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Grand Carénage

English translation: Grand Carénage [proper name]

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French term or phrase:Grand Carénage
English translation:Grand Carénage [proper name]
Entered by: Tony M

11:37 Apr 30, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Names (personal, company) / mentioned in a catering contract
French term or phrase: Grand Carénage
Marché n° ABC « Grand Carénage – Prestations de restauration collective sur les sites XYZ pour les sociétés prestataires »
Poornima Iyengar
Local time: 18:12
Grand Carénage
Explanation:
It is the proper name given to EDF's refurbishment programme for its nuclear power plants — as such, I wouldn't translate it.

The meaning would be something like "major refit" in a maritime sense, but this hardly makes a great deal of sense in the context of this land-based operation; it is clearly just being used as a name by which to refer to the programme as a whole.
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Tony M
France
Local time: 14:42
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3 +2Grand Carénage
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Grand Carénage


Explanation:
It is the proper name given to EDF's refurbishment programme for its nuclear power plants — as such, I wouldn't translate it.

The meaning would be something like "major refit" in a maritime sense, but this hardly makes a great deal of sense in the context of this land-based operation; it is clearly just being used as a name by which to refer to the programme as a whole.

Tony M
France
Local time: 14:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: precious little to do with any legalese imo. Basic translation rule: names aren't translated. Simple as that.
4 mins
  -> Thanks, W/A! Indeed, you beat me to it ;-)
agree  AllegroTrans: yes, best treated as a proper noun (but explanation in brackets would not go amiss)
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, C! Given that this 'marché' is probably part of a much bigger whole, I suspect the reader, if they need to know, will already be aware of the wider situation, so an explanation may or may not be needed.
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