Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Blind stamping

French translation:

signer/tamponner à l\'aveugle (une attestation/la vérification des travaux)

Added to glossary by Thierry Darlis
Mar 2, 2013 02:28
11 yrs ago
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English term

Blind stamping

English to French Other Aerospace / Aviation / Space
Blind stamping or signing off work that you have not personally been involved with is completely unacceptable and not supported by the regulation.

Proposed translations

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English term (edited): blind stamping (of certificates of conformity to norms/specifications)
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signer/tamponner à l'aveugle (une attestation/la vérification des travaux)

as per ST, in this context:
Blind stamping = signing off work that you have not personally been involved with
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signer/tamponner à l'aveugle (une attestation/la vérification des travaux)



Whoever is putting his signature/"stamp of approval" on a document certifying that some work has been done according to standards/specifications should have personal knowledge of the facts, not certifying something without ever seeing it (à l'aveugle).

as in:
"Les copies d'attestation de conformité signées par un ingénieur doivent être ..."
[http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/te...]
Peer comment(s):

neutral GILLES MEUNIER : Tamponner à sec, selon termium
31 mins
no one is stopping you from putting that as an answer, and showing how it would make sense HERE
agree Savvas SEIMANIDIS
3 hrs
Merci!
agree Stephane BRUXELLE
19 hrs
Merci!
agree Philippe Maillard : signer sans connaissance de cause
2 days 7 hrs
"sans connaissance de cause" - that is propre and fit "bureaucratese"! Thanks!
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Peer comment(s):

agree GILLES MEUNIER : à sec
2 mins
Merci!
disagree Daryo : a possible meaning, but not in this ST: here "blind" is used to mean certifying work done "without looking" at it // context: => " signing off work that you have not personally been involved with"
9 hrs
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Reference comments

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Reference:

définitions

In binding and finishing, die-stamping performed without using ink or other colorant or decoration.
http://printwiki.org/Blind-Stamping

Definition of blind stamping
noun
[mass noun]
the impressing of text or a design on a book cover without the use of colour or gold leaf.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/

blind stamping - Financial Dictionary
financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/blind+s...
An impression made on paper without ink. For example, a seal may be blindly embossed on an official document ...

blind stamping
A term originally used with reference to stamping a leather cover with small, unheated tools that were cut intaglio so that the impression was in relief.
Etherington & Roberts. Dictionary--blind stamping

About blind stamping
www.artisanpress.com.au/.../about-blind-stamping
Of all the techniques we use at The Artisan Press, blind stamping is one of the most requested. Blind stamping is the use of a plate to press into the paper stock.

blind-stamped : estampé
http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/blind stamping
Peer comments on this reference comment:

disagree Daryo : all correct but not relevant/misleading here: the intended meaning in this case is explicitly given in the ST: "signing off work that you have not personally been involved with"
6 hrs
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