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Record 1 2025-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Hotel Industry (General)
CONT

Once the guest is roomed, his chief contact with the front office will be through the mail and information clerk-a one-person position in medium-sized hotels. In some hotels the room clerk may also handle mail, messages, information, and keys. In large metropolitan hotels there is a higher degree of specialization, and often there may be room clerks, mail clerks, information clerks, and key clerks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Hôtellerie (Généralités)
DEF

Employé spécialisé chargé, entre autres tâches, de la distribution du courrier aux clients. Ce poste est généralement tenu par un chasseur ou un groom.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A record that associates a domain name with another domain name of a host that will handle mail for the first domain name.(J. S. Quarterman, The E-Mail Companion, 1994, p. 294).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
Key term(s)
  • échangeur de courrier

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
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Record 3 2005-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trucks and Dollies (Materials Handling)
CONT

This durable canvas truck is equipped for years of commercial laundry collection, mail distribution or rugged material handling. The heavyweight canvas construction features wear-guard edges for abrasion protection. Water repellent finish resists weather and moisture damage, making it ideal for use as a laundry cart. Strong kiln-dried hardwood base, welded steel frame and four 4" non-marking rubber swivel casters handle heavy loads easily.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chariots de manutention
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

A new, Canada-wide business document storage, retrieval and distribution service. DocuPost combines the technologies of fax and electronic mail with Canada Post's existing delivery infrastructure and extensive database capacity. DocuPost gives document owners and their customers a cost-effective means of sending and receiving valuable and timely information. Any information-text, graphic or audio-can be stored and distributed by DocuPost. It can handle government forms, regulations and directives. Information sheets, price lists, schedules, application forms, reports and catalogues-the kind of business documents repeatedly requested of government and industry. DocuPost automatically processes routine information requests and delivers documents in the format of the customer's choosing-fax, E-Mail or mail. DocuPost is the only national service that provides fax, E-Mail, and physical mail everywhere.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

Un nouveau système de stockage, de récupération et de distribution de documents à l'échelle nationale. DocuPoste, service de la Société canadienne des postes, allie la technologie du télécopieur et du courrier électronique à l'infrastructure de livraison actuelle de la Société canadienne des postes et à son imposante base de données. Il constitue, pour les détenteurs de documents et pour leurs clients, un moyen efficace et peu coûteux de transmettre et de recevoir des informations précieuses au moment opportun. Qu'il s'agisse de textes, de graphiques ou de matériel audio, tous les genres de documents, les formulaires gouvernementaux, les textes des règlements, les directives, les fiches de renseignements, les listes de prix, les calendriers, les formulaires de demande, les rapports et les catalogues - c'est-à-dire les documents que l'on demande souvent aux entreprises ou aux agences gouvernementales - peuvent être conservés, puis distribués par le service DocuPoste. Le service DocuPoste peut traiter les demandes courantes d'information automatiquement et livrer les documents selon la méthode choisie par le client, à savoir par télécopieur, par courrier électronique ou par courrier ordinaire. Il s'agit du seul service national capable de transmettre des documents par télécopieur, par courrier électronique ou par courrier ordinaire partout au pays.

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques
DEF

Paying for the use of a list of names and addresses for direct mail selling purposes. Owners of such a list normally handle despatch of the direct mail shot(s) themselves rather than release the list and risk having it copied for other use by the hirer. To show that distrust is two-way, the hirer may insist on including in a mail shot so-called sleepers, which are control addresses known to the hirer.

Key term(s)
  • mailing list rentring

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

A CCITT standard called "Message Handling Systems : EDI Messaging Systems" that provides a standard way to handle bills, invoices, contracts, and other business documents over electronic mail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Un standard CCITT appelé «Message Handling Systems : EDI Messaging Systems» pour transférer des factures, des contrats et toutes formes de documents de gestion sur une messagerie électronique.

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Postal Service
OBS

mail handler : manieur; handle : manette, manivelle, manche, poignée auto; crank handle : manivelle de démarrage; locking handle; poignée-serrure; metal handle : poignée de métal; handle bar : guidon; crooked handle bar : guidon cintré; straight handle bar : guidon droit

French

Domaine(s)
  • Postes

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Post Offices
DEF

A post office established at an airport or flying field to handle outgoing and incoming air mail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bureaux de poste

Spanish

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