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17 Sep 2004, 05:22 PM | #1 |
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Question for native english speakers out there
Hi all,
Although I've kept a low profile, I've been discovered by my boss as someone who can be trusted with translating a dutch text into english and not make too much of a mess of it. However, just now I'm stumped, as he's asked me to translate our core business: "detachering". I'm a full time employee of our company, and they post me / I'm seconded to other companies (those being two verbs I found in the main dutch-english dictionary. In dutch, the verb is "detachering", but what is it called in english? Posting and seconding sound a bit... well, not sexy. -...ert |
17 Sep 2004, 06:10 PM | #2 |
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Perhaps assigning?
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17 Sep 2004, 09:31 PM | #3 |
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Certainly in the IT field such assigned staff are called "contract" workers and thay may be self-employed or employed by a "contract agency".
The supply of general office staff on a short-medium term assignment is done by a "temp agency" who supply "temp workers" or just ""temps". The posher kind of temp agencies will call themselves a "Staff" or "Staffing Agency". A general, very upmarket name might be "Consulting Agency" In general the type of firm you work for is an "Agency" with a qualifying adjective. For instance my son is a student nurse who works for a "Nursing Agency" who supply nursing/care staff to various organizations. In fact "supplying" might be the English verb you are looking for. The only exception to this might be a "Recruitment Agency" who do not hire-out their own staff to other companies, but rather find potential new employees for those companies. |
19 Sep 2004, 06:12 PM | #4 |
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Contracted (Contractor) employee either from an agency or from the firm itself.
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