RECAP 2 Flashcards

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1
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un barrage

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a dam

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la vente au detail

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retail

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la compétitivité

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competitiveness

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la vente en gros

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wholesale

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la douane

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the customs

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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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devoir

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to owe

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un retrait

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a withdrawal

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un bouc émissaire

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a scapegoat

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désirer ardemment

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to long for

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un demandeur d’asil

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an asylm seeker

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un aimant / pôle d’attraction

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a magnet

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mendier

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to beg

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fauché

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broke / skint

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réduire la fracture sociale

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to bridge the social divide

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grève de la faim

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huger strike

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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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un coup

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a blow

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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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25
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un soulèvement

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an uprising

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26
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descendre dans la rue

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to take to the streets

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27
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de menottes

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handcuffs

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être placé en détention provisoire

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to be remanded in custody

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un médecin légiste

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a forensic scientist

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une agression à l’arme blanche

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a stabbling

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blanchir de l’argent

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to launder dirty money

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un cambriolage

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a burglary

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une émeute

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a riot

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agiter des banderoles

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to wave banners

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un mandat de perquisition

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a search warrant

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un échantillon d’ADN

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a DNA sample

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un actionnaire

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a shareholder

38
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des perspectives sombres

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bleak prospect

39
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contenir

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to staunch

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un vagabond

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a vagrant

41
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l’éducation des enfant

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child rearing

42
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repasser

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to iron

43
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un phallocrate

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a Male Chauvinist Pig

44
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mal accepter

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to resent

45
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recueillir

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to shelter

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attirer

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to lure

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effroyable

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appalling

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un profiteur / un parasite

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a scrounger

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la misère

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wretchedness

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lapidation

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stoning

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la maternité

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childbearing

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aspirer

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to hoover

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une agression

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mugging

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falsifier

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to forge

55
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un incendie criminel

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an arson

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être le détonateur

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to ignite

57
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une matraque

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a truncheon

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un commissariat

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a precinct

59
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un indicateur

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an informer

60
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une bavure

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a blunder

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un escroc

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a swindler

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un vol

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a theft

63
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un truand

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a mobster

64
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prendre des mesures répressives

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to crack down on

65
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le pillage

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looting

66
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saccager

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to wreck

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un inspecteur

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a constable

68
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un gardien d’immeuble

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a janitor

69
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contraindre qq’un à faire quelque chose par la menace

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to bully sb into doing stg