The Wealth Gap Flashcards

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Des richesses

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Riches

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Un milliardaire

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A billionaire

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Un parvenu, un arriviste

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An upstart

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L’avidité, la cupidité

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Greed

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L’avarice

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Stinginess

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Un avare

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A miser

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Aisé, opulent

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Well-off
Well-to-do
Affluent

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Dépensier

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Spendthrift

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Économe

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Thrifty

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Avare

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Stingy

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Pingre

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Miserly

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Cupide

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Greedy

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Pouvoir s’offrir qqch

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To be able to afford stg

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Économiser

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To save

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La misère

Le dénuement

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Destitution

Deprivation

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Un pauvre

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A pauper

A poor person

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Un mendiant

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A beggar

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Un travailleur pauvre

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A working poor

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Un marginal

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An outcast

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Les exclus

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The underclass

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Les quartiers défavorisés des centres-villes

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The inner cities

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Un taudis

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A slum

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La décrépitude

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Squalor

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Une expulsion

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An eviction

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Un SDF

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A homeless person

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Les mal logés, les sans-abris

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The homeless

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Un abri/un foyer

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A shelter/a hostel

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Un clochard

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A tramp

A bum

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Un vagabond

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A vagrant

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Le vagabondage

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Vagrancy

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La mendicité

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Begging

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Une sébile

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A begging bowl

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Une soupe populaire

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A soup kitchen

A bread line

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Le seuil de pauvreté

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The poverty line

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Les inégalités

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Inequalities

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L’entraide

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Mutual support

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Touché par la pauvreté

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Poverty-stricken

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Sans le sou

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Penniless

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Défavorisé. Déshérité

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Underprivileged

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Dans le besoin

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In need

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Misérable

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Destitute

Deprived

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Délabré

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Dilapidated

Derelict

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Sordide, lieu malpropre

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Squalid

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Appauvrir

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To impoverish

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Avoir faim, mourir de faim

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To starve

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Expulser

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To evict

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Dormir dehors

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To sleep rough

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L’Etat-Providence

La solidarité nationale

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The Welfare State

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L’aide/la protection sociale

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(Social) welfare

Social security

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L’aide publique

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Assistance

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L’aide aux plus démunis

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Poor relief

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Le système national d’assurance sociale

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National insurance

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Un assistant social, un travailleur social

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A social worker

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Une cotisation

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A contribution

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Un congé parental

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parental leave

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Les services d’aide à la personne

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Personal social service

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Un allocataire

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A claimant

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Une mutuelle

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A mutual insurance

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Un plafond de ressources

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An upper earnings limit

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Les autorités sanitaires

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The health authorities

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Un plafond de ressources

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An upper earning limit

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Les autorités sanitaires

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The health authorities

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Le ticket modérateur

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The prescription charge

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Des indemnités maladie

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Sick pay

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L’hospitalisation de jour

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Day care

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Laide et les soins à domicile

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Home care

Home help

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Le handicap

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Disability

Handicap

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Une personne handicapée

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A disabled person

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Une pension d’invalidité

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Incapacity benefit

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Un retraité

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A pensioner

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Une (pension de ) retraite

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A pension

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Un régime de retraite

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A pension scheme

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Des dépenses excessives

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Overspending

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Sous condition de ressources

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Means-tested

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Pourvoir aux besoins de

S’occuper de

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To cater for sb

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Cotiser

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To contribute

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Faire une demande d’allocations

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To claim benefits

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Avoir droit à qqch

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To be entitled to stg

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Lage de la retraite

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The retirement age

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Une société à deux vitesses

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A two-tier society

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L’opulence

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Affluence