English-German translations for stratum

• Schicht die
  In den Ländern, die 2004 beigetreten sind, fehlt völlig eine starke Schicht kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen. The countries that joined in 2004 suffer from the complete absence of a strong stratum of small and medium-sized enterprises.
  Es hat die CO2-Emissionen überhaupt nicht reduziert und stattdessen eine ganz neue Schicht aus Bürokratie, Verwaltung und Ausgaben für die Industrie geschaffen. It has not reduced carbon emissions at all, yet it has created a whole new stratum of bureaucracy, administration and expense for industry.
  Die einzige soziale Schicht in den neuen Mitgliedstaaten, die vom Beitritt zur EU profitiert, ist die nationale, wirtschaftliche und politische Elite. In the majority of the new Member States, the only social stratum benefiting from EU accession is the national, economic and political elite.
• Bank die
• Lage die

Definition of stratum

• One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another
• A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout
• Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers
• A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status
• The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network

Related words

• substratum
• superstratum
• adstratum
• stratum corneum
• stratum spinosum
• stratum granulosum
• substratum language
• superstratum language
• upper stratum