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1 firm
Ⅰ.firm1 [fɜ:m]∎ it's a good firm to work for cette entreprise est un bon employeurⅡ.firm2(a) (solid, hard → flesh, fruit, mattress etc) ferme;∎ on firm ground sur la terre ferme; figurative sur un terrain solide;∎ I'm on firmer ground when it comes to the marketing side je suis plus à mon affaire pour ce qui touche au marketing(b) (stable, secure → basis) solide; (→ foundations) stable; Commerce & Finance (→ currency, market) stable; (→ offer, sale, deal) ferme; (→ contango rates) tendu;∎ these shares remain firm at 370p ces actions se maintiennent à 370 pence;∎ the dollar remained firm against the yen le dollar est resté fort contre le yen(c) (strong → handshake, grip, leadership) ferme;∎ to have a firm hold or grasp or grip of sth tenir qch fermement(d) (unshakeable, definite → belief, evidence, friendship) solide; (→ view, opinion) déterminé, arrêté; (→ intention, voice, agreement, offer) ferme; (→ date) définitif;∎ they are firm friends ce sont de bons amis;∎ he was very firm about this il a été très ferme à ce propos;∎ she gave a firm denial elle a nié fermement;∎ a firm favourite for the Derby/with the crowd un grand favori dans le Derby/auprès de la foule;∎ I am a firm believer in female equality je crois fermement à l'égalité de la femme;∎ to be firm with a child/dog être ferme avec un enfant/chien;∎ he was polite but firm il a été poli mais ferme2 adverb∎ to stand firm on sth ne pas céder sur qch;∎ he stands firm on this issue il a une position bien arrêtée sur le sujet∎ to firm the soil tasser le sol(muscles, prices) se raffermir➲ firm up(make firm → muscles, prices) raffermir;∎ to firm up an agreement régler les derniers détails d'un accord(muscles, prices) se raffermir -
2 firm
1 nounentreprise f, firme f; (of lawyers, consultants) cabinet m∎ oil shares remain firm at $20 les valeurs pétrolières se maintiennent à 20 dollars;∎ to place a firm order for sth passer une commande ferme de qchFINANCE firm currency devise f soutenue;firm order commande f ferme;firm sale vente f ferme -
3 firm
1.1) établissement de commerce; société; firme; entreprise2) cabinet [d'avocats/de consultants] ; agence [d'architectes]2. adj.1) ferme; résolu; déterminé; sans concession2) solide; stable; sûr3) pf. définitifEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > firm
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4 consultancy firm
société de conseil; bureau d'études; cabinet de consultants; bureau d'experts-conseilsEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > consultancy firm
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5 consulting firm
bureau d'études; cabinet-conseil; cabinet de consultantsEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > consulting firm
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6 consulting firm service
bureau d'études; cabinet-conseil; cabinet de consultantsEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > consulting firm service
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7 consultant
1. noun 2. attributive adjectivesee academic.ru/15558/consulting">consulting* * *1) (a person who gives professional advice: He is consultant to a firm of engineers; ( also adjective) a consultant engineer.) der Gutachter2) (a senior hospital doctor specializing in a particular branch of medicine: His condition is so serious that they have sent for the consultant; ( also adjective) a consultant physician.) der Spezialist* * *con·sult·ant[kənˈsʌltənt]ncomputer \consultant Computerexperte, -expertin m, f, Computerfachmann, -frau m, ftax \consultant Steuerberater(in) m(f)cancer \consultant Krebsspezialist(in) m(f)* * *[kən'sʌltənt]1. n2. adj attrberatend* * *consultant [kənˈsʌltənt] s1. (fachmännische[r]) Berater(in), Gutachter(in):firm of consultants Beraterfirma f2. MEDa) fachärztliche(r) Berater(in), hinzugezogener zweiter Arzt, hinzugezogene zweite Ärztinb) Chefarzt m, -ärztin f3. Ratsuchende(r) m/f(m)* * *1. noun 2. attributive adjective* * *(hospital) (UK) n.Chefarzt -¨e m. n.Berater - m.Fachberater m.Referent -en m.Sachbearbeiter, -in m.,f. -
8 Moulton, Alexander
[br]b. 9 April 1920 Stratford-on-Avon[br]English inventor of vehicle suspension systems and the Moulton bicycle.[br]He spent his childhood at The Hall in Bradfordon-Avon. He was educated at Marlborough College, and in 1937 was apprenticed to the Sentinel Steam Wagon Company of Shrewsbury. About that same time he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he took the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. It was then wartime, and he did research on aero-engines at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he became Personal Assistant to Sir Roy Fedden. He left Bristol's in 1945 to join his family firm, Spencer \& Moulton, of which he eventually became Technical Director and built up the Research Department. In 1948 he invented his first suspension unit, the "Flexitor", in which an inner shaft and an outer shell were separated by an annular rubber body which was bonded to both.In 1848 his great-grandfather had founded the family firm in an old woollen mill, to manufacture vulcanized rubber products under Charles Goodyear's patent. The firm remained a family business with Spencer's, consultants in railway engineering, until 1956 when it was sold to the Avon Rubber Company. He then formed Moulton Developments to continue his work on vehicle suspensions in the stables attached to The Hall. Sponsored by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Dunlop Rubber Company, he invented a rubber cone spring in 1951 which was later used in the BMC Mini (see Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine): by 1994 over 4 million Minis had been fitted with these springs, made by Dunlop. In 1954 he patented the Hydrolastic suspension system, in which all four wheels were independently sprung with combined rubber springs and damper assembly, the weight being supported by fluid under pressure, and the wheels on each side being interconnected, front to rear. In 1962 he formed Moulton Bicycles Ltd, having designed an improved bicycle system for adult use. The conventional bicycle frame was replaced by a flat-sided oval steel tube F-frame on a novel rubber front and rear suspension, with the wheel size reduced to 41 cm (16 in.) with high-pressure tyres. Raleigh Industries Ltd having refused his offer to produce the Moulton Bicycle under licence, he set up his own factory on his estate, producing 25,000 bicycles between 1963 and 1966. In 1967 he sold out to Raleigh and set up as Bicycle Consultants Ltd while continuing the suspension development of Moulton Developments Ltd. In the 1970s the combined firms employed some forty staff, nearly 50 per cent of whom were graduates.He won the Queen's Award for Industry in 1967 for technical innovation in Hydrolastic car suspension and the Moulton Bicycle. Since that time he has continued his innovative work on suspensions and the bicycle. In 1983 he introduced the AM bicycle series of very sophisticated space-frame design with suspension and 43 cm (17 in.) wheels; this machine holds the world speed record fully formed at 82 km/h (51 mph). The current Rover 100 and MGF use his Hydragas interconnected suspension. By 1994 over 7 million cars had been fitted with Moulton suspensions. He has won many design awards and prizes, and has been awarded three honorary doctorates of engineering. He is active in engineering and design education.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsQueen's Award for Industry 1967; CBE; RDI. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.Further ReadingP.R.Whitfield, 1975, Creativity in Industry, London: Penguin Books.IMcN -
9 consultant
Gen Mgtan expert in a specialized field brought in to provide independent professional advice to an organization on some aspect of its activities. A consultant may advise on the overall management of an organization or on a specific project such as the introduction of a new computer system. Consultants are usually retained by a client for a set period of time during which they will investigate the matter in hand and produce a report detailing their recommendations. Consultants may set up in business independently or be employed by a large consulting firm. Specific types of consultants include management consultants and internal consultants. -
10 consultancy
consultancy [kənˈsʌltənsɪ]( = company, group) cabinet-conseil m* * *[kən'sʌltənsɪ] 1.1) (also consultancy firm) cabinet-conseil m2) [U] ( advice) conseils mpl2. -
11 management consultancy
Gen Mgt [m1]1. the activity of advising on management techniques and practices. Management consulting usually involves the identification of a problem, or the analysis of a specific area of one organization, and the reporting of any resulting findings. The consulting process can sometimes be extended to help put into effect the recommendations made.2. a firm of management consultants -
12 Eisler, Paul
[br]b. 1907 Vienna, Austria[br]Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.[br]At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.[br]Bibliography1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.KF
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