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Jan 13, 2009 20:42
15 yrs ago
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English term

lockout

English to French Marketing Linguistics
In a product demo context: "A general overview will give you an opportunity to highlight the company's **lockouts**..."
a listing of applications and specs for the product then follows.

are the key features?
fonctionnalités clés?

ou bien autre chose?

Merci!
Proposed translations (French)
4 verrouillage
4 dispositifs de verrouillage
3 -1 lock-out
3 -1 verrouillage / verrous

Discussion

Martine Brault (asker) Jan 13, 2009:
your gut instinct is fine :) Thanks Tony, indeed, in the text underneath, there are highlights on features offered only by this manufacturer.
Tony M Jan 13, 2009:
lockouts / knockouts Well, unless these are features that are so good they 'lock out the competition from the market place', my instinctive response would be that these are 'knockout features'.

I freely admit, though, that I am not at all 'into' this 'marketing scene', so I'm working purely on gut instinct.
Martine Brault (asker) Jan 13, 2009:
Tony: It could be, but my question remains: The only knockouts I am familiar with in a Marketing context are copies of brand names and it is definitely not the case here. The machine is made by a major manufacturer.
Tony M Jan 13, 2009:
Is it at all conceivable that this might be a typo for 'knockouts'? — given that 'K' and 'L' are adjacent keys, if someone inadvertently typed 'lnockouts', a spell-checker might be more likely to correct that to 'lockouts'
Martine Brault (asker) Jan 13, 2009:
un photocopieur
Martine Brault (asker) Jan 13, 2009:
Arnold007: C'est un appareil de bureau, pas un logiciel
Martine Brault (asker) Jan 13, 2009:
or are they... unique features = fonctionnalités/caractéristiques uniques?
Arnold T. Jan 13, 2009:
Qu'est-ce qu'il fait ce logiciel ?

Proposed translations

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13 mins

lock-out

Dans le context des entreprises, un "lock-out" est une fermeture provisoire. Mais parce que vous donnez peu de contexte, je ne suis pas certain de ma solution.
Example sentence:

Le lock-out est une fermeture provisoire d’une entreprise, décidée par l’employeur pour répondre à un conflit collectif (grève).

Reference:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-out

Peer comment(s):
disagree Tony M : Context or not, this couldn't really make any sense at all in the situation described.
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-1
12 mins

verrouillage / verrous

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Note added at 13 mins (2009-01-13 20:56:07 GMT)
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Pour un photocopieur, c'est très possible.
Peer comment(s):
disagree Tony M : I'm pretty sure this is specialist marketing jargon and has nothing directly to do with hardware.
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14 mins

verrouillage

les verrouillages configurés pour la société considérée - ou les configurations ...
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34 mins

dispositifs de verrouillage

Sécurité informatique
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