Arbeiter workers' representative for bonus Akkordzeit incentive time Akkordzeit; Vorgabezeit standard time Akkordzettel job sheet Akkreditiv letter of credit Akkreditivantrag application for a letter of credit Akkreditiv-Bedingunen credit terms Akkreditive sind getrennte Geschäfte credits are separate transactions akkumuliertes Kapital accumulated capital Akte; Datei file Aktenschrank filing cabinet Aktentasche briefcase Aktenzeichen reference number Aktien besitzen hold shares Aktien der Elektronikindustrie electronics shares Aktien der Gummiindustrie rubber shares Aktien der Maschinenbauindustrie engineering shares Aktien der Nahrungsmittelindustrie foods shares Aktien der Schiffsbauindustrie shipbuilding shares Aktien für die Direktoren management shares Aktien hereinnehmen to take in shares Aktien mit garantierter Dividende debenture stock Aktien zeichnen subscribe for shares Aktien zuteilen allot shares Aktienbank joint stock bank Aktienbank joint-stock bank Aktienbesitz holding of shares Aktienbesitz shareholdings Aktienbesitz stockholding Aktienemission issue of shares Aktiengesellschaft joint stock company Aktiengesellschaft joint-stock company Aktiengesellschaft public limited company Aktiengesellschaft (US) corporation Aktienindex index of stocks Aktienkapital capital stock Aktienkapital equity Aktienkapital joint-stock capital Aktienkapital share capital Aktienkurs price of shares Aktienmarkt shares market Aktienmehrheit majority of shares Aktiennotierung stock quotation Aktienpaket block of shares Aktienübertragung stock transfer Aktienübertragung ohne Namensnennung blank transfer Aktienverkauf ohne Beschränkung open market Aktienzertifikat share certificate Aktionär shareholder Aktionär stock holder Aktionär stockholder Aktionärsvereinigung association of shareholders Aktiva und Passiva assets and liabilities Aktivbilanz favourable balance aktive Handelsbilanz active trade balance aktive Handelsbilanz favourable balance of trade aktiver Teilhaber active partner aktiver Teilhaber general partner aktives Unternehmen operating company aktivieren activate aktivieren capitalize Aktivierung der Geschäfte activation of trade Aktivität; Handlung activity Aktivität; Tätigkeit; Arbeit; Handlung activity Aktivitätsdauer activity duration
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

He comes across it most (as I say) when he is playing some game within four walls; when in charades, a hearthrug will just do for a fur coat, or a tea-cozy just do for a cocked hat; when a toy theater needs timber and cardboard, and the house has just enough firewood and just enough bandboxes.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Pacte de famille —A family compact.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Of those who had most genius for this sort Of sentimental friendship, there were three, Lolah, Katinka, and Dudu; in short (To save description), fair as fair can be Were they, according to the best report, Though differing in stature and degree, And clime and time, and country and complexion; They all alike admired their new connection.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The three worlds of desire, form and formlessness, consist in thought only; and there is nothing outside thought.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Think, Emily, what I must suffer to see you depart for a foreign country, committed to the power of a man of such doubtful character as is this Montoni!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Here was a face with flashing eyes and distorted features, a face convulsed with hatred and with the mad joy of gratified revenge.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

I found that out—not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

David , Fanta, a Falasha convert in Abyssinia.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

He had left the children crying bitterly, and felt he would risk a good deal for a few crumbs, so he cautiously dropped upon his feet.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

There was, however, in his reply, and his embarrassment, something which his uncle distinguished from a free concurrence; and looking stedfastly at him, he said, in that stern manner which he now almost invariably adopted, "You have no engagements, I suppose!
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

Crossing the stream, Daylight followed a faint cattle trail over a low, rocky hill and through a wine-wooded forest of manzanita, and emerged upon another tiny valley, down which filtered another spring-fed, meadow-bordered streamlet.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

You married Dick Nevill in order to escape the deadly dulness of Abbots Barton and to enter the kingdom of omnipotence, pleasure and triumphant vanity, as a sure deliverance from all future chance of obscurity.
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

This flood of capacity and use, likened by some to "drinking from a firehose," creates immense opportunities and challenges for libraries.
— from Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992 by Library of Congress

When he has gone thus far he has shown you the whole Circle of his Accomplishments, his Parts are drained, and he is disabled from any further Conversation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The temperature of the room was kept at a constant 59 degrees Fahrenheit, a frigid comfort-accommodation for the tawny, eight-foot snow leopard named Neko now resting on a pallet beside the window, gazing down.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover