Glossaries and vocabularies
From: Translation Bureau
Consult the various glossaries and vocabularies listing terms specific to different activities areas of federal departments.
Note
One of the mandates of the Translation Bureau is to standardize the terminology used in the federal public service.
The majority of these glossaries and vocabularies are bilingual (English-French, French-English). Some also include equivalent terms in indigenous and foreign languages. For archived publications, you will be directed to the Government of Canada Publications' website.
A
- Accessibility glossary
- Alternative dispute resolution glossary (common law)
- ARCHIVED—Alternate forms of delivery services glossary
- ARCHIVED—Avalanche bulletin vocabulary
B
C
- ARCHIVED—Canadian Institutes of Health Research lexicon
- Canadian Style: A Guide to Writing and Editing (The) (online consultation)
- ARCHIVED—Chief Information Officer Branch glossary
- Climate Change and Public Health (Glossary on) New
- ARCHIVED—Climate change glossary (Panlatin)
- ARCHIVED—Coin minting and coin plating technology (Glossary of) [English, French, Portuguese and Spanish]
- ARCHIVED—Combinatory vocabulary of fractal imagery
- ARCHIVED—Community of federal regulators lexicon
- ARCHIVED—Competition Tribunal glossary
- ARCHIVED—Corporate administrative systems glossary
- COVID-19 pandemic (Glossary on the)
- ARCHIVED—Cycling glossary (Trilingual) [English, French and Spanish]
D
- ARCHIVED—Departmental performance report vocabulary
- ARCHIVED—Diamond cutting vocabulary
- Distance teaching and telework (Vocabulary on)
- Domestic Violence Glossary (common law) New
E
- ARCHIVED—E-commerce (Vocabulary of)
- ARCHIVED—E-learning glossary
- ARCHIVED—Elections (Pan-African vocabulary on)
- ARCHIVED—Elections glossary
- ARCHIVED—Electronic commerce glossary (Panlatin)
- ARCHIVED—Emergency and crisis communication vocabulary
- ARCHIVED—Emergency management vocabulary
- ARCHIVED—Employment equity glossary
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Terminology (Guide on) Updated
F
- Family law glossary (common law)
- ARCHIVED—Financial information strategy glossary
- ARCHIVED—Free Trade Area of the Americas glossary
G
- ARCHIVED—G8 and G20 terminology glossary
- Gender and Sexual Diversity Glossary Updated
- ARCHIVED—Generic terms in Canada's geographical names (Glossary of)
- Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign glossary
- ARCHIVED—Government on-line glossary
- ARCHIVED—Gyroscopic instruments glossary
H
- ARCHIVED—Handbook of terminology
- ARCHIVED—Handbook of terminology (Arabic version)
- ARCHIVED—Handbook of terminology (Korean version)
- ARCHIVED—Health services (Glossary of)
- ARCHIVED—Human resources management glossary
- Human rights glossary
I
- ARCHIVED—Immigration and refugee protection vocabulary
- Information management, Fascicle 1: Access to information glossary
- Information management, Fascicle 2: Information security glossary
- Information management, Fascicle 3: Recordkeeping glossary
- Information management, Fascicle 4: Information architecture glossary
- ARCHIVED—International Space Station glossary
- ARCHIVED—Internet glossary (Panlatin)
- ARCHIVED—Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas glossary [English, French, Portuguese and Spanish]
L
- ARCHIVED—Law of contracts and law of torts glossary (common law)
- ARCHIVED—Law of security glossary (common law)
- ARCHIVED—Law of trusts glossary (common law)
- ARCHIVED—List of country names
- List of country, capital and inhabitant names
- ARCHIVED—Lobbying Act glossary
M
- ARCHIVED—Mackenzie Gas Project glossary
- ARCHIVED—Management values and ethics (Glossary of)
- ARCHIVED—Meeting glossary: Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas [English, French, Portuguese and Spanish]
- ARCHIVED—Metalanguage of terminology (Pan-African vocabulary on the)
N
P
- ARCHIVED—Paralympic winter sports (Glossary of)
- ARCHIVED—Parliament (Vocabulary of)
- ARCHIVED—Parliamentary glossary [English, French and Inuktitut]
- ARCHIVED—Parliamentary procedures (Pan-African glossary on)
- ARCHIVED—Passport Canada glossary
- Performance management glossary
- Personal Information and Privacy Glossary New
R
S
- Soccer glossary
- Social media glossary
- Specific claims in Canada, Fascicle I: Glossary of the Specific Claims Tribunal
- Specific claims in Canada, Fascicle II: Glossary on Aboriginal land claims
- ARCHIVED—Sport Canada glossary
- ARCHIVED—Sports (Pan-African glossary of)
- ARCHIVED—Student loans (Glossary of)
- ARCHIVED—Sustainable mobility glossary
T
- ARCHIVED—Telecommunications and Broadcasting Regulation vocabulary
- ARCHIVED—Terminologia (Manual de) (Portuguese version of Handbook of terminology)
- ARCHIVED—Terminología (Manual de) (Spanish version of Handbook of terminology)
- ARCHIVED—Terms pertaining to disabled persons (Glossary of)
- Terms relating to the public servants disclosure (Glossary of)
U
V
W
- ARCHIVED—Wind power glossary (Panlatin)
- ARCHIVED—Women and development (Pan-African glossary on)
- Workplace mental health glossary
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