deep bench

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English term or phrase:deep bench
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Entered by: sandluce

13:06 May 16, 2006
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Bus/Financial - SAP
English term or phrase: deep bench
in a presentation described the reasons why enterprises have to select ma company as their consulting company :
- Deep Industry Skills,
- Deep Bench,
- Off-shore Delivery
sandluce
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English explanation
Explanation:
In case you're asking about the meaning of the idiom:
In (US) English, the term deep bench comes from sports. When a team has a deep bench, they have a large number of very talented players. So the players who do not start in the game (they sit "on the bench" and watch and wait to go into the game) are very good, sometimes just as good as the players who start the game. But I don't think the concept of "extra players" is relevant in this context. Here the idiom simply refers to the size of the team.
In other words, deep = a large number, bench = players, workers
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Explanation:
In case you're asking about the meaning of the idiom:
In (US) English, the term deep bench comes from sports. When a team has a deep bench, they have a large number of very talented players. So the players who do not start in the game (they sit "on the bench" and watch and wait to go into the game) are very good, sometimes just as good as the players who start the game. But I don't think the concept of "extra players" is relevant in this context. Here the idiom simply refers to the size of the team.
In other words, deep = a large number, bench = players, workers

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