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English translation: shortfall
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| 20:33 Oct 30, 2006 |
| Romanian to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Economics | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Peter Shortall United Kingdom | ||||||
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| 1 +7 | shortfall |
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| 5 | failure |
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| 3 | pls see explanation below |
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failure Explanation: Cred ca "failure" se potriveste cel mai bine. |
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pls see explanation below Explanation: ... are 2.2 pp behind/below expectations/estimated value [your choice ;) ]. Shortfall seems ok too. Failure, well, I don't know :) ... |
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peer agreement (net): +7shortfall Explanation: Please note that it's nothing more than a suggestion, but it's the only thing I can think of that might fit (and it could work with things other than profits - it can be used with anything, though I know it's used in finance/economics). A "shortfall" means either (a) a failure to reach a certain level of something (like a financial target, for example), or (b) the amount by which something (e.g. revenues/profits made) falls short of the level or figure which was expected: shortfall (shôrt'fôl') n. 1. A failure to attain a specified amount or level; a shortage. 2. The amount by which a supply falls short of expectation, need, or demand. http://www.answers.com/topic/shortfall To accommodate it in the sentence, you might have to structure it a bit differently from the original - a common construction is "there was a shortfall of X% in Y" etc. My surname is frequently misspelled this way, which causes me no end of annoyance - it's not the only misspelling, but let's not get into that right now :) Try Googling it together with other relevant words. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2006-10-30 23:02:34 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Here's one example, to illustrate usage: "On the other hand, the airport project in Guinea-Bissau had an economic rate of return at project completion of -7.6 per cent – a shortfall of over 13 percentage points below the estimate at appraisal." http://www.afdb.org/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADB_ADMIN_PG/DOCUME... |
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