English term
France
spend market
Here is the sentence:
"Across our seven highest spend European markets, we purchased printed marketing materials valued at approximately $16m and we have established a need to enhance ..."
Another occurence of this phrase in the following sentence:
"As part of this programme, throughout the first half of 2009 we evaluated our top spend markets –focusing specifically ..."
Any idea? Thanks to all!
| 3 | marché sur lequel nos dépenses sont les plus élevées |
Michèle Voyer
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| 4 | marché de consommation |
André Vanasse (X)
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| 4 | dépenses du marché |
Beila Goldberg
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Non-PRO (1): Martin Cassell
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Proposed translations
Switzerland
law & international affairs background
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
, English
Works in: English to French
marché sur lequel nos dépenses sont les plus élevées
Martin Cassell me semble avoir donné la bonne interprétation.
Cela donnerait en contexte : ...sur l'ensemble des sept marchés européens sur lesquels nos dépenses sont les plus élevées, nous avons acheté des fournitures..."
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Note added at 1 day1 hr (2009-09-05 16:58:14 GMT)
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Il faut peut-être ajuster la concordance des temps...à vous de jouer
marché de consommation
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Martin Cassell
: oui, mais ... cela s'addresserait à une expression source "spend market", qui n'a pas de sens en anglais. see the discussion.
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dépenses du marché
Dommage, car plus explicites.
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Martin Cassell
: please read the asker's full context, and see the discussion. it's not about consumers in that sense.// sorry, I thought I had done that, in the discussion.
46 mins
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Pourquoi n'entrez-vous pas la réponse qui serait correcte et aiderait l'asker? Et aiderait les autres également face à cette subtilité de la langue.
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Reference comments
United Kingdom
25 years as a specialist communicator
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English
spend (n.) in the sense of "expenditure" ("somme dépensé; dépenses")
Some examples:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/marketing_market...
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/marketing_market...
Discussion
eventuellement "le marche le plus important".
Thank you VERY much!
I will leave it for native speakers to provide the best tournure.
There would "biggest market" be (a less refine) synonym?
Question for the French speaking translator: could I use "le plus gros marché", or is there a more refine phrase?