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208 months ago

art1234 (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

English > German

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

meets +/- (plus minus))

Context:

This shipment meets +/- (plus/minus) mandatory guidelines for both size breakdown and quantities per color for the included mpso (must purchase order)

Does this +/- refer to "meets" (so it does not meet them completely) or to "mandatory guidelines" (so they are not so..."mandatory")?

 

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208 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Entspricht +/-

My comment:

d,h etwa , keine genaue Informationen

208 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de  See profile wrote:

entspricht +/- den Richtlinien/Vorgaben

My comment:

warum ändern?

Das geht im Deutschen genau so!!

208 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de  See profile wrote:

im Allgemeinen/ im Großen und Ganzen

My comment:

ich denke auch, daß sich das "+/-" auf "meets" bezieht, im Sinne von "Im Allgemeinen" oder "Im großen und Ganzen"

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208 months ago

daniela  See profile wrote:

mehr oder weniger

208 months ago

Aharon303  See profile wrote:

Diese Lieferung entspricht ziemlich genau den zwangsmaessigen Anforderungen

208 months ago

West-Ost Übersetzungen  See profile wrote:

etspricht in etwa den Anforderungen

My comment:

Plus/minus bezieht sich meiner Meinung nach auf "meets".

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

208 months ago

Barbara Tinschert  See profile wrote:

Richtig! Es bezieht sich auf "meets". Also liegt "entspricht in etwa" / "im Großen und Ganzen".

208 months ago

Tom Giebler Translations  See profile wrote:

..

My comment:

I would understand this in the sense that the guidelines are met within a certain tolerance zone.