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24/10/12 - Health Flashcards

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La pauvreté, le besoin

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Want

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Qui sévit

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Rampant

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L’insalubrité

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Squalor

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Exhaustif

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Comprehensive

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Les personnes âgées

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The elderly

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Les avantages sociaux

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Benefits
Unemployement
Sickness

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De grande envergure

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Wide-ranging

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Du berceau jusqu’à la tombe

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From the cradle to the grave

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Les pensions de retraite

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Pensions

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Un médecin généraliste

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A GP

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Entraîner

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To bring about

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Des frais

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Charges

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Une ordonnance

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Prescription

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Une démission

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A resignation

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Être cohérent, compatible avec

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To be consistent with

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Rationaliser

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To streamline

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Autonome

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Self-governing

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Rentable

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Profitable

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Sous-traiter

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To sub-contract

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Rivaliser avec quelqu’un

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To vie with somebody

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Une subvention

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A subsidy

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Nuancer

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To qualify

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Renoncer à, laisser tomber

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To scrap

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Réorganiser

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To revamp

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Un acheteur

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A purchaseur

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L’espérance de vie

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Life expectancy

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Réduire les effectifs de

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To downsize

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Limiter

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To cap

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Ne pas être envisageable

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To be off the table

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Le vieillissement de la population

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The greying of the population

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Incontesté

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Unchallenged

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Connaître un retour en force

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To resurface with a vengeance

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Le bénéficiaire d’une prestation

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The recipient

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Vivre au crochet de

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To live off sb / sth

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Un raisonnement

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A rationale

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Une allocation chômage conditionnée à la recherche d’un emploi

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A jobseeker’s allowance

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Ne pas inciter à travailler

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To be a disincentive to work

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Le revenu minimum

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Income support

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La pierre angulaire de, l’élément central de

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The cornerstone of

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Retirer quelque chose progressivement

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To phase out something

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Un filet de sécurité

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A safety net

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Monoparents

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Lone parents

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Un crédit d’impôts

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A tax credit

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Louable

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Laudable

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Être obsédé par le statut social

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To be class-ridden

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Le capitalisme débridé

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Unfettered capitalism

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Renforcer

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To enhance

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À court terme

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In the short run

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Étouffer la croissance

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To stiffle growth

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Un profiteur, un parasite

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A scrounger

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Entretenir, nourrir un phénomène

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To foster

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Excessivement

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Unduly

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Connaître les affres de

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To be in the throes of

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Attribué en fonction des revenus

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Means-tested

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Une dérive vers

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A drift towards

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Être parfaitement en droit de

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To have every right to do sth

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Irresponsable

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Reckless

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Un contribuable

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A taxpayer

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Se mêler de ce qui ne vous regarde pas

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To meddle

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Charge, fardeau, poids

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Burden

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Diminuer l’influence de

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To roll back something

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Être livré sur un plateau

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To be handed on a plate

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Surveiller qqn pour le protéger

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To watch over

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Être sur le point de rompre

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To be near breaking point

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Appliquer

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To enforce

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