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American-British
Glossary
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Index
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B C D E
F G H
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K L M N
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X Y Z
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| accounting
(refers to both profession and activity) |
accountancy
(profession); accounting (activity) |
| accounts
payable (in accounting) |
creditors |
| accounts
receivable (in accounting) |
debtors |
| across from |
opposite |
| affirmative
action (program of positive discrimination) |
equal
opportunities |
| airman
basic (U.S.
Air Force) |
aircraftman (Royal
Air Force) |
| airman
1st class (U.S. Air Force) |
corporal
(Royal Air Force) |
| airplane |
aeroplane |
| allowance
(money paid to child) |
pocket
money |
| aluminum |
aluminium |
| AM
radio (cf. FM
radio) |
medium
wave |
| American
Revolutionary War (1775-1783) |
American
War of Independence |
| amusement park |
funfair,
amusement park |
| anesthesiologist |
anaesthetist |
annual
meeting (at which shareholders discuss
a company's annual report) |
annual
general meeting (or AGM) |
| answering machine |
answerphone |
| antenna
(radio) |
aerial |
| apartment (for rent) |
flat
(to let) |
| apartment
building/house |
block
of flats |
| apartment
hotel |
service
flats |
| apparel |
clothes
(esp. when sold in a shop) |
| appetizer
(first course of a meal) |
entrée,
starter, appetizer |
| architect's lamp |
Anglepoise™
lamp |
| area code
(telephone) |
dialling code |
| around
(as in 'he put his arm around her waist') |
round,
around |
| artsy
(pretentiously artistic or worshipping of the arts) |
arty |
| ass
[slang] (buttocks, posterior) |
arse
[slang] |
| asshole
[slang] (contemptible person) |
arsehole,
cunt, tosser, wanker [all slang] |
| attic |
loft
(roomless), attic |
| attorney |
solicitor
(general lawyer); barrister (lawyer granted the right to plead before
the bar in higher courts) |
| auto,
automobile |
car,
motor car |
| auto
maker |
car
manufacturer |
| auto
racing, automobile racing |
motor
racing |
| automated
teller machine (ATM) |
cash
dispenser, cash machine, cashpoint |
| automatic
draft (banking) |
direct
debit, standing order |
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