English-Swedish translations for abbreviate

förkortaNärmare bestämt innebär detta att vi vill - som jag säger - gå mot ett system med hållbar EU-statistik, vilket snyggt förkortas till ESS.In specific terms, this means that we want - as I put it - to move towards a system of European sustainability statistics, nicely abbreviated to ESS. Du kan förkorta bråket med en faktor 2.
abbreviera

To shorten by omitting parts or details.
To speak or write in a brief manner.
To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
An abridgment.

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