Vorgaben
English translation: projections or target figures
| 09:14 Aug 5, 2000 |
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|  Selected response from: Ulrike Lieder (X) Local time: 05:53 | |||
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| na | see below |
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| na | handicap |
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| na | Advantages |
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| na | projections or target figures |
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| na | allegation, default, demand, target, total return |
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| na | see below |
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11 mins
see below Explanation: Vorgabe, without knowing the first part of the sentence, can be translated as a) competition and b) if it is a risk as handicap. |
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12 mins
handicap Explanation: This is the traditional meaning of Vorgaben, see Langenscheidt. |
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16 mins
Advantages Explanation: This sounds like the title of a paragraph. If it is an analysis of pros and cons regarding positioning of the company in the market, you could translate it as Advantages of the Commercial Organization in the Free Trade within Germany. Good Luck! :) |
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51 mins
projections or target figures Explanation: It should be noted that the translation of Vorgabe = handicap applies to sports, golf comes to mind. For your context, a term like "projection" or "target figures" or "targets" would probably fit much better. (These terms from Zahn, WB Bank- und Börsenwesen) Schäfer, Hyperbook Wirtschaftsenglisch, gives "performance target" Plug that into your sentence, and you have Inner-German (or Domestic) free trade performance targets for the sales organization [or something like that]. HTH! |
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58 mins
allegation, default, demand, target, total return Explanation: It would be hard to find a word that has changed so much in the last 10 or so years. It only meant handicap when my dictionaries, fairly new, were printed. Now the LEO German-English URL below gives these 5 definitions. I found 5000 hits on a search engine for Vorgabe+Software in German. The following is from Microsoft Glossary: Es wurden daher Vorgabewerte verwendet. So it can mean input values, too. It does not mean competition, the word occurs in dictionaries as the framework in which it is used to mean handicap. Reference: http://dict.leo.org/?search=Vorgabe&lang=en |
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see below Explanation: without more context (the full sentence or a longer passage could have been useful) I'd go with uel |
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