11:05 Jan 14, 2011 |
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO] Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / terminology | |||||||
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4 +1 | is a market leader in |
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5 | is a benchmark |
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4 | is outstanding in administration |
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is a market leader in Explanation: You are right |
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is outstanding in administration Explanation: In normal use, the term in this context refers more to quality rather than quantity. A company can be a "referência" without being the biggest, but by the quality of its management, its products, whatever. And thereby serve as an example for others to follow... An example is given in the link below: "A empresa AMK - Referência e vanguarda em tecnologia de acionamentos e controles" Reference: http://pt.amk-antriebe.de/empresa_quem_somos.asp |
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é referência is a benchmark Explanation: The selected fragment was semantically incomplete. In order to offer a balanced translation, I had to cut out "em administração" which, by itself, was neither here nor there, given that "cartões de crédito" is the main element. For the longer phrase have: ...é referência em administração e processamento de cartões de crédito para terceiros... ...is <a>a benchmark in third-party credit card administration and processing... Allow me to point out that the hyphen in third-party is mandatory, because this expression is a being used as a qualifier -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 hrs (2011-01-14 22:00:04 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- HTML typo: I meant to write ...is a benchmark in... |
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