Vocabulary II Flashcards by François Altmeyer

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Circonscription électorale

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A constituency

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to waste

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to squander

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as a consequence

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In wake

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Etre endetté de

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To be in hock to, to be indebted

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Etre déclaré coupable

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To be found guilty

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Condamné/reconnu coupable pour meurtre

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Convicted of murder

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Casser une décision/condamnation

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To quash a decision/conviction

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Condamner à

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To sentence to

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Décision de justice

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A court ruling

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Le demandeur

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The appellant

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Rejeté par la cour d’appel

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Rebuffed by the court of appeal

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Renforcer un CV

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To burnish a CV

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Censurer

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To censor

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Surveiller une conversation

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To monitor/ to listen in on a conversation

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To impose strict controls on stg

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To clamp down on stg/ to crack down on stg

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Représailles

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Retaliation, reprisals

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Bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat

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Bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat

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A l’inverse

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Conversely

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en abondance

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galore

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accablant

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overwhelming

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accorder

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To grant

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accuser, déclarer coupable

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To convict

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acquis

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vested

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actif

buoyant

adopter

To espouse

afficher

To display

affirmer

To assert

agir en tant que

To act as

ainsi

Thereby

améliorer

To upgrade, improve

Annoncer

To claim, to argue, to maintain

Appartenir

To belong to

L'approbation

The endorsement

Arme de destruction massive

Mass Destrucion Weapons

Asphyxier

To stifle

Aspirer à

To yearn

Augmenter de , lever, monter

To rise, rose, risen

Une autoroute

A highway

Avec modération

sparingly

Avertir

To warn

Avoir recours à

To resort to

La barrière

The fence

Une marchandise

A commodity

La charge de travail

The workload

fausser

To skew

compenser, contrebalancer

To offset

Diminuer, rétrécir

To shrink

Les données du recensement

The census data

Un aperçu

An insight

Un comptable

An accountant

un loisir

A leisure

Un manque, une pénurie

A shortage

Un savant

A scholar

Le malheur

The woe

L'hypothèse, la supposition

The assumption

imparfait, défectueux

flawed

fer de lance

The spearhead

Nommer, désigner

To appoint

L'avant-garde

The forefront

Une période de travail

A stint

Concevoir

To set out

Des enchères

Bidding

Le financement

The fundraising

Gestion d'actifs (gestion patrimoniale)

Asset management

Un étalonnage

A benchmarking