KCA means small chemical waste

KCA is hazardous waste from households and must be returned separately from the normal household waste. Common KCA is, for example, remnants of paint, a fluorescent tube, lamps oil. Not all KCA are dangerous, often fall medicines and injection needles also under KCA. A municipality is free to determine how the KCA is collected, but is obliged to do it separately from the normal waste. Often this goes through a regional KCA-depot, or a chemocar that collects door-to-door all the KCA. For an indication of what is and is not covered by KCA, please see a list of the housing.

Last minutes are cheap travel

Last minutes or last minute is a term used in the travel industry, to indicate that it is a trip that is booked at the last minute. The idea behind the last minutes is to sell travel/hotels that are not yet fully booked yet. Example: Often, a travel organisation 50 seats in a plane, a week before departure, there are three more spots left, then they put in a last minute to get the last three even sold. The last minute travel or overnight stays are often cheaper in this way than the normal fare. Read More

GBA means municipal basic administration of personal data

The GBA has personal data from anyone who is resident in the Netherlands (or has lived). This information is used by the Government to make your passport and driver's license, but also to check who can vote. Read More

Hyperlink means link to other document

A hyperlink is a link on a Web page to another document or Web page. Often this is a text, but an image can also be used as a hyperlink. When you create a hyperlink to a page on a site that is not the homepage, one uses the term deep linking.

FAQ means frequently Asked questions

In Dutch, the term FAQ is also used, but also the translation: frequently asked questions. It is a list of frequently asked questions (and the answers) about a particular topic. On a website of an online shop or a company frequently FAQs are used, this involves questions from a buyer, or facts about the company.

BBQ means barbecue

That is strange, because you would expect BBC. But because it is pronounced with Q, the abbreviation has become BBQ. A barbecue is an object on which one can prepare foods (usually meat) by roasting them (often also called grilling). As soon as the first rays of the sun pass by, most people get BBQ-jitters and invite friends to go barbecuing together. There are three main types of BBQs:

• Charcoal BBQ
  Hierbij becomes charcoal (briquettes) heated. Often it is also used to make the fire a good start. After half an hour the grill and the BBQ are warm enough to use.
• Electric BB
  QEen Electric Barbecue is in to few minutes warm enough to use. The disadvantage is that the BBQ consumes a lot of power, the advantage is that the food can be prepared quickly by the constant warmth.
• Gas BB
  QDe Gas Barbecue You turn on by connecting the gas cylinder and then pressing the ignition button. Within a few minutes the BBQ is ready for use. The big advantage of the gas barbecue is that fat is collected from the slots of the lattice in a reservoir.

BMI means Body Mass Index

Your BMI is a number to determine if you are too heavy (overweight) or perhaps too light (underweight). The BMI is also called the Quetelet Index. The BMI is quite easy to calculate: your weight in pounds you share by the square of your length (length x length). If you are 1.76 meters long, and 80 pounds weighs your BMI: 26 (rounded). This is actually just on the border. Broadly speaking, there are these main groups: Read More

MMR means bass metabolism at rest

MMR in English is Basic metabolic Rate and is the calorie need that your body has to maintain the normal functions of your body (heart rate, breathing and regulating body temperature). If you don't do sports or heavy work, you can lose weight by taking less pounds of calories than your MMR. The MMR is influenced by age, weight, sex, diet and amount of physical activity. You can also try a ketogenic diet.

IMF Means International Monetary Fund

The IMF is an organisation for money-related matters, and was founded in 1944 together with the World Bank. It is a sub organization of the United Nations, and has 185 Member States. The IMF focuses on:

• Promotion of monetary cooperation and stability.
• Monitoring economic growth and employment
• Offering (temporary) financiëe aid to countries to correct deficits

. More information about the tasks of the IMF can be found on the IMF website.

IMF: The worst has yet to come.