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window dressing

Spanish translation: Maquillar los números / cuentas

15:09 Jan 20, 2004
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial
English term or phrase: window dressing
confuse the buyer with window dressing
coco
Spanish translation:Maquillar los números / cuentas
Explanation:
Yo lo pondría así
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Manuel Plaza
Spain
Local time: 19:43
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Maquillar los números / cuentas
Manuel Plaza
4 +1apariencias (atractivas / engañosas)
David Russi
4adornos engañosos
Rosa Maria Duenas Rios (X)
4embelleciendo el/la.....
lincasanova
3escaparatismo/apariencias/detalles bonitos de poca importancia
Lesley Clarke


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Maquillar los números / cuentas


Explanation:
Yo lo pondría así

Manuel Plaza
Spain
Local time: 19:43
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 645
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  buadog
2 mins
agree  XXX XXX
3 mins
agree  Marisol Honsberg (X)
22 mins
neutral  agtranslat: Maquillar las cuentas applies also to "doctoring the figures", which goes much further than window dressing.
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
apariencias (atractivas / engañosas)


Explanation:
Oxford:

window dressing n [u]
a (in shop) escaparatismo m (esp Esp), vitrinismo m (AmL), vidrierismo mf (AmL)
b (pretense, mask): don’t be taken in by the window dressing no te dejes engañar por las
apariencias or la imagen que quieren presentar

David Russi
United States
Local time: 11:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 8516

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Barbara Compañy
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
escaparatismo/apariencias/detalles bonitos de poca importancia


Explanation:
Otras opciones, ya que hay poco contexto:

escaparatismo es el significado literal

Lesley Clarke
Mexico
Local time: 11:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 490
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
adornos engañosos


Explanation:
Otra opción.

Rosa Maria Duenas Rios (X)
Local time: 13:43
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 862
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
embelleciendo el/la.....


Explanation:
hth

lincasanova
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 262
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