GMC

1) General Motors Corporation. American builder of cars (automobiles in American speak) trucks and buses.

GLONASS

1) Global navigation satellite system. Russian satellite system equivalent to American GPS.

Globalization

1) Phrase used in marketing jargon meaning the selling and servicing of products worldwide. Defined by the UK Department for International Development (DfID) as ‘the growing interdependence and interconnectedness of the modern world through increased ease of movement of goods, services, capital, people and information’.

Global positioning system (GPS)

1) Satellite tracking system used for accurate positioning of vehicles’, etc location.

GiT

1) Goods in transit. Insurance to provide cover in the event of goods consigned for carriage being damaged or lost. Usually covers up to value of Ј1,000/Ј1,200 per tonne and needs to be extended if goods of greater value are carried.

General register

1) Under Factories Act 1961 employers must provide a general register in which information is entered about the employment of young persons, certain painting and whitewashing of premises and other matters.