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Old April 19, 2010, 08:10 AM
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Fichar in Chile means you went to jail and got a record. (fichado) Mugshot and all.
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Old April 19, 2010, 08:17 AM
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Fichar in Chile means you went to jail and got a record. (fichado) Mugshot and all.
Here too. Está fichado por la policía or tiene ficha policial.
I guess that in a job it's the same thing because the company has a record of when you get into work and leave.
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Old April 19, 2010, 08:25 AM
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Here too. Está fichado por la policía or tiene ficha policial.
I guess that in a job it's the same thing because the company has a record of when you get into work and leave.
En Chile el término "fichar" se usa con la policía nomás. Pero "hay que abrir una ficha" o "traer una ficha" es usado en otros ámbitos, en un hospital por ejemplo.
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Old April 19, 2010, 08:42 AM
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How about franquear. Does anyone use that term for punching in.
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Old April 19, 2010, 11:33 AM
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The most common uses of "franquear" I've heard:
- to put obstacles away from someone's way,
- to overcome some difficulty,
- to pay pay the fee for sending something by mail.
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The most common uses of "franquear" I've heard:
- to put obstacles away from someone's way,
- to overcome some difficulty,
- to pay pay the fee for sending something by mail.
I only ask becuase in English to frank may mean to get something validated: to get a reciept stamped(as in postage). It isn't commonly used.
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Franqueo postal = sello postal = timbre postal = stamps
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Fichar in Chile means you went to jail and got a record. (fichado) Mugshot and all.

Wait a minute.....I remember someone telling me a story about "ficheras". Women of questionable reputation that would work in bars many moons ago. Their occupation was "fichar".

Is this incorrect?

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Old April 19, 2010, 02:25 PM
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Old April 19, 2010, 04:11 PM
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@Elaina: That's correct, although perhaps only in Mexico.

Customers paid for the company of those women ("ficheras") in the bar, and bought a "ficha" (a token). Those women's work ("fichar") would be to sit at customers' tables, drink with them and dance with them, and they would get a commission on the customers' consumption. Since they had to drink all night, waiters helped them cheat by serving alcohol to costumers and non-alcoholic beverages to them as if they contained alcohol as well.

However, the common term for "fichar" here is also as Chileno explained.
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