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English translation: partner up / strategic partnering (or alliance)

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French term or phrase:	adosser / adossement
English translation:	partner up / strategic partnering (or alliance)
Entered by:	looby

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09:03 Mar 1, 2009

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Bus/Financial - Real Estate

French term or phrase: adosser / adossement

I know this term has come up before, but I can't find the right words here. It is in reference to a property investment company:
Many thanks in advance for your help.

Dans le but de clarifier sa stratégie, la société a décidé d’engager l’adossement de ses deux principales activités.

Cette activité ne pouvant se développer au sein de la société, il a été décidé de l’adosser à un acteur de référence.

looby KudoZ activity Questions: 28 (none open) Answers: 5 France
Local time: 20:58

partner up / strategic partnering (or alliance)

Explanation:
Forming an alliance with a view to achieving a strategic objective by joining resources.

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xxxwfarkas
Canada
Local time: 14:58

Grading comment

Thanks for your useful advice.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

placing back to back

Colin Morley

partner up / strategic partnering (or alliance)

xxxwfarkas

consolidation / incorporation / amalgamation / merger

Midland Productions

(get) backing for/from

rkillings

Discussion entries: 1

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21 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

placing back to back

Explanation:
from dos (back) dos à dos

Example sentence(s):

"To clarity its strategy, the company has decided to operate its two main activities back to back."

Colin Morley
France
Local time: 20:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

4 hrs confidence:

adosser / adossement consolidation / incorporation / amalgamation / merger

Explanation:
The company has decided to initiate the merger/consolidation of its two main business operations (scopes of business).

It was been decided to incorporate/merge it (the activity) (in)to a key player.

KWS and Limagrain merge their corn activities in North America KWS et Limagrain vont fusionner leurs activités de semences de maïs en Amérique du Nord ...

"Adjoin" seems to be the closest match to both the implied meaning and the literal sense original term.

However, the most recommended in the context, I think is

"incorporation/consolidation/amalgamation/merger or of business operations".

All are terms used in both formal or informal contexts. "Amalgamation" is used more often in the context of separate companies, but it is also used within the same company.

You can chose either one:
"Algol to incorporate its business divisions. Algol is restructuring its organisation by incorporating its operations. The five current sales divisions will ..."

"Amalgamation or reorganization of an enterprise. The conditions of employment applied to an employee pursuant to a special arrangement for the handicapped and the conditions of employment applied temporarily to an employee following a reclassification or demotion, an amalgamation of enterprises or an internal reorganization in an enterprise shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 87.1."

ad-join (uh join') v. <-joined, -join-ing> v.t.
1. to be close to or in contact with; abut.
2. to attach or append; affix.

merge (mûrj) v. <merged, merg-ing> v.t.
1. to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
2. to combine, blend, or unite gradually so as to blur the differences of.
v.i.
3. to become combined, united, or absorbed; lose identity by blending: The stream merges into the river.
4. to combine or unite into a single organization, body, etc.: The two firms merged.

a-mal-ga-mate (uh mal'guh mayt ) v. <-mat-ed, -mat-ing> v.t.
1. to mix or merge so as to make a combination; blend; unite: to amalgamate two companies.

con-sol-i-da-tion (kuhn sol i day'shuhn) n.
1. an act or instance of consolidating; the state of being consolidated; unification.
4. a. a statutory combination of two or more corporations.

in-cor-po-rate (v. in kôr'puh rayt ; adj. -puhr it, -prit) v. <-rat-ed, -rat-ing> adj.
v.i.
7. to form a legal corporation.
8. to combine so as to form one body.
v.t.
1. to form into a corporation.
2. to introduce as an integral part: to incorporate revisions into a text.
3. to include as a part: His book incorporates his earlier essay.
4. to combine into one body or uniform substance.
5. to embody: It incorporates all her thinking on the subject.
6. to form into a society or organization.

said on Monday it planned to reinforce retail banking interests in China by applying to incorporate its activities there under Chinese law

Random House Webster

Example sentence(s):

http://www.google.ro/search?q=%22merger+of+activites%22&btnG=C%C4%83utare&hl=ro&sa=2

Reference: http://www.google.ro/search?q=%22consolidation+of+business+o...
Reference: http://www.google.ro/search?hl=ro&q=%22incorporation+of+acti...

Midland Productions
Romania
Local time: 21:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Romanian

8 hrs confidence:

partner up / strategic partnering (or alliance)

Explanation:
Forming an alliance with a view to achieving a strategic objective by joining resources.

xxxwfarkas
Canada
Local time: 14:58
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thanks for your useful advice.

11 hrs confidence:

(get) backing for/from

Explanation:
Your backers are not necessarily your partners. :-)

rkillings
United States
Local time: 11:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 53

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