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Poverty = destitution Flashcards

1
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pauvre

A

poor
destitute
impoverished

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les pauvres, indigents

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the poor, the destitute

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un pauvre

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a pauper

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4
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la paupérisation

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pauperization

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5
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les plus défavorisés

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the underprivileged

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le SMIC

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the Guaranteed Minimum Wage (GMW)

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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

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deprived / disadvantaged

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le besoin

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need

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nécessiteux

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needy

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les nécessiteux

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the needy

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15
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mendier qqch

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to beg for sth

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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

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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-abris

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the homeless

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les laissés-pour-compte

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the underdogs

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un asile de nuit

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a dosshouse (UK) 
a flophouse (US)
23
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une soupe populaire

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a soup kitchen

a bread line (US)

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great
dire
extreme
grinding poverty

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une grande pauvreté

la misère noire

25
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poverty stricken

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misérable

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to fall / to sink into poverty

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sombrer dans la misère

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to experience poverty

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connaitre la misère

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live in poverty

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vivre dans la misère

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suffer from poverty

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souffrir de la misère

30
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to reduce / alleviate = relieve / abolish = eradicate poverty

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réduire / soulager / supprimer la pauvreté

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a bankruptcy court

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un tribunal de commerce

32
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bankruptcy proceedings

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une procédure de faillite

33
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to be short…
to be hard up…
to be broke…
to be penniless of money

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être à court d’argent / gêné / fauché / sans le sou

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to eke out a living = to live at subsistence level

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gagner tout juste de quoi vivre

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to live below the poverty line / from hand to mouth

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vivre en-dessous du seuil de pauvreté / au jour le jour

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to be unable to make ends meet

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ne pas pouvoir joindre les deux bouts

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

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être dans le besoin / la gêne

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to feel the pinch

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avoir des difficultés financières

39
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to pinch and scrape

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économiser sur tout

40
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to be down-and-out

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être dans la dèche

41
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as poor as a church-mouse

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pauvre comme job

42
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to be homeless / to have no fixed abode

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être SDF

43
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to sleep rough / to rough it

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dormir à la cloche de bois / vivre à la dure

44
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I can’t afford to buy this

I can’t afford this

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je ne peux pas me permettre d’acheter cela

45
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money doesn’t grow on trees

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l’argent de tombe pas du ciel

46
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a two-tier society

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un société à deux vitesses

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