capital

Type of balloon loan in

which only interest is
paid for the duration of
loan; the principal is
paid at the end of the
loan as one lump sum
payment.
Package (called strip)
of consecutive futures
contracts, used in
hedging or in
speculating on the
anticipated changes in
the price of the
underlying asset.
Purchase of the
controlling stock or
shares of a firm by its
own management.
Reduction in the

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17. capital inflow

18. capital outflow

19. change in demand

20. constant returns

21. convertibles

amount of corporation
tax payable, offered as
an incentive for
investment in largeonary.com/definition/capi
scale projects (that
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increase a country's
production capacity and
stock of capital).
Increase in the amount
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of local capital assets
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such buildings, land,
machines.
Increase in the amount
of money available
from internal or local
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sources for the purchase
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of external or foreign
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capital assets such
buildings, land,
machines.
The shift of the demand
curve of a product or
service, caused by
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shifting trends or new
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competition, which can
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either lower or raise the
price.
Production process with
neither economies nor
diseconomies of scale:
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the output of the
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simultaneously and in
step with increase or
decrease in the inputs.
Currency or security
which, under specified
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conditions and rate, can
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22. credit crunch

23. decision lag

Money market situation

in which loans are hard
to get. Credit crunch
occurs usually when a
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control inflation by
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imposing restrictions on
lendings to consumers
and small businesses.
Time it takes
government leaders and
policy makers to decide
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on an appropriate action
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for an economic
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problem once it's
decided there needs to
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24. dirty float

Floating currency
exchange rate system
which is not controlled
entirely by the market
forces of demand and
supply.
25. disembodied
technical change

26. displacement
effect

27. double counting

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Disembodied technical
change is the shift in
the production function
(production frontier)
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over time. Disembodied
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technical change is not
incorporated in a
specific factor of
production.
The government
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28. duty-free goods

29. equities

30. exhaustive
expenditures
31. fiat money

32. fine-tuning

33. Gilt-edged
securities
34. glenoid loosening

35. high-powered
money

produce a finished good

are included in the
computation of a
nation's gross domestic
product.
Merchandise on which
import duty is not
charged because it is
sold only to departing
passengers in an
airport's or port's
departure lounge
(which are bonded
areas).
Common stocks
(ordinary shares) traded
in a securities market.
Expenditure on goods
and service.

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Fiat money is money

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a medium of exchange.
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monetary base, which is
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36. horn cell(s)

37. impared sensory

gating

policy.
A nerve cell lying in
one of the gray columns
of the spinal cord.
A model for description
of hallucinations and
delusions in
schizophrenia.

38. incidence
The amount of tax to
which a taxpayer is
liable.

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39. leakages

Outflow from a circular

flow of income model.

40. long run

41. merger

42. overshooting

43. proxy

A period of time in
which all factors of
production and costs
are variable.
Voluntary
amalgamation of two
firms on roughly equal
terms into one new
legal entity.
Situation where the
initial response of a
factor to an impact or
shock is greater than its
longer-term response.
Written authorization
from an absent member
(or a shareholder, called
the 'principal') that
confers a limited power
of attorney on another
person, member, or
management of the firm
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conglomerate
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44. rapid-onsetdesease

45. reactional hair

loss

46. receipts

47. redemption date

48. shifting

49. slump

50. tax wedge

'proxy') to vote on
behalf of, and in
accordance with the
directions of, the
principal.
(The beginning of
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connected to desease
Loss of hair as a result
of illness, functional
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disorder, or hereditary
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disposition.
An amount of money
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received during a
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particular period by an
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organization or
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business.
Date on which the
redemption value
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(normally the par value)
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of a debt instrument is
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paid to its holder by its
issuer.
An economic outcome
of taxation that occurs
when the income of a
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targeted group is
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negatively affected
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tax burden to another
group thereby sharing
the burden.
A period of economic
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