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French: audience soutenue (urgent)

English translation: wider audience







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French term or phrase:audience soutenue
English translation:wider audience
Entered by:Stephanie Mitchel
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Bus/Financial - Media / Multimedia
French term or phrase: audience soutenue (urgent)
Context: large French auto maker promoting guidelines for deployment of its in-house press in its subsidiaries in other countries.

What does 'audience soutenue'mean in this context?

"Objectifs initiaux : efficacité, réactivité, périmètres renforcés

Étendre le champs d'action des services de presse centraux
Améliorer notre présence par l'image
Optimiser nos diffusions d'information

Résultats : un nouveau site et une audience soutenue"

Stephanie Mitchel
United States
larger audience
Explanation:
or an expanded audience

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Note added at 10 hrs 41 mins (2005-04-08 08:57:09 GMT)
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You could also \'wider audience\' depending on whether the audience is genuinely broader and not just more of the same type of people
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Kate Hudson
Netherlands
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thank you kate!
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Summary of answers provided
5faithful/loyal audiencePierre Renault
3 +2larger audience
Kate Hudson
2popular (see explanation)xxxCMJ_Trans


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
faithful/loyal audience

Explanation:
"Soutenue" as in "sustained" (with lasting power).

Faithful is more correct. Either would be OK

HTH

P


Pierre Renault
Canada
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
popular (see explanation)

Explanation:
It looks as though they are talking about the site, in which case it could be "popular with visitors"

A new and highly popular/frequently visited site.

I cannot tell from the above exceprt whether the site is the subject of the "audience soutenue" or not however. It could be the in-house press....

xxxCMJ_Trans
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
larger audience

Explanation:
or an expanded audience

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Note added at 10 hrs 41 mins (2005-04-08 08:57:09 GMT)
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You could also \'wider audience\' depending on whether the audience is genuinely broader and not just more of the same type of people

Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
thank you kate!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree NewCal: OUi tout à fait
53 mins
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agree xxxpascaljacque
13 hrs
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