Encours

English translation: loans outstanding/outstanding debt

10:54 May 13, 2000
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: Encours
Hello All, can someone please provide the definitive translation - if there is one - of 'encours' as I am never quite sure how to translate it. Here are two sentences: "Les ménages ont encore réduit leurs dépenses, et corrélativement les banques ont diminué leurs encours de prêts," and "Les échéances les plus longues se sont bien comportées, surtout aux Etats-Unis, où le Gouvernement a procédé au rachat d’une partie de l’encours de la dette."

Thanks in advance.
CBG
English translation:loans outstanding/outstanding debt
Explanation:
Encours just means "amount outstanding" or "outstanding amounts". But in the context above I would use "loans outstanding" for the first one and "outstanding debt" for the second.

Cheers,

Béa
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Summary of answers provided
naoutstanding loans/outstanding debt
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
naloans outstanding / debt outstanding
Yolanda Broad
naoutstanding debt, outstanding loan
valfrhg
naloans outstanding/outstanding debt
Béatrice Huret-Morton
naencours
jyxxer


  

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11 mins
outstanding loans/outstanding debt


Explanation:
In bank accounting, encours would be loans not yet paid off by consumers: outstanding loans.
In macro (country) accounting, it would be the outstanding debt. What hasn't been paid off.
And of course, in manufacturing, it refers to "in-progress" products; not yet finished. Hope this helps.

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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15 mins
loans outstanding / debt outstanding


Explanation:
English:Loans Banking Government Accounting outstanding loans s CORRECT,PLUR loans outstanding s CORRECT,PLUR loans receivable s CORRECT,PLUR English:Loans Government Accounting outstanding debt s CORRECT debt outstanding s CORRECT EX - The fiscal outlook is largely dependent upon economic developments and the interaction of revenues and program spending to these changes. Public debt charges are determined by the stock of debt outstanding and by interest rate developments, the latter which can react to both economic and non-economic events.


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Yolanda Broad
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24 mins
outstanding debt, outstanding loan


Explanation:
(l'encours = what remains to be paid.)
outstanding debt (Robert et Collins du management) outstanding loan (Grand dictionnaire terminologique 2000). Hope this helps.
sincerely,
Val

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1 hr
loans outstanding/outstanding debt


Explanation:
Encours just means "amount outstanding" or "outstanding amounts". But in the context above I would use "loans outstanding" for the first one and "outstanding debt" for the second.

Cheers,

Béa

Béatrice Huret-Morton
Local time: 00:11
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5 hrs
encours


Explanation:
The total (of bills remitted by the client to the banker) running (at any particular time).
From: French Commercial Dict., Kettridge
Best,
Warwick

jyxxer
Australia
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