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1 business
A n1 ¢ ( commerce) affaires fpl ; to be in business être dans les affaires ; to go into business se lancer dans les affaires ; they made a lot of money in business ils ont gagné beaucoup d'argent dans les affaires ; to be honest in business être toujours honnête en affaires ; to set up in business s'établir à son compte ; she went into ou set up in business as a translator elle s'est établie comme traductrice ; the firm is no longer in business l'entreprise a fermé ; to do business with sb traiter avec qn, faire des affaires avec qn ; they do a lot of business with Germany ils font beaucoup d'affaires avec l'Allemagne ; they're in business together ils sont associés ; he is a man I can do business with c'est un homme avec qui je peux travailler ; to go out of business faire faillite ; they're back in business Comm ils ont repris leurs activités ; she's gone to Brussels on business elle est allée à Bruxelles pour affaires or en voyage d'affaires ; he's away on business at the moment en ce moment il est en déplacement pour affaires ; the recession has put them out of business la récession les a obligés à cesser leurs activités ; it's good/bad for business ça fait marcher/ne fait pas marcher les affaires ; to talk business parler affaires ; now we're talking business! fig maintenant on commence à parler sérieusement! ; are you in London for business or pleasure? êtes-vous à Londres pour affaires ou pour le plaisir? ; to mix business with pleasure joindre l'utile à l'agréable ; business is business les affaires sont les affaires ; ‘business as usual’ ( on shop window) ‘nous restons ouverts pendant les travaux’ ; it is/it was business as usual fig c'est/c'était comme à l'habitude ;2 (custom, trade) to lose business perdre de la clientèle ; how's business comment vont les affaires? ; business is slow at the moment les affaires marchent au ralenti or ne vont pas fort en ce moment ; most of our business comes from tourists la plupart de nos clients sont des touristes ; we are doing twice as much business as last summer notre chiffre d'affaires a doublé par rapport à l'été dernier ;3 (trade, profession) métier m ; what's your line of business?, what (line of) business are you in? vous travaillez dans quelle branche?, qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie? ; he's in the hotel/insurance business il travaille dans l'hôtellerie/les assurances ; he's the best comedian/chef in the business ○ fig c'est le meilleur comique/chef qui existe ;4 (company, firm) affaire f, entreprise f ; ( shop) commerce m, boutique f ; small businesses les petites entreprises ; she runs a small dressmaking/mail-order business elle dirige une petite affaire de confection/de vente par correspondance ;5 ¢ ( important matters) questions fpl importantes ; (duties, tasks) devoirs mpl, occupations fpl ; let's get down to business passons aux choses sérieuses ; the business before a meeting Admin l'ordre m du jour ; we got through a lot of business at the meeting on a réglé beaucoup de questions au cours de la réunion ; can we get down to business? on peut s'y mettre? ; to go about one's business vaquer à ses occupations ; to deal with daily business expédier les affaires courantes ; we still have some unfinished business to discuss nous avons encore des choses à discuter ; he got on with the business of tidying up/letterwriting il s'est mis à faire le rangement/la correspondance ; ‘any other business’ ( on agenda) ‘questions diverses’ ;6 ( concern) that's her business ça la regarde, c'est son affaire ; it's none of your business! ça ne te regarde pas!, ce n'est pas ton affaire! ; it's no business of yours what he does in his private life sa vie privée ne te regarde pas ; to make it one's business to find out se charger de découvrir la vérité ; mind your own business ○ ! occupe-toi or mêle-toi de tes affaires ○ ! ; he had no business telling her! ce n'était pas à lui de le lui dire! ; she had no business to be there elle n'avait rien à faire là-bas ; there I was minding my own business when … j'étais là tranquille dans mon coin, quand … ;7 ( affair) histoire f, affaire f ; it's a bad ou sorry business c'est une triste affaire ; the newspapers are full of this murder/drugs business les journaux ne parlent que de cette histoire de meurtre/de drogue ; what a dreadful business! quelle histoire horrible! ; no funny business! et pas d'histoires! ; a nasty business une sale affaire ; I'm fed up with the whole business j'en ai ras le bol ○ ;8 (bother, nuisance) histoire f ; moving house is quite a business! c'est toute une histoire de déménager! ; what a business! quelle histoire! ;B modif [address, law, letter, transaction] commercial ; [pages] affaires ; [meeting, travel, consortium] d'affaires ; business people hommes mpl d'affaires ; the business community le monde des affaires.now we're in business! maintenant nous sommes prêts!, maintenant on peut y aller! ; to be in the business of doing avoir pour habitude de faire ; she can sing/play the piano like nobody's business ○ elle chante/joue du piano comme personne ; to work like nobody's business ○ travailler d'arrache-pied ; that's the business ○ ! c'est super ○ ! ; she means business! elle ne plaisante pas! ; to send sb about his business envoyer promener qn ○ ; to give sb the business ○ US en faire voir de toutes les couleurs à qn ○. -
2 run
1. present participle - running; verb1) ((of a person or animal) to move quickly, faster than walking: He ran down the road.) courir2) (to move smoothly: Trains run on rails.) marcher, rouler3) ((of water etc) to flow: Rivers run to the sea; The tap is running.) couler4) ((of a machine etc) to work or operate: The engine is running; He ran the motor to see if it was working.) marcher, fonctionner5) (to organize or manage: He runs the business very efficiently.) diriger6) (to race: Is your horse running this afternoon?) courir7) ((of buses, trains etc) to travel regularly: The buses run every half hour; The train is running late.) assurer le service8) (to last or continue; to go on: The play ran for six weeks.) tenir l'affiche9) (to own and use, especially of cars: He runs a Rolls Royce.) avoir10) ((of colour) to spread: When I washed my new dress the colour ran.) déteindre11) (to drive (someone); to give (someone) a lift: He ran me to the station.) conduire12) (to move (something): She ran her fingers through his hair; He ran his eyes over the letter.) passer13) ((in certain phrases) to be or become: The river ran dry; My blood ran cold (= I was afraid).) devenir2. noun1) (the act of running: He went for a run before breakfast.) course2) (a trip or drive: We went for a run in the country.) promenade3) (a length of time (for which something continues): He's had a run of bad luck.) période4) (a ladder (in a stocking etc): I've got a run in my tights.) échelle5) (the free use (of a place): He gave me the run of his house.) entière disposition6) (in cricket, a batsman's act of running from one end of the wicket to the other, representing a single score: He scored/made 50 runs for his team.) poulailler7) (an enclosure or pen: a chicken-run.)•- runner- running 3. adverb(one after another; continuously: We travelled for four days running.) d'affilée- runny- runaway - rundown - runner-up - runway - in - out of the running - on the run - run across - run after - run aground - run along - run away - run down - run for - run for it - run in - run into - run its course - run off - run out - run over - run a temperature - run through - run to - run up - run wild -
3 run
run [rʌn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. ( = act of running) course fb. ( = outing) tour md. ( = series) série fe. ( = period of performance) her new series begins a run on BBC1 sa nouvelle série d'émissions va bientôt passer sur BBC1• the decisive goal arrived, against the run of play le but décisif a été marqué contre le cours du jeuh. ( = type) he didn't fit the usual run of petty criminals il n'avait pas le profil du petit malfaiteur ordinairei. ( = track for skiing) piste fj. ( = animal enclosure) enclos mk. (in tights) échelle f• things will sort themselves out in the long run les choses s'arrangeront avec le temps► on the runa. courir• to run down/off descendre/partir en courant• it runs in the family [characteristic] c'est de familleb. ( = flee) prendre la fuite• run for it! sauvez-vous !• to run into the sea [river] se jeter dans la mer► to run with ( = be saturated)d. ( = be candidate) être candidate. ( = be) I'm running a bit late je suis un peu en retard• inflation is running at 3% le taux d'inflation est de 3 %g. [bus, train, coach, ferry] assurer le service• the buses are running early/late/on time les bus sont en avance/en retard/à l'heureh. ( = function) [machine] marcher ; [factory] être en activité• but if it really happened he'd run a mile (inf) mais si ça se produisait, il aurait vite fait de se débiner (inf)b. ( = transport) [+ person] conduirec. ( = operate) [+ machine] faire marcher ; [+ computer program] exécuterd. ( = organize) [+ business] diriger ; [+ shop] tenir• the company runs extra buses at rush hours la société met en service des bus supplémentaires aux heures de pointe• the school is running courses for foreign students le collège organise des cours pour les étudiants étrangerse. ( = put, move) to run one's finger down a list suivre une liste du doigtf. ( = publish) publierg. ( = cause to flow) faire couler4. compounds• he gave me the run-around il s'est défilé (inf) ► run-down adjective [person] à plat (inf) ; [building, area] délabré► run-off noun [of contest] ( = second round) deuxième tour m ; ( = last round) dernier tour m ; [of pollutants] infiltrations fpl( = find) [+ object, quotation, reference] tomber sur• run along! sauvez-vous !► run away intransitive verb partir en courant ; ( = flee) [person] se sauver• he ran away with the funds ( = stole) il est parti avec la caisse► run away with inseparable transitive verba. ( = win easily) [+ race, match] gagner haut la mainb. you're letting your imagination run away with you tu te laisses emporter par ton imagination► run down separable transitive verba. ( = knock over) renverser ; ( = run over) écrasera. ( = meet) rencontrer par hasard• to run into difficulties or trouble se heurter à des difficultésb. ( = collide with) rentrer dansc. ( = amount to) s'élever à• the cost will run into thousands of euros le coût va atteindre des milliers d'euros► run out intransitive verba. [person] sortir en courantb. ( = come to an end) [lease, contract] expirer ; [supplies] être épuisé ; [period of time] être écoulé[+ supplies, money] être à court de ; [+ patience] être à bout de• to run out of petrol or gas (British, US) tomber en panne d'essence► run out on (inf) inseparable transitive verb[+ person] laisser tomber (inf)► run over( = recapitulate) reprendre• could you run that past me again? est-ce que tu pourrais m'expliquer ça encore une fois ?► run through inseparable transitive verba. ( = read quickly) parcourirb. ( = rehearse) [+ play] répéter• if I may just run through the principal points once more si je peux juste récapituler les points principaux► run to inseparable transitive verba. ( = seek help from) faire appel à ; ( = take refuge with) se réfugier dans les bras dec. ( = amount to) the article runs to several hundred pages l'article fait plusieurs centaines de pages► run up( = climb quickly) monter en courant ; ( = approach quickly) s'approcher en courantb. [+ bills] accumuler[+ problem, difficulty] se heurter à* * *[rʌn] 1.1) ( act of running) course fto give somebody a clear run — fig laisser le champ libre à quelqu'un ( at doing pour faire)
2) ( flight)to have somebody on the run — lit mettre quelqu'un en fuite; fig réussir à effrayer quelqu'un
to make a run for it — fuir, s'enfuir
3) ( series) série f4) Theatre série f de représentations5) ( trend) (of events, market) tendance fthe run of the cards/dice was against me — le jeu était contre moi
6) ( series of thing produced) ( in printing) tirage m; ( in industry) série f7) Finance ( on Stock Exchange) ruée f (on sur)8) (trip, route) trajet m9) (in cricket, baseball) point m10) (for rabbit, chickens) enclos m11) (in tights, material) échelle f12) ( for skiing etc) piste f13) ( in cards) suite f2.1) ( cover by running) courir [distance, marathon]2) ( drive)3) (pass, move)4) ( manage) dirigera well-/badly-run organization — une organisation bien/mal dirigée
5) ( operate) faire fonctionner [machine]; faire tourner [motor]; exécuter [program]; entretenir [car]6) (organize, offer) organiser [competition, course]; mettre [quelque chose] en place [bus service]7) ( pass) passer [cable]8) ( cause to flow) faire couler [bath]; ouvrir [tap]9) ( publish) publier [article]10) ( pass through) franchir [rapids]; forcer [blockade]; brûler [red light]11) ( smuggle) faire passer [quelque chose] en fraude12) ( enter) faire courir [horse]; présenter [candidate]3.1) ( move quickly) [person, animal] courirto run across/down something — traverser/descendre quelque chose en courant
to run for ou to catch the bus — courir pour attraper le bus
to come running — courir ( towards vers)
2) ( flee) fuir, s'enfuirrun for your life! —
run for it! — (colloq) sauve qui peut!, déguerpissons! (colloq)
3) (colloq) ( rush off) filer (colloq)4) ( function) [machine] marcherto run off — fonctionner sur [mains, battery]
to run fast/slow — [clock] prendre de l'avance/du retard
5) (continue, last) [contract, lease] courirto run from... to... — [school year, season] aller de... à...
7) ( pass)to run past/through — [frontier, path] passer/traverser
the road runs north for about ten kilometres — la route va vers le nord sur une dizaine de kilomètres
8) ( move) [sledge, vehicle] glisser; [curtain] coulisserto run through somebody's hands — [rope] filer entre les mains de quelqu'un
9) ( operate regularly) circuler10) ( flow) coulerthe streets will be running with blood — fig le sang coulera à flots dans les rues
11) ( flow when wet or melted) [dye, garment] déteindre; [makeup, butter] couler12) ( as candidate) se présenterto run for — être candidat/-e au poste de [mayor, governor]
to run for president — être candidat/-e à la présidence
13) ( be worded)the telex runs... — le télex se présente or est libellé comme suit...
14) ( snag) filer•Phrasal Verbs:- run at- run away- run down- run in- run into- run off- run on- run out- run over- run to- run up••
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