Reference · Five languages
The procurement dictionary, aligned.
Bid teams work across languages, and the vocabulary does not translate one to one: Saudi Arabia says منافسة where Portugal says concurso, and a caution provisoire is a garantía de seriedad two continents away. This table aligns the concepts across TRINTA's five glossaries. A cell is filled only where the correspondence is exact, and every term links its own definition. The empty cells are deliberate: where a language has no equivalent term, saying so is the honest answer.
Why the gaps are the point
The dangerous translations in procurement are the almost-right ones: Portugal's audiência prévia is not the EU standstill period, a garantia dos bens is not a performance bond, and forcing those equivalences loses exactly the distinction that decides procedures. Where this table leaves a cell empty, the language's glossary either has no equivalent or the nearest term means something different, and the right move is to read the local definition. Each glossary was written from its own market, never translated, which is what makes the alignment worth publishing.