The Wealth Gap Flashcards

(82 cards)

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Des richesses

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Riches

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Un milliardaire

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A billionaire

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Un parvenu, un arriviste

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An upstart

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L’avidité, la cupidité

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Greed

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L’avarice

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Stinginess

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Un avare

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A miser

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Aisé, opulent

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Well-off
Well-to-do
Affluent

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Dépensier

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Spendthrift

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Économe

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Thrifty

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Avare

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Stingy

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Pingre

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Miserly

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Cupide

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Greedy

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Pouvoir s’offrir qqch

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To be able to afford stg

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Économiser

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To save

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La misère

Le dénuement

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Destitution

Deprivation

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Un pauvre

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A pauper

A poor person

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Un mendiant

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A beggar

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Un travailleur pauvre

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A working poor

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Un marginal

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An outcast

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Les exclus

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The underclass

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Les quartiers défavorisés des centres-villes

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The inner cities

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Un taudis

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A slum

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La décrépitude

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Squalor

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Une expulsion
An eviction
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Un SDF
A homeless person
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Les mal logés, les sans-abris
The homeless
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Un abri/un foyer
A shelter/a hostel
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Un clochard
A tramp | A bum
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Un vagabond
A vagrant
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Le vagabondage
Vagrancy
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La mendicité
Begging
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Une sébile
A begging bowl
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Une soupe populaire
A soup kitchen | A bread line
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Le seuil de pauvreté
The poverty line
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Les inégalités
Inequalities
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L'entraide
Mutual support
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Touché par la pauvreté
Poverty-stricken
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Sans le sou
Penniless
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Défavorisé. Déshérité
Underprivileged
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Dans le besoin
In need
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Misérable
Destitute | Deprived
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Délabré
Dilapidated | Derelict
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Sordide, lieu malpropre
Squalid
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Appauvrir
To impoverish
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Avoir faim, mourir de faim
To starve
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Expulser
To evict
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Dormir dehors
To sleep rough
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L'Etat-Providence | La solidarité nationale
The Welfare State
50
L'aide/la protection sociale
(Social) welfare | Social security
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L'aide publique
Assistance
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L'aide aux plus démunis
Poor relief
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Le système national d'assurance sociale
National insurance
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Un assistant social, un travailleur social
A social worker
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Une cotisation
A contribution
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Un congé parental
parental leave
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Les services d'aide à la personne
Personal social service
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Un allocataire
A claimant
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Une mutuelle
A mutual insurance
60
Un plafond de ressources
An upper earnings limit
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Les autorités sanitaires
The health authorities
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Un plafond de ressources
An upper earning limit
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Les autorités sanitaires
The health authorities
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Le ticket modérateur
The prescription charge
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Des indemnités maladie
Sick pay
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L'hospitalisation de jour
Day care
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Laide et les soins à domicile
Home care | Home help
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Le handicap
Disability | Handicap
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Une personne handicapée
A disabled person
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Une pension d'invalidité
Incapacity benefit
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Un retraité
A pensioner
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Une (pension de ) retraite
A pension
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Un régime de retraite
A pension scheme
74
Des dépenses excessives
Overspending
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Sous condition de ressources
Means-tested
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Pourvoir aux besoins de | S'occuper de
To cater for sb
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Cotiser
To contribute
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Faire une demande d'allocations
To claim benefits
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Avoir droit à qqch
To be entitled to stg
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Lage de la retraite
The retirement age
81
Une société à deux vitesses
A two-tier society
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L'opulence
Affluence