Why should translators use glossaries

Secondly, it allows a linguistic expert to save time on translation while not sacrificing quality. For a client, such time saving will usually lead to more cost efficient translation received in a shorter period of time.

It is also relatively easy to create such databases of language terms. Computer-assisted translation tools, commonly referred as CAT (not to be confused with machine translation) are usually used for such a purpose. These software tools allow a translator to manually record words and groups of words creating a bank of resources to be used in the future translation works. The CAT tool then tracks texts an expert works with and helps to identify potentially similar phrases. Such manually complied, language-resource databases are then used to produce style consistency and high quality documents which, after undergoing mandatory proofreading, are presented to clients.