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профильный комитет

English translation: the relevant / appropriate committee


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19:17 Oct 18, 2011
Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: профильный комитет
I gather it is some sort of selection or approval committee.

Инвестор решил действовать наобум, приехал в крупный областной центр, пришел в местную администрацию, позвонил из бюро пропусков в профильный комитет, но… не получил ни одного вразумительного ответа.
Jack Doughty
Local time: 13:01
English translation:the relevant / appropriate committee
Explanation:
I find that one of those choices often works, when it means "the committee dealing with the type of business at hand".

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Note added at 25 mins (2011-10-18 19:42:30 GMT)
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In the other context, which you gave in the discussion section, then: "special departments", "specialized departments", "special departments for that purpose". But I think "the relevant" still works in the sentence you asked about.
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Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 08:01
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Тhank you.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4the relevant / appropriate committee
Rachel Douglas
4 +1dedicated committee
Alexey Suspitsyn
4specific office
Gennady Lapardin
4ad hoc committeeinterprivate


Discussion entries: 2





  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dedicated committee


Explanation:
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Alexey Suspitsyn
Russian Federation
Local time: 18:01
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natalie: or perhaps "specialized committee"
9 mins
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
the relevant / appropriate committee


Explanation:
I find that one of those choices often works, when it means "the committee dealing with the type of business at hand".

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Note added at 25 mins (2011-10-18 19:42:30 GMT)
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In the other context, which you gave in the discussion section, then: "special departments", "specialized departments", "special departments for that purpose". But I think "the relevant" still works in the sentence you asked about.

Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 08:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68
Grading comment
Тhank you.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes, I think this is the right approach. I am so far doing something like this each time the word occurs, but the exact wording has to vary with the context.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MariyaN
8 mins
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agree  svetlana cosquéric
49 mins
  -> Thanks, Svetlana.
agree  Alexander Kupriyanchuk
12 hrs
  -> Thanks, Alexander.
agree  cyhul
6 days
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34 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ad hoc committee


Explanation:
http://otvety.google.ru/otvety/thread?tid=3317eb4c35f77969
как перевести "профильный комитет" на английский

http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&s=ad hoc committee

interprivate
Local time: 15:01
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
Notes to answerer
Asker: Interesting. I had already tried Multitran before asking this question, but I didn't find this there. It looks like a possibility.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Rachel Douglas: I think that "ad hoc committee" is often unsuitable for contexts in which the Russian is "профильный" because a committee's being ad hoc tends to imply that it's a short-term, just-for-this-case proposition. It's not always so, but very often it is.
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
specific office


Explanation:
I have the advantage to have never before run into this expression, hence ignorant of any dictionary definition. And here is my option to extend the assortment.
X-specific office (where X=sector, trade, branch, etc.)

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Note added at 12 hrs (2011-10-19 07:34:27 GMT)
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to the list of X values would add "target" too

Gennady Lapardin
Local time: 16:01
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
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