Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

attrezzature commerciali

English translation:

shops/shopping facilities etc.

Added to glossary by Paul O'Brien
Jun 23, 2008 10:13
15 yrs ago
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Italian term

attrezzature commerciali

Italian to English Art/Literary Tourism & Travel
A description of the new facilities in a train station:

Al piano terra si trovano altri servizi per i viaggiatori ( biglietterie ferroviarie, punti di informazione e di accoglienza, servizi telefonici) assieme a sedi di banche, ufficio postale ed **attrezzature commerciali**.

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Change log

Jun 24, 2008 06:48: Paul O'Brien Created KOG entry

Proposed translations

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shops

as i say, shops.

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Note added at 30 mins (2008-06-23 10:43:36 GMT)
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you need a bank to draw out your money, a post office to buy a stamp, and a shop to buy a postcard. what more could a toursit want?
Peer comment(s):

agree Pnina
1 min
agree Lavinia Tulli : shops, what else?
6 mins
agree Silvia Nigretto : I do agree!!! Hi Pauley!
11 mins
hi doll.
neutral Gad Kohenov : For shops they would use negozi. Shops is too general.
17 mins
italian uses lots of wordy expressions for things which can be stated in one word in english.
agree Rossella Mainardis
26 mins
neutral James (Jim) Davis : Shops don't include all "attrezzature commerciali" but just "negozi". ticket, postal telephone serivces,,,,, shopping facilities. So do postal services and ticket services.
1 hr
so, what do you do in a shopping facility? PLUS, james, you still haven't resoved the "facility" repetition problem. you reinvent english to suit yourself. both postala and ticket facilities exist.
agree Helen Farrell
4 hrs
agree Patrizia Costa
22 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you Pauley and thank you to everyone else who answered! While several of the suggestions were very helpful, this one fit into my text the best. "
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shopping facilities

From wiki
Types of shopping facilities

* Big-box store
* Strip mall
* Plaza
* Market
* Main street
* High street
* Town square
* Power centre
* Lifestyle center
Peer comment(s):

neutral Paul O'Brien : you've already got "servizi" above, which will probably translate as "facilities", so you don't need to repeat it. what's a market stall got to do with anything? or a town square etc.? it's a train station. "facilities include shopping facilities"?
9 mins
A newspaper stand is not a shop but it is a shopping faciltiy which provides a service. Not really repeating anything Paul, just putting in necessary words.
agree Monia Di Martino : I think "servizi" stays "services" and shops is not the same as "attrezzature commerciali". It may mean spaces for opening shops or any kind of commercial services.
19 mins
agree Gad Kohenov : This one is better than shops
29 mins
agree Valentina Parisi
1 hr
agree Jia Di
2 hrs
agree Valeria Lattanzi
4 hrs
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10 mins

Trade fixtures OR Commercial outlets

attrezzatùra
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1 equipping, fitting out
• appaltare l’attrezzatura di un laboratorio to invite tenders for equipping a laboratory
2 gear, outfit, kit, equipment, apparatus, tackle; (spec mil) accoutrements (pl)
• attrezzatura da pesca fishing tackle; attrezzatura da sci skiing gear, skiing equipment; attrezzatura di officina shop equipment; attrezzatura di ufficio office equipment; attrezzatura elettronica electronic equipment; attrezzatura ginnica apparatus, fitness equipment; attrezzatura in stato di ozio stand-by equipment; attrezzature accessorie auxiliary equipment; attrezzature aziendali business equipment; attrezzature commerciali trade fixtures; farsi l’attrezzatura per la neve to *get kitted out for skiing

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Note added at 13 mins (2008-06-23 10:26:49 GMT)
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Since equipment is the keyword, you can use Outside Equpimment Shops. See below:


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Note added at 14 mins (2008-06-23 10:27:41 GMT)
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Sorry: OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT SHOPS!!
Peer comment(s):

disagree Paul O'Brien : a bit OTT gad. it's not a question of googling "attrezzature commerciali".
7 mins
Googler attrezzature commerciali before giving others a minus
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2 hrs

businesses

While in varying contexts, all of the answers already provided would be correct, it seems like we're looking for something general in this case to describe something that is not very well defined. Next to banks and the post office, businesses could work. They could be retail stores, fast food joints or just about anything else by wording it this way. Might not be specific, but at least it wouldn't be wrong.

As a side note (for glossary purposes), the dictionary definition already given by desert fox of "trade fixtures" is the correct translation when attrezzature commerciali are the fixtures in a business location, such as shelving or bins.
see: ."Trade Fixtures. There is a special kind of fixture known as a "trade fixture." A trade fixture is property that meets the definition of a fixture, but which is attached to the property by a tenant for the tenant's business purposes. A common example is the shelving placed in a store by a tenant to display merchandise. A trade fixture can also consist of such items as built-in furniture, a special cooling system for computers or food storage, and machinery. Trade fixtures are treated differently than other kinds of fixtures by the law, which is explained in more detail below."
http://www.omlaw.com/updates-memos--143.html
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(a) shopping centre

If the repetition of "facilities" is a problem, maybe a shopping centre could fit here. However, I think it fits if the shops are somehow grouped or if there is something like an arcade. And if there is a "piano terra", this could be the case.
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