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English translation: take over; take on; take responsibility for
| 02:56 Apr 3, 2013 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / courier services company outline | |||||||
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| 4 | take over; take on; take responsibility for |
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| 3 | incorporate |
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2 mins confidence: 
incorporate Explanation: off the top of my head -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 mins (2013-04-03 02:59:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or: receive -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 mins (2013-04-03 03:00:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- and I prefer this option -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 mins (2013-04-03 03:01:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- based on the "davon profitieren" but I think more context would help clarify this -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2013-04-03 03:03:23 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- maybe even "adopt" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2013-04-03 03:04:49 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or: "pinch" as in steal if we want to call a spade a spade -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2013-04-03 03:06:35 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think we have to include an element of clandestine profiting here so "pinch" might do it -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-04-03 04:28:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "adopt" in the figurative sense of course |
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5 hrs confidence:
take over; take on; take responsibility for Explanation: Odd wording in your text, but I think this is what they mean - or one of these, anyway. Your own idea of "collect" isn't far off the mark, either, but I'm not sure if it "incorporates" the idea of subsequent handling in quite the same way. |
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