Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

réaliser un point trimestriel

English translation:

quarterly review

Added to glossary by TesCor -
Jun 24, 2004 17:02
19 yrs ago
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French term

réaliser un point trimestriel

French to English Marketing Management
Avec les responsables de services, nous réalisons un point trimestriel (au cours de la revue de Direction) pour optimiser la réactité de Company X et déclencher des actions correctives et préventives.

statistics, analysis, am I on the right track?
Proposed translations (English)
4 +4 quarterly review
5 +1 quarterly review or quarterly report
3 +1 quaterly review

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Jun 28, 2004:
Thank you Julia. Good luck with the arrival of Alexandra.
Julia Gal Jun 25, 2004:
To be honest, I'm not really bothered about the points, as long as I was able to be of help here. I have plenty of time on my hands at the moment, as I'm sitting around waiting for my baby to put in an appearance (due any day now!)...
Non-ProZ.com Jun 25, 2004:
Between Julia and Jane, I've lost track of the points awarded to them. And now, as luck should have it, both of you send me the same answer (which I've used, by the way) at the same time. What is one to do? Seriously, how do I proceed here?

Proposed translations

+4
7 mins
French term (edited): r�aliser un point trimestriel
Selected

quarterly review

"Faire un point" generally involves reviewing results, objectives achieved, numbers of complaints, improvements made, feedback received...
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway
8 mins
agree Tom Bishop : Absolutely.
31 mins
agree Adriana Adarve (X)
4 hrs
agree Charlie Bavington : In this context, review is probably the right register, altho my ex-boss in Paris used to like to "faire le point" in 10 minutes by the coffee machine :-)
7 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "THanks Julia. I decided to go with yours because if I didn't grade it, the system would have done it for me and picked your answer anyway. "
+1
7 mins
French term (edited): r�aliser un point trimestriel

quarterly review or quarterly report

faire le point sur quelque chose= to review, to go over, to summarize, to report pros and cons....here it means review..they just didn't want to repeat the word in the parenthesis.....

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Note added at 7 mins (2004-06-24 17:09:38 GMT)
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it does not have a statistics meaning per se at all

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-06-24 17:10:12 GMT)
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if it is for sales, it could be:

go over the figures...a wrap-up of the figures....
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway
9 mins
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+1
10 mins
French term (edited): r�aliser un point trimestriel

quaterly review

Faire le point: to take stock
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : quarterly
5 mins
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