MONEY AND SOCIAL CLASSES Flashcards by Julia Alexis | Brainscape

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Standard of living

Living-standards

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Le niveaux de vie

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GCP per inhabitant

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Le PIB par habitant

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Lifestyle

Way of life

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Mode de vie

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Buying power
Spending power
Purchasing power

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Pouvoir d’achat

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Wealthy

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Riche

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Wealth

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La richesse

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Well-to-do

Well off

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Nanti

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Well-heeled

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Fortuné

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To be affluent

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Vivre dans l’aisance

Être nanti

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Affluence

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La richesse

L’abondance

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The affluent society

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La société d’abondance

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Riches

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Des richesses

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The super-rich

The mega-rich

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Les grandes fortunes

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Stinking rich

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Bourré de fric

Pleins aux as

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In moneyed circles

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Parmi les nantis

Les possédants

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A zillionaire

A multimillionaire

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Un multimilliardaire

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A media mogul

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Un magnat des médias

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A software tycoon

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Un roi des logiciels

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Income

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Le revenu

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Income tax

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L’impôt sur le revenu

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A tax haven

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Un paradis fiscal

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Tax evasion

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La fraude fiscale

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High-income families

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Familles à hauts revenu

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Low income families

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Familles à bas revenu

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A taxpayer

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Un contribuable

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Extreme poverty

Dire poverty

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La misère

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Destitution

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Le dénuement

La misère noire

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The most destitute

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Les plus démunis

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To sink into poverty

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Sombrer dans la pauvreté

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Below the poverty line

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En dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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Above the poverty line

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Au dessus du seuil de pauvreté

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To live on the benefit

To live on welfare

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Vivre d’allocation

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Pauperism

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Le paupérisme

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Pauperization

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La paupérisation

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To share out

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Répartir

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The distribution of wealth

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La répartition de la richesse

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A two-tier society

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Une société à deux vitesses

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The social fabric

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Le tissu social

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The gap between the haves and the have-nots

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La fracture social

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To bridge the gap

To close the gap

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Combler le fossé

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The gas is closing

The gap is narrowing

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Le fossé se comble

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The gap is widening

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Le fossé se creuse

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The social divide

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Le fossé social

La fracture social

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A discrepancy

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Un écart

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A chasm

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Un gouffre

Un abîme

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To redress the balance

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Rétablir l’équilibre

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Social mobility

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La mobilité social

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Social advancement

Upward social mobility

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La promotion sociale

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Career advancement

Professional advancement

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L’ascension professionnelle

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The social ladder

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L’ascenseur social

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To move up the social ladder

To be upwardly mobile

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Monter dans l’échelle sociale

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Earnings

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Les gains

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A fat cat

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Un gros richard

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The working poor

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Les travailleurs pauvres

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Impoverished

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Pauvre

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Egalitarianism

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L’égalitarisme

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Social standing

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Le niveau social

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Social status

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Le statut social

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Fall in status

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Le déclassement

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A decline in living standards

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Une baisse du niveau de vie

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To struggle to get by

Struggle by

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Peiner à sortir

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Top havé difficulty paying the bill

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Avoir du mal à payer les factures

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To make ends meet

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Joindre les deux bouts

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A rags-to-riches story

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L’histoire de quelqu’un qui est passé de la misère à la fortune

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To start from scratch

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Partir de rien

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To strike gold

To strike it rich

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Faire fortune

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Equality of opportunity

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L’égalité des chances

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Egalitarian

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Égalitaire

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A bag lady

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Une clocharde

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A soup kitchen

A bread line

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Une soupe populaire

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The underclass

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Le quart-monde

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A slum

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Un taudis

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Survival

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La survie

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Homelessness is on the rise

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Il y a plus en plus de sans abri

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A tramp

A bum

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Un clodo