Money Flashcards by Salma AHMAD

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Le niveau de vie

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Standard of living, living-standards

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Le PIB par tête, par habitant

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GDP (Gross domestic produc) per head

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Le pouvoir d’achat

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Buying power, spending power

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Riche

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Rich, wealthy

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La richesse

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Wealth

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Aisé

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Well-off

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Nanti (Qui a des moyens financiers, riche)

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Well-to-do

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Être nanti, vivre dans l’aisance

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To be affluent

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Les riches

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Rich people, the rich

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Des richesses

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Riches

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Un millionnaire

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A millionaire

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Un milliardaire

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A billionaire

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Le revenu

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Income

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L’impôt sur le revenu

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Income tax

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Un contribuable

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A taxpayer

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Les gains

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Earnings

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Un gros richard

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A fat cat

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La pauvreté

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Poverty

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Les pauvres

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Poor people, the poor

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Les travailleurs pauvres

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The working poor

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Pauvre

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Poor, impoverished

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La misère

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Extreme poverty, dire poverty

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Le dénuement, la misère noire

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Destitution

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Les plus démunis

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The most destitute

Sombrer dans la pauvreté

To sink into poverty

En dessous / Au dessus du seuil de pauvreté

Below / Above the poverty line

Un ménage à revenu modeste

A low-income household

Défavorisé

Disadvantaged, underprivileged

Vivre avec deux dollars par jour

To live on $2 a day

Vivre d'allocations

To live on the benefit (GB), on welfare (US)

L'inégalité

Inequality

Inégal

Unequal, uneven

La répartition de la richesse

The distribution of wealth

Une société à deux vitesses

A two-tier society

Le fossé entre les riches et les pauvres

The gap between rich and poor

La fracture sociale

The gap between the haves and the have-nots

Combler le fossé

To bridge the gap

Le fossé social, la fracture sociale

The social divide

Partir de rien

To start from scratch

Faire fortune

To strike gold, to strike it rich

Une baisse du niveau de vie

A decline in living standards

Peiner à s'en sortir

To struggle to get by, struggle by

Avoir du mal à payer les factures

To have difficulty paying the bills

Joindre les deux bouts

To make ends meet