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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

abbreviation: IP

English translation:

IP interprofessionnel = IP inter-professional

Added to glossary by Drmanu49
Apr 10, 2008 13:08
16 yrs ago
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French term

abbreviation: IP

French to English Tech/Engineering Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Don't have much to go on. From a document describing where sales come from in a body shop:
PR : 63 % environ, dont 18 à 20 % d’IP …

PR in this case = pièces de rechange
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 IP interprofessionnel = IP inter-professional
Change log

Apr 16, 2008 22:22: Drmanu49 changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/56668">Andrew Bruch's</a> old entry - "abbreviation: IP"" to ""IP interprofessionnel = IP inter-professional ""

Discussion

Andrew Bruch (asker) Apr 10, 2008:
Ingredients Peintures.... A colleague suggested this as the shop also has a substantial paint business. I'm a little unsure if paint ingredients would be included in a list of spare parts... but it makes a certain sense, otherwise I'd be all for going with Drmanu49's brilliant finding. Thoughts anyone?
Tony M Apr 10, 2008:
I suspect it must mean either manufacturer's parts, or the reverse, generic / 3rd party parts — but I can't for the life of me imagine what the letters IP might actually stand for...

Proposed translations

+1
13 mins
Selected

IP interprofessionnel = IP inter-professional

Directeur Ventes Pièces de. Rechange et Ventes Services ... Annexe 4 : Principes et genèse de l’accord interprofessionnel sur la résorption des stocks ...
www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Accord_cadre_pour... -

viii. to involve more actively local actors, inter-professional groups and .... the manufacturers of car spare parts and sports equipment are also alarmed. ...
assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc04/EDOC10069.htm - 54k -
Peer comment(s):
neutral Tony M : Well, if that were to be the case, then we'd probably refer to that as 'trade sales OR customers' in English; 'interprofessional' is not common/natural in EN
2 mins
maybe.
agree Chris Collins (X) : Sounds right. Sales to other bodyshops
16 mins
Thank you Chris.
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