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This question was closed without grading. Reason: Answer found elsewhere
Jun 16, 2014 13:01
9 yrs ago
French term

développe ce qui est nécessaire

French to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) in a Framework Agreement
As part of the duties of the Responsable d'Affaire:

"Il établit le devis, dialogue avec les sous-trataints, développe ce qui est nécessaire, conduit les opérations, supervise et contrôle la production de bout en bout et enfin vérifie les factures."

Not entirely sure what this means.
Proposed translations (English)
4 take whatever steps he/she needs
4 carry out any further acts as may be required
Change log

Jun 16, 2014 13:06: writeaway changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Law: Contract(s)" to "Business/Commerce (general)" , "Field (write-in)" from "Framework Agreement" to "in a Framework Agreement"

Discussion

Pamela Hewitt (asker) Jun 21, 2014:
I chose Polyglot45's suggestion in the end - pity I can't award points.
Thank you anyhow
AllegroTrans Jun 16, 2014:
polyglot Do post your suggestion as an answer - it's natural sounding English
writeaway Jun 16, 2014:
action sounds good is neutral and avoids being specific as does 'développe' in this context.
Evgeny Artemov (X) Jun 16, 2014:
Or 'develop necessary measures (to be taken)
polyglot45 Jun 16, 2014:
take any necessary action seems bla bla enough to me
philgoddard Jun 16, 2014:
I may be wrong, but It sounds like meaningless waffle to me. You could either come up with some waffle of your own, or leave it out.

Proposed translations

42 mins

take whatever steps he/she needs

obviously develop here doesn't make much sense but 'développe' can also mean 'faire appel à' in the snese of being free to take what measures or call on such people as he needs to manage the work.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Given the formal context, a depersonlaized formulation would be more appropriate : take whatever steps are necessary. Also, not quite sure we know the meaning of "développe" here. This may be a sufficiently neutral solution.
18 mins
certainly a valid alternative although the sentence as a whole, though formal, is very evidently personalised
neutral AllegroTrans : needs to be depersonalised as Nikki suggests
9 hrs
neutral writeaway : see discussion box.
5 days
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1 hr

carry out any further acts as may be required

a neutral statement taking into account 'developper'
Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : actions imo.
2 hrs
neutral AllegroTrans : "acts" doesn't sound right
22 hrs
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