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verslepen

English translation: transferred/improved

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Dutch term or phrase:verslepen
English translation:transferred/improved
Entered by: Dave Calderhead

18:26 Mar 9, 2006
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / Pensions
Dutch term or phrase: verslepen
'Verslepen' wil zeggen dat een suboptimale pensioenregeling wordt geoptimaliseerd.

Unfortunately, having the explanation doesn't help me with the English!
Lucy Spring
improved
Explanation:
i.e. a less efficient pension scheme would be improved as much as possible,
is how I would translate this.

transferring it is only one way to improve it, it could also be revised/amended

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Note added at 20 mins (2006-03-09 18:47:26 GMT)
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see refs:

Fire Brigades Union:Proposals to amend existing Firefighters’ Pension Scheme ... If so wish may transfer to NEW FPS after 1st April 2006. Retirement Age –, Those retire after ...
www.fbusouthern.com/publications/ fbu%20reg/pension_response.php

International Site SZWSocial security includes pension, unemployment, disability and sickness ... in occupational pension schemes the right to transfer their accrued pension ...
internationalezaken.szw.nl/index. cfm?fuseaction=dsp_rubriek&rubriek_id=13031

DTI : Municipal Journal ConferenceWe have taken the first step on this through the agreement to revise the ... be made for broadly comparable occupational pension schemes to be continued for ...
www.dti.gov.uk/ministers/archived/niblett271098.html

Selected response from:

Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 11:07
Grading comment
The category preceding 'verslepen' was about transfers, so I have chosen this because I needed a different term.
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 +2to transfer
Ariser
4improved
Dave Calderhead


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to transfer


Explanation:
Depending on context, it could mean to transfer (verslepen of overhevelen) one pension system into another (more optimal one).

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Note added at 12 mins (2006-03-09 18:39:55 GMT)
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e.g. to transfer (or absorb) the early-retirement system into the regular retirement system.

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Note added at 14 mins (2006-03-09 18:41:04 GMT)
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One source: http://www.watsonwyatt.com/europe/netherlands/news/review/20...

Ariser
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Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

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agree  Dennis Seine
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agree  Siobhan Schoonhoff-Reilly
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
improved


Explanation:
i.e. a less efficient pension scheme would be improved as much as possible,
is how I would translate this.

transferring it is only one way to improve it, it could also be revised/amended

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Note added at 20 mins (2006-03-09 18:47:26 GMT)
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see refs:

Fire Brigades Union:Proposals to amend existing Firefighters’ Pension Scheme ... If so wish may transfer to NEW FPS after 1st April 2006. Retirement Age –, Those retire after ...
www.fbusouthern.com/publications/ fbu%20reg/pension_response.php

International Site SZWSocial security includes pension, unemployment, disability and sickness ... in occupational pension schemes the right to transfer their accrued pension ...
internationalezaken.szw.nl/index. cfm?fuseaction=dsp_rubriek&rubriek_id=13031

DTI : Municipal Journal ConferenceWe have taken the first step on this through the agreement to revise the ... be made for broadly comparable occupational pension schemes to be continued for ...
www.dti.gov.uk/ministers/archived/niblett271098.html



Dave Calderhead
Netherlands
Local time: 11:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 251
Grading comment
The category preceding 'verslepen' was about transfers, so I have chosen this because I needed a different term.
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