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Conges terminology question

234 months ago

Christina Seiler (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Business / Marketing / Financial
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	einarbeiten
Context:	Aufgrund der kurzen Zeit dürft
Keywords:	-

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234 months ago

wrote:

Due to the shortage of time, we might have difficulties in acquainting a new person with (familiarizing a new person in) the case.

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234 months ago

Maggie At Your Service wrote:

Due to the shortage of time we may encounter difficulties with the introduction of a new person into the case.

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234 months ago

Don Cowan wrote:

Because of the shortage of time we will have problems if we should need to train another person.

My comment:

einarbeiten = to train

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234 months ago

David Moore wrote:

familiarise

My comment:

"...to familiarise anyone else with the facts (of the case)".
This is clearly pretty urgent, and not just a case where someone is being appointed to a new position.

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234 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

This is the only answer that fits in this case, the rest is fine in general but not here. The meaning/reason here is that they are not capable of making another person familiar with the case in the short period of time.

234 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

I agree. I think you could say '...familiarise anyone else with the case', though (bit more streamlined!)

234 months ago

David Moore wrote:

to train / break in / introduce / be acquainted with

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234 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

integrate

My comment:

Owing to time pressures we are likely to have difficulty in integrating another person in the case