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municipios

English translation: municipality [within context]

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Spanish term or phrase:municipios
English translation:municipality [within context]
Entered by: Claudia Robles

12:36 Jun 26, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Management / tools for risk prevention
Spanish term or phrase: municipios
otra pregunta!

estoy confundida con respecto al us de esta palabra, las definiciones de wordreference son:

Municipio: m. División administrativa menor de un estado

Conjunto de habitantes de un mismo término jurisdiccional regido por un ayuntamiento:

Organismo que administra dicho término,más el alcalde y los concejales que lo dirigen.

En ingles las dos posibilidades que encontre son:
a)municipality, cuando se refiere al territorio; y
B)town o city council cuando es la oficina, ayuntamiento, concejo...

ahora bine mi duda esta en el siguiente contexto:

"A lo largo del año 2006 y lo que va de 2007 los municipios de las cinco capitales andinas se han sumergido en una iniciativa conjunta de intercambio de experiencias en reducción de riesgos "

" La reflexión conjunta ha permitido generar propuestas de orientaciones de política para la incorporación de la reducción del riesgo en la dinámica de las municipalidades"

Municipality funcionaria en este contexto, o necesito poner algo como municipal authorities o City Hall incluso (hay otras partes del documento donde dice alcaldias, para lo que use City Hall o municipal authorities)

Gracias!!
Claudia Robles
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:15
municipality [within context]
Explanation:
Me parece que su opción es adecuada.
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María Diehn
United States
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thank you all
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Summary of answers provided
4 +9municipality [within context]
María Diehn
5council
Lidia Morejudo


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
municipality [within context]


Explanation:
Me parece que su opción es adecuada.

María Diehn
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thank you all

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Powers (PhD): municipalities, yes - Mike :)
1 min
  -> Gracias, Mike.
agree  Henry Hinds
17 mins
  -> Gracias, Henry.
agree  Ana Brassara
55 mins
  -> Gracias, Ana.
agree  Jacqueline Carrera
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  -> Gracias, Jacqueline.
agree  christopher bolton
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, Christopher.
agree  MikeGarcia: "Borough" could also be used in a territorial context, but Municipality is fine...
2 hrs
  -> Gracias, Miguel: aprendo algo nuevo con su comentario.
agree  Victoria Frazier
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  -> Gracias, Victoria.
agree  Sery
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  -> Gracias, Sery.
agree  Patrice
11 hrs
  -> Gracias, Patricia.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
council


Explanation:
I am not sure if it is the same in US English. But as far as I know, in British English municipality means the area covered by a certain council, the physical area, while the council is the governing body.
In the case of Claudia´s text I understand it is the local councils meeting to decide the actions to take for this Health & Safety operation. If the text is targeted to a British audience I would rather use council, but as I said public service vocabulary may be different in the US.

Lidia Morejudo
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:15
Native speaker of: Spanish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thnak you Lidia, in fact the text is aimed at an European audience, not only British, so perhaps i should use a more standard term such s municipality? Thank you for your answer anyhow!

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