This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. French to English
  3. Paper / Paper Manufacturing

papiers dégriffés

English translation: unwatermarked paper

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
French term or phrase:papiers dégriffés
English translation:unwatermarked paper

12:10 Jan 11, 2008
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Paper / Paper Manufacturing
French term or phrase: papiers dégriffés
It comes from a firm's profit and loss account: the proportion of their revenue they make from 'papiers dégriffés'
Barry Cooney
unwatermarked paper
Explanation:
or "unembossed paper"?
Selected response from:

Jonathan MacKerron
Grading comment
Thanks Jonathan
Perhaps I should have pointed out that it concerns the recycling of this type of paper. Don't know it that affects your interpretation at all
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 -1unwatermarked paper
Jonathan MacKerron


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): -1
unwatermarked paper


Explanation:
or "unembossed paper"?

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
Grading comment
Thanks Jonathan
Perhaps I should have pointed out that it concerns the recycling of this type of paper. Don't know it that affects your interpretation at all

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Michael GREEN: I am too late to affect Asker's decision, but "papiers dégriffés" are "unbranded papers" (a common marketing ploy in the paper industry - where I spent 25 years - "unwatermarked paper" is "papier sans filigrane" (99% of paper produced globally)
1558 days
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search