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Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] ( DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language. It was first published in 1780, as the ...
SNAFU. SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. [5]
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional, meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional, allowing translation to and from both languages.
Lunfardo. The word chorros (Lunfardo term meaning "thieves") graffitied on the wall of a BNL bank in Buenos Aires, during protests against Corralito, 2002. Lunfardo ( Spanish pronunciation: [lunˈfaɾðo]; from the Italian lombardo [1] or inhabitant of Lombardy, lumbard in Lombard) is an argot originated and developed in the late 19th and early ...
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian ( Spanish: castellano antiguo; Old Spanish: roman [3] [roˈman], romançe, [3] romaz [3] ), or Medieval Spanish ( Spanish: español medieval ), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.
This list displays all 9 Spanish companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2018. Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
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