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Economic and Business Vocabulary — Lessico Economico·False Friends and Misleading Terms in Italian Economics
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Rule reminder

Beware of false friends and misleading terms: 'eventuale' ≠ eventual (= possible, not definite); 'attuale' ≠ actual (= current, present); 'lo spread' in Italy has a specific meaning (BTP-Bund gap); 'consistente' ≠ consistent (= substantial, significant); 'il capitale' can mean capital (financial) but also 'capitale' = city capital; 'la firma' = signature/signing (not a company); 'il controllo' ≠ control in English sense (= supervision/check, not necessarily domination).

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In the sentence 'Un eventuale aumento dei tassi potrebbe danneggiare le imprese', what does 'eventuale' mean?

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