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CORRESPONDENCE CLASS [6 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

correspondence : an item in the "Documentary Objects" class of the "Communication Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

correspondance : objet de la classe «Objets documentaires» de la catégorie «Objets de communication».

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Office Equipment and Supplies
DEF

A class of dictation equipment designed for local and/or remote point-of-dictation, multi-originator facilities where all dictation is pooled in a central recorder or "tank". The dictator accesses the system via a personal microphone or handset interfaced network. One or more typist-transcriptionists continually monitor the tank and transcribe dictated correspondence. Central systems may be configured to handle from two to an unlimited number of dictators.

OBS

centralized dictation system: term standardized by ISO and AFNOR.

Key term(s)
  • central dictation
  • centralized dictation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et fournitures de bureau
DEF

Installation permettant de dicter à partir de postes répartis en différents endroits et d'enregistrer la parole sur l'une quelconque des machines d'un groupe central.

OBS

système centralisé de dictée : terme et définition normalisés par l'AFNOR; définition reproduite avec son autorisation.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
CONT

The purpose of job evaluation is to arrive at the determination of the relative rank of positions within a class. Organization or industry. The purpose of job matching is to determine the degree of comparability between jobs in particular organizations to comparable jobs in other organizations. The two processes are separate although share common principles(i. e. principle of significant difference, of best correspondence).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
DEF

Principe selon lequel les postes faisant partie d'une organisation doivent être suffisamment distincts du point de vue de leur valeur respective de ceux d'une organisation différente.

Spanish

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Record 4 1992-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Theory
CONT

The purpose of job evaluation is to arrive at the determination of the relative rank of positions within a class. Organization or industry. The purpose of job matching is to determine the degree of comparability between jobs in particular organizations to comparable jobs in other organizations. The two processes are separate although share common principles(i. e. principle of significant difference of best correspondence).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories de la gestion
DEF

Principe selon lequel les postes faisant partie d'une organisation doivent être suffisamment identiques du point de vue de leur valeur respective à ceux d'une organisation semblable.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation and Interpretation
CONT

A... distinction must be made between textual equivalence and formal correspondence(...). A formal correspondent... is any target-language category(unit, class, structure, element of structure, etc.) which can be said to occupy, as nearly as possible, the "same" place in the "economy" of the target language as the given source-language category occupies in the source language.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction et interprétation
OBS

Source: Brian Harris, Département de linguistique et langues modernes, U. d'Ottawa, Ottawa (1976).

Spanish

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Record 6 1980-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education (General)
DEF

a form of class or correspondence course for adults, less extended and formalized than regular courses offered by colleges or universities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)
CONT

Les cours "de brève durée" existants n'apportent (...) ni une garantie de situation sur le plan professionnel ni les connaissances étendues indispensables (...)

Spanish

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