تسرب

English translation: quitting

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Arabic term or phrase:تسرب
English translation:quitting
Entered by: mutargm

04:03 Mar 26, 2006
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / خطاب قرار إداري
Arabic term or phrase: تسرب
يذكر في الخطاب مايلي:
" تم رفع توصية زيادة الرواتب بسبب بدء تسرب الموظفين من الشركة لانخفاض رواتبهم عن السوق المحلي"
mutargm
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 04:04
quitting
Explanation:
A recommendation of salary increase has been proposed as the employees started quitting from the company as
their salaries are very low comparing to local market
Selected response from:

Gehan
Local time: 04:04
Grading comment
thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4leave
algtranslator
5 +1quitting
Gehan
5trickle out
Fuad Yahya
5leakage
ahmadwadan.com
5drop-out/quitter
Hassan Al-Haifi (wordforword)
4exodus
Sami Khamou
4haemorrhage
Maureen Millington-Brodie
4turnover
Mahammad Kalfat (X)
3job desertion
Yasser El Helw


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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
exodus


Explanation:
exodus

Please view this link:
http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1996/4/4/855684.html

Sami Khamou
Local time: 21:04
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  algtranslator: exodus sounds like زحف
2 mins
  -> It means خروج، رحيل، هجرة. Kindly view the link.
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35 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
leave


Explanation:
It means simply that the employees are starting to leave the company...

algtranslator
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mohammed Mousa
1 hr
  -> شكرا محمد

agree  Nashwa Abdullah
5 hrs
  -> شكرا نشوى

agree  Zeinab Asfour: This makes sense :)
11 hrs
  -> شكرا زينب

agree  A Nabil Bouitieh
1 day 11 hrs
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
trickle out


Explanation:
بسبب بدء تسرب الموظفين من الشركة
because the employees are beginning to trickle out of the company.

To trickle out means to leave bit by bit.

Fuad Yahya
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 28
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
haemorrhage


Explanation:
this is used figuratively in the sense of a "steady and persistent draining away" cf. Chambers dictionary

Maureen Millington-Brodie
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:04
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
job desertion


Explanation:
Job desertion due to low wages is starting to be a problem...

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Note added at 2006-03-26 13:21:27 (GMT)
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glAd~*... 1) My two gal frens skipped work today, to come over my place to bake birthday cakes for their BFs. They ignored the menace of job desertion. *Aww... ...
www.livejournal.com/users/gladgladys/ - 25k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


comm.htmlSITPME studies reveal that while this trend and the numbers are alarming, job desertion is limited to a specific age group. Workers between 18 and 23 years ...
www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/oct00/comm.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages


The Nation, 04/16/1973 - \"The Truth About Deserters\" by Musil ...... Desertion, as an offense, requires an intent to remain away from the military permanently, and is rather difficult to prove... ...
www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v216i0016_07.htm - 37k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


Asia Pacific Media Network :: TAIWAN: Radio station to target ...... While Thai workers used to have the highest rate of job desertion, Tao said he has come up with an innovative idea to help solve the problem. ...
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=20632 - Supplemental Result - Similar pages



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Note added at 2006-03-26 14:36:46 (GMT)
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glAd~*... 1) My two gal frens skipped work today, to come over my place to bake birthday cakes for their BFs. They ignored the menace of job desertion. *Aww... ...
www.livejournal.com/users/gladgladys/ - 25k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


comm.htmlSITPME studies reveal that while this trend and the numbers are alarming, job desertion is limited to a specific age group. Workers between 18 and 23 years ...
www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/oct00/comm.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages


The Nation, 04/16/1973 - \"The Truth About Deserters\" by Musil ...... Desertion, as an offense, requires an intent to remain away from the military permanently, and is rather difficult to prove... ...
www.nationarchive.com/Summaries/v216i0016_07.htm - 37k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages


Asia Pacific Media Network :: TAIWAN: Radio station to target ...... While Thai workers used to have the highest rate of job desertion, Tao said he has come up with an innovative idea to help solve the problem. ...
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=20632 - Supplemental Result - Similar pages



Yasser El Helw
Egypt
Local time: 04:04
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
turnover


Explanation:
it's "turnover", one word, for the two words "تسرب الموظفين".


    Reference: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o2=&o0=1&o7=&o5=&o1=...
    Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/turnover.html
Mahammad Kalfat (X)
Local time: 04:04
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
leakage


Explanation:
For some reason I donno why not adopting the most common and easiest word in this regard (i.e, leakage).
Strange! well, have a look at the links below:

Sometimes the direct word is the most right one even if it looks strange.


    Reference: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/Study_legislativeReformsCaWCInsura...
    Reference: http://www.anao.gov.au/WebSite.nsf/Publications/76FBA915CD00...
ahmadwadan.com
Saudi Arabia
Local time: 04:04
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Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 day 17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
quitting


Explanation:
A recommendation of salary increase has been proposed as the employees started quitting from the company as
their salaries are very low comparing to local market

Gehan
Local time: 04:04
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  radwa abdel ghany
50 days
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2 days 16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
drop-out/quitter


Explanation:
Thsi is often used to indicate people, especially students, quitting school, work, etc. before the usual or expected time for leaving an institute or workplace. See links below and this third link for meaning of drop out or dropout (one who drops out or withdraws.

In the second link look up drop out or dropout.


    Reference: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=dropout
    Reference: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
Hassan Al-Haifi (wordforword)
Local time: 04:04
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
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