manquants physiques

English translation: missing items

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French term or phrase:manquants physiques
English translation:missing items
Entered by: Catharine Cellier-Smart

08:49 Sep 29, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: manquants physiques
Chez Dior, avant que le dernier colis ne passe à la pesée est imprimé un delivery order (formulaire ZLREBLIV) tenant compte des manquants physiques qui est ensuite inséré dans le dernier colis.
shweta kheria
Local time: 21:36
missing items
Explanation:
this is my understanding of it

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Note added at 50 mins (2010-09-29 09:40:10 GMT)
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I omitted to explain my answer. I don't think that the parcel in question is composed of order shortfalls, rather that items are missing from the order and this is detailed on the delivery order document. Presumably the missing items will be sent another time.
I imagine that one order can be composed of several or many parcels, but the delivery order which details missing items from the order is only inserted in the last parcel. (Hopefully the recipient will know which is the 'last' parcel if they are all delivered together at the same time !)
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Catharine Cellier-Smart
Reunion
Local time: 20:06
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1missing items
Catharine Cellier-Smart
3 +1Order shortfall
Andrew Bramhall
4 -1defects
Lucy Hill


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
defects


Explanation:
lietrally "physical lackings"

Lucy Hill
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Andrew Bramhall: How could that fit into the answer in this context?
5 mins
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Order shortfall


Explanation:
"At the House of Dior, before the last parcel goes to be weighed, a delivery order note is printed off detailing the order shortfalls (from previously despatched parts of the order) which have been included in this last parcel". (In order to make the entire order complete, is how I read it)


Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  amanda solymosi
2 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
missing items


Explanation:
this is my understanding of it

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Note added at 50 mins (2010-09-29 09:40:10 GMT)
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I omitted to explain my answer. I don't think that the parcel in question is composed of order shortfalls, rather that items are missing from the order and this is detailed on the delivery order document. Presumably the missing items will be sent another time.
I imagine that one order can be composed of several or many parcels, but the delivery order which details missing items from the order is only inserted in the last parcel. (Hopefully the recipient will know which is the 'last' parcel if they are all delivered together at the same time !)

Catharine Cellier-Smart
Reunion
Local time: 20:06
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  kashew: Seems safest in an unclear description.
3 mins
  -> thank you kashew !

neutral  Andrew Bramhall: They are missing items, yes, but they probably originated from unavailability at the time of despatch rather than having been overlooked or forgotten, which is what your answer implies. /// What is an order shortfall if not items that are missing?
5 mins
  -> see note above// your answer implies that the last parcel is composed of items that have been lacking from other orders. In my mind the last parcel doesn't contain these missing items.
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