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controlled company Untergewicht shortweight
Vorbehalt under usual reserve unter Vorbehalt akzeptieren to accept under reserve unter Vorbehalt negoziieren to negotiate under reserve unter Vorbehalt zahlen to pay under reserve unter Wert below value unter Wert ansetzen underprize unter Zollverschluss in bond Unterabteilung subdivision unterbelastet underloaded unterbelegt under-staffed unterbelegt; nicht genug Arbeitskräfte understaffed unterbeschäftigt underemployed unterbeschäftigt; nicht voll genutzt underemployed Unterbeschäftigung below capacity employment Unterbeschäftigung underemployment unterbesetzt understaffed unterbevölkert underpopulated unterbewerten underrate unterbewerten undervalue unterbewertet underrated Unterbewertung undervaluation unterbezahlen underpay unterbezahlt under-paid unterbezahlt underpaid unterbieten underbid unterbieten undercut unterbieten undersell Unterbietung underselling Unterbrechung interruption Unterbrechung der Geschäftstätigkeit interruption of business Unterbrechung der Geschäftstätigkeit interruption of the business Unterbrechung durch höhere Gewalt interruption by Acts of God Unterbrechung; Anhalten stoppage Unterbrechung; Einstellung discontinuation Unterbrechungspunkt break point unterbreiten; vorlegen submit unterbringen accommodate Unterbringung bei einer Bank bank accommodation Unterbringungsmöglichkeiten; Unterkunft accommodation facilities unterbrochen; eingestellt discontinued Unter-dem-Tisch-Verkauf under-the-counter sales Unterdrückung suppression untere Führungsebene lower management untere Paritätsgrenze lower limit of parity untere Schublade lower drawer unterentwickelt underdeveloped unterentwickeltes Gebiet underdeveloped area unterentwickeltes Land underdeveloped country unterer Mittelstand lower middle classes untergeordnet ancillary untergeordnetes Unternehmen controlled company Untergewicht shortweight Untergewicht underweight Untergrundbahn; U-Bahn underground railroad Unterhalt zahlen; Alimente Zahlen to pay alimony Unterhalt; Lebensunterhalt living Unterhalt; Lebensunterhalt maintenance unterhalten; verköstigen entertain Unterhaltsklage action for support Unterhaltsklage maintenance claim Unterhaltungskosten cost of maintenance Unterhaltungskosten maintenance costs Unterkunft der Passagiere passenger accommodation
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

castle could utter such
'No inhabitant of this castle could utter such; and, where is the feeling, that could modulate such exquisite expression?
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

cumin CUMINATUM US sauce
Cucumber, CUCUMIS, ℞ 82-84 CUCURBITA, pumpkin, gourd, ℞ 73-80 , 136 CULINA, kitchen; CULINARIUS, man employed in the kitchen; pertaining to the kitchen CULTER, a knife for carving or killing; the blade from 9 to 13 inches long CUMANA, earthen pot or dish; casserole, ℞ 237 Cumberland sauce, ℞ 345 CUMINUM, CYMINUM, cumin; CUMINATUM, —US, sauce or dish seasoned with cumin, ℞ 39 , 40 .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

capsule came up second
Wreckers from San Francisco, whose capsule came up second, moved immediately into the city of the angels for the scrap steel their own flight would require.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

clumsy clownish ungraceful strange
SYN: Odd, unseemly, awkward, boorish, clumsy, clownish, ungraceful, strange, underbred, ungainly.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

cannot comprehend under some
That thus it might he made manifest that God has become man ; for this is the first and most essential purpose for which the Word was given; since no one can believe in a God, and love a God, whom he cannot comprehend under some form; wherefore, they who acknowledge an invisible and thus incomprehensible
— from Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg

cost consequent upon scarcity
The prime question with respect to Violins of the highest character is not now as to price, but as to the supply of limited and daily decreasing material; and the doubtful point is, not whether purchasers are to be found who may not be unwilling to pay the increased cost consequent upon scarcity, but whether the instruments required will be available in sufficient numbers to satisfy the demands of those quite prepared to gratify their wishes for the possession of an instrument of the first rank.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

church courtesy until she
Jo, turning to speak to some neighbors, did not notice who had outdistanced the others in this country church courtesy until she realized that the crowd was going, and down the deserted hitching line Leigh Shirley sat in her buggy talking with Thaine, who was standing beside it with his foot on the step, looking up earnestly into her face.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

can come up smiling
“I hope you’ve kept your appetite, and can come up smiling three times a day when the meal hour arrives?”
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen

culture caught up some
Samson Heine was one of the Jews often met with in the beginning of this century who, lacking true culture, caught up some of the encyclopædist phrases with which the atmosphere of the period was heavy.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

charge Cowardice upon some
What if some People are apt to charge Cowardice upon some People in those Cases?
— from The Consolidator; or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe


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