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homing

English translation: more time spent in the home

12:28 Apr 15, 2024
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)
French term or phrase: homing
This is a risk mapping for an energy company. I'm guessing it's an anglicism, but can't find any other similar uses.

Les tendances émergentes en rapport avec le risque pour l'entreprise

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Urbanisation et nouvelles formes urbaines
Inégalités et fractures sociales
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Transformations agricoles et modification du régime alimentaire
Nouvelles menaces sur la santé
Confort et homing
Brendan McNally
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
English translation:more time spent in the home
Explanation:
"working from home" was the first idea that came to mind here. But it's clearly not confined to work activities.

Michele's "cocooning" is a nice choice, and present in that link to a dictionary, and there's a Wikip entry on it. It seems to have been coined in the early 1980s, so nothing to do with recent years, pandemic, Zoom, WFH, etc. The trouble is that, on this side (eastern) of the Atlantic I have literally never heard of that term, ever.

It's not unheard-of for the French to come up with an anglicism which, though borrowed from an existing English word, actually means something entirely different, and which may take several words to express in English because we don't (yet) have a widely used snappy expression for "le homing".
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Mpoma
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
Grading comment
thanks for your input, it wasn't exactly what I used, but it gave me the inspiration to come up with a creative solution
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5cocooning
Michele Fauble
3 +3more time spent in the home
Mpoma
4 +1stay-at-home lifestyle
Andrzej Ziomek
4homing
Imane Ben Lakehal
4chilling
RODRIGUE MONJOUO
4the increased focus on home working, shopping, and leisure
philgoddard
4well-being and comfort
Johannes Gleim
3chilling out
JaneD
3domestic enjoyment
AllegroTrans
2stay-at-home attitude
Andrzej Ziomek


Discussion entries: 3





  

Answers


15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
homing


Explanation:
it is already an English term


    https://www.dictionary.com/browse/homing#:~:text=definitions%20for%20homing-,homing,or%20to%20a%20specified%20point
Imane Ben Lakehal
Algeria
Local time: 15:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, yes I realise that, but none of its meanings make any sense in this context. Maybe the author has misunderstood the meaning.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: We talk of homing pigeons and homing stray dogs and cats, but in the asker's context it doesn't work
9 hrs
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: no, it isn't in this context
1 day 1 hr
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
chilling out


Explanation:
According to BMW, it's getting together with your close mates at one of your homes (I think?). Personally I wouldn't give that a particular term, but then I don't work in marketing.

"le "homing", regroupement convivial dans un endroit privé"


    https://www.bmw.com/fr/design/lieu-privilegie-hygge.html/1000
JaneD
Sweden
Local time: 16:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: This doesn't fit the context.
17 mins
neutral  AllegroTrans: Is this rather too informal?
19 mins
  -> Oh absolutely, but I was so revolted by the use of the word that this was all I could think of!
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: you can chill out with your mates anywhere
1 day 1 hr
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
chilling


Explanation:
Le terme anglais "Chilling" fait référence à la détente et à la relaxation que l'on peut avoir dans le confort de sa maison.

RODRIGUE MONJOUO
Cameroon
Local time: 15:34
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: much too informal, and wrong anyway
2 hrs
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: possible to chill anywhere
1 day 44 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
domestic enjoyment


Explanation:
Catharine Beecher, Domestic Economy, and Social Reform
Digital Commons @ IWU
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu › cgi › viewcontent
PDF
by EM Roberts · 2006 · Cited by 3 — health, industry, and economy, those cardinal requirements of domestic enjoyment and success.,,67 In choosing such a home, Beech~rwas, according to scholar ...

REALIZING RIGHTS, CHANGING LIVES:
UNICEF
https://www.unicef.org › media › file
PDF
13 Nov 2020 — the domestic enjoyment of human rights into the above- mentioned monitoring mechanisms (e.g. via 'alternative reporting'), and then by ...

DRUNKENNESS. (Hansard, 3 June 1834) - the API
UK Parliament
https://api.parliament.uk › commons › jun › drunkenness
... social happiness and domestic enjoyment, he who may be instrumental in arresting its fatal progress, will be conferring an in, estimable benefit on his ...

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 325

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Mpoma: I think the gist of the idea is probably about TIME... more *time* spent at home, but I think the idea is kind of agnostic about whether you are enjoying it or not...
6 hrs
  -> I think you are right
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
the increased focus on home working, shopping, and leisure


Explanation:
I haven't found any dictionary support for this, but I think we need to look at the context, which is a list of risks facing a power company.

As our lifestyles change, so does our energy consumption. For example less capacity may be needed in city centres because fewer people work and shop there.

You could ignore 'confort et', or you could insert 'the convenience of' before 'home working'.

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Le terme homing vient du mot anglais “home” et désigne donc le phénomène de recentrage des comportements et des occupations vers la maison.
http://touhso.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/le-homing-la-tendance...


philgoddard
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 295
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the link Phil, that was very helpful


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: I can see how increased focus on home working fits, but not shopping and leisure
54 mins
  -> Do you not have half-empty shopping malls where you are? Eat-in restaurants becoming home delivery services?
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: "increased focus on home" keeps it neutral
23 hrs
  -> The asker was looking for the meaning, which I was the first to provide. There are countless ways to translate it, which is why we've had so many answers.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
more time spent in the home


Explanation:
"working from home" was the first idea that came to mind here. But it's clearly not confined to work activities.

Michele's "cocooning" is a nice choice, and present in that link to a dictionary, and there's a Wikip entry on it. It seems to have been coined in the early 1980s, so nothing to do with recent years, pandemic, Zoom, WFH, etc. The trouble is that, on this side (eastern) of the Atlantic I have literally never heard of that term, ever.

It's not unheard-of for the French to come up with an anglicism which, though borrowed from an existing English word, actually means something entirely different, and which may take several words to express in English because we don't (yet) have a widely used snappy expression for "le homing".

Mpoma
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks for your input, it wasn't exactly what I used, but it gave me the inspiration to come up with a creative solution

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: Yes, hard to come up with a single word (hometiming?)
1 hr
  -> thanks
agree  ormiston
9 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  abe(L)solano
13 hrs
  -> thanks
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: rather prosaic. Phil's "increased focus on home" is better
18 hrs
  -> not really, it doesn't strike the right register for this sort of business-speak
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
cocooning


Explanation:
cocooning
: the practice of spending leisure time at home in preference to going out
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cocooning


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Confort et homing - Cocooning and working from home

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Cocooning is staying inside one's home, insulated from perceived danger, instead of going out. The term was coined in 1981 by Faith Popcorn, a trend forecaster and marketing consultant. It is used in social science, marketing, parenting, economic forecasting, self-help, religion, and has become part of standard English as defined by multiple dictionaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocooning_(behaviour)


Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 07:34
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway
5 mins
  -> thanks
neutral  Mpoma: It's a nice idea, and should have caught on by now. But I've literally never heard this term used, on the eastern side of the Atlantic anyway.
3 hrs
  -> thanks
neutral  AllegroTrans: I don't think this works for Europe
5 hrs
  -> thanks
neutral  philgoddard: I suggested this and then deleted my answer because it's so little known.
12 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  Marc Desreumaux
15 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  abe(L)solano: Yes, also
17 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  Yvonne Gallagher: I've heard and seen it on this side of the pond too/related to "hygge"
21 hrs
  -> thanks
agree  Kim Metzger
1 day 1 hr
  -> thanks
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
stay-at-home attitude


Explanation:
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'stay-at-home lifestyle'

possibly

('stay-at-home' might be put in inverted commas)

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e.g.:
https://www.bakemag.com/articles/14406-stay-at-home-lifestyl...

'Stay-at-home lifestyle continues to fuel spending for consumers'

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https://www.yourtango.com/self/being-hermit-isnt-weird-why-m...

'Being A Hermit Isn't Weird — Why More People Are Embracing The Stay At Home Lifestyle'

Andrzej Ziomek
Poland
Local time: 16:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: I don't see this as an attitude, more a fact
41 mins
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: with AT
16 hrs
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1 day 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
confort et bien-être
well-being and comfort


Explanation:
I assume that the author was inspired by the French term « confort et bien-être », but misunderstood it or was referring to home. Please verify this with the customer before use.

I am familiar with "homing" in robots and CNC machines, but I wonder what "homing" means in residential buildings.

Homing
In order for an incremental encoder interface to track and report absolute position, the encoder counts must be correlated to a reference position in the mechanical system to which the encoder is attached. This is commonly done by homing the system, which consists of moving the mechanical system (and encoder) until it aligns with a reference position, and then … the associated absolute position counts into the encoder interface's counter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_encoder#Homing

La notion de bien-être renvoie, dans le sens commun, à un ensemble de facteurs considérés de façon séparée ou conjointe : la santé, la réussite sociale ou économique, le plaisir, la réalisation de soi, l'harmonie avec soi-même et avec les autres.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bien-être

Well-being, or wellbeing,[1] also known as wellness, prudential value, prosperity or quality of life, is what is intrinsically valuable relative to someone. So the well-being of a person is what is ultimately good for this person, what is in the self-interest of this person.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-being

Les acteurs de l’immobilier cherchent à assurer un bien-être et un confort quotidien aux occupants de leurs bâtiments. Le bien-être peut être autant physique que psychologique et inclut la prise en compte d’un ensemble de facteurs préventifs en termes de risques psycho-sociaux. Le confort se définit comme l’absence de gênes dans l’environnement physique et fonctionnel, et par un ensemble de commodités et d’agréments. Dans l’immobilier, ces deux facteurs passent notamment par la température, la luminosité, la ventilation, le bruit et l’aménagement, mais aussi la qualité des contacts avec les pairs, l’accessibilité et la facilité d’utilisation des différentes infrastructures. Au global, cela affecte le sentiment de satisfaction et prévient de certains troubles.
https://resources.taloen.fr/resources/documents/1641_OID_230...

There seem to be less and less attraction towards a traditional living space as tenants become more and more sophisticated with their requirements. The most desirable homes in the UK must include a well-being facility such as fitness studio or a resident gym for which tenants do not mind paying a premium price.
https://certproperty.co.uk/well-being-and-the-property-marke...

Impact of Indoor Environmental Quality on Occupant Well-being and Comfort: A Review of the Literature
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and its effect on occupant well-being and comfort is an important area of study. … A range of issues such as sick building syndrome, indoor air quality thermal comfort, visual comfort and acoustic comfort are considered in this paper.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299586304_Impact_of...

The emphasis is on creating an environment that promotes well-being and comfort, making the cost of luxury property a secondary consideration in the face of the emotions it evokes. It is the concept we now know as a "smart home," fully automated by voice command or mobile devices.
https://www.whereinrio.com/en-gb/news-detail/characteristics...

3. Human-Centric Design: A well-designed facility prioritizes the comfort and well-being of its occupants. Consider implementing human-centric designs that enhance the work environment.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/property-done-properly-elevat...

One of the fundamental aspects of keeping your property attractive to renters is maintaining it in top-notch condition. Schedule regular inspections to identify and address any maintenance issues promptly. Have the numbers of essential service providers, from plumbers in Houston to electricians in New York, on speed dial to ensure quick and efficient repairs whenever needed. By staying on top of maintenance and repairs, you prevent small issues from becoming expensive major problems and show prospective renters that you care about well-being and comfort.
https://wp.nyu.edu/mind/2023/07/27/9-proven-tips-to-keep-you...

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 16:34
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: If the intended meaning is an increasingly home-based lifestyle, then this doesn't work
19 hrs
  -> Just one example: the increasing networking of electrical devices and health apps harbours new dangers. It's not about pleasure.
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1 day 2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stay-at-home lifestyle


Explanation:
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https://uoma.ug/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/210611-UOMA-A2F-C...

'With the prolonged curfew mandate and stay-at-home lifestyle, the sector could potentially see increased demand for lighting, mobile phone charging and entertainment appliances. [...]' (p. 5)


Andrzej Ziomek
Poland
Local time: 16:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: this also works
7 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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