Technical Vocabulary Flashcards by Valentin Strazzella

Charges à payer

Le montant n’a pas été comptabilisé en charge à payer

Accruals

The amount is not accrued

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Produire des intérêts

To bear interests

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Mettre au rebut

To scrap (scrapped, scrapped)
To discard

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Payable à terme échu

Payable in arrears

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Dilapider, gaspiller, laisser passer (une opportunité)

To squander

You should not squander this opportunity

They squander natural resources

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The layout

La disposition

La configuration

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To set-off

To be set-off against the sum due to the other.

Compenser

Déduit des sommes dues à l’autre partie

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Thereto

Qui lui est rattaché

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To cease to (apply)

Cesser de (s’appliquer)

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Throughout the period

Tout au long de la période

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Football jersey

Maillot de foot

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Période d’essai

Probationary/trial period

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Être un travailleur

To be hard-working

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Could you fill me in/brief me on that?

Pourriez-vous m’éclairer/me dire ce qu’il en est sur ça ?

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Tout en faisant

Whilst doing

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Aller de pair avec

Go hand in hand with

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Go along with

Agree with

Accepter
Être d’accord avec
Convenir avec

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Will of steel

Strong determination

Volonté d’acier

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Momentum

Dynamique

Positive momentum
Growth momentum

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groupthink

the type of bad decisions we make when we are in a group, which may be contrary to what we really think

Social media encourages groupthink

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aches and pains

general body pains that aren’t serious

Do you suffer from aches and pains?

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To be sick and tired

To be fed up and bored with

En avoir marre

I’m sick and tired of commuting

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To be black and blue

Être meurtri

Bruised

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Avoir un bleu, une contusion

To have a bruise

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Une erreur de débutant

A rookie mistake

cheap and cheerful simple, basic and often inexpensive short and sweet quick and simple quick and dirty short, simple and basic

Quick and simple

Going forward

'Going forward' is another way of saying 'in the future'. You'll hear 'going forward' used at business meetings when a person wants someone to change the way they do something in the future. Examples A: Did you get the files I emailed over? B: Yes I did, but going forward can you send hard copies in the post? We need them for our records.

A recipe for disaster

Means a combination of things that will, at some point, go wrong and cause harm, damage or in this case, humiliation – in other words it will end in trouble Example: My doctor says drinking too much, not exercising enough, and having a stressful job are a recipe for disaster

Apprendre à connaître quelqu'un

Get to know someone

Beef up

Renforcer | Etoffer

Colis

Package | Parcel

Jeter l'éponge

Throw in the towel

Quelle belle vue

What a beautiful sight

Shortage

Pénurie

Outline

Schéma, description, plan, présentation | Décrire, présenter

Set out As set out Something set out in...

Concevoir | Tel qu'énoncé, prévu

Whereby

Selon laquelle

Titled document

Document intitulé

Findings

Conclusions, constatations, observations

Subset

Sous-ensemble

Somewhat

Quelque peu, assez, plutôt

Trigger

Déclencher

Fetch

Aller chercher

to put up with (something, someone) -- supporter (quelqu'un, quelque chose) to put -- poser, mettre to put away -- ranger to put down -- poser, abaisser, dénigrer to put out -- sortir (quelque chose) to put on -- mettre (vêtements, etc.), taquiner (quelqu'un) to put off -- remettre à plus tard

Put

Speak

to speak -- parler to speak up -- parler fort, se faire entendre to speak down (to someone) -- se montrer condescendant (envers quelqu'un) to speak for (someone) -- parler à la place de (quelqu'un), soutenir (quelqu'un)

Turn

to turn -- tourner to turn on -- allumer to turn off -- éteindre to turn around -- se retourner to turn up -- mettre plus fort (son, lumière) to turn down -- baisser (son, lumière), refuser to turn out -- devenir, finir par être to turn red, white, etc. -- rougir, blanchir, etc.

Sous-jacent

Underlying

End-to-end | End-to-end management

De bout en bout | Gestion complète

There is still plenty left to do

Il reste encore beaucoup de chose à faire

Représente 10% de...

Account for 10% of

Add up

Additionner

Allow for + name

Permettre de

Répondre de ses actes

Answer for one's acts

Assister à S'occuper de

Attend Attend school (aller à l'école) Must-attended event (événement incontournable) Attend to

Budget accordé

Attributed budget

S'élève en moyenne à

Average out at

Keep up with

Garder le contact avec qqn | Faire aussi bien que qqn

Se démarquer

To stand out

Sur le bout de la langue

On the tip of the tongue

Retrieve | We can easily retrieved the data stored in the system

Extraire, récupérer

On the outskirts of the city

Aux abords de la ville

De plus en plus

Increasingly

Overshadow

Masquer, occulter, éclipser

Être à l'apogée de | Le summum de

To be in the pinnacle of | The pinnacle of

Etre rempli de, regorge de

To be replete of

Au delà de la tristesse et du traumatisme

Over and above sorrow and shock

Nocif

Noxious

Etre bavard

To be talkative, loquacious

Vaincre

Overcome, vanquish, beat, conquer

Se disputer à propos de

To wrangle about

Convoquer une réunion

To convene a meeting

Une commande en masse, regroupée

A bulk order

Marchandises en vrac

Bulk material

Rechigner à faire

To balk at doing

Exploit, prouesse, tour de force

A feat (of strenght)

C'est une vieille connaissance

He's a old acquaintance

Poste de rassemblement

Muster station

Un plan ruse, astucieux, sournois

A cunning plan

Être imperturbable, stoïque

To be unflappable

Réfléchir au sens de la question

To ponder the meaning of the question

In point disputable

A moot point

I fully concur with all points | I concur with the view of

Je suis totalement d'accord avec tous les points | Je partage/rejoins l'avis de

Use up (to)

Utilise/consomme (jusqu'à)

Habile + métier | Habile + nom

Skilled + negotiator Skillful + management Deft hand (main de maître)

Lien de parenté

Kinship

Donner le feu vert

Give the go-ahead

Empiéter sur qch

Encroach on st

Could you let me off the hook

Release from a difficult situation or obligation

Une faille

A flaw, fault, breach Contrary: faultless

Stillborn

Mort-né

Oak tree

Un chêne

Toux | Tousser

Cough

Un tas de décombres

A rubble heap | Heap of rubble

Resserrer les boulons

Tighten the bolts

Renforcer les contrôles

To tighten up controls

Grogner

To growl

Gouttière, caniveau

Gutter

Intestin, boyau

Gut

Articulation

Joint

Lueur

Glow

Lancer une balle

To toss a ball

Être gourmand

To be greedy

Technical Vocabulary Flashcards

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