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Macroeconomics: Macroeconomia.
Taking a broad view of the economy and examining general behavior.

Magistrate: Giudice onorario non retribuito.
A judge of a minor court.

Mailing list: Topic-oriented, email-based message bases that can be read and posted to. Users subscribe to the lists they want to read and receive messages via email. Because many mailing lists are operated using listserv software, many Internauts call mailing lists "listservers." There are two types of lists: moderated and unmoderated. Moderated lists are screened by a human before messages are posted to subscribers. Messages to unmoderated lists are automatically forwarded to subscribers.

Maintenance: Manutenzione.
The care and work necessary to keep something in the usual operating condition for productive use; general repair and upkeep.

Majority voting: Voto a maggioranza.
Simple majority voting in the Council of Ministers, confined to minor issues, usually of a procedural nature.

(To) Make a call: Fare una telefonata.
Try to reach someone by telephone.

(To) Manage: Amministrare, gestire, dirigere; riuscire a.
To be in control or charge of the affairs, especially the business affairs of; be or act as the manager of; to succeed in dealing with something or someone difficult.

Manager: Aministratore, direttore, dirigente.
A person who exercises the art of management; a person who directs or controls the work of other workers or a particular operation within the business.

Manager: Amministratore, direttore, dirigente.
A person who manages a business or other activity.

Mandate: Mandato.
An order or command; the wishes of constituents expressed to a representative. Politicians usually like to maintain that they have a mandate for the policies they pursue, which gives the policies the legitimacy that they need. When politicians win elections by big margins they tend to assume they have a mandate, and are sometimes thereby more bold in pursuing their goals than they might otherwise be.

Manipulative: Chi raggira o manovra.
Controlling or influencing for one's own purposes.

(To) Manufacture: Fabbricazione, manifattura.
To produce goods from raw materials or other ingredients by the application of labor.

Market analysis: Analisi di mercato.
Research aimed at predicting or anticipating the salability and profitability of a product or service, based on technical data about the product and the potential market. A study to define a company's market. A forecast of market direction with a view toward sharing or exploiting new trends.

Market segmentation: Segmentazione di un mercato.
The process of dividing a total market into sub-groups of consumers who exhibit differing sensitivities to one or more marketing mix variables.

Marketable securities: Titoli negoziabili.
Securities, like government bonds, that can be sold easily. On balance sheets, they are listed as current assets because they're expected to be converted to cash in the near future, usually one year.

Marketing: Commercializzazione, marketing.
The process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create exchanges that satisfy individual and organizational objectives.

Marketing concept: Filosofia di marketing.
The business philosophy that a company's effort should be adapted to the needs and wants of its customers.

Marketing mix: Mix del marketing.
The unique blend of product pricing, promotion, offerings, and distribution designed to meet the needs of a specific group of customers.

Marketing plan: Piano di marketing.
That portion of a business plan dealing with the marketing of the product or service; or similarly, a self-contained plan.

Marketing research: Ricerca di marketing.
The planning, collection, and analysis of data relevant to marketing decision making, and the communication of the results of this analysis to management.

Marketing strategy: Strategia di marketing.
Guiding the long-run use of the firm's resources based on its existing and projected capabilities and on projected changes in the external environment.

Markup: Aumento, rialzo.
It is the difference between invoice cost and selling price. It may be expressed either as a percentage of the selling price or the cost price and is supposed to cover all the costs of doing business plus a profit. Whether markup is based on the selling price or the cost price, the base is always equal to 100 percent.

Maturity: Maturazione, scadenza.
The time at which a note or bond becomes due or payable.

Mbps (Millions of bits per second): A measurement of data transfer rates.

Means: Modo.
A method or way of doing; a way of getting a result.

Media texts: "Testi mediatici".
They are any texts that are used in channels of mass communication such as print, broadcasting, cable, film, and video. Depending on the media, they can use different modes of communication: writing, speech, pictures, sound, etc., or all of these. The shape of media texts is determined to some extent by the technology employed by the particular media.

Megabit: One million bits. Abbreviated as Mb.
Membership: Appartenenza, membri di una società. Gruppo.
All the persons belonging to a group, club, society, etc.

Memo: Memorandum, promemoria.
The purpose of a good memo is to inform employees of an event or a change of some kind. It is a brief message that is usually two to five paragraphs in length. It should be single-spaced between lines and double-spaced between each paragraph. Longer ones may need subheadings.

Memo format: Struttura di un memorandum, promemoria.
Memo formats vary, although all include lines at the top that identify it as a memo, give the date, and indicate who will receive it, who is writing it, and what the subject is.

Menu bar: Barra dei menu.
A selection of command options that can be pulled down by pointing the mouse to a menu option and holding down your mouse button. Many of the menu bar options may also be accessed by clicking the icons on the tool bar. MEPs (Members of the European Parliament): Parlamentare Europeo.
Representatives in the European Parliament (EP), elected for fixed five-year terms, and sitting in the EP as members of cross-national party groups, not by national delegations or party affiliations.

Merchandise: Merce, mercanzia.
Things for sale, goods.

(To) Merge: Unire.
(1) To combine two files in such a way that the resulting file has the same organization as the two individual files. For example, if two files contain a list of names in alphabetical order, merging the two files results in one large file with all the names still in alphabetical order. (2) In word processing, mail merge refers to generating form letters by combining one file containing a list of names, addresses, and other information with a second file containing the text of the letter.

Merger policy: Politica delle incorporazioni.
The ability of the Commission to consider and approve in advance any proposed cross-national mergers between enterprises with more than a specified level of turnover.

Merger: Incorporazione.
A combination of two or more corporations wherein the dominant unit absorbs the passive ones, the former continuing operation usually under the same name. In a consolidation two units combine and are succeeded by a new corporation, usually with a new title.

Microeconomics: Microeconomia.
Studying individuals and groups of individuals.

Micropayments: Micro pagamenti.
Micropayments let content providers charge very small fees (some fraction of a penny, say) for access to a site or other electronic information. The aggregated payments are then deducted from a user's e-cash account or credit card, making the experience highly fluid. However, unless you rack up a lot of micropayments, the cost of processing each transaction is far greater than the revenue gained. On top of that, your users have to be willing to set up an e-cash account.

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface): Audio standardized hardware parameters set under MPC standards for MIDI interfaces that connect electronic keyboards, synthesizers, and related devices to computers. A MIDI file does not contain digitized sound. Instead, such a file contains the information needed to play such sounds from a MIDI-compatible device.

Midterm election: Elezioni di medio termine, a metà mandato presidenziale.
An election for seats in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that occurs during a presidential term of office - that is, two years into the four-year presidential term. The results are sometimes interpreted as a popular referendum on that president's performance for the first two years of his term. Midterm elections determine some members of the U.S. Senate and all members of the House of Representatives, as well as many state and local officials.

MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension to files that tell computers what kind of programs to use to view or run a file. Mimes are typically plug-ins to browsers that help launch helper apps or user apps.

Mind-boggling: Sbalorditivo, stupefacente, inverosimile.
Very surprising, difficult to imagine because so big, unusual, etc.

Minority: Minoranza.
Less than half. The Senate minority leader, for example, is the leader of the party that has less than fifty percent of the seats in the Senate. Minority also refers to ethnic or racial groups in a society, when they form part of a large society.

(To) Mirror: Rispecchiare, riflettere.
To give an exact or close representation; to be similar to, especially as if by copying.

Misinterpretation: Interpretazione errata, travisamento.
Putting a wrong meaning on something said, done, etc.; wrong explanation.

Misunderstanding: Incomprensione, equivoco, malinteso.
An example of the act of putting the wrong meaning on something; a disagreement less serious than a quarrel.

Mnemonics: Mnemonica.
Something especially a few lines of verse used for helping one to remember.

Mode: Modo.
How a text is being communicated.

Modem: Device converting digitized data into analogue form for a carrier wave. Demodulation transforms data transmitted in analogue form back into digital form for computer storage and/or processing. Modems modulate and demodulate computer data for transmission on telephone lines. Fax modems have the added capability of importing facsimiles received over phone lines directly into computer files. Cable TV modems offer transmitting speeds of over five times those of ISDN modems.

Monarch: Monarca.
One person who does have to take part in Parliament - whether they want to or not - is the reigning Monarch or Sovereign. This is because the institution we call Parliament has three elements - the Commons, the Lords and the Monarch. The Palace of Westminster is a Royal palace and everything that is done there is done in the Crown's name. It is a long time since a King or Queen actually had a direct say in law making, but the Monarch is the Head of State and gives the Royal assent to all new legislation. The Monarch appoints Life Peers (on the Prime Minister's advice), opens Parliament and dissolves it, and appoints the Prime Minister - though by convention the Monarch always appoints the leader of the party that was elected in a general Election.

Monarchy: Monarchia.
Form of rulership whereby a queen or king, empress or emperor holds absolute or limited power, usually inherited. In this century most European monarchies have become constitutional or limited, meaning political power is vested in elected officials and the monarch's duties are largely ceremonial. Such monarchies often represent a strong symbol of national identity in the people's minds. In some countries of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia monarchs still continue to hold absolute power.

Monetary policy: Politica monetaria.
It is fundamental to economic and monetary union (EMU). Decision-making procedures vary according to the topics in hand.

Money market deposit accounts: Conto di deposito del mercato monetario.
A bank account that pays a variable rate of interest based loosely on market rates. Often used by people who need to keep money readily available, but want to try for a higher return than on regular bank accounts. Added bonus: they're federally insured.

Money market funds: Fondo comune di investimento in titoli di credito.
Funds that put their money in short-term investments. Considered pretty safe because the funds invest in such things as U.S. government securities and bank certificates of deposit.

Money market: Mercato monetario.
The general term for banks and financial institutions dealing in government securities such as bonds and treasury notes, bills of exchange, etc.; it has no central meeting place like the share market but dealers, borrowers and lenders are connected through the telecommunications network.

Monopoly: Monopolio.
Monopoly Control of production and distribution of a product or service by one company (or several companies acting in concert) and characterized by lack of competition. Outlawed by the antitrust laws.

Mortgage: Ipoteca, diritto di garanzia immobiliare.
A debt instrument by which the borrower (mortgagor) gives the lender (mortgagee) a lien on property as security for the repayment of a loan; most commonly used for real property (real estate). For personal property, the lien is called a security agreement, formerly called a chattel mortgage.

MP: Parlamentare, deputato.
A Member of Parliament is elected by a particular area or constituency in Britain to represent them in the House of Commons. MPs divide their time between their constituency and the Houses of Parliament in London. Once elected it is an MP's job to represent all the people in his or her constituency. An MP can ask Government Ministers questions, speak about issues in the House of Commons and consider and propose new laws.

MP3: A popular audio file format. Files encoded in MP3 compress data at a 10:1 ratio, making it suitable for sending large, high-quality files over the Internet.

"Multi-speed" Europe: Europa "a più velocità".
It is the term used to describe the idea of a method of differentiated integration whereby common objectives are pursued by a group of Member States both able and willing to advance, it being implied that the others will follow later.

Multimedia: Multimedia.
Information that combines different types of content, such as text, images, animation, video and audio.

Multitasking: Execution of programs simultaneously on a single computer. In newer operating systems, two or more programs may be running "in the background" while the user is concentrating on another program running "in the foreground." Limits on how many programs can be run at the same time depend more upon hardware capacities, especially RAM amounts. Most operating systems now have multitasking capabilities.

Municipal bond: Obbligazione municipale.
These bonds are issued by state or local government entities, such as cities and counties. Interest earned is generally tax-free.

Mutual funds: Fondi comuni di investimento a capitale variabile.
These funds pool money from many investors, and fund managers invest the money in specific types of securities. Money market funds are a type of mutual fund.

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