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French translation: (constituter un) frein (à)

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English term or phrase:	(be a) drag on
French translation:	(constituter un) frein (à)
Entered by:	Tony M

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15:21 Jan 5, 2012

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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)

English term or phrase: drag on

A significant drag on project team efficiency is the amount of data shared in one-to-one fashion between individual team members in email, texts, or phone conversations.

kerbager KudoZ activity Questions: 1824 (1 open) (2 without valid answers) (38 closed without grading) Answers: 317
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frein (à)

Explanation:
Cf. R+C dictionary

You'll probably want to re-phrase the sentence to make it sound more natural in FR, but you can do that better than I!

Not to be confused with the vi 'to drag on' (s'éterniser)

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Tony M
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Local time: 21:18

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Merci
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frein (à)

Tony M

3 +6

entrave

polyglot45

effet négatif sur

kashew

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drag (on)

frein (à)

Tony M
France
Local time: 21:18
Works in field
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English
PRO pts in category: 140

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Merci

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effet négatif sur

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kashew
France
Local time: 21:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 59

37 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

entrave

Explanation:
ou encore

polyglot45
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 193

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Changes made by editors

Jan 10 - Changes made by Tony M:
Edited KOG entry	Tony M's old entry - "(be a) drag on " => "(consituter un) frein (à)"
Jan 10 - Changes made by Tony M:
Edited KOG entry	kerbager's old entry - "drag on " => "frein (à)"

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