 | English  | German | |
 | counterpart [person with equivalent rank in another department, country etc.] | 122 Amtskollege {m} [in anderer Behörde, anderem Land] | |
| furn. Formica® [equivalent of Resopal] | 46 Resopal® {n} | |
| correspondence [analogy, equivalent] | 32 Entsprechung {f} | |
| mil. [Air Fleet equivalent to a numbered American Air Force unit] | Luftflotte {f} <Lfl> | |
| mil. [military rank roughly equivalent to a Chief Warrant Officer <CWO> in various Anglophone armies] | Oberstabsfeldwebel {m} [Bundeswehr] | |
| mil. naut. [officer candidate no equivalent in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard] | Oberfähnrich zur See {m} [Deutsche Marine] <OFähnr zS / OFRZS> | |
| mil. naut. [officer candidate, no equivalent in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard] | Fähnrich {m} zur See [Deutsche Marine] <Fähnr zS / FRZS> | |
| automot. [the members of the patrol force of the ADAC, Germany; equivalent to the AA and RAC in the UK or the AAA in the USA.] | die Gelben Engel {pl} | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent in aviator's branch of the Wehrmacht] | General {m} der Flieger <G.d.Fl., GdFl., Gen.d.Fl.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the 19th and 20th cent. German Armed Forces calvary corps] | General {m} der Kavallerie | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the engineer corps of German Wehrmacht] | General {m} der Pioniere <G.d.Pi., GdPi., Gen.d.Pi.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the German Wehrmacht's airborne corps] | General {m} der Fallschirmtruppe <Gen.d.Fallsch.Tr.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the German Wehrmacht's armored corps] | General {m} der Panzertruppe <G.d.Pz.tr., GdPztr., Gen.d.Pz.Tr.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the infantry branch of German Armed Forces of the 19th and 20th cent.] | General {m} der Infanterie | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the mountain corps of the German Wehrmacht] | General {m} der Gebirgstruppen <G.d.Geb.Tr., GdGebTr., Gen.d.Geb.Tr.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General equivalent of the signal corps of German Wehrmacht] | General {m} der Nachrichtentruppen <G.d.Na.Tr., GdNaTr., Ge..d.Na.Tr.> | |
| hist. mil. [U.S. Lt. General general equivalent of the paratroop branch of German Wehrmacht] | General {m} der Fallschirmtruppen <G.d.Falls., GdFalls., Ge.Falls.> | |
| bit [Am.] [coll.] [amount equivalent to 12½ cents] [used only in even multiples] | [US-amerikan. Geldwert von 12½ cents] | |
| relig. spec. circary [Premonstratensian equivalent to a monastic province] | Zirkarie {f} | |
| Fräulein [German title for an unmarried young woman, equivalent to Miss] [dated] | Fräulein {n} [veraltet] | |
| unit millirem <mrem> [milli-roentgen equivalent in man] [archaic] | Millirem {n} <mrem> [veraltet] | |
| biol. nucleoid [prokaryotic equivalent to eukaryotic nucleus] | Kernäquivalent {n} [Nukleoid] | |
| 2 Words: Nouns |
| counterpart (to sth.) [equivalent] | Pendant {n} (zu etw.Dat.) [geh.] | |
| tools machinist square [metalworkers' equivalent of a try square] | Anschlagwinkel {m} [für die Metallbearbeitung] | |
| specialist encyclopaedia [not an exact equivalent to the German] | Realenzyklopädie {f} | |
| hist. mil. SS-Oberführer [rank of the SS between colonel and brigadier general, no english equivalent] | SS-Oberführer {m} | |
| 3 Words: Nouns |
| educ. relig. candidate of theology <cand. theol.> [Scandanavia, equivalent to a masters's degree or higher] | Kandidat {m} der Theologie <cand. theol.> [Dänemark, Iceland, Norwegen, Schweden] | |
| econ. jobs full-time equivalent <FTE> [FTE of 1.0 means that the person's hours worked is equivalent to that of a full-time worker] | Mitarbeiteräquivalent {n} | |
| geogr. standard elevation zero [the equivalent of sea level in Germany] | Normalhöhennull {n} <NHN> | |
| hist. the Golden Twenties <Golden 20s> [in Germany, equivalent to the roaring twenties in the USA] | die Goldenen Zwanziger (Jahre) {pl} | |
| 4 Words: Nouns |
| fin. pol. Federal Minister of Finance [German equivalent of British Chancellor of the Exchequer and American Secretary of the Treasury] | Bundesfinanzminister {m} | |
| med. National Health general practitioner [British equivalent] | Kassenarzt {m} | |
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