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Lebensgrundlage

English translation: life force, life blood, need x to live

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German term or phrase:Lebensgrundlage
English translation:life force, life blood, need x to live
Entered by: davidgreen

11:11 Mar 10, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
German term or phrase: Lebensgrundlage
Informationen sind die Lebensgrundlage von Organisationen.

You all have any better ideas than this one?:
Information is the life force of organisations.
davidgreen
life force
Explanation:
i think your suggestion is the best one not need to look further
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milinad
Local time: 02:21
Grading comment
thanks, all of you very good suggestions, I'm going to go with my original idea (sounds best in context of entire document)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4thrive
Terri Doerrzapf
4organisations cannot live without informatin
Armorel Young
4life-line; life-blood
KirstyMacC (X)
3life force
milinad
3absolute necessity
Melanie Nassar


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
thrive


Explanation:
I would turn it around.

Organizations thrive on information.

HTH

Terri Doerrzapf
United States
Local time: 15:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
organisations cannot live without informatin


Explanation:
Organisations need information to survive/live.

Another freely translated version!

Armorel Young
Local time: 21:51
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 156
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
life force


Explanation:
i think your suggestion is the best one not need to look further

milinad
Local time: 02:21
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
thanks, all of you very good suggestions, I'm going to go with my original idea (sounds best in context of entire document)
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
absolute necessity


Explanation:
Information is an absolute necessity for organizations.
Implying they can't exist without it.

Melanie Nassar
United States
Local time: 23:51
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
life-line; life-blood


Explanation:
Pref. hyphenated. But not livelihood for an org.

KirstyMacC (X)
Local time: 21:51
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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