לחליפין
English translation: or rather, or even, or alternatively / for an exchange of
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|  Selected response from: Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 09:56 | ||||||
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| 4 | Alternately |
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| 4 | and/or |
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| 2 +1 | or rather, or even, or alternatively / for an exchange of |
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4 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1or rather, or even, or alternatively / for an exchange of Explanation: First of all, I checked Even-Shoshan. They don't list "לחליפין" as an entry. They do have "חליפין": See: http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3848/scan1wn.jpg It's a similar story with the Academy: See: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/7859/capture2wd.jpg They're both pretty clear that the meaning of "חליפין" always has something to do with "exchange/barter". This is ok if you want to accept that the sentence is saying: "...is an important element in preserving social resources [for an exchange of?] political ones in Israel". Possible, sure. Another possibility is that it's a mistake and should say "לַחֲלוּפִין", which is deemed worthy by Even-Shoshan: "לַחֲלוּפין תה"פ בִּמקום הקודם, באופן אלטרנטיבי. ההפך: " However, turning away from dictionaries and looking at real usage, you can find plenty of occurrences of "לחליפין" online, which can be separated into: 1. Instances where it appears alone and it really does mean/translate well as "exchange" in English. 2. Instances where it appears alone, but can only really mean "alternatively" and should probably have been written "לַחֲלוּפִין"...if you're a prescriptivist. 3. Instances where it co-occurs with "או" and appears thus: "או לחליפין" and it can be best translated as "or rather, or even, or alternatively". See below for examples: ובכן היום בעידן האינטרנט ניטש מאבק ודיון ארוך על מהות, חיוניות הזהות או לחליפין האנונימיות, על הגבולות הרעועים של פרטיות מול ציבוריות. אז כן, אתם מוזמנים לבדוק את הזהות שלכם, לבטא את עצמכם כמו שתמיד חלמתם ולא העזתם, לבוא עם תחפושות (או לחליפין לשחק את בוראט לכמה לילות…) היכן שאנו יכולים להתפתח וללמוד דברים נוספים על עצמינו (אבל מצד שני אנחנו לא רוצים ללכת רחוק מדי ולהיות אבודים באיזור מאוד לא נעים או לחליפין לפגוע באחרים). http://midburn.org/?paged=2 אם מעוניינים לבצע חיפוש מורכב או לקבל תוצאות מאוד מדוייקות, כדאי לבחור באופציה של חיפוש מתקדם במנוע החיפוש בו אתם משתמשים advanced search) ) או לחליפין לקרוא את הטיפים לחיפוש באותו אתר (tips או search tips). http://www.bgu.ac.il/~chermesh/ucsr01/exercise1_site/exersic... לתשומת לב, ישנם פריטים בארכיון, להם לא משויך תאריך, או לחליפין משויך תאריך שאינו כולל יום או חודש. http://www.archives.mod.gov.il/pages/misc/search_help.asp?ar... שאלות ותשובות - היכן אפשר לקנות סוכר צבעוני או לחליפין איך אפשר לצבוע סוכר? http://www.sheelot.co.il/index.php?page=req&cid=55&quest=457... If you accept this angle, then the sentence would read: "....is an important element in preserving social, or rather* political resources in Israel". *or another of the options given. I might also be tempted to just translate it as "OR". This would kind of cover (but not quite) the possibilities of it meaning "or alternatively/alternately" and "or rather" etc. i.e. "is an important factor in preserving social or political resources in Israel". PLEASE NOTE CONFIDENCE LEVEL. If in doubt, I'd make your best judgement call and use a translators note to indicate the situation/the ambiguity. |
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Alternately Explanation: For example: "Alternately nice and nasty..." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2012-11-21 16:25:04 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes Debbie, that's what I mean. See both Ty's answer and mine below. |
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17 hrs confidence:
and/or Explanation: Reading the whole sentence, I sense that this is the meaning here ... "an important foundation for preserving the social and/or political resources in Israel," meaning that this is a way to sometimes look out for social resources and sometimes for political resources and sometimes for both. It's almost like using a slash ... social/political. |
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