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CBE

English translation: Current Best Estimate

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Danish term or phrase:CBE
English translation:Current Best Estimate
Entered by: Richard Green

10:41 Jan 17, 2013
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping
Danish term or phrase: CBE
I'm struggling to find the definition of CBE in this short phrase:

"Manglende fragtomkostninger udeladt CBE."

Any suggestions warmly received.
Richard Green
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:40
Current Best Estimate
Explanation:
I am guessing, after consulting
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Business/CBE.html

If you can´t ask the client, you can sometimes see whether abbreviations and acronyms with letters like C and W are already English.
Those letters only occur in imported words and names in Danish.

Clients may also use their own in-house abbreviations, which you cannot guess or look up elsewhere, so it is worth asking them if you can.
Or someone else may have a better suggestion.
Selected response from:

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 17:40
Grading comment
Thank you, Christine. We ultimately found out that it was an abbreviation for a company name, but I'm giving you some points for your good answer which may be of some use in the KudoZ glossary.
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2Current Best Estimate
Christine Andersen


  

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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
Current Best Estimate


Explanation:
I am guessing, after consulting
http://www.acronymfinder.com/Business/CBE.html

If you can´t ask the client, you can sometimes see whether abbreviations and acronyms with letters like C and W are already English.
Those letters only occur in imported words and names in Danish.

Clients may also use their own in-house abbreviations, which you cannot guess or look up elsewhere, so it is worth asking them if you can.
Or someone else may have a better suggestion.

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 17:40
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 30
Grading comment
Thank you, Christine. We ultimately found out that it was an abbreviation for a company name, but I'm giving you some points for your good answer which may be of some use in the KudoZ glossary.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Takk Christine! That's a sensible answer.

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