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Groupe 21 : L'économie 5 Flashcards

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1
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Les petits boulots

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Odd jobs

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Quitter son emploi

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To leave one’s job

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La sécurité de l’emploi

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Job security

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Une candidature (pour un emploi)

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A job application

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Une offre d’emploi

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A job offer

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Une annonce pour un emploi

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A job ad(vertisement)

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(Équivalent) une agence pour l’emploi

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A job centre

= an employment office

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La création d’emplois

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Job creation

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Un plan de création d’emplois

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A job creation scheme

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Chercher du travail

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To look for work/ a job

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Changer d’emploi / de poste

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To move to a new job/ post

= to change/ to switch jobs/ posts

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Les risques du métier

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Occupational hazards

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Déléguer une tâche à quelqu’un

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To delegate a task to sb

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Confier une tâche à quelqu’un

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To set sb a task

= to give sb a task

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Que faites-vous dans la vie ?

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What do you do for a living?

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Je travaille COMME secrétaire

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I work as a secretary

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Je suis plombier de mon métier

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I’m a plumber BY trade

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Travailler à domicile

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To work from / at home

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Dans un bureau / à la chaîne

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To work in an office / on the production

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Être à l’essai

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To be on trial / on probation

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Avoir du travail / un emploi

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To have a job

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Se mettre au travail

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To get down to work

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Travailler dur

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To work hard

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Travailler 24h sur 24

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To work around the clock

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Être surmené

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To be overworked

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Être débordé de travail

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To be snowed under with work

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Se tuer au travail/ à la tâche

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To work oneself to death

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Être un bourreau du travail

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To be a workaholic

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Faire des heures supplémentaires

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To work overtime

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Avoir un travail à horaire flexible

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To work flextime

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Travailler par roulement

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To work shifts / on shifts

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Faire les trois- huit

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To do shift work

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L’équipe de jour/ de nuit

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The day/ night shift

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Les heures de travail

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Working time

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Combien gagnez-vous?

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How much do you earn/ make?

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36
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Je gagne 200 dollars par semaine

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I earn / make 200 dollars a week

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Travailler pour un salaire de misère

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To work for a pittance / for peanuts

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À travail égal, salaire égal

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Equal pay for equal work

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Les inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes au travail

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Gender inequalities at work

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Les inégalités de salaires entre les sexes

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The gender pay gap

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Exiger l’égalité des salaires

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To demand equal pay

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Être en congé

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To be on leave

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Prendre un jour de congé

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To take a day off

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Être à la recherche d’un emploi

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To be job-hunting

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Il y a un poste vacant/ à pourvoir

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There’s a vacancy / a vacant position

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Offres d’emploi

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Situations vacant

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Demandes d’emploi

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Situations wanted

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48
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Être à la retraite

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To be retired

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49
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Une jeune fille au pair

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An au-pair girl

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Un domestique

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A servant

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Une femme de ménage

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A char(woman/ lady)

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Une bonne

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A maid

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Une femme de chambre

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A chambermaid

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Un valet de chambre

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A manservant

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Un maitre d’hôtel/ majordome

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A butler

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Un intendant/ un régissant

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A steward

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57
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Une gouvernante

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A housekeeper

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58
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La compétence

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Competence

= expertise

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L’incompétence

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Incompetence

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Le savoir-faire 2

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Know-how (informal)

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Travailleur

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Industrious

= hard-working

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Paresseux

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Lazy

= idle

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Application / diligence

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Industriousness

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Paresse

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Laziness

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Soigneux

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Careful

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Négligeant

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Careless

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Nonchalant / indolent/ apathique

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Lackadaisical

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Inactif

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Inactive

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L’inactivité

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Inactivity

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Passif

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Passive

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La passivité

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Passivity

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Conscious

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Conscientious

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Conscience

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Conscientiousness

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Travailleur / assidu / appliqué

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Diligent

= painstaking

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Avec application

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Diligently

= painstakingly

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Fiable

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Reliable

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Indigne de confiance

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Unreliable

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Serieux

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Serious

= earnest

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Dévoué

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Devoted

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L’initiative

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Initiative

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Un niveau de compétence

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A level of expertise

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Prendre une initiative

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To take an initiative

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Être responsable de qqch

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To be in charge of sth

= to be responsive to sb

84
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Bâcler son travail

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To botch up one’s work

85
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Le patronat et les travailleurs/ les partenaires sociaux

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Employers and labour

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Une commission paritaire

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A joint committee

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Un syndicat

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A (trade UK, labor US) union

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Un syndicaliste

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A trade unionist

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Un délégué syndical

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A shop steward

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Le comité d’ent

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The works council

/ the works committee

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Un conflit du travail

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An industrial dispute

= a labour dispute

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Les conflits du travail

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Labor strife

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Le mécontentement social

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Social discontent

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Une revendication

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A claim / a demand

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Revendiquer / exiger qqch

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To claim/ to demand sth

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Négocier

A

To negotiate

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La négociation

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Negotiation

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Le poids dans les négociations

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Bargaining power

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Arbitrer

A

To arbitrate

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Une grève

A

A strike

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Faire grève

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To strike

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Un gréviste

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A striker

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Un piquet de grève

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A picket

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Une épreuve de force

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A showdown

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Un accord

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A settlement

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Une prime d’encouragement

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An incentive bonus / payment

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Un syndiqué

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A member union

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La cotisation syndicale

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The union dues / subscription

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Les revendications salariales

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Wage claims/ demands

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Une grève générale

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A general

= an all-out strike

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Le droit de grève

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The right to strike

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Lancer un ordre de grève

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To call a strike

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Appeler à la grève

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To call for strike action

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Déposer un préavis de grève

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To give notice of strike

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Se mettre EN grève

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To take industrial action

= to go ON strike

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Être EN grève

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To be ON strike

= striking

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Un pays paralysé par les grèves

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A strike-bound country

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Une situation où il n’y a pas de gagnants

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A no-win situation

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Une solution qui permet à tout le monde d’être gagnant

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A win-win solution

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Recourir à l’arbitrage

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To go to arbitration

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Aboutir à une impasse

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To reach a deadlock

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Rompre les négociations

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To break off the negotiations

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Reprendre le travail

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To resume work

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Le personnel

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Staff

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Être en sureffectifs

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To be overstaffed

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Être en sous-effectifs

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To be understaffed

127
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Envoyer un préavis (de licenciement) à quelqu’un

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To give sb notice

128
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Licencier/ virer

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To dismiss
= to fire
= to sack sb

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Mettre à la porte

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To give sb the sack (coll)

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Un licenciement (individuel)

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A dismissal

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Licencier

/ mettre au chômage technique

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To lay off sb

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Le licenciement

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Lay-off

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Une prime de licenciement

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A redundancy payment

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Donner sa démission

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To resign

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La démission

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Resignation

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Sans emploi/ au chômage

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Jobless
= unemployed
= out of work

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Les chômeurs / les sans-emploi

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The jobless

= the unemployed

138
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Se recycler (dans un autre métier)

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To retrain

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Les chiffres du chômage

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The unemployment figures

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Le chômage des jeunes

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Youth unemployment

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L’indemnité chômage

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The unemployment benefit

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Les chômeurs de longue durée

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The long-term unemployed

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Donner sa démission

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To hand in / tender one’s resignation

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Ils sont en sureffectifs dans cette société

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There is overmanning
= over staffing
/ they are overmanned
= overstaffed in this company

145
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Il faut qu’ils dégraissent (leurs effectifs)

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They must make cuts in the staff

146
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Un certain nombre d’employés vont être licenciés

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Some employees will be made redundant

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Les chiffres du chômage ont augmenté / baissé

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The unemployment figures have risen / fallen

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S’adapter aux changements du marché du travail

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To adapt to a changing labour market

149
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Se reconvertir dans

A

To switch to

150
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Changer de métier/ de carrière

A

To change jobs / careers

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Pauvre

A

Poor
= destitute
= impoverished

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Un pauvre (soutenu)

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A pauper

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La paupérisation

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Pauperization

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Les plus défavorisés

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The underprivileged

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(Équi) SMIC

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The guaranteed minimum wage

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(In)solvable

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(In)solvent

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(In)solvabilité

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(In)solvency

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Ruiné/ failli

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Bankrupt

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La faillite

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Bankruptcy

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Défavorisé

A

Deprived

/ disadvantaged

161
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Le besoin

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Need

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Nécessiteux

A

Needy

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Mendier (qqch)

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To beg (for sth)

165
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Un mendiant

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A beggar

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Faire la manche

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To pass the hat round (coll)

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Un clochard

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A tramp

/ a down-and-out

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Un vagabond

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A vagrant

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Les sans-abri

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The homeless

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Une soupe populaire

A

A soup kitchen

A bread line US

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Une grande pauvreté

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Great poverty

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Misérable

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Poverty-stricken

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Sombrer dans la misère

A

To fall from poverty

/ to sink into poverty

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Connaitre la misère

A

To experience from poverty

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Vivre dans la misère

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To live in poverty

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Souffrir de la misère

A

To suffer from poverty

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Réduire la misère

A

To reduce poverty

178
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Supprimer la misère

A

To abolish

= to eradicate poverty

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Être à court d’argent

A

To be short of money

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Être fauché

A

To be broke

181
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Gagner tout juste de quoi vivre

A

To eke out a living

= to live at subsistence level

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Vivre en-dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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To live below the poverty line

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Vivre au jour le jour

A

To live from hand to mouth

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Ne pas pouvoir joindre les deux bouts

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To be unable to make ends meet

185
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Être dans le besoin

A

To be in
need = in want
/ in straitened circumstances
/ needy = necessitous = penurious = badly-off

186
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Avoir des difficultés financière

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To feel the pinch

187
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Économiser sur tout

A

To pinch and scrape

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Être dans la dèche

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To be down-and-out

189
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Être sans domicile fixe

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To be homeless

/ to have no fixed abode

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Vivre à la dure

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To rough it

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Je ne peux pas me permettre d’acheter ça

A

I can’t afford to buy this

/ I can’t afford this

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L’argent ne tombe pas du ciel

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Money doesn’t grow on trees

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Social

A

Social

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Une cotisation

A

A contribution

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Un allocation

A

An allowance

196
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Une prestation

A

A benefit

197
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Prendre sa retraite

A

To retire

198
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La retraite

A

Retirement

199
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Un rentraité

A

A pensioner

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Vivre de l’aide social

A

To be / to live ON welfare

201
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Les assistés sociaux

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People on welfare

202
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L’assurance maladie

A

Sickness benefit

203
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L’allocation de logement

A

Housing benefit

204
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Les allocations familiales

A

Family benefit

205
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L’allocation (de) chômage

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The unemployment benefit UK

The unemployment compensation = the dole US

206
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Une maison de retraite

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A retirement home

= an old people’s home

207
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Un retraité

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An old-age pensioner

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