Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
galérie commerciale
English translation:
online shopping plaza (an idea among others, shopping mall)
Added to glossary by
Gayle Wallimann
Mar 15, 2002 16:24
22 yrs ago
French term
galérie commerciale
French to English
Bus/Financial
Internet/e-commerce
Refers to online malls/shopping centres such as those run by Yahoo and AOL. This is a system whereby a host of etailers pay AOL for example commission on sales because they have been allowed to feature on their site.
I'm looking for a good descriptive name for this that is not simply meaningful to US readers since "online shopping mall" doesn't sound right when aimed at a UK audience and "online shopping centres" sounds a bit weak.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm looking for a good descriptive name for this that is not simply meaningful to US readers since "online shopping mall" doesn't sound right when aimed at a UK audience and "online shopping centres" sounds a bit weak.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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7 mins
Gayle Wallimann
Native in English
American in Provence
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French, English, and 1 more.
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online shopping plaza
How would that do? Just an idea, because plaza is a big public square, and sometimes it is used in the US (maybe elsewhere, I don't know) for malls but I think it has a more international flavor.
Peer comment(s):
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Yakov Tomara
: Also a good version
4 mins
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Eva Blanar
: Sounds good, also if the audience (the future readers of your text) consists of people in the street.
30 mins
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks Gayle and to eveyone else who answered"
5 mins
Yakov Tomara
Over 14 years in international trade
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, French to Russian, Italian to Russian, and 3 more.
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228
online showroom / online showroom and gallery
AFAIK used both in the UK and US
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I meant that \"online showroom\" is used in the UK and US. As for \"online showroom and gallery\" I\'ve seen a website titled \"online showroom and fabric gallery\". I think that if you deal with specific goods, you could just write \"online (something) gallery\" omitting \"commercial.\"
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Also the literal translation isn\'t prohibited! \"Commercial gallery\" gives over 4,000 hits by AltaVista.
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Note added at 2002-03-15 16:35:35 (GMT)
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I meant that \"online showroom\" is used in the UK and US. As for \"online showroom and gallery\" I\'ve seen a website titled \"online showroom and fabric gallery\". I think that if you deal with specific goods, you could just write \"online (something) gallery\" omitting \"commercial.\"
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Note added at 2002-03-15 16:36:59 (GMT)
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Also the literal translation isn\'t prohibited! \"Commercial gallery\" gives over 4,000 hits by AltaVista.
+3
8 mins
online shopping village
online shopping fair
online shopping spree
online shop tour
village green shopping
virtual village shops
online shopping spree
online shop tour
village green shopping
virtual village shops
Peer comment(s):
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Yakov Tomara
: "Online shopping village" also sounds well!
5 mins
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| agree |
Dr. Chrys Chrystello
: online shopping fair
2 hrs
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Sounds global enough
14 hrs
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+1
21 mins
online retail outlet
Another possibility. I vouch for 'outlet' in N.A. but am unsure of how common it is in the U.K.
Peer comment(s):
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Eva Blanar
: This is good, but a little formal. (It would look fine in an annual report, though.)
54 mins
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35 mins
online marketplace
as in the ref:
... Welcome to our online marketplace. We provide "booth space" for growers, producers
and artisans selling direct to the consumer. Set up much like an open-air ...
Description: Buy produce, specialty foods, crafts, gifts and books direct from producers in the US and Canada.
Category: Shopping > Directories
www.farmersmarketonline.com/ - 44k
... Welcome to our online marketplace. We provide "booth space" for growers, producers
and artisans selling direct to the consumer. Set up much like an open-air ...
Description: Buy produce, specialty foods, crafts, gifts and books direct from producers in the US and Canada.
Category: Shopping > Directories
www.farmersmarketonline.com/ - 44k
Reference:
Peer comment(s):
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Eva Blanar
: Good! Fits excellent into a "rural" picture, but is quite thinkable for the purpose.
45 mins
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thanks Eva :-)
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Steven Geller
: I beg to differ - an online marketplace is where buyers and sellers meet to buy and sell. More specifically it means where a company such as a automobile manufacturer lists the goods and services that they want to buy.
50 mins
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sorry to disagree with you but the meaning of marketplace is absolutely is much wider than your explanation :-)
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Lise Boismenu, B.Sc.
: Marketplace au sens large en français: marché, i.e. un lieu public de vente selon Le Robert.Ça me semble bien convenir.
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merci Lise :-)
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SamHall
: The general idea gives the flavour, but I have to agree with Steven that online marketplace has come to mean a particular kind of online facility, as he describes it.
2 hrs
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1 hr
Steven Geller
Works in: French to English, English to French, English, and 1 more.
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High Street Shops / Shopping
I just looked at http://www.aol.co.uk, which calls theirs "Shop @ AOL", and http://www.yahoo.co.uk, which calls theirs Yahoo! Shopping
If it really is for a UK audience, then I would call it "High Street Shops"
If it is not aimed strictly at the UK, then I think Shopping Centre or Shopping Mall is fine. There are "malls" BTW in the UK.
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You could also call it a \"Galleria\"
If it really is for a UK audience, then I would call it "High Street Shops"
If it is not aimed strictly at the UK, then I think Shopping Centre or Shopping Mall is fine. There are "malls" BTW in the UK.
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You could also call it a \"Galleria\"
Peer comment(s):
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Yolanda Broad
: Don't know anything about the UK, of course, so leave that up to Colin to decide. I do like Shopping Center/Centre--it is closest to the meaning of "galerie"
1 hr
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: "Shopping centre/mall" are sufficiently international in my view for UK and US. "High street" sounds very British, in spite of http://www.highstreetcentral.com/ - also images of specific chain stores, but not exclusively.
12 hrs
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1 day 2 hrs
storefronts, online storefronts
This is the most commonly used term in your context.
Reference:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=amazon+storefront
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=yahoo+storefront
1 day 2 hrs
virtual marketplace
I personally would prefer "virtual" to "online." Perhaps "marketplace" would get around the "shopping centre" vs."shopping mall" problem
1 day 10 hrs
Victor Foster
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Modern approaches: Art of translation
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French
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209
online store
this is generic but has the advantage of covering all the bases.
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