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German: Betriebsaufgaben

English translation: operational tasks







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German term or phrase:Betriebsaufgaben
English translation:operational tasks
Entered by:Hilary Davies
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Tech/Engineering - Computers: Systems, Networks / system migration
German term or phrase: Betriebsaufgaben
Hello all! I can only find translations for this in a tax sense - dissolution of companies, etc! Anyone know what it would be here (system migration, system maintenance, etc).

"Durchgeführte Betriebsaufgaben müssen dem Auftraggebers auf Anforderung jederzeit belegt werden können."
Hilary Davies
United Kingdom
Clarification request(s) and response
Hilary Davies (asker): 4:29pm Jul 18, 2005: Really not edited! ;-) When i saw that suggestion, I wondered if I'd been reading it wrong myself!

operations tasks
Explanation:
would be my guess

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Note added at 18 mins (2005-07-18 15:17:41 GMT)
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or rather operational tasks
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Brie Vernier
Germany
Note from asker to answerer
I went with this one - I liked "on-site tasks" too, but some of these sites are virtual... ;-)
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Summary of answers provided
3on-site tasksitaharold
3job functionsR.Raghunathan
3operations tasks
Brie Vernier
4 -2operating expenses
Bob Kerns


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
operating expenses

Explanation:
... in relation to the work performed or service(s) provided.

The work is performed, not the expenses (which the original German text suggests)

Bob Kerns
Germany
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Heike Behl, Ph.D.: The German suggests "Aufgaben" = tasks, not "Ausgaben" = expenses. And "Ausgaben" (if you suspect a typo) are not usually "durchgeführt"
16 mins
  -> Time for me to visit to the optician, or did somebody edit the original question from Ausgaben to Aufgaben?

disagree itaharold: "Aufgaben" are tasks, as Heike says
1 day19 hrs
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
operations tasks

Explanation:
would be my guess

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Note added at 18 mins (2005-07-18 15:17:41 GMT)
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or rather operational tasks

Brie Vernier
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Note from asker to answerer
I went with this one - I liked "on-site tasks" too, but some of these sites are virtual... ;-)
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job functions

Explanation:
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R.Raghunathan
India
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1 day19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
on-site tasks

Explanation:
the contractor has to forward proof of on-site task carried out to the principal

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Note added at 1 day 19 hrs 41 mins (2005-07-20 10:40:45 GMT)
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or \" the contractor is always obliged to submit proof of the on-site tasks carried out\"

itaharold
Germany
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