“Body Leasing”: Is it English?
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In my country, we sometimes call working arrangements where one company "leases" individual employees to another "body leasing".
"Body" and "to lease" are obviously English words of good standing, but is the term itself used outside of Germany? When I google it, I get mostly German results (and the English ones might be from Germans writing in English).
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In my country, we sometimes call working arrangements where one company "leases" individual employees to another "body leasing".
"Body" and "to lease" are obviously English words of good standing, but is the term itself used outside of Germany? When I google it, I get mostly German results (and the English ones might be from Germans writing in English).
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Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53
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In my country, we sometimes call working arrangements where one company "leases" individual employees to another "body leasing".
"Body" and "to lease" are obviously English words of good standing, but is the term itself used outside of Germany? When I google it, I get mostly German results (and the English ones might be from Germans writing in English).
business-language german false-friends
asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
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In my country, we sometimes call working arrangements where one company "leases" individual employees to another "body leasing".
"Body" and "to lease" are obviously English words of good standing, but is the term itself used outside of Germany? When I google it, I get mostly German results (and the English ones might be from Germans writing in English).
business-language german false-friends
business-language german false-friends
asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
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asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
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asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
3453511
asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
3453511
asked Dec 2 at 16:22
Johannes Bauer
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Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53
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Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53
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Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53
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Body leasing follows the long-standing trend in German business jargon to use English rather than German, even if the original doesn’t exist in the Anglosphere or has a different meaning. Think of Handy: where people actually speak English it's usually a mobile.
English sounds “sexier”; Arbeitnehmerüberlassung sounds like one of those cumbersome compounds invariably — and opaquely — abbreviated in German law.
The common term among native speakers of English for this employment arrangement is outsourced (to a client/customer).
English, however, is an international language not owned exclusively by its native speakers. There is nothing odd about the German business community using such terms within its own language group. Problems only arise when native speakers have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Body leasing follows the long-standing trend in German business jargon to use English rather than German, even if the original doesn’t exist in the Anglosphere or has a different meaning. Think of Handy: where people actually speak English it's usually a mobile.
English sounds “sexier”; Arbeitnehmerüberlassung sounds like one of those cumbersome compounds invariably — and opaquely — abbreviated in German law.
The common term among native speakers of English for this employment arrangement is outsourced (to a client/customer).
English, however, is an international language not owned exclusively by its native speakers. There is nothing odd about the German business community using such terms within its own language group. Problems only arise when native speakers have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Body leasing follows the long-standing trend in German business jargon to use English rather than German, even if the original doesn’t exist in the Anglosphere or has a different meaning. Think of Handy: where people actually speak English it's usually a mobile.
English sounds “sexier”; Arbeitnehmerüberlassung sounds like one of those cumbersome compounds invariably — and opaquely — abbreviated in German law.
The common term among native speakers of English for this employment arrangement is outsourced (to a client/customer).
English, however, is an international language not owned exclusively by its native speakers. There is nothing odd about the German business community using such terms within its own language group. Problems only arise when native speakers have no idea what you’re talking about.
answered Dec 2 at 21:07
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Body leasing follows the long-standing trend in German business jargon to use English rather than German, even if the original doesn’t exist in the Anglosphere or has a different meaning. Think of Handy: where people actually speak English it's usually a mobile.
English sounds “sexier”; Arbeitnehmerüberlassung sounds like one of those cumbersome compounds invariably — and opaquely — abbreviated in German law.
The common term among native speakers of English for this employment arrangement is outsourced (to a client/customer).
English, however, is an international language not owned exclusively by its native speakers. There is nothing odd about the German business community using such terms within its own language group. Problems only arise when native speakers have no idea what you’re talking about.
answered Dec 2 at 21:07
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Body leasing follows the long-standing trend in German business jargon to use English rather than German, even if the original doesn’t exist in the Anglosphere or has a different meaning. Think of Handy: where people actually speak English it's usually a mobile.
English sounds “sexier”; Arbeitnehmerüberlassung sounds like one of those cumbersome compounds invariably — and opaquely — abbreviated in German law.
The common term among native speakers of English for this employment arrangement is outsourced (to a client/customer).
English, however, is an international language not owned exclusively by its native speakers. There is nothing odd about the German business community using such terms within its own language group. Problems only arise when native speakers have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Body leasing sounds like an extremely PC euphemism for prostitution. I have definitely never heard it used for employees being lent out, nor would I recommend using it like that.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
Dec 2 at 16:33
Related: i.pinimg.com/474x/cc/6c/44/…
– Janka
Dec 2 at 17:08
Yes, it's English. You can combine any number of words in any way you want. Whether it conveys what you want it to mean is something else. Body leasing sounds like selling your body for some purpose—it's ambiguous what that could be. Medical experiments, for instance. But I wouldn't say it has the same interpretation as the English phrase temporary work or contract work would.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 2 at 20:53