Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
180-strong company
French translation:
entreprise avec un effectif de 180 personnes / collaborateurs
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2016-10-14 11:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Oct 11, 2016 09:37
7 yrs ago
English term
180-strong company
English to French
Bus/Financial
Economics
Hello,
What does the "180-strong" refer to?
What does the "180-strong" refer to?
Proposed translations
(French)
| 4 +2 | entreprise avec un effectif de 180 personnes / collaborateurs |
Tony M
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| 4 +2 | entreprise forte de 180 employés |
HERBET Abel
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| 5 -2 | Firma mit 180 Mitarbeitern |
Renate Radziwill-Rall
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Proposed translations
+2
40 mins
Selected
entreprise avec un effectif de 180 personnes / collaborateurs
It means how many people there are, like 'a 10,000-strong army' etc.
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Note added at 6 heures (2016-10-11 15:59:48 GMT)
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It's important to note that the source expression in EN '...-strong' no longer has any real specific connotation of 'strength', so this need not / should not be included in the FR; cf. such contrasting expressions as 'on the strength of', where its presence is important.
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Note added at 3 jours12 heures (2016-10-14 22:21:17 GMT) Post-grading
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To answer Abel's criticism, this use of 'strong' really is just soemthing almost of an archaism, and has nothing really at all (any more) to do with 'strength' — I'm afraid to think it does betrays an attempt to intepret EN through a FR cultural mindset.
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Note added at 6 heures (2016-10-11 15:59:48 GMT)
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It's important to note that the source expression in EN '...-strong' no longer has any real specific connotation of 'strength', so this need not / should not be included in the FR; cf. such contrasting expressions as 'on the strength of', where its presence is important.
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Note added at 3 jours12 heures (2016-10-14 22:21:17 GMT) Post-grading
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To answer Abel's criticism, this use of 'strong' really is just soemthing almost of an archaism, and has nothing really at all (any more) to do with 'strength' — I'm afraid to think it does betrays an attempt to intepret EN through a FR cultural mindset.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
-2
5 mins
Renate Radziwill-Rall
France
France
Native in French
France
44 years of technical and legal texts
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) 
, French
Works in: French to German, English to German, German to French, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Firma mit 180 Mitarbeitern
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Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Chakib Roula
: Wrong target language.
11 mins
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| disagree |
Debora Blake
: Need French, not German
1 hr
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+2
44 mins
HERBET Abel
Native in French
Graduate engineer
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
:
10
entreprise forte de 180 employés
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Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Jean-Claude Gouin
1 hr
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Merc
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| agree |
Antoine Dequidt
: aussi pertinent que la proposition de Tiny, tout dépend du ton général du texte : purement statistique ou promotionnel
3 hrs
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merci
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