RECAP 2 Flashcards by Martin jung

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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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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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un pirate de l’air

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a hijacker

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un soulèvement

an uprising

descendre dans la rue

to take to the streets

de menottes

handcuffs

être placé en détention provisoire

to be remanded in custody

un médecin légiste

a forensic scientist

une agression à l'arme blanche

a stabbling

blanchir de l'argent

to launder dirty money

un cambriolage

a burglary

une émeute

a riot

agiter des banderoles

to wave banners

un mandat de perquisition

a search warrant

un échantillon d'ADN

a DNA sample

un actionnaire

a shareholder

des perspectives sombres

bleak prospect

contenir

to staunch

un vagabond

a vagrant

l'éducation des enfant

child rearing

repasser

to iron

un phallocrate

a Male Chauvinist Pig

mal accepter

to resent

recueillir

to shelter

attirer

to lure

effroyable

appalling

un profiteur / un parasite

a scrounger

la misère

wretchedness

lapidation

stoning

la maternité

childbearing

aspirer

to hoover

une agression

mugging

falsifier

to forge

un incendie criminel

an arson

être le détonateur

to ignite

une matraque

a truncheon

un commissariat

a precinct

un indicateur

an informer

une bavure

a blunder

un escroc

a swindler

un vol

a theft

un truand

a mobster

prendre des mesures répressives

to crack down on

le pillage

looting

saccager

to wreck

un inspecteur

a constable

un gardien d'immeuble

a janitor

contraindre qq'un à faire quelque chose par la menace

to bully sb into doing stg