en Tier

English translation: third party (in terms of outsourcing/externalization)

14:51 Apr 3, 2008

French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)

French term or phrase: en Tier

An operation regulation for a company was "initialement concédé en Tier dans les contrats antérieurs"
Sorry about the limited context, but the capitalization is throwing me off here.
Could this be third in the list of previous contracts? The regulation was granted by a third party?

Jaimie Boyd KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 18 Canada
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English translation:third party (in terms of outsourcing/externalization)

Explanation:
Here the sentence makes more sense in terms of a third party work done.

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sonal
Local time: 05:13

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Summary of answers provided

third party (in terms of outsourcing/externalization)

sonal

in a tier structure

Philippe Etienne

Discussion entries: 8

Answers

30 mins confidence:

in a tier structure

Explanation:
could be that tier is used in English, which would explain theopposition between taches (concentric circles? expansion from a spot) or layers (expansion from a line). Wild guess only

Philippe Etienne
Spain
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of:

French
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1 day 4 hrs confidence:

third party (in terms of outsourcing/externalization)

Explanation:
Here the sentence makes more sense in terms of a third party work done.

sonal
Local time: 05:13
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Hindi,

English
PRO pts in category: 2

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Thanks for the response; it seems to be the most logical even though the sentence really doesn't make much sense! It has to be a typo...

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