rack

German translation: track

10:49 Mar 21, 2014
English to German translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Accounting / personal financial management
English term or phrase: rack
Ich übersetze eine Beschreibung verschiedener Software-Lösungen, hier von "Pension Fund Management Software".

"Microsoft Money is a personal finance and pension fund management software that was discontinued by its manufacturer in 2009 because "personal financial-management software has changed considerably in the 17 years since Money was first established." But many Window users still have an operational version of this pension fund management software and can ***rack*** pension plans with it."

Kann man Pensionspläne quälen? Oder vielleicht: sich mit Pensionsplänen abquälen?
Klaus Urban
Local time: 19:14
German translation:track
Explanation:
Tippfehler - sollte vermutlich track heißen
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Muret Sanders for "rack" as a verb
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track


Explanation:
Tippfehler - sollte vermutlich track heißen

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Local time: 19:14
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Reference: Muret Sanders for "rack" as a verb

Reference information:
transitive verb
1 : to torture on the rack : inflict pain or punishment by pulling or straining
2 a : to afflict with torture, pain, or anguish comparable to that suffered on a rack *her heart went out to this racked girl— Adria Langley* *racked with jealousy* b : to afflict and agitate very much with or as if with trouble, stress, anxiety, doubt, unpleasant emotion, or illness *the Greco-Roman world had been racked by revolutions— A.J.Toynbee* *was obviously racking his brains as his answer T disclosed— Robert Grant *1940*
3 a : to stretch, strain, or extend violently b : to twist the meaning of : pervert the sense of c : to raise (rents) oppressively d : to harass or oppress with high rents, exactions, or extortions
4 chiefly Britain a : to supply a rack with feed for (as a horse) — used with up b : to fasten (an animal) in place at the rack
5 : to work, stretch, or treat (material) on a rack *rack leather* *rack rubber* *rack ore*
6 : to work by a rack and pinion or worm so as to extend or contract *rack a camera*
7 : to seize (as parallel ropes of a tackle) together so as to prevent running through the block
8 : to place (as pool balls) in a rack — often used with up
intransitive verb
1 a : to become forced out of shape or out of plumb b : to sway together from side to side of their proper position relative to the keel — used of a ship's sides
2 Scotland : to undergo straining or stretching : lengthen or give under tension
synonyms see AFFLICT

Seems like a bad choice of words on the author's part, as it has all sorts of meanings, but nothing really explicit.

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