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English translation: commercial


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English term or phrase:business
English translation:commercial
Entered by: HassanLotfy
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21:53 Jul 17, 2011
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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
English term or phrase: business
I’m translating an announcement about a company’s reorganisation of its regional operations.
I’m not sure about the meaning of the word ‘’business’’ in the context below. Does it mean ‘’this company (as a whole)’’ or , perhaps, ‘’customers’’?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


‘’To attain this objective, we will take a step-by-step approach to optimising the regional operations structure in order to maintain an efficient interface between business and operations within a region.'’
(This objective = reorganisation of X’s regional operations).
Grzegorz Mysiński
Local time: 21:52
commerical
Explanation:
commercial activities vs operations activities
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HassanLotfy
Egypt
Local time: 21:52
Grading comment
Thank you Hassan!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +6commerical
HassanLotfy
4customers
Ioanna Daskalopoulou
4business/commercial interestsgallagy2
1sales
MedTrans&More


Discussion entries: 3





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
customers


Explanation:
I think it refers to the company's clients; the company would try to keep an efficient interface between its clients and operations on a regional basis.


Ioanna Daskalopoulou
Local time: 22:52
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Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek, Native in EnglishEnglish
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
sales


Explanation:
I'm not too sure, but I believe it makes reference to the business the company makes, i.e. the sales or services.

MedTrans&More
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Local time: 20:52
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
commerical


Explanation:
commercial activities vs operations activities

HassanLotfy
Egypt
Local time: 21:52
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Thank you Hassan!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xxxmediamatrix: That's my reading too.
1 hr
  -> Thank you mediamatrix
agree  Thayenga: Yes, commercial vs operations. :)
7 hrs
  -> Thank you Thayenga
agree  Phong Le
14 hrs
  -> Thank you Phong
agree  Bernhard Sulzer: commercial // Not a problem.
14 hrs
  -> sorry for typo, Thank you Bernhard
agree  Demi Ebrite
15 hrs
  -> Thank you Demi
agree  amarpaul
1 day10 hrs
  -> Thank you amarpaul
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
business/commercial interests


Explanation:
I think this could refer to either or both of the sales/services the company offers, i.e. its actaul business (and possibly in relation to other businesses in the area).

As Hasan says, as opposed to their actual operations

dictionary.reverso.net/english.../commercial%20interest... - United States - Cached
commercial interests definition : commercial (commercials plural )1 adj Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods. usu ADJ n ...


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