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1 government
government ['gʌvənmənt]1 noun(a) Politics (governing authority) gouvernement m; (type of authority) gouvernement m, régime m; (the State) gouvernement m, État m;∎ the Conservative government le gouvernement conservateur;∎ to form a government constituer ou former un gouvernement;∎ the government has fallen le gouvernement est tombé;∎ the socialists have joined the coalition government les socialistes sont entrés dans le gouvernement de coalition;∎ democratic government la démocratie;∎ a stable government un gouvernement stable;∎ the project is financed by the government le projet est financé par l'État ou le gouvernement(b) (process of governing → country) gouvernement m, direction f; (→ company) administration f, gestion f; (→ affairs) conduite f(measure, policy) gouvernemental, du gouvernement; (expenditure) de l'État, public; (minister, department) du gouvernement►► government action action f gouvernementale;government advertising publicité f gouvernementale;government auditor commissaire m aux comptes;government bonds obligations fpl d'État, bons mpl du Trésor;government borrowings emprunts mpl de l'État;British government broker agent m du Trésor;British Government Communications Headquarters = centre d'interception des télécommunications étrangères en Grande-Bretagne;government developmental grant, government developmental subsidy prime f de développement;government grant subvention f d'État;government health warning = avertissement officiel contre les dangers du tabac figurant sur les paquets de cigarettes et dans les publicités pour le tabac;∎ figurative humorous men like him should carry a government health warning des bonshommes pareils, ça devrait être interdit;∎ this car/computer should carry a government health warning cette voiture/cet ordinateur est une catastrophe;British Government House palais m du gouverneur;government issue émission f d'État ou par le gouvernement;government issue uniform uniforme m fourni par l'État;government loan emprunt m public ou d'État;American the Government Printing Office = maison d'édition publiant les ouvrages ou documents émanant du gouvernement, ≃ Imprimerie f nationale;Finance government securities, government stock effets mpl publics, fonds mpl publics ou d'État;government spending dépenses fpl publiques -
2 place
place [pleɪs]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. endroit m• we came to a place where... nous sommes arrivés à un endroit où...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► A more specific word is often used to translate place.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• it's a small place ( = village) c'est un village━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note adjective + place translated by adjective alone.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► place of + noun• place of birth/work lieu m de naissance/de travail• he'll go places all right! ( = make good) il ira loin !• we're going places at last ( = make progress) nous avançons enfin• your place or mine? on va chez moi ou chez toi ?• his business is growing, he needs a bigger place son affaire s'agrandit, il lui faut des locaux plus grandsd. ( = position) place f• (if I were) in your place... (si j'étais) à votre place...• to take the place of sb/sth prendre la place de qn/qch• to fit into place ( = become clear) devenir clair• the moment I changed jobs everything fell into place ( = turned out well) il a suffi que je change de travail pour que tout s'arrangee. (in competition) place f• Paul won the race with Robert in second place Paul a gagné la course et Robert est arrivé deuxième• my personal life has had to take second place to my career ma vie privée a dû passer après ma carrière• he has risen to second place in the opinion polls il occupe maintenant la deuxième place dans les sondagesf. ( = job) place fg. (for student, player) place f• I've looked for him all over the place je l'ai cherché partout► to be in place [object] être à sa place ; [measure, policy, elements] être en place ; [conditions] être rassemblé ; [law, legislation] être en vigueur► in places ( = here and there) par endroits• the snow is very deep in places la neige est très profonde par endroits► in place of à la place de• in the first place, it will be much cheaper d'abord, ça sera beaucoup moins cher• we need to consider why so many people are in prison in the first place nous devons d'abord nous demander pourquoi tant de gens sont en prison• he shouldn't have been there in the first place d'abord, il n'aurait même pas dû être là► in the second place ensuite► out of place [object, remark] déplacéa. ( = put) mettre• events have placed the president in a difficult position les événements ont mis le président en mauvaise posture• we are now well placed to... nous sommes maintenant bien placés pour...b. ( = rank) placer• he places good health among his greatest assets il considère sa bonne santé comme l'un de ses meilleurs atouts• to place local interests above those of central government placer les intérêts locaux avant ceux de l'Étatc. ( = classify) classerd. ( = make) [+ order, contract] passer ; [+ bet] engagere. ( = find job for) trouver un emploi pour• we have so far placed 28 people in permanent jobs jusqu'à présent nous avons réussi à trouver des emplois permanents à 28 personnes• the agency is trying to place him with a building firm l'agence essaie de lui trouver une place dans une entreprise de constructionf. ( = identify) situer• he looked familiar, but I couldn't immediately place him sa tête me disait quelque chose mais je n'arrivais pas à le situer3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━‼|/b] The French word [b]place is not the commonest translation for place.* * *[pleɪs] 1.1) (location, position) endroit msame time, same place — même heure, même endroit
in places — [hilly, damaged, worn] par endroits
in several places — ( in region) dans plusieurs endroits; ( on body) à plusieurs endroits
place of birth/work — lieu m de naissance/travail
in Oxford, of all places! — à Oxford, figure-toi!
to lose/find one's place — ( in book) perdre/retrouver sa page; (in paragraph, speech) perdre/retrouver le fil
he had no place to go — (colloq) surtout US il n'avait nulle part où aller
some place — (colloq) surtout US quelque part
2) (town, hotel etc) endroit ma little place called... — un petit village du nom de...
all over the place — ( everywhere) partout; fig (colloq) [speech, lecture] complètement décousu; [hair] en bataille
3) ( home)4) (seat, space) (on bus, at table, in queue) place f; ( setting) couvert mto keep a place — garder une place ( for pour)
to lay ou set a place for somebody — mettre un couvert pour quelqu'un
5) (on team, with firm) place f (on dans); (on committee, board) siège m (on au sein de)a place as — une place comme [au pair, cook, cleaner]
6) GB University place f (at à)to get a place on — obtenir une place dans [course]
7) (in competition, race) place fto finish in first place — terminer premier/-ière or à la première place
to take second place — fig ( in importance) passer au deuxième plan
in the first place — fig ( firstly) en premier lieu; ( at the outset) pour commencer
8) (in order, correct position)in place — [law, system, scheme] en place
to put somebody in his/her place — remettre quelqu'un à sa place
9) ( role)to have no place in — n'avoir aucune place dans [organization, philosophy]
10) ( situation)in my/his place — à ma/sa place
11) ( moment) moment m2.in places — [funny, boring, silly] par moments
out of place adjectival phrase déplacé3.to look out of place — [building, person] détonner
in place of prepositional phrase à la place de [person, object]4.transitive verb1) ( put) placer, mettre [object]; mettre [advertisement]to place something back on — remettre quelque chose sur [shelf, table]
2) ( locate) placer3) ( rank) ( in competition) classer; ( in exam) GB classerto be placed third — [horse, athlete] arriver troisième
4) ( identify) situer [person]; reconnaître [accent]5) Administration (send, appoint) placer [student, trainee] (in dans); ( find home for) placer [child]••that young man is really going places — (colloq) voilà un jeune homme qui ira loin
to fall ou fit into place — devenir clair; take place
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3 bite
A n1 ( mouthful) bouchée f ; in one bite en une bouchée ; to have ou take a bite of sth prendre une bouchée de qch ; to take a bite out of sth fig faire un trou dans qch ; that will take a big bite out of our budget/profits cela va faire un grand trou dans notre budget/marge bénéficiaire ;2 ○ ( snack) morceau m (à manger) ; to have a bite (to eat) manger un morceau ; to have ou grab a quick bite (to eat) manger un morceau en vitesse ;3 fig (impact, keen edge) (of wind, cold) morsure f ; ( of food) piquant m ; (of argument, performance, style, film) mordant m ; his speech/film has bite son discours/film a du mordant ;5 Fishg touche f ; to have a bite lit avoir une touche ; fig trouver amateur ; the house is up for sale but we haven't had any bites yet la maison est en vente mais nous n'avons pas encore trouvé amateur ;6 Dent occlusion f.B vtr ( prét bit, pp bitten) [person, animal] mordre ; [insect] piquer ; to bite sth in two couper [qch] en deux d'un coup de dent ; to bite one's nails se ronger les ongles.1 ( take effect) [measure, policy, rule, new rates, strike, shortage] se faire sentir ;2 Fishg [fish] mordre.he/she won't bite you ○ ! il/elle ne va pas te manger ○ ! ; to bite one's lip se mordre les lèvres ; to bite the hand that feeds you cracher dans la soupe ; the biter bit tel est pris qui croyait prendre ; to be bitten by the DIY/health food bug ○ attraper le virus ○ du bricolage/de la diététique ; ⇒ bullet.■ bite back:▶ bite back [sth] ravaler [rude comment, reply].■ bite into:▶ bite into [sth] lit mordre dans [fruit, sandwich etc] ; fig ( affect) avoir un effet sur [economy, finances].■ bite off:▶ bite off [sth], bite [sth] off arracher [qch] d'un coup de dent.■ bite on:▶ bite on [sth] mordre sur.■ bite through:▶ bite through [sth] [person, animal] percer [qch] avec ses dents.
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