Abbreviation Y and Z

Table d’Hote – Technically ‘table d’h├┤te’ – a food menu which offers a full meal with set courses and limited choices at a fixed price, from French ‘host’s table’. Tachograph – A device which is fitted to vehicles, especially commercial vehicles, which records the speed, distance and time travelled. Tag – A word or words assigned to or…

Factory Floor – The area of a factory where the goods are made. Also the collective name of the ordinary workers in a factory, rather than management. Factory Price – The price charged for goods direct from the factory, not including transport costs, etc. Factory Price is often quoted by retailers or in advertisements to show that…

OBC Other Backward Classes OCR Optical Character Recognition OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OGL Open General License OIL Oil India Limited OK All Correct ONGC Oil and Natural Gas Corporation OOP Object Oriented Programme OPEC Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio OTR  Operational Turn Around PAN Permanent Account…

SAARC South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAC Space Application Centre SAFTA  South Asian Free Trade Agreement SAI Sports Authority of India SAIL Steel Authority of India Limited SAPTA South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SC Security Council/Supreme Court SCI Shipping Corporation of India SCOPE Standing Conference of Public Enterprises SCRA…

Yarnstorming – Also called yarnbombing, an intriguingly specialised type of peaceful demonstration and activism in which objects such as works of art, sculpture, railings, phone boxes, considered unattractive by the activists, are covered by knitting or crochet, usually at night, and mainly by young women. Yellow Pages  – A telephone directory, usually printed on yellow paper, which…

C2C Consumer to Consumer CA Chartered Accountant CAD Com┬¡puter Aided Design CAG Comptroller and Auditor General CARE Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere CAS Consolidated Accounts Statement CASE Commission for Alternative Sources of Energy CAT Common Admis┬¡sion Test CAZRI Central Arid Zone Research Institute CBI Central Bureau of Investigation CBM Confidence Building Measure CBSE Central Board…