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répartition des sièges

English translation: Composition

08:15 Dec 12, 2019
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / representation within a company
French term or phrase: répartition des sièges
"Répartition des sièges au Social Economique Central: 8 titulaires et 8 suppléants"
elizabeth_med
France
Local time: 11:42
English translation:Composition
Explanation:
I can see several possibilities (distribution, breakdown, division, etc) but I think this works best.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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ormiston
Local time: 11:42
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Summary of answers provided
3 +7Composition
ormiston
4 +3allocation (split or 'carve-up') of seats
Adrian MM.


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Composition


Explanation:
I can see several possibilities (distribution, breakdown, division, etc) but I think this works best.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

ormiston
Local time: 11:42
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Wendy Cummings
14 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
2 hrs
agree  philgoddard: Or membership.
3 hrs
agree  AllegroTrans
5 hrs
agree  Daryo
11 hrs
agree  B D Finch: Yes, no need to mention "seats".
1 day 3 hrs
agree  Ph_B (X): with "distribution" more than "composition" - I think répartition denotes "split between/breakdown" rather than "made up of".
1 day 11 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
allocation (split or 'carve-up') of seats


Explanation:
au Social Economique Central: query> on the Central Economic (&) Welfare Committee.

No need to dodge the literal term of seats, if on a Company Board or Committee.

Carve-up - if an active process and whilst/ though idiomatic - might, depending on the target-readership and context, be the right e.g. journalistic register, as it used to be for the FT spin-off mag I once worked for.


    Reference: http://iate.europa.eu/search/standard/result/1576147823564/1
Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: "Allocation" yes, but you cannot possibly use "carve up" and daft suggestions like that don't help non-native EN speakers
4 hrs
  -> The asker seems to be native English, plus the carve-up is in inverted commas, is for info. and was a translation technique I learned as a financial journalist.
agree  Wendy Streitparth: Prefer allocation to composition, though I think distribution also works. / ditto.
6 hrs
  -> Merci vielmals! I still can't work out what the composition is of, but - at school on our old patch of Epsom and Ewell - I used to write many of them.
agree  Ph_B (X): "allocation", but not "composition", which I wrote in Paris and then made people write in my (not so old) patch of Dorking & Horsham.
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Merci and thanks for your intriguing allusion to Surrey/ Sussex county (school) lines that I grew up - or down - on.
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