бытовые помещения

English translation: welfare room

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Russian term or phrase:бытовые помещения
English translation:welfare room
Entered by: Nadezhda Golubeva

04:05 Dec 11, 2014
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Manufacturing / description of industrial spaces
Russian term or phrase: бытовые помещения
An industrial building contains production facilities, office spaces, engineering spaces, storage facilities, and бытовые помещения. I gather that these are things like locker rooms, break rooms, etc. - but what do we call them in English?

Thanks in advance!
Jennifer Guernsey
United States
Local time: 08:48
welfare room
Explanation:
See below.
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Nadezhda Golubeva
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:48
Grading comment
Thanks, everyone. For my (British English) context, a version of this worked the best.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4utility rooms
Alexander Teplitsky
2 +4amenity space
Alexander Grabowski
3 +2welfare room
Nadezhda Golubeva
4 -1domestic premises
Askar Sheraliev


Discussion entries: 12





  

Answers


11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
utility rooms


Explanation:
a room equipped with appliances for washing and other domestic work.

"Behind the dining room are the utility room and family bathroom, both with tiled floors."

Alexander Teplitsky
Local time: 08:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Victoria Batarchuk
2 hrs
  -> Спасибо

agree  Jack Doughty
2 hrs
  -> Спасибо

neutral  danya: на заводе? utility room? хмм....
3 hrs
  -> Сходили бы на какой нибудь заводик в США, пообщались бы...

neutral  El oso: Utility room is largely associated with laundry and washing. There has to be a broader term. /Прежде чем отвечать в таком тоне, не мешало бы Вам самому хоть бы в Вики заглянуть ;) see discussion entry.
6 hrs
  -> Ну хоть по интернету порыскали бы перед тем как такое писать.

agree  The Misha: Utility rooms ARE NOT associated with laundry and washing. Laundry rooms are associated with laundry. The beauty of this term is that it can mean anything you want it to mean. There's nothing more general than that.
9 hrs
  -> Спасибо

agree  cyhul
23 hrs
  -> Спасибо
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
welfare room


Explanation:
See below.


    Reference: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg293.pdf
Nadezhda Golubeva
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks, everyone. For my (British English) context, a version of this worked the best.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  danya: or welfare facilities. seems a good choice
3 hrs
  -> Thank you!

agree  Askar Sheraliev: no it doesn't =))
4 hrs
  -> Thank you!

agree  El oso: welfare facilities, yes
6 hrs
  -> Thank you!

neutral  Rachel Douglas: Not in American English.
9 hrs

disagree  The Misha: Absolutely not. Welfare facilities are... well, those of us who live in the US know darn well what they are. For us, this would be a very unfortunate choice of words here.
9 hrs
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
amenity space


Explanation:
.

Alexander Grabowski
Ukraine
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oleg Polygaloff: This one unifies domestic and utility rooms
5 hrs
  -> Спасибо, Олег!

agree  El oso
5 hrs
  -> Thank you!

agree  Igor Kondrashkin: Или amenity premises
8 hrs
  -> Спасибо, Игорь!

agree  James McVay: Or "amenity facilities."
9 hrs
  -> Thank you, James!
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
domestic premises


Explanation:
I'd use this one. You decide.

Askar Sheraliev
Kyrgyzstan
Local time: 18:48
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  danya: I wouldn't.
3 hrs
  -> good for u! =))
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