Abstract: As a hot topic, terminology management has great impact on the translation quality of the multinational companies and has become a component of these companies’ strategy for globalization and localization. This paper looks at the impact of terminology management in multinational companies on term translation from the case study of the Microsoft Company. By answering three questions of the terminology management, we illustrate the importance and the role of terminology management with the examples of the term translation.

Key words: terminology management, term translation, term base, multinational companies, concept oriented approach