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busca de competitividade

English translation: striving for competitiveness

12:48 Nov 8, 2009

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Portuguese term or phrase: busca de competitividade

I need to find the English expression for "a busca de competitividade para produtos produzidos no Brasil"
Could it be "the search for competitiveness of the products made in Brazil"?

Patrícia Feiten
Brazil

English translation:striving for competitiveness

Explanation:
It really depends on the rest of your sentence whether you can change the syntax to make it sound more natural in English. I would be inclined to try to say it like this rather than using a noun such as "the search"

I would also say "striving for competitiveness in/for products made in Brazil", not "the products".

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Gilla Evans
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:17

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Summary of answers provided

5 +4

search for competitiveness

Maria Ivo

4 +2

seeking a competitive edge

Bentevi

4 +2

striving for competitiveness

Gilla Evans

Answers

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

search for competitiveness

Explanation:
Depending on the whole phrase...
You can also say: "in search for competitive Brasilian products"

Maria Ivo
Portugal
Local time: 01:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

Notes to answerer

Asker: Obrigada, Maria.

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

striving for competitiveness

Gilla Evans
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 32

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Gilla.

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

seeking a competitive edge

Explanation:
also: trying to gain/build/create a competitive edge

AMI-Partners - News U.S. companies are seeking a competitive edge by the deployment of business intelligence software, Date added: 10/15/2009 ...
www.ami-partners.com/index.php?target.

15 Jul 2008 ... that Microsoft has been trying to build a competitive edge for the Xbox 360 ...
tech.blorge.com/.../microsoft-partners-with-netflix-to-offer-streaming-content-on-xbox-live/

Bentevi
Brazil
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

Notes to answerer

Asker: Obrigada, Bentevi.