frais de bouche

English translation: food and drink/meal expenses

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French term or phrase:	frais de bouche
English translation:	food and drink/meal expenses
Entered by:	Kathryn Grant

19:44 Nov 17, 2019

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French term or phrase: frais de bouche

Anyone know how to translate "frais de bouche" in a legal context?

Kathryn Grant KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
Local time: 04:09

food and drink/meal expenses

Explanation:
I don't think this means subsistence expenses - which is a wider term incorporating hotel expenses

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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:09

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3 +6

food and drink/meal expenses

AllegroTrans

4 +1

meal expenses (or) meal allowances

Lara Barnett

3 +1

Travel and subsistence expenses

Stephanie Benoist

Summary of reference entries provided

expenses of mouth

José Patrício

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33 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Travel and subsistence expenses

Explanation:
"frais" is definitely expenses, depending on context " travel" may not apply.

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Note added at 57 mins (2019-11-17 20:41:58 GMT)
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"meal expenses" would also work if it's exclusively for food.

Stephanie Benoist
France
Local time: 05:09
Native speaker of:

English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

neutral

mchd: Est-ce que "Travel expenses" sont des frais de bouche ?

1 hr

-> en effet, non; " frais de bouche" peuvent être inclus dans travel expenses, mais vous avez raison. Sorry for the inversion.

neutral

writeaway: not travel, just subsistence. many dictionary references online

2 hrs

-> Indeed, thx.

agree

Yvonne Gallagher: yes to your note @57 mins. "meal expenses"

17 hrs

disagree

Eliza Hall: Too broad. It's for meals, and normally work-related meals (taking clients out to dinner, or visiting dignitaries if you're a politician...) https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/07/11/les-frais-de-...

18 hrs

agree

Tony M: Yes to 'meal expenses' — what Eliza describes would be 'entertainment' in EN, and I'm sure it's not necessarily just that here. 'Subsistence' is fine too, unless it does include 'entertaining'.

2 days 16 hrs

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

food and drink/meal expenses

Explanation:
I don't think this means subsistence expenses - which is a wider term incorporating hotel expenses

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 115

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Thank you

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Stephanie Benoist

9 mins

-> Thanks

agree

Timothy Rake

13 mins

-> Thanks

agree

Cyril Tollari: Other terms need to be used in English depending on the sentence, but without any further context, this translation is correct.

9 hrs

-> Thanks

agree

Yvonne Gallagher: yes, you're right about subsistence

15 hrs

-> Thanks

agree

Eliza Hall: Yes, with the qualification that normally this is for professional meals (dining with clients, etc.), not just one's personal meals: https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/2019/07/11/les-frais-de-...

15 hrs

-> Thanks, but I would like to see surrounding text first - this may already be obvious

agree

B D Finch: Perhaps you should preface that with "work-related"?

19 hrs

-> Thanks, but I would like to see surrounding text first - this may already be obvious

17 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

meal expenses (or) meal allowances

Explanation:
An idea:

Example sentence(s):

"Up to £4.50 will be paid for MEAL EXPENSES incurred where it is necessary to perform trustee duties during a meal time. "
"In other cases, eg for a laundry allowance, for cents per kilometre car expense payments, for award transport payments and for award overtime MEAL ALLOWANCES..."

https://www.thebrunswickcentre.org.uk/uploads/files/Trustee-Handbook-April-2018.pdf
https://library.croneri.co.uk/whelpcomm_IO2094417.SL374553757

Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 42

Reference comments

20 mins peer agreement (net): -6

Reference: expenses of mouth

Reference information:
https://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/search?source=auto&q...

José Patrício
Portugal
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

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