off-sites

English translation: off-site meetings

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English term or phrase:	off-sites
Selected answer:	off-site meetings
Entered by:	Refugio

06:14 Nov 1, 2002

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Bus/Financial

English term or phrase: off-sites

"Success can be measured in staff meetings, communication meetings, off-sites, business reviews, and council meetings."

[Success of a behavioural change program being implemented company-wide]

Ramona Ali KudoZ activity Questions: 404 (1 open) (7 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 1449
Local time: 19:36

off-site meetings

Explanation:
It seems they used the shortened form because there were already too many "meetings" in the sentence.

Selected response from:

Refugio
Local time: 04:36

Grading comment

Thanks to everybody - I appreaciate all your responses. I wanted to be sure that "off-sites" didn't carry a specific meaning on its own.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

5 +4

off-site meetings

Refugio

5 +1

out of the office

Chris Rowson (X)

4 +1

off-site meetings

Fuad Yahya

Unable to view answers

Fuad Yahya

4 +1

meetings outside the office

Ralf Lemster

3 +1

a meeting held outside of office premises

eldira

Discussion entries: 1

Answers

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

off-site meetings

Explanation:
It seems they used the shortened form because there were already too many "meetings" in the sentence.

Refugio
Local time: 04:36
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 485

Grading comment

Thanks to everybody - I appreaciate all your responses. I wanted to be sure that "off-sites" didn't carry a specific meaning on its own.

35 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

off-site meetings

Explanation:
"Off-site" is most typicaly used as an adjective ("I need to send you to an off-site assignment") or an adverb ("No fraternization is allowed, on-site or off-site"). When used as an adverb, the hyphen is sometimes dropped.

In this case, the expression is used as a noun. It is in essence an abbreviation for a noun phrase consisting of a "mystery" noun modified by "off-site." This is analogous to using "physical" for the phrase "physical examination" or "advance" for "advance payment."

The trick here is to guess the mystery noun. Reading the full sentence, the context seems to be about meetings ("staff meetings, communications meetings, . . . council meetings.") This tells me that the behavior modification program is supposed to result in better behavior in meetings, such as off-site meetings.

This is the most sense I could make out of it, given the limited context.

Fuad

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in pair: 893

41 mins confidence:

Unable to view answers

Explanation:
I am unable at this point to view answers that have been posted for this question, not even my answer, or even determine if any answer has been posted, other than mine. Until ProZ.com has been fully restored, it will not be possible to tell if any particular answer has been already suggested by another person. If my answer is a repitition of a previous answer, I apologize. I have no way of knowing.

Fuad

Fuad Yahya
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in pair: 893

58 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a meeting held outside of office premises

Explanation:
www.fastcompany.com/online/32/roadwarrior.html - 3

Offbeat Sites for Off-Sites
Make your next off-site meeting a staff treat.

by Amy Wilson from FC issue 32, page 88
March 2000

It's strange, we know, but traveling on business often means going to a new place to interact with many of the same old people. We're talking about that much-dreaded company ritual, the corporate off-site: the planning session, the annual sales meeting -- you get the ( bleak ) picture. Here's a collection of offbeat sites in major cities that might change the mood at your next off-site.

Reference: http://www.fastcompany.com/online/32/roadwarrior.html

eldira
Indonesia
Local time: 18:36
Native speaker of:

Indonesian
PRO pts in pair: 85

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

out of the office

Explanation:
It means events which are arranged by a company to get a group of people together away from the office ("off-site"). There are few reasons for doing this, usually so that they can concentrate on some issue, without distractions of phones, other people, and the temptation quickly to check back at their desk. There´s also a getting-to-know each-better function.

I have participated in a couple of off-sites.

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Don´t ask me how eldira´s reference drifted onto my answer. It´s a good one, though - welcome, reference!

Chris Rowson (X)
Local time: 13:36
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 243

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

meetings outside the office

Explanation:
"Off-sites" is short for "off-site meetings", i.e. staff meetings outside one's own premises. AFAIK the concept was pioneered in investment banking.

Ralf Lemster
Germany
Local time: 13:36
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 377

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