THE ECONOMY Flashcards
Une alliance stratégique, donner def
A strategic alliance
2 companjs decide to cooperate significantly while maintening their independance, sometimes as a sort of preliminary step before a potential merger
Un partenariat, une coentreprise
A joint venture
The 2 entities agree to create a new entity by both contributing equity. As a result, both parties share revenues and expenses
Une société de portefeuille
A holding company
A firm that owns enough of other companie’s oustanding shares to exercise control over them, but doesn’t not produce goods or services itself
Une société
A company, a firm, a TRUST
In a trust, the trustee ( or fiduciary) has the power to manage property in the name of the neneficiary who receives benefits from that property.
Trust are over used to reduce: competition and control prices throughout an industry- hence strigent anti-trust laws to prevent a powerful firm from suppressing competition and creating monopolies
Another form of unlawful business, as trusts..
The cartel
An association if theoretically competing firms, which secretly agreed to coordinate prices and production
Franchisage
Franchising
The franchisee is given the right to sell the good or service of the franchiser against payment of a royalty.
Franchisees also have adhere to certain standards to be able to trade on the parent company’s name
Externalisation/ sous traitance
Internalisation
Outsourcing
Equivalent to subcontracting.
Involves transferring a business function to an outside supplier
Gives businesses the opportunity to harvest the profits of lower labour costs and workforce in dev coutry..
Insourcing: the opposite. The decision to maintain on-site control of certain critical functions
Backsourcing
Délocalisation
Délocalisation de proximié
Offshoring
Differ fom outsourcing in terms of localisation: companies subcontracing to another country ( and close the company at home)
Nearshoring: is offshoring to cheaper locatiobs and yet geographically nearer than offshore locations
Improves the efficiency of day-to-day information exchange
La population active
L’agro-négoce
PIB # PNB
Matières premières
Biens, marchandises, articles
The working population
Agribusiness
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
GNP: Gross National Product
Raw materials
Goods
La producion industrielle
Les industries traditionnelles
La qualification, un travailleur qualifié
L’automatisation
Manufacturing
“Smokestack” industries
Skills
Automation
Se désindustrialiser
Aller à l’encontre de la tendance
Pays dév # pays en dév
Unchangement radical
To deINstrualise
To BUCK the trend
Developed countries # developing countries
A substancial shift
Une économie tertiaire, de service
L’interentreprises, le B2B
Les biens immatériels
La vente au détail # la vente en gros
A service-base economy
B2B
Intangible goods
Retailing # wholesaling
La durabilité
Le 4e et le 5e secteur
Délimiter, définir les contours de
Géré par l’état
Sustainability
The quartenary , QUINary sector
To delineate
State-run
Entraver 2, une entrave
La croissance
Un mandat de 1e ministre
Créateur de richesses # destructeur de richesses
To hamper/ hinder, a hindrance
Growth
Premiership
Wealth-producing # Wealth-consuming
Protégé des effets de la crise
Être voué à
Lancer une critique contre
Des postes à haut niveau de responsabilités, un cadre (supérieur)
Recession-proof
To be bound to
To level criticism at
High-powered positions, a (senior) executive
Emplois subalternes
Précaire, la précarité
Les avantages sociaux
À temps partiel # emploi temporel, intérim # personnes qui changent frqmmt d'emploi # un emploi alimentaire # un emploi ss perspective de carrière
Menial jobs
Precarious, precariousness
Benefits
Part-time, contingency work, job-hoppers
A bread-and-butter job, a dead-end job
Mettre en oeuvre
Jetable
La fidélité envers l’entreprise
Un projet de carrière
To implement
Disposable
Firm loyalty
A career path
Avoir des répercussions sur..
Le résultat financier(eco.) ou l’essentiel.
Un emploi mal payé et sans avenir
Péjoratif
To have a knock-on effect on
A McJob
Derogatory
Conforme aux attentes des touristes
Vernis, apparence
Qlq chose de chimérique
Universel
Tourist-friendly
Veneer
Make-believe (ajd.)
Across-the-board (adj.)
Être indigné de, contrarié par..
Racheter, réparer, rehausser
Image de marque
L’emblème
To resent
To redeem
Brand image
The hallmark
Une filiale 2
Contre-attaquer
Lancer une campagne publicitaire
Faire partie des priorités de quelqu’un
A subsidiary , an arm ( plus fam)
To strike back
To launch an advertising campaign
To be high on sb’s agenda
le commerce électronique
the TMT sector
les logiciels
le matériel informatique
E-commerce
The Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector
SoftwarE
HardwarE
La bulle Internet
Annoncer l’arrivée de
Le commerce en ligne
S’avérer
The Internet bubble
To herald
E-trade
To prove to be
Perturber
Sortir indemne de la crise
Un commerce traditionnel (#en ligne) # Une commerce traditionnel qui a aussi dév une act en ligne # un commerce en ligne
Les frais d’entreposage ou de magazinage
To be disruptive to
To ride out of THE STORM
a bricks-and-mortar # a clicks-and-mortar # a clicks-only
Warehouse costs
