Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

operacionalização

English translation:

functionality; operationalization

Added to glossary by Michael Powers (PhD)
Feb 22, 2007 03:01
17 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

operacionalização

Portuguese to English Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general) Brasil
operacionalização dos serviços

Proposed translations

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functionality

functionality of the services or service functionality
Peer comment(s):

agree Henrique Magalhaes
10 hrs
Thanks Henrique!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Perhaps the cognate, "operationalization" is technically okay, but I don't feel comfortable with it. Thank you, Mike :)"
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operationalization

context is a bit scant but here is a possible definition:

Operationalization is the process of defining a concept as the ... Operationalization
is often used in the social sciences as part of the scientific method. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operationalization
Peer comment(s):

agree Hermeneutica : Yes, alas!! A Swiss bank I work for insists that we use this term in EN.
5 hrs
agree rhandler : With Webster's endorsement.
9 hrs
agree lexical : Very reluctantly - I'm not sure that the word - both in Portuguese and English - shouldn't be expunged from the dictionaries. Personally, I'd go to great lengths to reorganise the whole sentence to avoid it.
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agree airmailrpl : Results 1 - 10 of about 800,000 for "operationalization". (
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agree Murillo do Amaral
1 day 13 hrs
agree Gisele Goldstein
2 days 2 hrs
agree José Henrique Lamensdorf
3 days 17 hrs
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management

Management & functionality of the services.
I believe that -operacionalization- is better used in social sciences.
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700 days

implementation

Another option.
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