Nov 19, 2006 12:45
17 yrs ago
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French term

"à"...conditions sociales

French to English Social Sciences Agriculture \
Ces bœufs ainsi achetés au prix unitaire de 100 000 Fcfa seront distribués à 100 familles paysannes à raison d’un bœuf par famille au mois de janvier.
Cet octroi se fera sous forme de crédit remboursable à des conditions sociales adaptées au calendrier agricole.

Is this saying that ox allocation will be done in the form of repayable credit to social conditions, adapted to the agricultural calendar?

How can you repay something to social conditions. Could this possibly mean "in" social conditions?
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Nov 19, 2006 12:52: writeaway changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

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An explanation

Repayable "according to " / "on the basis of " / "as per" conditions - the social conditions that your context must define somewhere.

Cf. "rembourser un prêt à des conditions avantageuses"

Level 5 for the explanation of what it means. I'll leave it to native speakers to find the right translation.

Hope this helps
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agree writeaway
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each family gets one animal but it is not an outright gift. They have to repay it.
The schedule of repayments will be adapted to allow for the fact that farmers do not have a steady income - it can vary from one month to another.
So this doubtless means that they will have zero or only very small repayments in those months when, given the animal husbandry cycle, they have little or no real income and higher repayments in those months when their income can be expected to peak
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agree cjohnstone : yes and probably very low interest rates, the ambiguity of the "social" bit
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