6th week Flashcards

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societé à respon limitée

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corporate

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impot, droit des societes

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corporate taxes, law

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effort collectif

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corporate effort

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société mere

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parent company

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siege social

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head office

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société débutante, nouveau né

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fledgling company

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cout de la vie

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cost of living

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niveau de vie

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standard of living

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neutraliser, contrebalancer

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to counteract

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un lache

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a coward

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lache, lachement

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cowardly

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fourrer, gaver / bachoter

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to cram

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bourré de

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crammed with

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avoir un besoin intense, qui peut etre maladif

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to crave

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un desir, besoin intense

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a craving

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ramper / avancer à pas tres lent

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to crawl

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inflation rampante

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creeping inflation

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corruption généralisée / omnipresente

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rampant corruption

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engouement, mode, manie

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craze

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le dernier cri

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the latest craze

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croyance, système religieux, credo

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creed

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trouver digne de foi

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to give credence to

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equipe, équipage

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crew, team

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handicaper, paralyser

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to cripple

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marcher avec difficulté, boiter

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to hobble

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crise

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crisis (to enter into / go through / get out of / recover from a crisis)

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critiquer

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to criticize

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une critique

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a criticism

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les critiques (ecrites)

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reviewn, critiques

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compte rendu d’un livre

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book review

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un critique (personne)

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a critic

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critiquer (de)

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critical (of)

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tordu, malhonnete

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crooked

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escroc, filou

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a crook

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produit agricole, culture, recolte

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crop

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Très bonne récolte

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bumper crop

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surgir

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tro crup up (problems, issues)

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traverser / contrarier qq, contrecarrer un projet

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to cross

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etre fâché avec qq

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to be cross with sb

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barrer, effacer, rayer

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to cross out, off

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brut, cru, mal fini, grossier

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crude

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grossiereté

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crudeness

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petrole brut

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crude oil

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s’effondrer, s’emieter, tomber en ruines

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to crumble

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crise, moment critique, de vérité (figuré)

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crunch

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mordre, croquer

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to crunch

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crise, pénurie, resserrement du credit

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credit crunch

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croustillant

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crunchy

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ecraser

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to crush

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etre accablé par

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to be crushed by

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ecrasant

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crushing

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rusé

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cunning

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rusé comme un renard

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sly as a fox

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la ruse

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cunning, slyness

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reduire, limiter, de restreindre

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to curb

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monnaie, devise

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currency

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monnaie etrangere

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foreign currency

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courant, actuel

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current

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actuellement

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currently

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l’actualité

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current events

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les infos, les actualités

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the news

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courant, pas nécessairement aujourd’hui

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common

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parler couramment

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to speak with ease, fluently

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en garde à vue, detention provisoire / garde

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custody

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gardien

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custodian

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client

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customer

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la douane

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customs

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reduire (expenses, personnel)

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to cut back

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reductions, licenciements

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cutbacks

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trancher, couper net

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to slash

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faire qqch en dilettante

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to dabble in

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dilettante

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dabbler

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un amateur, non professionel

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an amateur

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amateur d’art / musique

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art/music liver

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quotidien, quotidiennement

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daily

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un quotidien

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a daily

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hebdomadaire

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weekly

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mensuel

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monthly

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tirage (journaux)

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circulation

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quotidien populaire

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tabloid newspaper

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presse à sensation

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yellow / gutter press

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degats, dommages

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damage

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endommager

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to damage

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dangereux, nuisible à

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damaging

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detruire

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to destroy

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se precipiter, foncer / lancer violemment (casser en mille morceaux)

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to dash

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un mvt brusque / un tiret (ponctuation) / une petite quantité

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a dash

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se ruer sur / vers

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to make a dash for

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données / informations

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data

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banque de donnees

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data bank

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base de données

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database

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traitement de données

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data processing

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intimide, demonter, decourager

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to daunt

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pas intimidé

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undaunted(ly)

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eblouir, aveugler

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to dazzle

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eclat

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dazzle

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éblouissant, etincelant

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dazzling, sparkling

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dernier délai

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deadline

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un délai

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a time limit

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dans un delai de 3 jours

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in three days

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impasse

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deadlock

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s’occuper de, se charger de / avoir affaire à (sb/pb)

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to deal with

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marché, contrat, affaire

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a deal

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conclure un marché

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to make a deal with sb

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distributeur, negociant, fournisseur

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dealer

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grossiste, detaillant

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wholesale, retail, dealer

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destruction systématique, licenciement de masse

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wholesale destruction, sacking

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dette

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debt

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devoir de l’argent à qq

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to be in debt to sb

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être endetté

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to be in debt

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etre redevable à qq

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to be in sb’s debt

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s’endette

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to get/run into debt

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endettement

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debt burden, indebtedness

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décennie

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decade

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se dereriorer, decomposer, pourrir

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to decay

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tromper

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to deceive

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trompeur

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deceptive

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publicité mensongère

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deceptive advertising

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tromperie, duperir

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deception

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malhonnêteté

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deceit

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décevoir

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to disappoint

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une deception

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a disappointment

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action, acte / bonne action / acte de vente (immobilier)

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a deed

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mefait / ecart de conduite

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a misdeed

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juger, decider apres reflexion

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to deem

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désamorcer (bomb, situation)

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to defuse

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un fusible

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a fuse

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fusionner

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to fuse

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retarder

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to delay

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un retard (horaires)

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a delay

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exiger, revendiquer, reclamer

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to demand

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exigeant

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demanding

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repondre aux exigences / besoins

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to meet demands

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mort, cessation d’Ece, fin ou echec d’une E

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demise

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nier, démentir / refuser qqch à qq

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to deny (+BVing)

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reduire, épuiser

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to deplete

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deposer, mettre en dépôt

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to deposit

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acompte

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a deposit

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un dépôt

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a warehouse

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désapprouver / deprecier, denigrer

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to deprecate