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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

en formation réduite

English translation:

smaller group/small/er number of

Added to glossary by liz askew
Apr 6, 2011 18:10
13 yrs ago
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French term

en formation réduite

French to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. family
The heading for a section of a book about "familles recomposées"/ step-families is:
Au quotidien, la famille recomposée en formation réduite

I am unsure as to what "en formation réduite" could mean here (since I do not have the contents of the chapters). The book talks about how step-families can organise themselves and parents can cope with shared custody, deal with the descent of all the kids at the same time, deal with missing the kids when they are not there, etc...
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 smaller group/small/er number of
3 without all the trimmings
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Apr 11, 2011 14:49: liz askew Created KOG entry

Discussion

Gabrielle Leyden Apr 6, 2011:
blended families I believe "familles recomposées" are "blended families", although I also remember another term. "Step-family" refers to the unrelated or "new" family that one inherits when one's parent remarries.
meirs Apr 6, 2011:
maybe it is about the format of the presentation itself - in short (abridged) format - summary of, condensed, digest, etc.

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smaller group/small/er number of

Apprendre l'espagnole Espagne, apprendre espagnol a Madrid ... - [ Translate this page ]
Very small classes of maximum 4 students. ... en groupe réduit (4 étudiants max.) 2.Les classes suppl. ont lieu de 13:30 à 15:10, du lundi au vendredi. ... Entièrement sur mesure cette formation individuelle en langue espagnole est une ...
www.elemadrid.com/fr/programme-cours-espagnol.html - Cached - Similar

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Note added at 49 mins (2011-04-06 19:00:39 GMT)
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sorry
did not post all the references

I think here that “formation” = group



Revue de Presse - Gospel's Family
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En formation réduite, composée tout de même d'une trentaine de choristes, les Gospel'sFamily, de Bulligny, sont venus offrir une belle prestation à ...
www.gospelfamily.net/revue_de_presse.htm - Cached - Simila
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:exVkZT9...
Apprendre l'espagnole Espagne, apprendre espagnol a Madrid ...
- [ Translate this page ]
Very small classes of maximum 4 students. ... en groupe réduit (4 étudiants max.) 2.Les classes suppl. ont lieu de 13:30 à 15:10, du lundi au vendredi. ... Entièrement sur mesure cette formation individuelle en langue espagnole est une ...
www.elemadrid.com/fr/programme-cours-espagnol.html - Cached - Similar


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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-04-06 20:18:14 GMT)
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famille recomposée - Wiktionary
10 Sep 2010 ... famille recomposée. blended family (a stepfamily in which both new mates have one or more living kids from prior partners) ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/famille_recomposée - Cached

For the record I have never come across "blended family" in the whole of the time I have lived in the UK. "step-family" yes.
Note from asker:
Yes, I think you're right. I think it refers to when the members of the family who don't live there permanenty are not around. I might say something like the step-family at its reduced level/ on a smaller scale
Peer comment(s):
agree Gabrielle Leyden : the core blended family as opposed to the whole kit and caboodle
43 mins
Thank you!/Never, ever come upon "blended family" after 56 years in the UK!
agree Jocelyne S : "Reduced in size" might work too.
11 hrs
Thank you!
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without all the trimmings

formation réduite may come from military terminology; here is another (slightly humorous) way of turning around the idea of the "core blended family" or the "nuclear blended family"

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Note added at 1 hr (2011-04-06 19:56:11 GMT)
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More seriously, how about "in streamlined formation"?
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