affaire

English translation: project

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French term or phrase:	affaire
English translation:	project
Entered by:	Allan Jeffs

09:36 Aug 10, 2004

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers (general)

French term or phrase: affaire

The French word 'affaire' crops up very frequently in a long database of on-screen messages for telecommunications software. I think the meaning is simple enough - an 'item', but is there a specific English translation in this kind of computer context? A few examples of the use of the word in context are:

Importer l'affaire
Importer une affaire
La base de données Affaire n'a pas pu être trouvée!
L'affaire a été correctement finalisée !
L'affaire a été correctement importée!
L'affaire à importer est déjà ouverte! Veuillez fermer celle-ci et recommencer.
L'affaire à importer existe déjà dans la base affaire.

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project

Explanation:
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

RSVP-Search the Village Power Project Database - [ Traduire cette page ]
... The Project Database contains over 140 projects from ... Project information includes:
basic, technological, economic ...
www.nrel.gov/villagepower/asp/logon.asp

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Note added at 23 mins (2004-08-10 10:00:31 GMT)
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PDF] Private Participation in Telecommunications - Recent Trends
Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Version HTML
... Major trends The World Bank’s PPI Project Database shows strong, steady growth
in private participation in telecommunications, whether measured in pro- jects ...
rru.worldbank.org/PapersLinks/Open.aspx?id=1947

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Allan Jeffs
France
Local time: 02:06

Grading comment

Thanks a lot Allan, this seemed right in all the contexts, and was what I went with in the end. Thanks to you too Jonathan for what was also a good suggestion. Cheers.
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project

Allan Jeffs

element

Jonathan MacKerron

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element

Explanation:
might fit for some of them

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English

21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

project

Allan Jeffs
France
Local time: 02:06
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English
PRO pts in category: 33

Grading comment

Thanks a lot Allan, this seemed right in all the contexts, and was what I went with in the end. Thanks to you too Jonathan for what was also a good suggestion. Cheers.

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