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1 days
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2 dog days
plural noun ( warm weather) canicule f; fig période f creuse -
3 salad days
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4 day
jour m; (working hours) journée f;∎ to have/take a day off avoir/prendre un jour de congé;∎ to work an eight-hour day travailler huit heures par jour;∎ to be paid by the day être payé(e) à la journéeday of action jour d'action;day labour travail m de jour;day labourer ouvrier(ère) m, f journalier(ère) ou à la journée;day off jour de congé;STOCK EXCHANGE day order ordre m valable pour la journée;day release formation f continue en alternance;∎ to be on day release être en formation continue en alternance;∎ to be on day shift, to work the day shift être de jour;STOCK EXCHANGE day trade opération f de journée;STOCK EXCHANGE day trader spéculateur(trice) m, f à la journée;day work travail de jour(b) we can give you four days' grace nous pouvons vous accorder un délai de quatre joursday of grace jour m de grâce;days of grace délai m de grâce -
5 notice
(a) (notification) avis m, notification f;∎ until further notice jusqu'à nouvel ordrenotice of receipt accusé m de réception;notice of withdrawal avis de retrait de fonds∎ to give in or hand in one's notice donner sa démission, démissionner;∎ fifty people have been given their notice cinquante personnes ont été licenciées;∎ what notice do you require? quel est le terme du congé?;∎ to give sb notice (of sth) prévenir ou avertir qn (de qch); (of resignation, redundancy) donner un préavis à qn (de qch);∎ employees must give three months' notice les employés doivent donner trois mois de préavis;∎ can be delivered at three days' notice livrable dans un délai de trois jours;notice of dismissal préavis de licenciement∎ notice (to quit) (avis m de) congé m;∎ to be under notice (to quit) avoir reçu son congé;The toughest part came when a meeting that took two months to schedule with a director of e-business for a large manufacturer didn't go the way she hoped it would. The official told Kovacs and York that he had given his notice to quit because he was fed up. He'd wasted 18 months setting up a Web storefront only to hear from management that it was being scrapped.
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6 euro-currency
eurodevise f, euromonnaie feuro-currency market marché m des eurodevisesThe fund aims to give shareholders access to income at wholesale euro-currency market interest rates in the euro-currency. The fund invests in a spread of short-term money market instruments with a weighted average maturity of 60 days.
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7 forex
( abbreviation foreign exchange) devises f étrangèresforex trading transactions f en devises étrangèresOn the world's adrenaline-charged foreign exchange markets, $1.5 trillion changes hands every day. To set that figure in context, the global trade in merchandise and commercial services last year was $6.5 trillion - or 4.3 days of forex trading.
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8 grace
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9 half-day
demi-journée f;∎ tomorrow is my half-day demain c'est ma demi-journée de congé;∎ to work half-days faire des demi-journées -
10 lieu
in lieu à la place;∎ in lieu of au lieu de;∎ take Thursday off in lieu prenez jeudi à la place;∎ we get days off in lieu of overtime on nous accorde des jours de congé en plus pour compenser les heures supplémentaires -
11 nine-to-fiver
American = personne qui travaille selon des horaires traditionnels (le plus souvent de 9h à 17h)Unisys' Schebella is no clock-watcher. "I'm not a nine-to-fiver," she says. "I'm available all the time because IT recruiting these days is done on a daily basis and has a sense of urgency to it. So I'm in constant communication with what I call my 'triangle' -- the candidates, the customers, and the clients."
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12 standstill
to be at a standstill (of economy, production) être paralysé(e)standstill agreement moratoire mThe major shareholders in Anaconda Nickel … have come to a standstill agreement regarding their stakes. In the hectic hours before today's extraordinary general meeting, they agreed not to increase their stakes above 30 percent in the period up to Dec. 31 2001, or 90 days after the publication of key recommendations of a strategic review, whichever is the later.
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13 usance
BANKING (time limit) usance f;∎ at thirty days' usance à usance de trente joursusance bill effet m à usance -
14 warning
COMPUTING warning message message m d'avertissement;warning strike grève f d'avertissement(b) (advance notice) avis m;∎ we only received a few days' warning nous n'avons été prévenus que quelques jours à l'avance(c) (alarm, signal) alerte f -
15 weighting
ECONOMICS (of index, average) pondération f, coefficient m;The weekend starts two days early for many of the capital's pupils today, as NUT members take a day of strike action to campaign for a one-third increase in London weighting. Far from "being held hostage", as some have put it, pupils will probably feel the opposite.
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16 Ascension Day
noun ((also Holy Thursday) the day commemorating Christ's Ascension, ten days before Whitsunday.) -
17 movement
1) ((an act of) changing position or going from one point to another: The animal turned sideways with a swift movement.) mouvement2) (activity: In this play there is a lot of discussion but not much movement.) mouvement3) (the art of moving gracefully or expressively: She teaches movement and drama.) expression corporelle4) (an organization or association: the Scout movement.) mouvement5) (the moving parts of a watch, clock etc.) mouvement6) (a section of a large-scale piece of music: the third movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.) mouvement7) (a general tendency towards a habit, point of view etc: There's a movement towards simple designs in clothing these days.) mouvement -
18 night
1) (the period from sunset to sunrise: We sleep at night; They talked all night (long); He travelled by night and rested during the day; The days were warm and the nights were cool; ( also adjective) He is doing night work.) (de) nuit2) (the time of darkness: In the Arctic in winter, night lasts for twenty-four hours out of twenty-four.) nuit•- nightly- night-club - nightdress - nightgown - nightfall - nightmare - nightmarish - night-school - night shift - night-time - night-watchman -
19 Shrovetide
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20 sick-leave
noun (time taken off from work etc because of sickness: He has been on sick-leave for the last three days.) congé de maladie
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