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OAO

English translation: Open Joint Stock Company

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Russian term or phrase:OAO (открытое акционерное общество)
English translation: Open Joint Stock Company
Entered by: cheeter

10:37 Jun 13, 2003
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial
Russian term or phrase: OAO
What does OAO stand for when it precedes the name of a company? I know OOO means limited
bewley
Local time: 13:23
открытое акционерное общество (Open Joint Stock Company)
Explanation:
есть и закрытое акционерное общество (ЗАО).
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cheeter
Local time: 15:23
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Summary of answers provided
4 +14открытое акционерное общество (Open Joint Stock Company)
cheeter
4 +2Open Joint-Stock Company
Alexey Kochevsky


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +14
открытое акционерное общество (Open Joint Stock Company)


Explanation:
есть и закрытое акционерное общество (ЗАО).


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cheeter
Local time: 15:23
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 131
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alex Volovodenko: также public и privately held
2 mins
agree  Irene Chernenko
4 mins
agree  Alexey Kochevsky: Sorry, I did not see your answer
6 mins
agree  Yakov Tomara: 'Public' more correct than 'open' but the latter is widely used and recommended by W E Butler in his R-E Legal Dictionary
6 mins
agree  Kirill Semenov
15 mins
agree  Remedios
38 mins
agree  Jack Doughty
1 hr
agree  Khulan S.
1 hr
neutral  Jack slep: Widely used Russianese for "public corporation" vs "private" (zakrytoe) corp. Agree with Alex V. and Yakov T.
2 hrs
agree  artyan: I would just put "OAO" in the tralnslation, similar to Ltd., Inc., Gmbh., srl., pvt., etc....
2 hrs
agree  Ravindra Godbole
2 hrs
agree  nrabate
2 hrs
agree  David Knowles: with Artyan - stick to OAO!
4 hrs
agree  asknine: with Artyan and David Knowles, although I would use it after the company name, not before
1 day 4 hrs
agree  Mark Vaintroub
15 days
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Open Joint-Stock Company


Explanation:
It seems there are no common abbreviature.
I suggest to translate first time as Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) and then use this abbreviature, OJSC.

According to Lingvo,
joint-stock company - акционерное общество


    Lingvo
Alexey Kochevsky
Ukraine
Local time: 15:23
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 27

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Remedios
49 mins
agree  Khulan S.
1 hr
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