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le fichage

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establishing files on people

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encapuché (adj)

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under cover

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rentré (adj)

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subsumed in

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enfermé (adj)

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emprisoned

locked up

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le montage

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a set up
rigged situation

compilation of images

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démarqué (adj)

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to stand out

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légiférer

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to legislate

lay down the law (fig)

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engendrer

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to engender
cause
generate

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prégnant (adj)

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significant

pregnant (animal)

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la précarité

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tenuousness

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arroger

s’arroger

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appropriate

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une croisée

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crossing

turning point

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se sentir de trop

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to feel unwanted

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muer

se muer en

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to transform
molt

to transform into

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la mensualité

les mensualités d’emprunts

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monthly salary
monthly payment

monthly loan payments

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acquitter

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to pay completely

to acquit

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un courtier

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broker

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l’impréparation (f)

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lack of preparation

unpreparedness

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endosser

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to put on

take on

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l’acheminement

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transportation

progress

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rattacher

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to reattach

associate

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un groupuscule

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small group

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prendre à partie

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to take to task

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bien que

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even though

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à l’encontre
contrary to
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au vitriol
with vitriol
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la houlette
shepherd’s crook
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un levier
lever
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un tige
stalk | rod shaped object
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être du pied au mur
to be cornered | have one’s back to the wall
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une subvention
grant
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se doter
to be equiped | equip oneself
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l’exhaustivité (f)
exhaustiveness | completeness
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faire davantage office de...
to serve better as...
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ampoulée (adj)
emphatic pretentious bombastic
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rarissime (adj)
very rare
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se cumuler à
culminates in
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la garde
care (eg of child)
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entraver
to hinder
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Il est noté que...
We should note that...
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la cokéfaction
coking
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un sous-traitants
sub-contractor
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un raccourci
shortcut | simplification
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fâcheux (adj)
regrettable | unfortunate
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partir en fumée
go up in smoke
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la créance
credence debt
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connaître
to know of experience go through
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un prestataire
service provider | recipient of a state benefit
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une passation
signing of a document | transition of power
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cautionner
to support approve stand surety for
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défausser
to straighten | fix a problem
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un soulèvement
uprising | revolt
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déroutant (adj)
puzzling | disconcerting
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le catalyseur
catalyst
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inflammable (adj)
inflammable
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inflammatoire (adj)
inflammatory
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un missionnaire | une missionnaire
missionary
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prodiguer
to lavish hand out to give care
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rêvasser
to daydream | muse
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décortiquer
to shell | dissect into minutiae
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la primauté
primacy | supremacy
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la léthargie
lethargy numbness torpor
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une bavure
smear stain blunder
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subvenir à
to meet (eg needs)
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la niaiserie sur...
stupidity of...
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une brebis galeuse
black sheep literally: a scabby ewe
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carcéral (adj)
relative to prison
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mettre en avant
to spotlight | bring to the fore
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réparateur (adj) réparatrice
that which repairs
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en soit quoi qu’il en soit
in itself in any case whatever the case
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une cure
course of treatment
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le délabrement
dilapidation | neglect
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amoindrir
to reduce | weaken
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dépourvu (adj) syn: dénué de
devoid of
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dorénavant syn: désormais
henceforth
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pourtant
though
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avaliser
to back push for guarantee payment
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début avril
at the beginning of april
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intégrer
to integrate | insert
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si besoin
if needed
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truquer
to rig set up fiddle
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rebiffer (colloq) se rebiffer
to fight back to rebel
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balancer
balance swing (eg arms) bandy about (colloq) turn on sb
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le revers
reverse side | back side
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conduire à
to drive sb/qc to
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fugace (adj)
fleeting | elusive
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de plus près
more closely
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la faveur à la faveur de
favour thanks to

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