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up-sizing

Portuguese translation: expansão (da empresa)

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English term or phrase:up-sizing
Portuguese translation:expansão (da empresa)
Entered by: Bett

13:09 Jun 29, 2010
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Manufacturing / production management
English term or phrase: up-sizing
"... The frequent occurrence of problems in the initial stage of operation may be considered unavoidable in the processes of the incessant progress of technologies and the up-sizing, speed increase, and automation of equipment."
Bett
Local time: 23:07
expansão (da empresa)
Explanation:
Ver abaixo.

Upsize - to increase in size, as by hiring additional employees; expand: to upsize a business (Dictionary.com)
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Artur Jorge Martins
Portugal
Local time: 03:07
Grading comment
thank
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2expansão (da empresa)
Artur Jorge Martins
4expansão / ampliação
Marlene Curtis
4modernização
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4sobredimensionamento
Leonor Machado
2 +1aumento
Edna Almeida


Discussion entries: 3





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
expansão (da empresa)


Explanation:
Ver abaixo.

Upsize - to increase in size, as by hiring additional employees; expand: to upsize a business (Dictionary.com)

Artur Jorge Martins
Portugal
Local time: 03:07
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thank
Notes to answerer
Asker: thank you


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
6 mins
  -> Obrigado, Salvador!
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
20 mins
  -> Obrigado, Isabel!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
aumento


Explanation:
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Note added at 5 mins (2010-06-29 13:14:20 GMT)
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up·size (psz)
v. up·sized, up·siz·ing, up·siz·es
v.intr.
To become greater or larger: "the chief executives ... saw the combined value of their share options upsize by $36.6 million on the day [the] layoffs were announced" (The Economist).
v.tr.
To make greater or larger: "My plan will ... upsize the amount of money Americans get to keep" (Bob Dole).

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Note added at 7 mins (2010-06-29 13:16:25 GMT)
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aumento ou crescimento.

Edna Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 03:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral: ou crescimento
0 min
  -> Obrigada.
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
expansão / ampliação


Explanation:
The opposite of downsizing (redução de tamanho).

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Note added at 9 mins (2010-06-29 13:18:46 GMT)
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Upsizing
This word has turned up on occasion in recent years in the computing field, where it is used as the opposite of the much more common downsizing with the sense: “(the action of) replacing a smaller system with a larger one, especially one with networking capabilities” (or, as some wags have put it: “bringing the mainframe back from the dead”).

http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ups1.htm

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 22:07
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 132
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
modernização


Explanation:
Tratando-se do "up-sizing" do equipamento, diria assim em PT(pt), espero que seja útil...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 03:07
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 36
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sobredimensionamento


Explanation:


Leonor Machado
Local time: 03:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 27
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