Beteiligung
English translation: investment(s)
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| 16:22 Feb 4, 2012 |
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|  Selected response from: Wendy Streitparth Germany Local time: 05:29 | ||||||
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| 5 +1 | (here) is invested |
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| 4 | Participation |
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| 3 | contribution |
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| 3 | investment |
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33 mins confidence: 
contribution Explanation: I fear this could mean many different things, but contribution should cover most bases here |
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2 hrs confidence:
investment Explanation: This would definitely seem a possibility, especially as Bilanzen are mentioned, though as trsk 2000 says, it could be many things. The Investment Office oversees the University's investments http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/investment/ Investments in defence companies http://www.soas.ac.uk/infocomp/foi/log/2011/investments-in-d... |
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15 hrs confidence:
Participation Explanation: At the (Austrian) company I work for we always use "participation" to translate "Beteiligung" ... Example sentence(s):
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19 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1(here) is invested Explanation: You're absolutely right that "Beteiligung" is one of those weasel words that can have different meanings in different (but still closely related contexts): investment, equity investment, interest, stake, investee, and so on. But never "participation" please in the sense of "equity interest", that really is a severe case of translatorese (despite what EU directives might say). In your case, "GmbHs mit [ABC] Beteiligung" means "GmbHs, in denen [ABC] eine Beteiligung hält", which we can translate most succinctly as "GmbHs in which [ABC] is invested". I hope this is clear... |
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