Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
"un renforcement des moyens humains"
English translation:
expanding the workforce
Added to glossary by
Ysabel812
Jan 3, 2008 12:37
16 yrs ago
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French term
"un renforcement des moyens humains"
French to English
Bus/Financial
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
Any better way to say this than "new hires?"
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | expanding the workforce |
Expialidocio (X)
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| 4 +2 | strengthening/reinforcement of human resources |
mistahara (X)
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| 4 | "a reinforcement of the staff" |
Vittorio Ferretti
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| 4 | building human resource capacities |
Francis Marche
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Proposed translations
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expanding the workforce
another option
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: or even expand human resources. Expand sounds like the right word.
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TY & Happy New Year!
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CMJ_Trans (X)
: boosting the workforce
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TY & Happy New Year!
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Sandra Petch
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TY & Happy New Year!
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Julie Barber
: agree with W/A too. Although not boosting as that could also have other meanings....
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TY & Happy New Year!
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Vittorio Ferretti
: "expand" implies only "more quantity" and excludes "more quality"
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katsy
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I decided to go with this one. I like "expand" as well. Thanks to everyone for your contributions."
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strengthening/reinforcement of human resources
"strenghtening of human resources" is a common term in HR strategies
"Development and strenghtening of human resources" - a standard phrase
http://www.google.ro/search?hl=ro&as_qdr=all&q= "strengtheni...
"Development and strenghtening of human resources" - a standard phrase
http://www.google.ro/search?hl=ro&as_qdr=all&q= "strengtheni...
Peer comment(s):
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Michael H G (X)
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Thank you, Islander!
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Assimina Vavoula
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Thanks, Assimina!
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Vittorio Ferretti
Works in field
Author of renowned dictionary
Native in: German 
, Italian 
Works in: English to German, Italian to German, Spanish to German, and 1 more.
"a reinforcement of the staff"
an option
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-01-03 15:04:11 GMT)
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For julebarba: funny, in my Google display, all the entries of the first page are "reinforcement of the staff" hits; the first one is from WIPO
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_pbc_9/wo_pbc_9...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-01-03 15:04:11 GMT)
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For julebarba: funny, in my Google display, all the entries of the first page are "reinforcement of the staff" hits; the first one is from WIPO
http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/wo_pbc_9/wo_pbc_9...
Peer comment(s):
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Julie Barber
: I don't think this works in English.That has no meaning - that's the number of hits combined for each word. I just looked and couldn't see an appropriate example on the first pages at all
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it works in 34,000 Google hits
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Francis Marche
France
France
Native in French
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English
Works in field
France
36 years experience on 4 continents
Native in: French , English
Works in: English to French, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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8
building human resource capacities
Over 700 ghits for this one.
The "capacity-building" thing used ad nauseam in corporate literature is "renforcement des capacités" in French. That's standard glossary stuff. The term is ubiquitous.
"moyens" and "capacités" are synonymous in this type of context.
The "capacity-building" thing used ad nauseam in corporate literature is "renforcement des capacités" in French. That's standard glossary stuff. The term is ubiquitous.
"moyens" and "capacités" are synonymous in this type of context.
Peer comment(s):
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rkillings
: One hopes they're after capabilities rather than mere capacity.
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Discussion
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