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# offices — English to French

How English *offices* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: offices (111 114). By style: everyday 3 · literary 3 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 1 266 · legal and administrative 3 869 · UN documents 105 965.

## bureaux

Used about 74 073 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 686 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 741 · UN documents ≈ 70 643).

- Literally, the term "bureaucracy" means the "power of **offices**."
  Littéralement le terme de « bureaucratie » signifie le « pouvoir des **bureaux** ».
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13578539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13578539) [\#13578445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13578445))

- After breakfast he went to the Company’s **offices** to obtain information on various particulars, and he asked the name of the doctor on board the Picardie, which was to sail next day, to inquire of him as to the details of his new life and any details he might think useful.
  Il alla, après le déjeuner, aux **bureaux** de la Compagnie, afin de se renseigner sur mille choses; et il demanda le nom du médecin de la Picardie qui devait partir le lendemain, pour s'informer près de lui de tous les détails de sa vie nouvelle et des particularités qu'il y devait rencontrer.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2304)

- We have beautiful **offices**, fully equipped.
  Nous avons de beaux **bureaux**, totalement équipés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2010985)

- **Offices** in the Union
  **Bureaux** dans l’Union
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4465730)

- HEADQUARTERS AND OTHER ESTABLISHED **OFFICES**
  Villes sièges et autres **bureaux** permanents
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17590374)

## services

Used about 9 071 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 · legal and administrative ≈ 161 · UN documents ≈ 8 830).

- In the report we have also asked the press and publicity **offices** to pay more attention.
  Nous demandons également dans notre rapport que les **services** de presse et de publicité nous prêtent une attention plus soutenue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1723635)

- Checks on the POs' respect of recognition criteria by the regional **offices** (DRAPs): aid unduly paid to PO ‘X’
  Contrôles effectués par les **services** régionaux (DRAP) sur le respect des critères de reconnaissance par les OP: aide indûment versée à l'OP «X»
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4179499)

- A. Substantive and administrative **offices**
  A. **Services** organiques et administratifs
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23433100)

- For example, the **offices** of Parliament are expected, from now on, to offer, in the majority of cases, contracts for tender which are public in nature.
  Ainsi, il est demandé aux **services** du Parlement que la grande majorité des contrats fassent désormais l' objet d' une adjudication publique ouverte.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 35403)

- Checks on the POs' respect of recognition criteria by the regional **offices** (DRAPs): weaknesses in the control system FY2012 and 2013
  Contrôles effectués par les **services** régionaux (DRAP) sur le respect des critères de reconnaissance par les OP: faiblesses dans le système de contrôle — exercices financiers 2012 et 2013
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4179500)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Why don't we make sure that important political **offices** are held by people who really know their stuff?
  Pourquoi ne veillons-nous pas à ce que les postes politiques importants soient occupés par des personnes qui comprennent vraiment le sujet ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12709156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12709156) [\#12709168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12709168))

- Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were close to them according to their **offices**.
  Bakbukia et Unni, qui remplissaient leurs fonctions auprès de leurs frères.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 12:9)

- They cast lots for their **offices**, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the student.
  Ils tirèrent au sort pour leurs fonctions, petits et grands, maîtres et disciples.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 25:8)

## Grammar

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