Zurückziehen

English translation: Either departure or vacate?

09:36 Jan 24, 2021

German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Human Resources

German term or phrase: Zurückziehen

This is all the context I have. The term occurs in a heading in a manual for working regulations

Zurückziehen von Personal
Nach Beendigung der Arbeiten müssen alle nicht mehr benötigten Personal den Bereich verlassen

I thought about “Withdrawal”, but I’m not sure that would be appropriate in this context.
To me, it has more of a military connotation (withdrawal of troops).

Brent Sørensen KudoZ activity Questions: 69 (none open) (14 closed without grading) Answers: 396 Germany
Local time: 10:26

English translation:Either departure or vacate?

Explanation:
The staff are expected to leave the premise and not loiter, if I understand the instruction.

Selected response from:

Petrus Maritz
Germany
Local time: 10:26

Grading comment

I ended up reformulating the heading and using something else. But I used vacate elsewhere in the text.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

Withdrawal OR Removal of staff from site

Lancashireman

4 +1

Either departure or vacate?

Petrus Maritz

4 +1

Vacting (leaving)

Johannes Gleim

evacuation

Justin Reeve

Discussion entries: 3

Answers

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Either departure or vacate?

Explanation:
The staff are expected to leave the premise and not loiter, if I understand the instruction.

Example sentence(s):

The staff are expected to vacate the property directly after their shift.
The staff must depart immediately if they are not required.

Petrus Maritz
Germany
Local time: 10:26
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

I ended up reformulating the heading and using something else. But I used vacate elsewhere in the text.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for the quick replay. I was looking for a noun, but vacate will be useful elsewhere in the text.

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Vacting (leaving)

Explanation:
Before leaving the construction site:
• Workers should inform the construction manager or safety officers of anything that could potentially compromise safety (i.e. lose contraptions, exposed wiring, etc.)
• All Machinery, tools and equipment are locked up and the site is left in a tidy and safe manner.
https://www.swipedon.com/blog/ways-to-improve-construction-s...

Workers not complying with these requirements will not be allowed to work and may be instructed to vacate the work site.
https://facilities.uncc.edu/sites/facilities.uncc.edu/files/...

It's 4:30 and like clockwork the city workers are packing up and vacating the work site.
https://www.google.de/search?biw=1662&bih=911&ei=mV0NYJHzCsq...

9.Contractor shall remove all clippings the same day shrubbery is pruned and prior to vacating the work site.
https://mccmeetingspublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/coache...

Any Concessionaire propert, personal or company owned, left after vacating the work site will be disposed of by the County at the end of each work day.
http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/bc/020115_10-22-02.pdf

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Note added at 3 hrs (2021-01-24 13:19:42 GMT)
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Typing correction. Please read "Vacating (leaving)".

Johannes Gleim
Local time: 10:26
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 8

Notes to answerer

Asker: I know you mean vacAting. It’s too bad there isn’t a way to edit typos. Vacate is the right verb. “Vacating” just doesn’t quite sound right. I’d use “Vacation” but this is meant for non-native speakers as well. I don’t want people to confuse this with “Holidays”

Asker: To answer your question: “vacate” generally refers to a place. So “vacate the site” is OK but not “vacate the personnel”. Also there are two ways to nominalise “vacate”: “vacating” and “vacation”. As a native speaker, “vacating” just sounds awkward.

14 hrs confidence:

evacuation

Explanation:
I think the term "evacuation" might capture the tone of this passage.

Justin Reeve
Canada
Native speaker of:

English

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Zurückziehen von Personal Withdrawal OR Removal of staff from site

Explanation:
I am assuming that zurückziehen refers to a contractor's obligation to remove their staff from site, i.e. subject + transitive verb + object. Depart is an intransitive verb
- The contractor withdraws/removes the employees.
- The employees depart.

"withdrawal of staff from" (not necessarily military)
https://www.google.com/search?q="withdrawal of staff from"&o...

"removal of staff from"
https://www.google.com/search?q="removal of staff from"&oq="...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2021-01-24 12:57:47 GMT)
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A key safety improvement is the removal of staff from risks areas involved with the unloading process, such as on the ground in close proximity to moving vehicles.
https://www.orr.gov.uk/sites/default/files/om/pr08-konsball-...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2021-01-24 13:18:46 GMT)
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"the employees leave voluntarily" Are you sure about that? It seems to me that there is a contractual obligation here.

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Note added at 9 hrs (2021-01-24 19:14:32 GMT)
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"The charity reluctantly had to remove their staff from hospitals and end their home visits because of Covid-19 but were determined to carry on helping people."
https://stevemorganfoundation.org.uk/grant-pays-for-tech-sol...

"Unions have renewed threat to remove their staff from buses and trains..."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8318311/Back-work-d...

Neither volition nor the use of force apply.

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Note added at 1 day 7 hrs (2021-01-25 16:44:37 GMT) Post-grading
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What reformulation did you come up with? (See comment in DB at 12:34 24 Jan)

Lancashireman
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:26
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 207

Notes to answerer

Asker: "Removal” isn’t a bad suggestion. But I want it to sound like the employees leave voluntarily. I’ll have to ponder on “withdrawal” some more.

Asker: It’s just that, at least to me, “removal” implies some sort of force. The employees are asked to vacate the site and leave so on their own volition.

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