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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

guichet

English translation:

counter, window; branch, office, bank, establishment.

Added to glossary by Carlos Alvarez
Jan 6, 2006 10:05
19 yrs ago
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French term

guichets

Non-PRO French to English Bus/Financial Finance (general) documentary credit
PAR LE DEBIT DE NOTRE COMPTE AUPRES DE *** APRES RECEPTION DES DOCUMENTS RECONNUS CONFORMES A VOS GUICHETS
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 bank

Proposed translations

+6
17 mins
Selected

bank

if it is a bank; otherwise, establishment
Peer comment(s):
agree Bourth (X) : Literally "at our counters", but prob. "in our offices". "guichet" (= "wicket", like a wicket gate) is the "window" they used to have in banks and still have in bureaux de change.
7 mins
agree kfpdavis : they used to call those wickets "cashier's cages", back in the old days when banks had bars in front of the cashiers to protect them
19 hrs
agree Gina W : exactly what Bourth wrote
1 day 7 hrs
agree Sarah Walls : agree with Bourth
1 day 12 hrs
agree Adam Warren : "un guichet" is "a branch"; "at your bank" by construction
3 days 5 hrs
agree dalvaro (X) : Right. The teller window technically, or at your bank. At your bank's tellers.
4 days
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