utility

05:27 Sep 28, 2015 

Absolutely NO idea why you address that to me. If you had read my statement as carefully as you did the question, then you would have seen the following: "Considering your context, Steffen's Versorgungsunternehmen will be best."

Steffen agreed to your reply and I took up his added suggestion. Neither did I disagree with your explanation (which I think is good), nor did I say anything about your answer.

So, tell me again, please, how am I involved in all of this?

PS: She said "ich versteht nicht, was hier mit "akin to a utility" gemeint ist." Even when keeping your "Energieversorger," the answer would have had to be "Das Zahlungssystem ähnelt dem eines Energieversorgers" - "so wie ein Energieversorger" cannot be incorporated into the sentence. If the asker only wishes an explanation of the term, the question should be flagged English to English.

05:12 Sep 28, 2015 

IMO Tanja wasn't looking for the exact translation, she needed an explanation what "akin to a utility" i.e. not just the word "utility" means in the context. Whether it is Energieversorger, Versorgungsunternehmen or whatever is not that important here but the gist of the meaning counts. I happened to read the WHOLE question carefully.

04:37 Sep 28, 2015 

The old tirade about looking either into horrid online dictionaries or searching the Proz database - the latter I did too and there are only two appropriate matches, but the translations are not really what you're looking for.

May I suggest a much better alternative? How about using a dictionary that is not bilingual?

See Oxford:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/utility
There, you'll find
2. A public utility.

Click on it. Will lead you to: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/public-...
Says:
An organization supplying the community with electricity, gas, water, or sewerage.

Can confirm word use because I'm working in the renewable energy field. Considering your context, Steffen's Versorgungsunternehmen will be best. Alternative: Städtischer oder kommunaler Versorgungsbetrieb.

See also:
http://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/Definition/versorgungsbe...

07:35 Sep 25, 2015 

Mit Tanja! Manchmal sieht man vor lauter Bäumen den Wald nicht mehr, abgesehen davon, dass viele von uns es sich nicht erlauben können, strikt nur in ihren Fachgebieten zu übersetzen. Ich denke, dieses Forum ist auch dafür da.

05:59 Sep 25, 2015 

sowohl in dict.cc als auch im Internet und im proz-Glossar und habe das auch in meiner Frage geschrieben. Mir war der Sinn des Satzes trotzdem nicht klar, es war wohl einfach zu früh am Morgen und ich denke, dass man in dem Fall die Frage durchaus auf proz stellen darf.

05:48 Sep 25, 2015 

http://www.dict.cc/?s=utility
und
http://dict.leo.org/ende/index_de.html#/search=utility&searc...
Die Antwort findet man locker im Internet.
Bitte kudoz-Regeln beachten: "Help" KudoZ should be used for requresting terms help AFTER having searched the KudoZ term search and other resources.
http://www.proz.com/?sp=siterules&mode=show&category=kudoz_a...

04:28 Sep 25, 2015 

vielleicht hilft der: But just like a homeowner doesn’t control how its utility provider delivers electricity, you as a business customer often have little say over how a consumer cloud provider runs its services.