Recent trends in global business Flashcards by Jean-Baptiste Beck

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la population active

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the working population

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industries traditionelles

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smokestack industries

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se déindustrialiser

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to deindistrialise

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l’automatisation

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automation

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aller à l’encontre d’un tendance

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to buck a trend

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un changement radical

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un substantial shift

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les biens immatériels

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intangible goods

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le secteur quaternaire

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the quaternary sector

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entraver

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to hinder, to hamper

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protégé des effets de la crise

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a recession-proof company

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inféreur, subalterne

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menial

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des personnes qui changent fréquemment d’emploi

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job-hoppers

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un emploi alimentaire

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a bread-and-butter job

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un emploi sans perspective de carrière

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a dead-end job

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avoir des répercussion sur

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to have a knock-on effect on

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péjoratif

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derogatory

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des expressions à la mode

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vogue expressions

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vernis, apparence

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veneer

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chimérique (adj)

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make-believe

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global (adj)

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accros-the-board

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racheter, réparer

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to redeem

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filiale

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arm

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contre-attaquer

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to strike back

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les NTIC

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the TMT sector

annoncer l'arrivée de

to herald

perturber

to be disruptive to

sortir indemne de la crise

to ride out the storm

un pionner

a trailblazer

l'éclatement de la bulle internet

the dotcom crash

faire faillite

to go bust