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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | | English term or phrase: EX (see context) | I'm translating a media response of a pharmaceutical company to an article published in a medical journal about their drug whose author claims that it might be harmful. I have two versions of the media response:
1) EX-US media response to ....
(for some reason this response is longer and has more details)
2) US media response to ...
(shorter)
This may be really simple but I'm not exactly sure about the "EX" word here, I'm guessing it's supposed to mean "external", meaning that there's one response for "other countries" and another one for the US exclusively. Does it make sense? Thanks for your help! |
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| | excluding the US; non-US | Explanation:
Ex-US here means the rest of the world excluding the US. Here are some other examples of its use that make the meaning clear:
"The S&P Developed Ex-U.S. BMI Financials Sector Index represents the non-U.S. financial sub-industry of developed countries included in the S&P Broad Market Index."
http://etfdb.com/index/sp-developed-ex-us-bmi-financials-sec...
"FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Index ETF List
The Index is designed to track the performance of the largest developed market equities (excluding the U.S.), selected based on the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, income, sales and dividends."
http://etfdb.com/index/ftse-rafi-developed-markets-ex-us-ind...
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Note added at 6 mins (2012-07-19 23:16:22 GMT)
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So your suspicion is correct: the "EX-US" media response corresponds to the media in other countries apart from the US. |
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 Charles Davis
Local time: 17:48
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5 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 | ex (see context) excluding the US; non-US
Explanation:
Ex-US here means the rest of the world excluding the US. Here are some other examples of its use that make the meaning clear:
"The S&P Developed Ex-U.S. BMI Financials Sector Index represents the non-U.S. financial sub-industry of developed countries included in the S&P Broad Market Index."
http://etfdb.com/index/sp-developed-ex-us-bmi-financials-sec...
"FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Index ETF List
The Index is designed to track the performance of the largest developed market equities (excluding the U.S.), selected based on the following four fundamental measures of firm size: book value, income, sales and dividends."
http://etfdb.com/index/ftse-rafi-developed-markets-ex-us-ind...
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Note added at 6 mins (2012-07-19 23:16:22 GMT)
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So your suspicion is correct: the "EX-US" media response corresponds to the media in other countries apart from the US.
| Charles Davis
Local time: 17:48
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| | | Notes to answerer
Asker: Right, "excluding" is the right word here, makes perfect sense! Thank you so much!
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