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14:47 Jun 5, 2020 |
German to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Company type | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Steffen Walter Germany Local time: 11:36 | ||||||
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major companies /concerns /corporations Explanation: I would simply do away with the AG bit, mainly because it has no relevance in English... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2020-06-05 14:56:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or might "manufacturing" be implied here? The context seems to refer to all companies, rather than any particular sector... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 mins (2020-06-05 15:08:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In other words, I think your own interpretation is perfectly adequate... :) |
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manufacturing Explanation: Hi Julia You've put forward two alternatives here, so it is only right that your second choice is put up for scrutiny. "Context: Sustainability in the plastics industry" This would indeed confirm manufacturing as a viable translation. It also gets around the issue of whether a company is major or minor. Why would smaller companies not also wish to sign up to this noble cause? It will be interesting to see whether any peer voting comes in and which way it goes! AJS -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2020-06-05 15:15:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- PS: "Does not meet criteria"! (309 PRO points in category) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 39 mins (2020-06-05 15:26:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Re Thomas Pfann's comment in the DB: alle Betriebe der AG - all companies in the Group Highly likely! |
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public companies Explanation: AG=Aktiengesellschaft translates as public co., i.e. being listed on a stock exchange. But the source text is somewhat murky |
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Betriebe der AG group subsidiaries/operations Explanation: See discussion - I agree with Thomas re. the missing "der". |
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corporate group(s) Explanation: is a major concern for all corporate groups involved -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2020-06-06 08:40:14 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- A corporate group or group of companies is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 17 hrs (2020-06-06 08:41:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- bearing in mind that this is Austrian -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs (2020-06-06 08:57:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- might even be ok to go with "corporate groupings" in this context -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs (2020-06-06 09:04:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Austrian and Swiss German being variations that often deviate from standard Deutsch -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs (2020-06-06 09:06:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- and valid in their own right of course -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2020-06-06 09:56:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "action fronts" might be going too far but wouldn't rule it out... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2020-06-06 09:58:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- anyway a few ideas for you to juggle |
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