FSLABs

09:09 Aug 7, 2013
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Media / Multimedia / Television advertising
German term or phrase: FSLABs
I know it stands for "Freiberufler, Selbstständige, Leitende Angestellte und höhere, gehobene Beamte" and I know what all the terms mean.
Question is whether there is an equivalent abbreviation commonly used for this target group in English...
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Local time: 19:36


Summary of answers provided
4White-collar workers
Heather McCrae
4Professionals
Sally Loren


Discussion entries: 6





  

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White-collar workers


Explanation:
The term white-collar worker refers to a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work, in contrast with a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor.
hope that helps!


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-collar_worker
Heather McCrae
Germany
Local time: 19:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Heather, sounds promising...

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Professionals


Explanation:
I like Heather's solution a lot. In this case I don't think there's a universal crowd-pleaser for the German. It's a very German sentence, involving the obsession with labelling people and with acronyms. However, I'm not entirely sure that a white-collar worker also covers freelancers. In Britain we use the term "professionals", or "salaried professionals" a lot - although that obviously doesn't apply to freelancers who work for themselves. And I have come across people from English-speaking countries who don't understand the term "white-collar worker".


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional
    https://www.cibc.com/ca/small-business/banking-for-professionals/salaried-professionals.html
Sally Loren
Germany
Local time: 19:36
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks Sally, fair points. Some self-employed people aren't necessarily "white collar" either. For me "professionals" usually implies a profession requiring some sort of degree or higher qualification, e.g. Lawyer, but I guess there isn't an adequate way of including the professions, self-employed, managers and senior civil servants in one term...

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