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Voca Flashcards

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Un bourreau de travail

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Workaholic

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Une société de loisir

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A leisure society

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Marché du travail

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Labor market

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La charge de travail

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Workload

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Travailler a plein temps

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To work full time

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Arriver sur le marché de l’emploi

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To join the labor force

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Avoir un emploi

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To hold a job

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Prendre un emploi

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To take on a job

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Travailler à domicile

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To work at home

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Avoir des horaires à la carte

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To work flextime

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Intérim

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Temporary work

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Travailler par équipe

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To work in shifts

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Le travail posté

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Shift work

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L’équipe de nuit

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The night shift

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Faire des heures supplémentaires

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To work overtime

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Travailler dur

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To work hard

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Travailler en équipe

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To work as a team

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Le travail des enfants

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Child labor

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L’esclavage

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Slave labor

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La main d’œuvre qualifiée

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Skilled labor

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Un employeur

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An employer

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Être sans emploi

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Jobless

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Une vocation

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A vocation

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La semaine de travail

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The working week

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L’éthique du travail

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Work ethic

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Un travailleur courageux

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A hard worker

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Trimer

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To drudge

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Peiner

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To toil

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29
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Exécuter du travail

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To carry out work

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Continuer à travailler

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To carry on working

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Terminer son travail

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To finish one’s work

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Retarder le travail de quelqu’un

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To hold up somebody’s work

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33
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Prévoir organiser

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To schedule

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Superviser

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To oversee

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Nécessiter

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To require

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36
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Remettre son travail

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To hand in one’s work

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Impliquer

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To involve

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38
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Lucratif

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Lucrative

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Bien payé

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Well paid

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40
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Un emploi à mi-temps

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Part Time job

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41
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Boulot d’été

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Summer job

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42
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Boulot de vacances

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A holiday job

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43
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Un emploi stable

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A steady job

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Un travail routinier

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A routine job

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45
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Un boulot de secrétariat

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A desk job

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Un boulot correct

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A decent job

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47
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Ardu

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Arduous

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48
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Éreintant

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Backbreaking

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Exigeant

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Demanding

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50
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Exténuant

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Grueling

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51
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Le droit du travail

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Labor legislation

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52
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La législation du travail

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Work regulation

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53
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Un contrat de travail

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A contract of employment

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54
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Les conventions collectives

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Collective bargaining

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55
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Travailler au noir

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Moonlighting

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56
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Être payer au noir

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To be paid off the books

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57
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Arrondir ses fins de mois

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To supplement one’s income

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58
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Le rythme de travail

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The pace of work

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59
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Se lever tôt

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To rise early

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60
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Commencer à travailler des l’aube

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To start work at dawn

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61
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N’avoir que peu de vacances

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To be alloted few vacation days

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62
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Un préjugé

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A prejudice

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Sanctifier

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To sanctify

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64
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Éviter les plaisirs

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To eschew pleasures

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65
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Faire 42 heures

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To clock up 42 hours

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66
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Ne pas prendre de vacances

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To skip holidays

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67
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L’éthique de l’assistance

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The welfare ethic

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Des syndicats faibles

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Weak labor unions

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Des revenus en baisse

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Falling earnings

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Les salaires

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Wages

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Tirer au flanc

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To goof off

72
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Être au bout du rouleau

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To be burnt out

73
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Chômage

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Unemployment

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Les chômeurs

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Unemployed man

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De longues durées

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Long-term

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Le taux de chômage

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Unemployment rate

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Le marché du travail

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Labor market

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Un demandeur d’emploi

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A job seeker

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Mettre au chômage

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To lay off

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Être licencié

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To be made redundant

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Un licenciement

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A redundancy

82
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Licencier

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To dismiss

83
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Sans préavis

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Without notice

84
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Perdre son emploi

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To lose one’s job

85
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Mettre à la porte

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To fire

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Se faire renvoyer

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To get the sack

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Renvoyer quelqu’un

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To let somebody go

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Supprimer des emplois

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To shed jobs

89
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Des suppressions d’emploi

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Job cuts

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Une compression de personnel

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Staff cutbacks

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Une vague de licenciement

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A round of job cuts

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La précarité de l’emploi

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Job insecurity

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Une procédure de licenciement

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A dismissal procedure

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Lettre de licenciement

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A redundancy letter

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Un préavis de licenciement

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A notice of dismissal

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Licenciement abusif

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Wrongful dismissal

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Une grosse prime de départ

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A golden handshake

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Se mettre en préretraite

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To take early retirement

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les allocations de chômage

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Unemployment dole

100
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Une agence pour l’emploi

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A job center

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Chercher un emploi

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To look for a job

102
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Plein emploi

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Full employment

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Le chômage des jeunes

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Youth unemployment

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Alléger

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To alleviate

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Combattre

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To tackle

106
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Le recyclage

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Reskilling

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Recycler

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To retrain

108
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Un programme de grands travaux

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A public works program

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Un programme de formation des jeunes

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A youth training scheme

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La formation de réinsertion

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Remedial training

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Apprendre un nouveau métier

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To learn a new skill

112
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La formation professionnelle

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Professional development

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Une aide à l’emploi

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A job incentive

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Un emploi sans avenir

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A dead-end job

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Mal rémunéré

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Low-paying

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Un emploi précaire

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A McJob

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Des petits boulots

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Odd jobs

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Être précaire

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To lack job security

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Être peu enclin au travail

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To be workshy

120
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Être en rejeté en raison de

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To be rejected on account of

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Affecter la vie de famille

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To exact a toll on family life

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Être a la recherche d’un emploi

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To hunt for a job

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Avoir toutes les peines à trouver un emploi

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To be hard pressed to find a job

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Envoyer un CV

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To send out a résumé

125
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Un postulant

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A job applicant

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Pointer à l’ANPE

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to check in at the unemployment agency

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Un cabinet de placement

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An outplacement firm

128
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Un chasseur de tête

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A headhunter

129
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Refuser un emploi

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To turn a job down

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Se voir refuser un emploi

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To be denied a job

131
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La croissance économique

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Economic growth

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Morose, sombre

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Gloomy

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Qui ne donne pas lieu à controverse

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Uncontroversial

134
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Expert / spécialiste

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A pundit

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Contester

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To decry

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Autrefois

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Yesteryear

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Prendre l’exemple de quelqu’un

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To take after someone

138
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Instable

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Shaky

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Conscience historique

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Historical awareness

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Prospérité d’après guerre

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Postwar boom

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Être plein d’angoisse

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To be full of angst

142
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La déprime des ouvriers

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The blue-collar blues

143
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Des emplois d’usine syndiqués

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Unionized factory jobs

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Aspirer à faire quelque chose

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To yearn to do something

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Force brute

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Brawn

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Se préoccuper de

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To fret over something

147
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Un haut fonctionnaire

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A high-ranking official

148
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Être en déclin

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To be in decay

149
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Un abruti

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A dullard

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Emploi de bureau

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White-collar work

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Un ensemble de quelque chose

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A set of something

152
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Autrefois

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Of yore

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Des robots obéissant de l’entreprise

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Effete company drones

154
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Un discours actuel

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A narrative

155
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Quel que soit le critère raisonnable

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By any reasonable standard

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Un sondeur

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A pollster

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Un peu de

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A smattering of

158
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A partir du début des années 90

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From the early 1990s onwards

159
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Un record historique

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An all-time high

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Monté de …% en …

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Up from …% in …

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Se donner la peine de

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To bother to

162
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Le changement et le roulement constant

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The constant change and churn

163
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Faire partie intégrante de quelque chose

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To be part and parcel of something

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Des compromis

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Trade-offs

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Admettre

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To acknowledge

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Un syndicat

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A trade union

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Sans relâche

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Relentless

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