• 🌍 TEP: Translation, Editing, and Proofreading

• 🗺️ L10N: Localisation

• 🧪 QA/QC: Quality Assurance/Quality Control

• 🎙️ RSI: Remote Simultaneous Interpreting

• 📞 OPI: Over-the-Phone Interpretation

• 🌐 TSP: Translation Service Provider

• 🌎 LSP: Language Service Provider

• 🧠 SME: Subject-Matter Expert

• 📊 PM/VM: Project Manager/Vendor Manager

• 🔒 NDA: Non-Disclosure Agreement

• 📝 SG: Style Guide

• 🎵 ToV: Tone of Voice

• 🔍 SL/TL: Source Language/Target Language

• 📄 ST/TT: Source Text/Target Text

• 🛠️ CAT Tool: Computer-Aided/Assisted Translation Tool

• 💾 TM: Translation Memory

• 📚 TB: Termbase

• 🔄 TMX: Translation Memory Exchange Format

• 💻 XLIFF: XML Localisation Interchange File Format

• 👀 WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get

• 🖥️ TMS: Translation Management System

• 📈 BMS: Business Management System

• 📑 PO: Project Order

• 📋 PS: Project Specification

• #️⃣ PN: Project Number

• 🔢 WC: Word Count

• 🔢 WWC: Weighted Word Count

• 💰 PPW: Price Per Word

• ⏳ PPH: Price Per Hour

• 🚫 NT: Non-Translatable

• 🚫 DNT: Do not Translate

• 👍 LGTM: Looks Good To Me

• 🔜 ASAP: As Soon As Possible

• 🌅 SOB: Start of Business

• 🌆 EOB: End of Business

• 🌅 SOD: Start of Day

• 🌆 EOD: End of Day

• ❓ TBC: To Be Confirmed

• ❓ TBD: To Be Determined

• 🤖 MT: Machine Translation

• 🤖 PEMT: Post-Edited Machine Translation

• 🤖 NMT: Neural Machine Translation

• 🤖 RBMT: Rule-Based Machine Translation

• 👤 HT: Human Translation

• 👤 HTPE: Human Translation with Post-Editing

• 👀 SLV: Sight Translation, Liaison, and Consecutive Interpreting

• ☎️ CI: Consecutive Interpreting

• 📞 TI: Telephone Interpreting

• 📹 VI: Video Interpreting

• 👥 OHCIA: Onsite Human Conference Interpreting Assignment

• 📄 RFP: Request for Proposal

• 📄 RFQ: Request for Quote

• 👤 POC: Point of Contact

• 📜 SLA: Service Level Agreement

• 📈 ROI: Return on Investment

• 📊 KPI: Key Performance Indicator

• ⏱️ TAT: Turnaround Time

• 🌐 ISO: International Organization for Standardization

• 🇬🇧 EN: English (Language Code)

• 🇫🇷 FR: French (Language Code)

• 🇩🇪 DE: German (Language Code)

• 🇪🇸 ES: Spanish (Language Code)

• 🇯🇵 JP: Japanese (Language Code)

• 📏 QA: Quality Assessment

• 📞 CATI: Computer-Assisted Telephone Interpreting

• 📄 RFP: Request for Proposal

• 📄 RFB: Request for Bid

• 🤝 MOU: Memorandum of Understanding

• 🤝 MOA: Memorandum of Agreement

• 📦 PO: Purchase Order

• 🔒 COI: Certificate of Insurance

• 🔐 GDPR: General Data Protection Regulation

• 🏥 HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• 💳 PCI DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard

• 🎛️ FAT: Functional Acceptance Testing

• 🔍 LQA: Linguistic Quality Assurance

• 🖥️ DTP: Desktop Publishing

• 🇨🇳🇨🇿🇯🇵🇰🇷 CCJK: Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Korean (Commonly grouped for translation services)

• 🌎 LATAM: Latin America

• 🌏 APAC: Asia-Pacific Region

• 🌍 EMEA: Europe, Middle East, and Africa

#International terms and abbreviations

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