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Wealth And Poverty Flashcards

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Poverty

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La pauvreté

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Wealth

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La richesse

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A two-tier society

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Une société à 2 vitesses

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The underclass

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La classe défavorisée

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Absolute poverty

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La misère

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The underprivileged

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Les défavorisés

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The dispossessed

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Les démunis

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The needy

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Les nécessiteux

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The outcasts

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Les exclus de la société

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The “scum”

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La lie de la société

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A tramp

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Un clochard

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A beggar

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Un mendiant

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The poverty threshold

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Le seuil de pauvreté

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To live in poverty/ be needy

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Vivre dans le besoin

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To live on the margin

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Vivre en marge de la société

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Entrenched poverty

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La pauvreté chronique

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A depressed area

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Une région en difficulté

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Instability (of work)

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La précarité

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To scrape out an existence

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Gagner une maigre pitance

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Starvation wages

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Un salaire de misère

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To be destitute

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Être sans ressources

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To be hard-up

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Être à court d’argent

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To make both ends meet

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Joindre les 2 bouts

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The cycle of poverty

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Le cycle de la pauvreté

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To fall on hard times

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Connaître des temps difficiles

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The homeless

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Les sans-abris / SDF

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To drift

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Errer

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Welfare

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L’aide sociale

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The welfare state

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L’état-providence

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A social worker

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Une assistante sociale

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A recipient of benefit

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Un prestataire

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To be on benefit

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Être assisté

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To claim benefit

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Prétendre à des allocations

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An allowance/ grant

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Une allocation

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A sickness benefit

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Une prestation maladie

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Child benefit

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Le complément familial

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Housing benefit

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Une allocation de logement

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A soup kitchen

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Une soupe populaire

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39
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To make do with

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Se contenter de

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40
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French food charity organisation

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Les restos de cœur

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A handout

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Une aumône

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A health threat

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Une menace pour la santé

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Hand-me downs

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Les vêtements d’occasion

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Illiteracy

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L’analphabétisme

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The work ethic

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La morale du travail

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An overdraft

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Un découvert

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Credit

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Le crédit

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48
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To be riddled with debt

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Être criblé de dettes

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To invest

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Placer

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50
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To buy on credit

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Acheter à crédit

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51
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A loan

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Un prét

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A mortgage

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Une hypothèque

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To borrow (from)

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Emprunter (à)

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54
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An interest rate

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Un taux d’intérêt

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55
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To save money

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Économiser de l’argent

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56
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To raiser/lower rates

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Augmenter/diminuer les taux

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57
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To put by/ save

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Mettre de côté

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To make a profit

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Faire des bénéfices

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A share

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Une action

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The stock exchange

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La bourse

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Taxes

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Les impôts

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Private enterprise

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Le système capitaliste

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Free market economy

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L’économie de marché

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State ownership

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La propriété publique

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A subsidy

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Une subvention

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Privatisation

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La privatisation

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State ownership

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La nationalisation

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Developing country

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Un pays en voie de développement (un PVD)

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Life expectancy

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L’espérance de vie

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Infant mortality

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La mortalité infantile

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Malnutrition

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La malnutrition

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International aid

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L’aide internationale

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A debt

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Une dette (financière)

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A debtor

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Un débiteur

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A creditor

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Un créancier

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To go into debt

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S’endetter

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To go badly into debt

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S’endetter exagérément

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To recover a debt

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Recouvrer une dette

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To settle a debt

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Régler une dette

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To cancel a debt

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Remettre une dette

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To pay off a debt

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Rembourser une dette

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To write off a debt

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Annuler une dette

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To show sympathy

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Faire preuve de solidarité

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To beg

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Mendier

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To educate/ send to school

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Scolariser

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Globalisation

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La mondialisation

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Foreign policy

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La politique étrangère

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Domestic policy

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La politique intérieure

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Economic policy

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La politique économique

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A republic

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Une république

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A monarchy

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Une monarchie

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A dictatorship

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Une dictature

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A democracy

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Une démocratie

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A nation

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Une nation

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Un pays

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A country

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A state

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Un état

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A region made up of several countries

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Une région

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A job

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Un boulot

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To work

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Bosser (fam.)

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Unemployment

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Le chômage

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An unemployed person

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Un chômeur

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To deserve

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Mériter

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A charity

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Une association caritative

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A cash donation

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Un don en argent

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A donation of goods

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Un don en nature

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A donation/ giving of one’s time

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Un don en temps

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A fellow citizen

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Un concitoyen

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Trade unionism

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Le syndicalisme

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Human rights

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Les droits de l’homme

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Motivating

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Mobilisateur

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To support

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Soutenir

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Purchasing power

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Le pouvoir d’achat

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Wealth threshold

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Le seuil de richesse

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Average standard of living

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Le niveau de vie (médian)

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Redundancy

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Le licenciement

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Branded as scum

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Traité de racaille

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To earn

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Percevoir

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(Of) working (age)

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Actif

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Inequality

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L’inégalité

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The wealth gap

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L’écart entre les riches et les pauvres

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Short term

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De courte durée

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Long term

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De longue durée

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Fixed term

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La durée déterminée

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To reach

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Atteindre / remontrer à

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An opinion poll

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Un sondage d’opinion

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To conduct/carry out a poll

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Faire un sondage

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an approval rating

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Une cote de confiance

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To stand up for

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Défendre

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To appeal to

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Plaire/ séduire

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Beneficiary/ claimant

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Un(e) allocataire

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Minimum benefits

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Minima sociaux

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Badly housed

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Un(e) mal-logé

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Qualification

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Un diplôme

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A degree

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Un DEUG

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A masters

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Un licence

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To afford

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Se payer

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Insurance

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La couverture complémentaire

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Decently

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Décemment

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Deficiency

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Une carence

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Dilapidated

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Vétuste

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High cost

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Une cherté

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Deprived urban areas

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Les ZUS (F)

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Hard times

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La mouise

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Deprivation/shortage

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Une privation

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Benefits

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