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French: copinage

English translation: currying favor (wioth management)



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French term or phrase:copinage
English translation:currying favor (wioth management)
Entered by:Christian Fournier
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French term or phrase: copinage
What is the equivalent in English?
(licking management's boots to climb)
Christian Fournier
France
Clarification request(s) and response
Claudette Hepburn: 12:09pm Jun 1, 2005: Le copinage n'implique pas nécessairement du léchage de quoique ce soit... Cela c'estle fayottage, non? -
Christian Fournier (asker): 12:29pm Jun 1, 2005: fayotage - Exact, Claudette. My mistake.

to be buddy-buddy with someone
Explanation:
cronyism is more like clientelisme...not copinage..

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Note added at 2 hrs 35 mins (2005-06-01 13:49:55 GMT)
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or currying favor with management...



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Note added at 2 hrs 36 mins (2005-06-01 13:51:37 GMT)
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... Professor of Management, University of Southern California\'s Marshall ... Not by currying favor. \"The worst way to seek assistance is to be desperate. ...
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[DOC] Earnings Predictability and Value Line Analysts’ Earnings Forecast ...File Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... intentionally issue optimistic forecasts to curry favor with management. ... not an effective means of currying favor with management because optimistic ...
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Currying favor - Sepia Mutiny... Currying favor. The last time I was subjected to the water-boarding called looking for a ... don\'t leave it on the table b/c management will steal it). ...
www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001593.html - 87k - May 30, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages


Managing Conflict; conflict management, conflict resolution ...... And on June 8: Currying Favor: The behavior of the office suck-up drives many people ... Ebooks, booklets and tip books on project management, conflict, ...
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Final: currying favor with management or sucking up to management

not cronyism
Selected response from:

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you, Jane.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +1to be buddy-buddy with someone
Jane Lamb-Ruiz
4make friends / pal up with someone / become buddiesSuzy G
3 +1cronyism
Flore Abadie


  

Answers

7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cronyism

Explanation:
une idée...
www.wordreference.com/definition/cronyism

Flore Abadie
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Arnaud d Halluin: It seems perfectly adequate to me. I hope you don't mind my reversing the language pair.
10 mins
  -> Thanks

agree Claudette Hepburn
49 mins
  -> Thanks

agree jacrav
1 hr
  -> Merci

disagree Jane Lamb-Ruiz: cronyism is a peer system...this is not..
2 hrs

disagree Suzy G: same opinion as Jane
8 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to be buddy-buddy with someone

Explanation:
cronyism is more like clientelisme...not copinage..

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Note added at 2 hrs 35 mins (2005-06-01 13:49:55 GMT)
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or currying favor with management...



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Note added at 2 hrs 36 mins (2005-06-01 13:51:37 GMT)
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... Professor of Management, University of Southern California\'s Marshall ... Not by currying favor. \"The worst way to seek assistance is to be desperate. ...
womensmedia.com/business-Reardon-handshake.htm - 32k - Cached - Similar pages


[DOC] Earnings Predictability and Value Line Analysts’ Earnings Forecast ...File Format: Microsoft Word 2000 - View as HTML
... intentionally issue optimistic forecasts to curry favor with management. ... not an effective means of currying favor with management because optimistic ...
www.handels.gu.se/eaa2005/Paper_ Poster_database/All_papers/FRG012.doc - Similar pages


Currying favor - Sepia Mutiny... Currying favor. The last time I was subjected to the water-boarding called looking for a ... don\'t leave it on the table b/c management will steal it). ...
www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001593.html - 87k - May 30, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages


Managing Conflict; conflict management, conflict resolution ...... And on June 8: Currying Favor: The behavior of the office suck-up drives many people ... Ebooks, booklets and tip books on project management, conflict, ...
www.chacocanyon.com/pointlookout/conflict.shtml - Similar pages


Final: currying favor with management or sucking up to management

not cronyism

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you, Jane.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Can Altinbay: OK. I don't agree with your original, because that's also more peer, but your final note is excellent.//I see what you mean, but I think there's too much of a connotation of being laready there.
1 hr
  -> to be buddy-buddy is not necessarily peer..you can want to be, seek to be. yearn to be and not be..so it depends on how you structure the rest
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
make friends / pal up with someone / become buddies

Explanation:
vous avez le choix (les deux dernier sont bcp plus familiers)

Suzy G
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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