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UK Parliament
- Glossary — parliamentary language explained
- Northern Ireland Assembly
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- UK official documents
- BAILLI — British & Irish Legal Information Institute
- NATLEX — legislation (labour, social security and related human rights)
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- Bank of England
- British Council
- British services & their governing bodies, institutes & associations
- National Archives
- National Audit Office
Style and grammar guides, language campaigns
- How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]
- see also the style guides for our contractors
Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries
Glossaries & terminology
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) — terminology databases, glossaries and thesauri
- ILOTERM — International Labour Organisation database
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) — multilingual directory
- UNTERM — United Nations multilingual terminology
- World Bank — multilingual terminology
- WTOTERM — World Trade Organisation terminology