RECAP 2 Flashcards

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un barrage

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a dam

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2
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la vente au detail

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retail

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3
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la compétitivité

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competitiveness

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4
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la vente en gros

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wholesale

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5
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la douane

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the customs

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6
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une filiale

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a subsidiary

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fusionner

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to merge

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le chiffre d’affaire

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the turnover

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un coffre-fort

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a safe

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10
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devoir

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to owe

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11
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un retrait

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a withdrawal

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12
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un bouc émissaire

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a scapegoat

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13
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désirer ardemment

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to long for

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14
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un demandeur d’asil

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an asylm seeker

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15
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un aimant / pôle d’attraction

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a magnet

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16
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mendier

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to beg

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17
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fauché

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broke / skint

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18
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réduire la fracture sociale

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to bridge the social divide

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19
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grève de la faim

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huger strike

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20
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femme au foyer

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housewife

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21
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la pilule

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the pill

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22
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un coup

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a blow

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23
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un détournement de fonds

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embezzlement

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24
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un pirate de l’air

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a hijacker

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un soulèvement
an uprising
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descendre dans la rue
to take to the streets
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de menottes
handcuffs
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être placé en détention provisoire
to be remanded in custody
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un médecin légiste
a forensic scientist
30
une agression à l'arme blanche
a stabbling
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blanchir de l'argent
to launder dirty money
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un cambriolage
a burglary
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une émeute
a riot
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agiter des banderoles
to wave banners
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un mandat de perquisition
a search warrant
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un échantillon d'ADN
a DNA sample
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un actionnaire
a shareholder
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des perspectives sombres
bleak prospect
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contenir
to staunch
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un vagabond
a vagrant
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l'éducation des enfant
child rearing
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repasser
to iron
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un phallocrate
a Male Chauvinist Pig
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mal accepter
to resent
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recueillir
to shelter
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attirer
to lure
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effroyable
appalling
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un profiteur / un parasite
a scrounger
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la misère
wretchedness
50
lapidation
stoning
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la maternité
childbearing
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aspirer
to hoover
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une agression
mugging
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falsifier
to forge
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un incendie criminel
an arson
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être le détonateur
to ignite
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une matraque
a truncheon
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un commissariat
a precinct
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un indicateur
an informer
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une bavure
a blunder
61
un escroc
a swindler
62
un vol
a theft
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un truand
a mobster
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prendre des mesures répressives
to crack down on
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le pillage
looting
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saccager
to wreck
67
un inspecteur
a constable
68
un gardien d'immeuble
a janitor
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contraindre qq'un à faire quelque chose par la menace
to bully sb into doing stg