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1 certainty
certainty [ˈsɜ:təntɪ]• faced with the certainty of disaster... face à un désastre inévitable...* * *['sɜːtntɪ]1) ( sure thing) certitude f ( about quant à)it's by no means a certainty — ce n'est pas du tout sûr ( that que + subj)
2) [U] ( guarantee) certitude f (of de) -
2 certainty
(a) (conviction) certitude f, conviction f;∎ I cannot say with any certainty when I shall arrive je ne peux pas dire exactement à quelle heure j'arriverai;∎ we can have no certainty of success nous ne sommes pas sûrs de réussir;∎ moral certainty certitude morale∎ for a certainty à coup sûr, sans aucun doute;∎ I know for a certainty that he's leaving je sais à coup sûr qu'il part;∎ their victory is now a certainty leur victoire est maintenant assurée ou ne fait aucun doute;∎ it's an absolute certainty c'est une chose certaine, c'est une certitude absolue -
3 certainty
1 ( sure thing) certitude f (about quant à) ; moral certainties certitudes morales ; for a certainty à coup sûr ; it's by no means a certainty ce n'est pas du tout sûr (that que + subj) ; this candidate is a certainty for election ce candidat est sûr d'être élu, ce candidat est une valeur sûre pour les élections ; she is a certainty to play at next weeks's concert elle est sûre de jouer au concert la semaine prochaine ;2 ¢ ( guarantee) certitude f (of de) ; we have no certainty of success nous ne sommes pas certains de réussir ; we cannot say with any certainty whether he will recover nous ne pouvons dire avec certitude s'il va se rétablir. -
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plural - certainties; noun1) (something which cannot be doubted: It's a certainty that he will win.) certitude2) (freedom from doubt: Is there any certainty of success?) certitude -
5 certainty
certitude; convictionEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > certainty
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6 legal certainty principle
Jur. principe de la sécurité juridiqueEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > legal certainty principle
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7 with reasonable certainty
Jur. avec un degré de certitude raisonnableEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > with reasonable certainty
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8 assurance
assurance [əˈ∫ʊərəns]a. ( = certainty) assurance fb. ( = promise) promesse f• you have my assurance that... je vous promets que...* * *[ə'ʃɔːrəns], US [ə'ʃʊərəns]1) ( guarantee) assurance f, garantie fto give somebody an ou every assurance that — donner à quelqu'un l'assurance que
2) ( self-confidence) assurance f3) GB ( insurance) assurance f -
9 confidence
confidence [ˈkɒnfɪdəns]1. nouna. ( = trust) confiance f• to have confidence in sb/sth avoir confiance en qn/qch• to put one's confidence in sb/sth mettre sa confiance en qn/qch• to have every confidence in sb/sth faire totalement confiance à qn/qchc. ( = confidentiality) confidence f2. compounds* * *['kɒnfɪdəns]1) ( faith) confiance f (in en)to have (every) confidence in somebody/something — avoir (pleine) confiance en quelqu'un/quelque chose
2) Politicsvote of confidence — vote m de confiance
motion of no confidence — motion f de censure
3) ( self-assurance) assurance f, confiance f en soi4) ( certainty) assurance f5) ( confidentiality)to tell somebody something in (strict) confidence — dire quelque chose à quelqu'un (tout à fait) confidentiellement
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10 must
must [mʌst]1. modal verba. (obligation)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When must expresses obligation, it is translated either by the impersonal expression il faut que, which is followed by the subjunctive, or by devoir, followed by the infinitive; il faut que is more emphatic.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I must see him! il faut absolument que je le voie !• why must you always be so pessimistic? pourquoi faut-il toujours que tu sois si pessimiste ?• it must not be forgotten that... il ne faut pas oublier que...• "the windows must not be opened" « défense d'ouvrir les fenêtres »► I must say or admit• this came as a surprise, I must say je dois avouer que cela m'a surprisb. (invitations, suggestions)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When you must is used to make invitations and suggestions more forceful, the imperative may be used in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► you mustn't ( = don't)• he must be regretting it, mustn't he? il le regrette sûrement• he must be mad! il est fou !• you must be joking! vous plaisantez !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► must have made/had/been etc━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The perfect tense of devoir + infinitive is generally used to translate must have + past participle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• was he disappointed? -- he must have been! est-ce qu'il a été déçu ? -- sûrement !2. noun• a must for all students! un must pour les étudiants !3. compounds* * *Note: When must indicates obligation or necessity, French tends to use either the verb devoir or the impersonal construction il faut que + subjunctive: I must go = je dois partir, il faut que je parte. For examples and particular usages see I 1 and I 3 below. See also have II 1 and the related usage noteWhen must expresses assumption or probability, the verb devoir is always used: it must strike you as odd that = ça doit te sembler bizarre que (+ subj). See I 7 below for further examplesFor the conjugation of devoir, see the French verb tables[mʌst, məst] 1.1) (indicating obligation, prohibition)you mustn't mention this to anyone — il ne faut en parler à personne, tu ne dois en parler à personne
withdrawals must not exceed £200 — les retraits ne doivent pas dépasser 200 livres sterling
2) (indicating requirement, condition)to gain a licence you must spend 40 hours in the air — pour obtenir son brevet il faut avoir 40 heures de vol
3) (stressing importance, necessity)you must be patient — il faut que tu sois patient, tu dois être patient
I feel I must tell you that... — je pense devoir te dire que...
very nice, I must say! — iron très gentil vraiment! iron
4) ( expressing intention)I must check the reference — je dois vérifier la référence, il faut que je vérifie la référence
5) ( indicating irritation)well, come in if you must — bon, entre si tu y tiens
he's ill, if you must know — il est malade si tu veux vraiment le savoir
6) (in invitations, suggestions)7) (expressing assumption, probability)8) (expressing strong interest, desire)2.this film is a must — ce film est à voir or à ne pas rater
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11 practical
practical [ˈpræktɪkəl]1. adjective• a practical way of... un moyen concret de...b. ( = down-to-earth) [person] pratiquec. ( = functional) pratiqued. ( = near) it's a practical certainty c'est une quasi-certitude2. noun3. compounds* * *['præktɪkl] 1. 2.1) (concrete, not theoretical) pratique2) [person] ( sensible) pratique; ( with hands) adroit3) ( functional) [clothes, furniture, equipment] pratique4) ( viable) [plan etc] réalisable -
12 rightly
rightly [ˈraɪtlɪ]a. ( = correctly) avec raison• he rightly assumed that... il supposait avec raison que...b. ( = justifiably) à juste titre* * *['raɪtlɪ]1) ( accurately) correctement2) ( justifiably) à juste titre3) ( with certainty) au juste -
13 surely
surely [ˈ∫ʊəlɪ]• surely he didn't say that! il n'a pas pu dire ça, tout de même !• surely you can do something to help? vous devez pouvoir aider• surely you didn't believe him? vous ne l'avez pas cru, j'espère• surely not! pas possible !• surely! (US = with pleasure) bien sûr !* * *['ʃɔːlɪ], US ['ʃʊərlɪ]1) ( expressing certainty) sûrement, certainementsurely we've met before? — nous nous sommes déjà rencontrés, n'est-ce pas?
you noted his phone number, surely? — tu as noté son numéro de téléphone, j'imagine?
surely you can understand that? — c'est quelque chose que tu peux comprendre, n'est-ce pas?
2) ( expressing surprise) tout de mêmesurely to God ou goodness you've written that letter by now! — ne me dis pas que tu n'as pas encore écrit cette lettre!
3) ( expressing disagreement)‘it was in 1991’ - ‘1992, surely’ — ‘c'était en 1991’ - ‘1992, tu veux dire’
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sweet [swi:t]1. adjective• you're such a sweet guy! t'es vraiment un chic type ! (inf)d. [child, dog, house, hat] mignone. [sound, voice, music] mélodieux• sweet dreams! fais de beaux rêves !2. noun3. compounds* * *[swiːt] 1.2) (colloq) ( term of endearment) ange m2.1) lit [food, tea] sucré; [fruit] ( not bitter) doux/douce; ( sugary) sucré; [wine, cider] ( not dry) doux/douce; ( sugary) sucré; [taste] sucré; [perfume] ( pleasant) doux/douce; ( sickly) écœurant2) ( kind) [person] gentil/-ille; [face, voice] doux/douce3) ( pure) [water, smell] bon/bonne; [sound] mélodieux/-ieuse4) ( cute) gen mignon/-onne; [old person] adorable5) [certainty, solace] doux/douce6) iron3.to go one's own sweet way — agir comme ça lui/leur etc plaît
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15 red
1 nounto be in the red (of person) avoir un découvert, être dans le rouge; (of company) être en déficit; (of account) avoir un solde déficitaire;∎ to be £5,000 in the red (of person) avoir un découvert de 5 000 livres; (of company) avoir un déficit de 5 000 livres; (of account) avoir un solde déficitaire de 5 000 livres;∎ to go into red ink (of person) être à découvert; (of company) être en déficit; (of account) avoir un solde déficitairered chip action f de société chinoise;red tape (bureaucracy) paperasserie fOtherwise companies will find themselves locked into expensive and time consuming legal battles without any certainty over the timespan or the result. Indeed, such a process could easily be subverted by companies on the receiving end of a hostile bid to stifle the takeover battle with a blanket of legal red tape.
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16 certain
['sə:tn] 1. adjective1) (true or without doubt: It's certain that the world is round.) certain2) (sure: I'm certain he'll come; He is certain to forget; Being late is a certain way of losing one's job.) certain3) (one or some, not definitely named: certain doctors; a certain Mrs Smith; (also pronoun) certain of his friends.) certain4) (slight; some: a certain hostility in his manner; a certain amount.) certain•2. interjection(of course: `May I borrow your typewriter?' `Certainly!'; `Certainly not!') certainement- for certain - make certain -
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18 cinch
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19 absolute
A n1 the absolute l'absolu m ;2 (rule, principle) vérité f absolue ; rigid absolutes des vérités qui n'admettent aucune contradiction.B adj1 ( complete) [certainty, discretion, minimum, proof, right etc] absolu ; Pol [power, monarch] absolu ; absolute majority Pol majorité f absolue ; absolute beginner vrai débutant ;2 ( emphatic) [chaos, disaster, idiot, scandal] véritable ;4 Jur decree absolute décret m irrévocable ; the decree was made absolute le décret a été prononcé irrévocable ;5 Ling [ablative, construction] absolu ; -
20 cinch
cinch ○A n1 ( easy task) sth/doing sth was a cinch qch/faire qch a été facile comme bonjour ; it's a cinch c'est du gâteau ○ ;2 ( certainty) to be a cinch to do être sûr de faire ; that horse is a cinch to win ce cheval va gagner la course à coup sûr ;
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