Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Managing directors
French translation:
directeur général
English term
Managing directors
Mais j'aimerais savoir ce que vous pensez de sa traduction dans le contexte suivant.
Dans la mesure où j'ai constamment traduit "directors" par "administrateurs",
j'hésite à traduire le "managing director"par "directeur général" car on peut aussi dire "administrateur délégué".
Qu'en pensez-vous?
Voici un peu de contexte:
MANAGING DIRECTORS
The directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to be a managing director(s) of the Company, and may fix his or their remuneration either by way of salary or commission or by conferring a right to participation in the profits of the Company, or by a combination of two or more of those modes, and may provide as a term of his appointment that there be paid to him, his widow or other dependents, a pension or gratuity on retirement or death.
Every managing director shall, subject to the provisions of any contract between himself and the Company with regard to his employment as such managing director, be liable to be dismissed or removed by the board of directors, and another person may be appointed in his place.
A managing director shall be subject to the same provisions as regards resignation, removal and disqualification as the other directors, and if he ceases to hold the office of director for any cause he shall ipso facto cease to be a managing director.
| 4 +3 | directeur général |
Francois Boye
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| 4 -1 | délégué général |
Kevin Oheix
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Proposed translations
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Native in: French 
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directeur général
The Managing Director (MD) is the most senior role in any company. With ultimate responsibility for the company's performance the Managing Director will report in to the Chairman and shareholders whilst leading a Board of Directors.
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Daryo
: there is some connections, but you can have only one "directeur général", so how you are going to square that with "managing director*s* (of one and same company)" ???
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GILLES MEUNIER
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délégué général
https://ehtta.eu/portal/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/EHTTA_-_L...
(Page 1 et 7 pour la traduction)
"approval of the appointment of Pieter Coopmans as managing director (délégué à la gestion journalière) of the Company"
https://gd.lu/resa/2wrsLR
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Daryo
: absolutely no way - you don't get company directors called that / 1st ref is NOT a commercial entity - some kind of local promotion board / sec. ref they are talking in fact of "fondé de pouvoir" in another name.
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Discussion
https://www.bing.com/search?q=directeurs generaux dans un gr...
Toutefois, il y d'autres définitions de cette fonction qui ne supposent pas un "remplacement de" et le second paragraphe précise bien "as the other directors et surtout, and if he ceases to hold the office of director... he shall ipso facto cease to be a managing director. J'aurais donc tendance à utiliser "administrateur délégué", ne serait-ce que pour éviter la confusion avec l'éventuel "directeur général" employé (non élu) de la Société.