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responsable adjoint

English translation: assistant

00:49 Jan 17, 2002
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary
French term or phrase: responsable adjoint
Mr X est le responsable adjoint du Departement de Lettres mordernes
Elytte
Local time: 15:30
English translation:assistant
Explanation:
Perhaps just 'assistant' would do the trick, but it would depend on how the department is set up.

Responsable is one of the words on the F-E translator's blacklist. It could be a number of things in English.

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Note added at 2002-01-17 13:07:42 (GMT)
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Perhaps deputy or assistant department head would be better (I think I was a bit tired when I read it last night - it didn\'t click that it was the top dog in the department!)
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Erika Pavelka (X)
Local time: 10:30
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5assistant
Erika Pavelka (X)
4 +5deputy head
Parrot
4Vice-chairman
LHMP
4Assistant Manager
USER0034 (X)
4assistant chairman
Karen Tucker (X)
3Vice-rector
cheungmo
4 -1assistant master
Sergio Artamonoff
4 -1assistant dean
Ineke Hardy


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
assistant


Explanation:
Perhaps just 'assistant' would do the trick, but it would depend on how the department is set up.

Responsable is one of the words on the F-E translator's blacklist. It could be a number of things in English.

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Note added at 2002-01-17 13:07:42 (GMT)
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Perhaps deputy or assistant department head would be better (I think I was a bit tired when I read it last night - it didn\'t click that it was the top dog in the department!)

Erika Pavelka (X)
Local time: 10:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 54
Grading comment
Graded automatically based on peer agreement. KudoZ.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  BOB DE DENUS: could be assistant manager for example etc
13 mins
agree  French_Engl
23 mins
agree  & Associates (X)
1 hr
agree  cheungmo
3 hrs
agree  Renata Costa (X): ok.
1 day 18 hrs
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
deputy head


Explanation:
A "Head" is a departmental boss. An assistant would thus be a deputy. It's another option.

Parrot
Spain
Local time: 16:30
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 1861

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Guy Bray: better than assistant
1 hr
agree  Nigel Patterson
3 hrs
agree  VBaby
5 hrs
agree  Pierre POUSSIN: Quite all right in Education
5 hrs
agree  Nicola Da Si (X)
2 days 12 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Vice-chairman


Explanation:
assistant is too low, and deputy head is too high in that context I think...

LHMP
Local time: 16:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 12
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Assistant Manager


Explanation:
seems logical to me

USER0034 (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 24
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Vice-rector


Explanation:
If "département des lettres modernes" is within a school or college.

Just a suggestion; as has been stated earlier "responsable" can be translated many many ways.

cheungmo
PRO pts in pair: 339
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
assistant master


Explanation:
As the context clearly indicates the department of a university this expression is relevant in England. For the US, I would use assistant professor.

Hope this helps you.


    Deduced from the Garnier Dictionary
Sergio Artamonoff
Brazil
Local time: 11:30
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Nigel Patterson: In the UK, 'assistant master' is used in some more traditional schools to denote a teacher without managerial responsibility.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
assistant dean


Explanation:
The head of a department within a faculty is also called "dean".

Ineke Hardy
Netherlands
Local time: 16:30
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in pair: 62

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Attila Piróth: The dean is the head of the faculty, isn't (s)he.
16 hrs
  -> My dept. head is the "doyen" ; the SOED says: "Dean: The head of a university faculty or department"
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
assistant chairman


Explanation:
In the United States, the head of a university department is called a chairman and the second in command is the assistant chairman. Here are a couple of examples:

Two of the 10 -- Paul Ackerman, assistant chairman of the psychology department, and Everett Johnson, chairman of the electrical and computer engineering ...
www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/learning/evolution/evolutio...

www.daily.umn.edu/daily/gopher-archives/1991/11/12/Psych_10...
But Gail Peterson, assistant chairman of
the psychology department, said the department has worked with CLA to make ...




    Reference: http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/local/learning/evolution/ev...
    Reference: http://www.daily.umn.edu/daily/gopher-archives/1991/11/12/Ps...
Karen Tucker (X)
United States
Local time: 10:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 394
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