Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
encore tributaire de cette reflexion de
English translation:
still owes a great deal/too much to the thoughts....
French term
United Kingdom
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Native in: English (Variants: British, Scottish, Irish, Singaporean, UK, South African) 
Works in: French to English, Italian to English, Romanian to English, and 2 more.
encore tributaire de cette reflexion de
This speech/letter appeals to the Executive Committee. The staff are asking for better salaries and means of travel etc to improve their working lives. They have just explained the efforts they and their family are putting into pulling the company through the difficult year it has been through.
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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Non-PRO (2): Nikki Scott-Despaigne, writeaway
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Proposed translations
still owes a great deal/too much to the thoughts....
I add the possibility "too much" as an alternative to 'a great deal', insofar as it seems to me, from what you say, that the staff reps are in protest mode. In other words, that the emplyers are wrong to take into account the thoughts of PD
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Victoria Britten
: 'a great deal' is safer, but your 'too much' option clarifies your thinking (and, to my mind, that of the original).
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Thanks Victoria :-)
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Yes, or "still remains largely dependent upon the thoughts of..."
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Thanks Nikki :-) Yes, 'dependent' is a better alternative imo to 'depends on'
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Yvonne Gallagher
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Thanks Gallagy :-)
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AllegroTrans
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Thanks AllegroTrans :-)
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worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
are still part and parcel of the ideas expressed by
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or: stiill go a good way to substantiating the ideas etc.
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"these ideas" would be more specific
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and "still" of course
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Tony M
: I don't think that adequately conveys the 'subservient to...' aspect that 'tributaire' embodies here.
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still overly / unduly influenced by
United States
An economic geek with social skills
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
still depends on Peter Drucker's thought...
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to depend on P. Drucker = to need the help and support of P. Drucker to stand, to make sense
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Tony M
: I don't think that adequately conveys the 'subservient to...' aspect that 'tributaire' embodies here. / Yes, but in EN you can't really use it with that sense with 'engagement' as the subject.
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AllegroTrans
: I reallly don't think anything depends on another person's thoughts... more a question of influence
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Reference comments
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English
Works in: French to English
Dictionaries
http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/tributaire/795...
Qui dépend de quelqu'un, de quelque chose d'autre : Une économie tributaire de l'étranger.
http://dictionnaire.reverso.net/francais-definition/tributai...
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In your post, you did not indicate what your dictionary searches had produced and why they did not appear to be satisfactory.
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No problem Lara. The term does have its normal meaning here so there was nothing too unusual to invent here. ;-)
| Hello. Sorry I did not post, I was aware of the general meaning but posted the question in a rush late at night. I was just looking for a contextual solution to be honest, which is why I submitted a phrase rather than simply the word "tributaire". |
Discussion
It's important to remember that 'tributaire de...' means 'dendent on...' in a usually negative way: think of the idea as being 'subservient to' or 'secondary to' (cf. uses like a 'tributary' to a river or 'paying tribute' to someone. This is what the term is used in FR here, instead of (say) 'dépendre de...' etc.
So the meaning you need here need to reflect something of the notion of 'still a slave to...', 'still under the influence of...', etc.