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frequentador

English translation: (regular) shopping-centre customer

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Portuguese term or phrase:frequentador de shoppings
English translation:(regular) shopping-centre customer
Entered by: Evans (X)

16:18 Aug 23, 2012
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Marketing / Market Research
Portuguese term or phrase: frequentador
Frequentador de shopping do Brasil está mais velho e escolarizado, diz pesquisa
O frequentador de shoppings no Brasil está mais velho, escolarizado e usando mais ônibus e metrô para chegar aos centros comerciais.

Hi colleagues, do you guys have any good idea for the term above?

Thanks!
Maria Stella Tupynambá
Brazil
Local time: 15:13
(regular) shopping-centre customer
Explanation:
With or without "regular", would work in a text of this kind.
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Evans (X)
Local time: 19:13
Grading comment
Thank you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4(regular) shopping-centre customer
Evans (X)
5 +1frequenters
kashew
4 +1Patron
Ivan Rocha, CT
4 +1regular visitors
Georgia Morg (X)
4customers
Nick Taylor
2frequent shopper
TechLawDC


Discussion entries: 1





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
frequentador de shopping(s)
frequent shopper


Explanation:
Very common term in English.

TechLawDC
United States
Local time: 14:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  kashew: Downgraded - sorry - but I think my proposal is best ;-)
1 day 2 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Patron


Explanation:
...

Ivan Rocha, CT
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
1 min
  -> Thanks, Marlene.
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
frequentador de shoppings
(regular) shopping-centre customer


Explanation:
With or without "regular", would work in a text of this kind.

Evans (X)
Local time: 19:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Diana Coada (X)
49 mins
  -> Thanks, Diana
agree  Mark Robertson
14 hrs
  -> thanks, Mark
agree  Verginia Ophof
1 day 3 mins
  -> thanks, Verginia
agree  kashew
1 day 2 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
regular visitors


Explanation:
this would include all those people who go to shopping centres to have lunch, to see a film, to meet friends and have a coffee, ie, not just "customers".

Georgia Morg (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:13
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  T o b i a s
23 hrs
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
customers


Explanation:
customers

Nick Taylor
Local time: 19:13
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
frequenters


Explanation:
e.g. shopping-mall frequenters

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Note added at 1 jour2 heures (2012-08-24 19:09:56 GMT)
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example: "Bluewater, the enormous north Kent shopping mall, is planning an ..... ...just a thought....something which most shopping mall frequenters do ..."

kashew
France
Local time: 20:13
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  T o b i a s: This works, as does "frequenters of shopping malls"
2 hrs
  -> Cheers
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