Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Oct 15, 2007 11:32
16 yrs ago
Portuguese term
Ireland
Engineer/IT specialist translator
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, Portuguese to English
2 ex
Portuguese to English
Law/Patents
Printing & Publishing
I'm not sure what ex represents here. This is a document about publishing technical standards, and you can subscribe to the issue. A, B, C etc. are different types of subscriptions. This is the beggining of the table, with it continuing down for different "ex" for each subscription...
Mediante o pagamento de uma quotização para um período de 12 meses, os Correspondentes XX auferem das vantagens resumidas no quadro seguinte:
CLASSES A B C D E M
Assinatura anual do Catálogo de Normas XX, com actualização mensal:
1 ex 1 ex 2 ex 5 ex 1 ex 1 ex
Mediante o pagamento de uma quotização para um período de 12 meses, os Correspondentes XX auferem das vantagens resumidas no quadro seguinte:
CLASSES A B C D E M
Assinatura anual do Catálogo de Normas XX, com actualização mensal:
1 ex 1 ex 2 ex 5 ex 1 ex 1 ex
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +4 | 2 issues |
Carla Queiro (X)
|
| 4 | 2 years (in this context) |
Philippe Maillard
|
Proposed translations
+4
26 mins
Selected
2 issues
I am assuming that ex stands for exemplar which would be a magazine issue or copy.
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3 mins
Philippe Maillard
Brazil
Brazil
Native in English
Brazil
Accuracy first
Native in: French (Variants: Standard-France, Belgian) 
, English (Variant: UK)
Works in: English to French, Portuguese to French
2 years (in this context)
as they talk about subscription, sounds to me to be "exercício", i.e. year
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