The Crisis Flashcards by Ibara céleste

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Une allocation/ un avantage

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A benefit

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La bulle immobilière

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The housing bubble

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Un escroc

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A crook, a swindler, a conman

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Désindustrialisation

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De-industrialization

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Une saisie (immobilière)

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A foreclosure

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Le problème des sans-abri

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Homelessness

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La précarité

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Job insecurity / precariousness

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Un emploi mal payé

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A low-paid job

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Un petit boulot

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A small/odd job

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Un emploi sans perspectives

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A dead-end job

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Des mesures d’austérité

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Austerity measures

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L’effondrement de l’économie

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The economic (hdjsnsskk)

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Un prêt hypothécaire

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A mortgage

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Un acompte pour

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A down payment on sth

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La débrouillardise

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Resourcefulness

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Une escroquerie

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A scam

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Un plan social

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A redundancy scheme

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La hausse du chômage

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Soaring unemployment

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Disponible

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Available

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Rentable

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Profitable

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Fiable

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Reliable

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Misérable

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Poverty-ridden

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Scandaleux

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Outrageous

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Connaître un marasme économique

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To be in the economic doldrums

Être licencié

To be laid off

Être criblé de dettes

To be saddled with debt

Rebondir

To bounce back

Supprimer des emplois

To cut jobs

Ne pas s'acquitter de ses traîtres

To default on one's payment

Dégraisser les effectifs

To downsize

Connaître une crise

To experience a crisis

Faire faillite

To go bust

Vivre aux crochets de ses parents

To live off one's parents

Se débrouiller

To make do

Sortir de la crise

To put an end to the crisis

Diminuer les allocations

To roll back benefits

Subventionner

To subsidize

Subvenir aux besoins de sa famille

To support one's family

Vivre de coupons

To survive on coupons

Prendre deux emplois

To take on two jobs

En temps de crise

In Times of crisis

Vivre des allocations familiales

To live on child support