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Table of contents: Indice.
It indicates the main divisions of the report with their page numbers. It also includes the preliminary portions and supplemental portions of the report.

Table: Tabella.
A way of arranging information in orderly rows across and down a page.

Tag: Comando HTML.
A command in HTML, enclosed within the lesser than and greater than signs (<...>) which marks specified text as a heading, paragraph, list, etc. and for including images, forms which accept user input, and hypertext links within a document. Usually a start tag and end tag are paired around the content they refer to and form a "container".

(To) Tailor: Adattare su misura. Personalizzare.
To prepare or adapt to suit particular needs.

Tailor-made: Fatto su misura. Personalizzato.
Exactly suited to a special need.

(To) Take down: Tirar giù, abbassare, calare.
To separate a large machine or article into pieces, especially in order to repair it or move it; to lower without actually removing something.

Take-over: Acquisizione di controllo.
When a person or company offers to buy a controlling interest in, and therefore take over, management of a company.

Tangible: Tangibile.
Real. A thing that can be seen, touched and evaluated. As opposed to intangible.

(To) Target: Porre come obiettivo, designare come traguardo.
To cause to have an effect on a particular intentionally limited group.

Target market: Mercato obiettivo.
A specified audience or demographic group that an ad, product or service is intended to reach.

Target Price: Prezzo obiettivo.
The basic price set annually for each commodity within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), against which the price support to farmers is calculated.

Targeting: The design of a Web site or of a marketing campaign to reach and to appeal to certain classes or types of customers. A typical consumer target market might be women, 20 to 35 years of age, with children, with household incomes over $50,000 per year, who work outside the home. A typical business target market might be persons responsible for telecommunications management in businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Some Web sites and advertising campaigns are targeted to groups with special interests (e.g. golfers, hotel managers).

Tariff: Tariffa doganale.
A federal tax on imports or exports. The tariffs protect a country's domestic industries by raising foreign producers' expenses – and usually the price of their goods.

Taxation: Imposizione fiscale.
Generally accepted as a policy field that belongs to the Member States, except where direct taxation policy is against competition policy, and in indirect taxation where the EC have an interest in harmonisation. Despite the introduction of a single market and economic and monetary union, there is still no genuine Community policy on taxation. Specific provisions are laid down in the ECU Treaty, but the decision-making procedure for taxation requires a unanimous vote in the Council. Up to now this has acted as a brake on the adoption of common rules for direct and indirect taxation.

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol is an Internet transmission protocol that is extremely popular on the Internet. This is a standard for routing and data transfer around the world. It has become even more important in the rising tide of Intranets.

Teleconference: Teleconferenza.
A telephone communication in which more than two people are simultaneously connected so they can exchange verbal comments as if they were in the same room having a face-to-face conference. A teleconference need not have visual communications in addition to audio communications, but modern technology now makes it possible to see conference members on monitor screens or television screens.

Telemarketing: Televendita.
Using the telephone to sell, promote or solicit products and services.

Telematics: Telematica.
The combination of computers in concert with telecommunications systems. This includes dial-up service to the Internet as well as all types of networks that rely on a telecommunications system to transport data.

Telephone banking: Servizi bancari a domicilio.
The provision of virtually all banking services over the phone. First Direct, a division of Midland Bank in the UK, is the world's leading telephone only bank with over 500,000 customers and no branches.

(Tele)phone booth/box: Cabina telefonica.
Small hut or enclosure containing a telephone for use by the public.

Telephone directory/phone book: Elenco telefonico.
A book containing an alphabetical list of the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all the people who own a telephone in a certain area.

Telnet: The Internet standard protocol for remote login service that allows users on the Internet to access programs and applications on computers in remote locations. Telnet allows a user at one site to interact with a remote timesharing system at another site as if the user's terminal were connected directly to the remote computer. When using the Internet, type "Telnet" followed by a space and the address of the computer for remote login.

Template: Stampo, modello.
(1) A plastic or papers diagram that you can put on your keyboard to indicate the meanings of different keys for a particular program. (2) A sheet of plastic with menus and command boxes drawn on it that you place on top of a digitizing tablet. You can select commands by pressing the digitizing tablet's pen against a command box or by positioning the cursor over a box and pressing one of the cursor keys. (3) In spreadsheet and database applications a template is a blank form that shows which fields exist, their locations, and their length.

Temporary job: Lavoro temporaneo.
A job lasting only for a limited time.

Temporary worker: Lavoratore a tempo determinato.
A worker that is not a regular employee of the firm and is hired for a short period.

Tenor: Tenore.
Who's involved in a text. The relationship between who is speaking/writing and who is listening/reading (the 'tenor of the relationship').

Term loans: Prestito a lungo termine.
Loans that are generally several years' long.

Text form: Forma testuale.
All texts have both formal and functional characteristics. By form we mean the shape or organisation of texts, and function means what the text is doing with that form. Texts have three basic formal arrangements: sequence, order, expand.

Text structure: Struttura testuale.
Most text start with a title and sometimes a subtitle. After that, the introduction and the body followed by a conclusion or summary.

Text type: Tipologia testuale.
It is a general category that refers to labels we apply to texts as products or things. Text types would therefore include particular products such as reports, expositions, stories, procedures, etc. Many text types are multi-generic, they use more than one genre.

Text: Testo.
A text is any completed act of communication such as a greeting between friends in the street, a television advertisement, a novel, or a film. Different types of texts have distinctive characteristics, depending on what they are made to do.

Think-tank: Gruppo di ricerca, commissione di esperti.
A committee of people experienced in a particular subject, established by an organisation, government, etc. to develop ideas and advice on matter related to that subject.

(To) Think through: Riflettere, risolvere un problema.
To consider carefully and in detail especially so that all the possible results of an action are understood in advance; reach a decision about something after much careful thought.

Third party: Terzo partito.
Any political party that is not one of the two parties that have dominated U.S. politics in the 20th century — the Republican Party and the Democratic Party — and that receives a base of support and plays a role in influencing the outcome of an election.

(To) Thread: Infilare, pervadere, ragionare.
A line of reasoning connecting the parts of an argument or story, a repeated pattern or idea.

Thread: Filo, trama.
A line of reasoning connecting the parts of an argument or story.

Threading: Rintracciare un messaggio e-mail.
An original e-mail message together with its successive replies constitute a message thread.

Tiered service: Servizio a tre livelli.
A combination of offerings which are priced at various levels. For example categories of information on a Web site may range from free to expensive depending on their value, timeliness, uniqueness, or other market factors.

Tight: Serrato, conciso, stringato.
Well ordered or firmly controlled.

Tilde: Tilde.
A mark placed over the letter n in Spanish as a sign that it is pronounced 'gn'.

Title: Titolo.
It tells you what the text is about.

Toolbar: Barra degli strumenti.
A box with icons (pictures) of the tools for performing functions within an application.

Topic sentence: Frase chiave.
The topic sentence (also called thesis or key sentence) contains the new aspect of the topic of the text.

(To) Trace: Rintracciare, scoprire.
To find a thing or person by following their course; to find the origins of by finding proof or by going back in time.

Track record: Curriculum aziendale.
Prior financial and operating statistics; the proof of successful operating performance. In making a credit evaluation, the lender looks at the debtor's past history of paying other creditors.

(To) Trade in: Cedere in permuta.
To give in part payment when buying something new.

Trade union: Sindacato dei lavoratori.
Trade union - an organisation of workers who do similar jobs. A trade union exists to take collective action on behalf of its members in negotiations with employers over wages, working conditions, etc. Trade unions are usually composed of skilled or semiskilled workers who have learned a craft.

Trade: Commercio.
The process of buying, selling or exchanging goods within a country or between countries.

Trademark: Marchio di fabbricazione, marca di commercio.
A distinctive name, symbol, motto or emblem that identifies a product, service or firm. A certificate issued for such identification by the federal government for a specified period of time, granting the right to prevent competitors from using similar marks in selling or advertising. Thereby, the trademark provides legal protection of the name or symbol used in commerce.

Trademark: Marchio.
A symbol or name used to identify and distinguish a business from others in the marketplace. The term is often used to include service marks, which apply to businesses providing services as opposed to selling products. Trademarks can be either registered or unregistered, with different levels of protection.

Traffic: Traffico.
Communication over a network and especially the amount of communication over a network. In network technology, traffic is usually measured in bits per second or packets per second. In Web-based marketing, traffic refers to the number of customer visits to a site or page measured in a variety of ways.

Trainee: Tirocinante, apprendista.
A person who is being trained or given specialised instruction.

Training: Formazione, addestramento.
Giving or being given a course of instruction or practice, especially in a profession or skill.

Transaction: Operazione commerciale, transazione.
In accounting, any event or condition that must be entered in the books of account for the company because of its effect on the financial condition of the business, such as to buy, sell or trade. More broadly, a business deal or agreement.

Transparency: Lucido, diapositiva.
A piece of photographic film, usually in a square holder by means of which a picture can be seen when light is passed through it.

Travel and entertainment card: Carta privilegiata aziendale o carta d'oro privilegiata.
A credit card, such as American Express or Diner's Club, which is oriented to business users, generally charges a higher annual fee than a bank card and provides a substantially higher credit limit. Though T&E cards earn less interest for their issuers than do bank cards they are generally more profitable because average transaction amounts are higher and credit losses are lower.

Treasury bills: Buoni del tesoro.
Short-term government offerings, bearing no interest, but sold at a discount to buyers.

Treasury certificates: Certificati del tesoro.
Interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness issued in place of short-term bonds.

Treaty: Trattato.
A formal, binding international agreement that may cover issues including the regulation of trade, the making of peace, or the forming of military alliances. In the U.S., all treaties proposed by the executive branch and negotiated with a foreign country must be approved by a two-thirds majority in the Senate. The treaty is then ratified by the President.

Treaty of Amsterdam: Trattato di Amsterdam.
It was adopted at the Amsterdam European Council on 16 and 17 June 1997 and signed on 2 October 1997 by the Foreign Ministers of the fifteen Member States. It entered into force on 1 May 1999 after ratification by all the Member States in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements.

Turnover: Rotazione, indice di rotazione, giro d'affari.
Turnover is the number of times that an average inventory of goods is sold during a fiscal year or some designated period. Care must be taken to ensure that the average inventory and net sales are both reduced to the same denominator; that is, divide inventory at cost into sales at cost or divide inventory at selling price into sales at selling price. Do not mix cost price with selling price. The turnover when accurately computed, is one measure of the efficiency of a business.

Types of capital: Tipi di capitale.
The various forms of money sources (EQUITY) available to a business, such as personal funds, sale of stock, partners, home equity loan, life insurance loan and investors.

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