Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

avantages préjudiciables

English translation:

advantages detrimental to [others]

Added to glossary by B D Finch
Apr 8, 2017 19:25
7 yrs ago
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French term

avantages préjudiciables

French to English Bus/Financial Economics
This seems like an oxymoron to me. How can you have "harmful benefits"?

La surveillance des aires impliquent la construction de postes dans les environs immédiats de ces espaces. L’intervention prévoit la construction de 14 postes dédies à la surveillance des aires protégées. Leurs coûts ont été estimés de manière similaire à ceux des postes de contrôle frontalier s’élèvent à 1.5 milliards de gourdes. Les avantages préjudiciables constitueront aussi un coût et se sont étalés sur la periode étudiée, totalisant 81 millions de gourdes.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 advantages detrimental to [others]
Change log

Apr 16, 2017 09:41: B D Finch Created KOG entry

Discussion

Mair A-W (PhD) Apr 9, 2017:
dubious advantages? mixed benefits?
philgoddard Apr 8, 2017:
I wonder if it means "expected", and is a Haitian usage (that's where the text is from). But why should "avantages" be a cost?
Most all of the hits for this phrase come from the 19th century.

Proposed translations

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advantages detrimental to [others]

"Advantages" to one, "préjudiciables" to another?

http://docplayer.fr/9253175-Code-des-marches-de-la-cedeao.ht...
"Les autorités contractantes doivent garantir que pendant le processus de passation des marchés, tout avantage préjudiciable à la concurrence est pris en considération dans l évaluation des offres."

https://archive.org/stream/duconcordatprve00belggoog/duconco...
"Les Pandegtes Belges, au mot Concordai préventif (a* 228), sont d'avis que dans le silence de la loi, il faut suivre le principe que les lois pénales sont de stricte interprétation, mais d'autre part, au moc Atermoiement (n* 39), elles laissent entendre qu'enlever secrètement à Tactif une somme constituant pour le créancier favorisé un avantage préjudiciable à la masse, pourrait à la rigueur être considéré comme une dissimulation d'actif. "

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0887060404
Henry L. Bretton - 1986 - ‎Political Science
... or "nuclear signaling" as some call it, as a lever to secure anywhere on earth certain foreign policy or military advantages detrimental to the other power's vital ...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10803920.2013.774926?m...
25 Mar 2013 - ... the need to prevent the Chinese economic expansion from resulting in geopolitical advantages detrimental to Russia and the United States; ...
Peer comment(s):

neutral Francois Boye : The TXT is far from being as explicit as your references
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That's why I gave it a 3/5 confidence rating.
agree Jennifer Levey : That's my reading, too. But an "avantage" could be "préjudiciable" to one's own projects, too - eg. if the new project means writing off earlier projects before they've been fully amortized.
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Thanks Robin. Good point.
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