TERMIUM Plus®

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master file [5 records]

Record 1 2010-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
  • Government Accounting
  • Information Processing (Informatics)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
  • Comptabilité publique
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Fichier contenant des données de référence relativement permanentes (fichier d'inventaire, fichier clients, etc.) pour une application déterminée.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A file that is used as an authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent, even though its contents may change.

OBS

master file; main file: terms standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • masterfile

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
OBS

fichier maître : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Archivo (fichero) que contiene datos relativamente permanentes, que se usan como referencia, y que, generalmente, es periódicamente actualizado.

OBS

Es opuesto a archivo (fichero) de transacciones.

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Record 3 2005-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
  • Citizenship and Immigration
OBS

Immigration Appeal Board

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
OBS

Commission d'appel de l'immigration

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
CONT

The file to be updated is generally called the master file. The common [updating] procedure is to hold three generations of the file, referred to as grandfather file, father file and son file - son being the current generation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
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Record 5 1991-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Surveys

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)
OBS

L'expression "fichier principal" est plus usitée à Statistique Canada.

Spanish

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