ABSOLUTELY

(absolutely is more used in spoken English)
completely or unconditionally; yes: used for emphasis; completely; utterly, unconditionally, thoroughly; see completely.
Positively = unquestionably, certainly, definitely; see surely.
"Absolutely100 per cent not guilty." —Simpson, O J (Orenthal James)

adv. 1 de modo absoluto 2 B de modo nenhum; de jeito algum 3 P sem dúvida que sim; certamente que sim <- Desejas passar? - A., minha senhora> ¤ uso além de adv. de modo, esta palavra é empregada no Brasil como adv. de negação e em Portugal como adv. de confirmação. [Houaiss]

claro que não: "Q.: Do you let your kids travel alone at night? A.: Absolutely not!"
concordo plenamente: "Absolutely!"
nenhum(a): He has absolutely no experience of marketing.
nada: He knw absolutely nothing about the business when he joined the firm.
totalmente: He made his reasons for resigning absolutely clear. Are you absolutely sure? This cake is absolutely delicious.

absolute majority = when a party or person wins more than half of the total votes in an election.

absolute zero = the lowest temperature that is believed to be possible.

COURT

Tribunal de Justiça (geralmente, de ordem superior, que julga recursos - Corte de Apelação)
Corte Suprema = Supremo Tribunal Federal
Corte de Apelação = Tribunal de Apelação
noun = An instrument for administering justicetribunal, forum, bench, bar, session, court of law, law court, judiciary, assizes, chancery, seat of justice; see also judiciary. Types of courts include: the Supreme Court, appellate court, Federal court, court of Chancery, court of equity, district court, county court, municipal court, probate court, traffic court, justice's court, magistrate's court, mayor's court, police court, military court, trial court, court of appeals. The home of a court, sense 2courthouse, justice building, court building, hall of justice, courtroom, federal building, county courthouse, municipal building, city hall, town hall. a person or persons appointed to try law cases, make investigations, etc.; judge or judges; law court a building or hall where trials are held, official investigations made, etc. a judicial assembly, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or military; also, a regular session of such an assembly;

court Law Definition n = A governmental body that adjudicates legal disputes by interpreting and applying the law to specific cases. See also trial. The regular session of a court. The judge or judges who sit on a court. The building or other locale where a judge or judges adjudicate legal disputes.appellate courtA court with jurisdiction to hear appeals from trial courts, administrative agencies, and, when there is an intermediate appellate court, lower appellate courts. See also trial court.

noun = an uncovered space wholly or partly surrounded by buildings or walls; courtyard
a special section or area of a building, as a museum, somewhat like such a space but roofed, as with a skylight; a short street, often closed at one end; a specially prepared space, usually quadrangular and often enclosed and roofed, for playing any of several games, as basketball, handball, tennis, or squash; any of the divisions of such a space; mansion or manor with a large, uncovered entrance area: now used only in proper names Hampton Court; a motel; the palace of a sovereign; the family, advisors, and attendants of a sovereign, considered as a group; a sovereign together with councilors, ministers, etc. as a governing body; any formal gathering, reception, etc. held by a sovereign; respectful or flattering attention paid to someone in order to get something; courtship; wooing; (Brit.) the board of directors of a corporation;

transitive verb = to pay respectful or flattering attention to (a person) in order to get something
to try to get the love of; seek as a mate; woo; to try to get; seek to court success; to make oneself open or liable to to court insults

intransitive verb = to carry on a courtship; woo;

adjective = of or fit for a court; court Related Forms;
court′er noun;
court Idioms; in one's court; in one's side of the court, as a ball in a tennis game; under one's control, as a decision to be made; out of court; without a trial in a law court; not important enough for consideration or examination; pay court to; to court, as for favor or love;

An enclosed, roofless area = square, courtyard, quadrangle, quad*, enclosure*, atrium*, forum*, patio*, plaza*, piazza*, common(s), close*, cloister; see also yard 1.
A sovereign and his or her surroundings; retinue, lords and ladies, ladies in waiting, attendants, suite, royal persons, staff, train, royal residence, palace, castle, hall, royal household, entourage; see also government 2, palace, royalty, ruler
1. An area for playing certain games = rink, ring, lists, cockpit, circus, the hardwood*; see also arena, field
2. pay court to = woo, court, solicit; see court 1.
To woo = invite, bid, solicit, address, beseech, entice, attract, allure, entreat, importune, sue for, pursue, follow, seek after, make suit, supplicate, plead, make love to, pay court to, pay attentions to, seek the hand of, pay one's addresses to, flirt with, philander, coquet, make overtures, make advances, go courting, propose, make a proposal, ask in marriage, set one's cap for*, pop the question*, chase*, run after*, make time with*, go steady*, go together*, go with*, make a play for*; see also accompany 1, date 2, flirt 1, woo 1.
To seek favor = cultivate, curry favor, attend, flatter; see grovel, praise 1, woo 2.

Source: Your Dictionary

SEC / GAAP

SEC OKs plan that could lead to global accounting rules - Securities regulators on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a plan that could require thousands of U.S. companies to change from U.S. accounting standards to global accounting rules that are quickly gaining favor abroad.

The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved a "road map" that might require large companies to adopt international standards by 2014, midsize corporations by 2015 and small businesses by 2016. Some large firms might voluntarily adopt the international rules even sooner.
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Last fall, the SEC commissioners moved to allow foreign firms to file their financial statements to the SEC using international standards rather than U.S. accounting rules. Skeptics believe that international standards are inevitable as the global economy grows, but fear that putting them into practice could be a legal and regulatory nightmare.
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U.S. accounting standards, known as GAAP or generally accepted accounting principles, are overseen by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, while the International Accounting Standards Board in London monitors global accounting rules.
Source: Migalhas International No. 671

HANDOVER

Termo de Entrega (de uma Obra), Transferência de Incumbência

Headlines: "New artists and hosts announced for Olympics Handover Celebrations."

The passing of control authority of a control agency to another control agency. Handover action is complete when the receiving controller acknowledges assumption of control authority. Also called hand-off. (Ex.: passagem do controle de uma aeronave dos controladores de São Paulo para os controladores de Brasília)

The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, a former British crown colony, from UK to People's Republic of China in 1997. After the Handover, Hong Kong has become a special administrative region, a first-order division.

(Aprendi esse termo quando trabalhava no Iraque: para cada trecho de obra entregue era emitido um "Handover".)

BUILD ON

(verb) = capitalizar, tirar partido, aproveitar
"Our challenge is to build on the significant level of progress made so far."

THOUSAND / MILLION /BILLION

thousand = k
million = m
M = a Roman numeral for 1000
billion (USA) = a cardinal number followed by 9 zeros (E.g.: 1,000,000,000)
billion (UK) = a cardinal number followed by 12 zeros (E.g.: 1,000,000,000,000)

M also means thousand, and has often been used so in various business and other writing. Besides the abbreviation mn., and the metric M, the construct mm is often used in technical business writing in North America to mean a million.

(Durma-se com um barulho desses!)

CIRCA

Em documentos emitidos no Reino Unido é comum encontramos "c91%" ou "c£38 million". Esse "c" é o "circa", ou seja, "cerca de, por volta de". Ex.: "demand fell to c90%" (a demanda caiu para cerca de 90%). "Salary will be c£12,000 p.a." (O salário será por volta de £12 mil anuais).

REMIT / DUTY

(noun): função (UK)
Marketing is outside our remit.
Our remit is to provide a reliable supply of services to...
His remit is ...

EGGING ON THE MEMORY

(Alguns títulos são realmente um desafio)
Lost your car keys, perhaps, or misplaced your favorite CD or jacket? A fried egg or perhaps a salmon meal might help you remember where you put them.

Memory expert John Lee Hancock, author of "Maximize Your Memory" (Reader's Digest Assocation, 2000,) claims a balanced diet is essential for good memory. Recommended brain foods include egg yolks, oily fish and wheat.

According to Hancock, the lecithin in these foods has proven in experiments to be useful in boosting the brain's memory power. Hancock says the glutamic acid which is found in dairy products and whole wheat is also a "powerful brain booster." Hancock suggests that maintaining steady blood sugar levels may help sharpen your memory skills. He advises that eating several small meals during the day might be more beneficial than the standard two or three large ones.
Source: Third Age Health & Wellness

DISCRETE / INDIVIDUATED / DISTINCT / SEPARATE

Discrete (adjective): Separate and distinct, with clearly individuated parts.
Usage: Easily confused with discreet "prudent, careful, unobtrusive". Watch the spelling variation.
Suggested Usage: This is the perfect word to use instead of "separate" or "distinct" when you wish to emphasize the individuality of the pieces separated: "The problem may be reduced to three discrete issues" or "The company comprises three discrete divisions", implying some autonomy in each division.
Source: Your Dictionary

FARCE / STUFF

Verb (rechear): used as a verb in its first sense, as to farce a turkey before baking it. In the second sense there is an adjective "farcical," and adverb "farcically," and a noun "farcicality," that expresses the quality of a literary farce.
Definition: (1) Stuffing, force-meat; (2) an exaggerated parody based on base humor, an artistic work with no redeeming social value that usually resorts to slapstick humor.
Suggested Usage: Today's word has two meanings that love to play together: "The turkey was a hit at dinner but the Brussels sprouts stuffed with grape jelly were a farced culinary farce!"

"Some might think farcical the new culinary craze in the US: a turkey farced with a chicken farced with a duck" (que imaginação!).

Por outro lado, "farci" é um termo popular da culinária francesa:"farci" (recheados): Poivron farci (peixe recheado), Aubergine farcie (beringela recheada), Tomate farci etc.
Fonte: Your Dictionary

AUDIT

Um modo de aprender termos contábeis:
"Chief Deputy," the Master cried,
"Today the books are to be tried
By experts and accountants who
Have been commissioned to go through
Our office here, to see if we
Have stolen injudiciously.
Please have the proper entries made,
The proper balances displayed,
Conforming to the whole amount
Of cash on hand -- which they will count."
(Jamrach Holobom)

NONPAREIL

Sem igual/sem paralelo/ fora de / sem comparação (Without equal, beyond compare); unique.
As a noun: "The nonpareil of beauty!"
Aan an adjective, before or after the substantive: "Portia Radcliff is an intellect nonpareil." It is, however, used more often before the modified noun, "Mark is a nonpareil salesman," unless it has a subordinate phrase, "Mark is a salesman nonpareil among those in sales here." But then adjectives with subordinate phrases are regularly placed after the noun they modify in English (e.g. "a yellow book" but "a book yellow with age")."

PLUMB IN

to connect something, such as a bath, toilet or washing machine, to the water and drainage system in a building.
E.g.1: They bought a new washing machine, but then realised they didn't have the tools to plumb it in.
E.g.2: She discovered water all over the kitchen floor because her husband hadn't plumbed the sink in properly.
This phrasal verb can be separated.
Source: Knights English

Ubiquitous

(adjective) Present everywhere.
Usage: Regular adjective: "ubiquitously" adverb, "ubiquity" noun
Suggested Usage: The English word "everywhere" doesn't have a noun, so you can't say things like "I was struck by its everywhereness in England." Now you can; just use 'ubiquity' instead: "I was struck by its ubiquity in England." You can also use this word family where "everywhere" doesn't fit:
"Is the ubiquitous cell phone a threat to society?" The "ubiquitous cell phone" or the "ubiquity of political posters" implies that you can find them everywhere. "The ubiquity of computers in offices and libraries allows some people to get by without one at home." Of course, ubiquity varies from place to place, "The ubiquity of elephants in Thailand makes it an interesting land to visit."
Source: Your Dictionary