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1 flexibility
flexibility [‚fleksə'bɪlətɪ](of object) flexibilité f, souplesse f; figurative (of plan, approach) flexibilité f; (of person's character) souplesse f;∎ he has always shown a lot of flexibility (in timing, arrangements) il s'est toujours montré très disponible ou arrangeant;∎ what I like about this software is its flexibility ce qui me plaît dans ce logiciel, c'est sa flexibilité ou souplesse d'emploiUn panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > flexibility
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flexibility n souplesse f, flexibilité f ; to allow flexibility in doing sth permettre une certaine souplesse pour faire qch. -
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Dictionary of Engineering, architecture and construction > flexibility
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1) souplesse; flexibilité; capacité d'adaptation; ouverture d'esprit; pf. esprit de conciliation2) latitude; marge de manoeuvreEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > flexibility
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Fin., Org. arrangements préférentiels souples [concernant les dépenses d'appui du PNUD]English-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > flexibility arrangements
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9 impaired nerve connective tissues flexibility
diminution de souplesse du tissu conjonctif nerveuxEnglish-French medical dictionary > impaired nerve connective tissues flexibility
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10 give
give [gɪv]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━3. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what are you going to give her? (as present) qu'est-ce que tu vas lui offrir ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► give + noun may be translated by a verb alone.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• can you give me a bed for the night? pouvez-vous me loger pour la nuit ?► to be given ( = receive)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► In French the recipient is not made the subject of a passive construction.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• one must give and take il faut faire des concessions► give or take...• a hundred people, give or take a few à peu près cent personnesb. ( = cause, cause to feel) faire• I was given to understand that... on m'avait laissé entendre que...• it gives me great pleasure to introduce... c'est avec grand plaisir que je vous présente...c. ( = pass on) OK, I'll give him the message d'accord, je lui ferai la commissiond. ( = put through to) passer• could you give me Mr Smith/extension 231? pouvez-vous me passer M. Smith/le poste 231 ?• give yourself time to think about it before you decide prends le temps de réfléchir avant de te décider• give me time! attends un peu !• I can't give you any longer, you must pay me now je ne peux plus vous accorder de délai, il faut que vous payiez maintenantf. ( = utter) [+ sigh, cry] pousserg. ( = pay) payer ; ( = offer) donner• what did you give for it? combien l'avez-vous payé ?• I'd give a lot/anything to know je donnerais gros/n'importe quoi pour savoir• what will you give me for it? combien m'en donnez-vous ?• I'll give him something to cry about! (inf) je lui apprendrai à pleurer !i. ► to give way ( = yield) [person] céder ( to sth à qch ) ; ( = stand back) s'écarter ; ( = agree) finir par donner son accord ; [car, traffic] céder le passage ; ( = collapse) [bridge, ceiling, floor] s'effondrer ; [ground] se dérober ; [cable, rope] céder ; [legs] fléchir• "give way" « cédez le passage »• "give way to traffic from the right" « priorité à droite »a. ( = collapse) céderb. ( = yield) [cloth, elastic] se détendre3. noun4. compoundsb. [+ names, details] donner ; [+ secrets] révéler• to give o.s. away se trahir[+ object, freedom] rendre► give in[+ essay, exam paper, key] rendre ; [+ manuscript, report] remettre► give off separable transitive verb[+ heat, gas, smell] dégager► give outa. [+ books, food] distribuerb. [+ information, details] donner• don't give up! tenez bon !a. ( = renounce) [+ interests] abandonner ; [+ seat, territory] céder ; [+ habit, idea, hope, claim] renoncer à ; [+ job] quitter ; [+ business] se retirer deb. ( = stop) arrêterc. ( = deliver, hand over) to give o.s. up se rendre• she gave the baby up for adoption elle a fait adopter le bébé► give up on inseparable transitive verba. ( = renounce) [+ idea] renoncer àb. ( = stop expecting) [+ visitor] ne plus attendre ; ( = lose faith in) perdre espoir en* * *[gɪv] 1.noun élasticité f2.1) ( hand over) gen donner (to à); offrir [present, drink, sandwich] (to à)to give somebody something — gen donner quelque chose à quelqu'un; (politely, as gift) offrir quelque chose à quelqu'un
give it me! —
what wouldn't I give for...! — je donnerais cher pour...!
2) ( cause to have)to give somebody something —
to give something to somebody — donner quelque chose à quelqu'un [headache, nightmares, advice, information]; transmettre or passer quelque chose à quelqu'un [disease]
3) (provide, produce) donner [milk, flavour, result, answer, sum]; apporter [heat, light, nutrient]; faire [total]4) (allow, accord) accorder [custody, grant]; laisser [quelque chose] à quelqu'un [seat]to give somebody something — donner or accorder quelque chose à quelqu'un [time, time period]
she can sing, I'll give her that — elle sait chanter, je lui reconnais au moins ça
it's original, I'll give you that — c'est original, je te l'accorde
5) Medicineto give somebody something —
to give something to somebody — donner quelque chose à quelqu'un [treatment, medicine]; greffer quelque chose à quelqu'un [organ]; poser quelque chose à quelqu'un [device]; faire quelque chose à quelqu'un [injection, massage]
to give somebody something — passer quelque chose à quelqu'un [number, department]
3.give me the sales manager, please — passez-moi le directeur commercial, s'il vous plaît
1) ( contribute) donner, faire un don‘please give generously’ — ‘merci (de vos dons)’
2) ( bend) [mattress, sofa] s'affaisser; [shelf, floorboard] fléchir; [branch] ployer; [leather, fabric] s'assouplir3) (yield, break) = give way4) ( yield) [person, side] céder•Phrasal Verbs:- give in- give off- give out- give up- give way••don't give me that! — (colloq) ne (me) raconte pas d'histoires!
if this is the big city, give me a village every time — (colloq) si c'est ça la ville, alors vive les petits villages
‘I give you the bride and groom!’ — ‘je bois à la santé des mariés!’
I'll give you something to complain about! — (colloq) je vais t'apprendre à te plaindre!
to give it all one's got — (colloq) (y) mettre le paquet
to give somebody what for — (colloq) passer un savon à quelqu'un (colloq)
what gives? — (colloq) qu'est-ce qui se passe?
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11 versatility
versatility [‚vɜ:səˈtɪlɪtɪ]* * *[ˌvɜːsə'tɪlətɪ]1) ( flexibility) ( of person) adaptabilité f; ( of mind) souplesse f2) ( of equipment) polyvalence f -
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= fait d'accorder davantage d'autonomie (à ses employés)The flexibility to work where and how you want to is another key benefit of empowerment. Again, employers can expect to see an increasingly motivated workforce as a result. Media buyer Kate Parry became Just Media's first teleworker as she became disillusioned with working in London. The company set her up with a laptop computer, a fax and a printer. "I am able to speak with my clients and my colleagues efficiently from my home office; communication is the key to our success, so it is very important that I can do this in a suitable environment," she says.
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13 flex
[fleks] 1. verb(to bend, especially in order to test: to flex one's muscles.) fléchir2. noun((a piece of) thin insulated wire for carrying electricity: That lamp has a long flex.) fil- flexible- flexibility - flexitime -
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2 (of book, film) adaptabilité f (to pour) ; (of machine, system, vehicle) adaptabilité f (to à). -
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compliance [kəm'plaɪəns]1 noun(a) (conformity) conformité fconformément à;∎ in compliance with the law conformément à la loi;∎ she acted in compliance with the terms of the contract elle a agi en accord avec les stipulations du contrat►► Commerce compliance test test m de conformité
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Flexibility — is the absolute range of movement in a joint or series of joints and muscles that is attainable in a momentary effort with the help of a partner or a piece of equipment. It is a term for the ability to easily bend an object or the ability to… … Wikipedia
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flexibility — flexibility. См. генетическая пластичность. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
flexibility — index amenability, facility (easiness), informality, lenience Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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flexibility — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, great ▪ German workers accept the need for greater flexibility in the face of global competition. ▪ added, additional, extra, increased … Collocations dictionary
flexibility — n. 1) to demonstrate, show flexibility 2) flexibility in; towards 3) the flexibility to + inf. (he has enough flexibility to cope with the job) * * * [ˌfleksə bɪlɪtɪ] show flexibility towards to demonstrate flexibility in the flexibility to + inf … Combinatory dictionary
flexibility — The ability to adapt an operating system to respond to changes in the environment. Increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantage in a rapidly changing market, it is an area of operations management in which Japanese practices have had a… … Big dictionary of business and management
flexibility — flexible flex‧i‧ble [ˈfleksbl] adjective 1. a person, plan etc that is flexible can change or be changed easily to suit any new situation: • flexible investment opportunities • More firms are offering flexible benefits (= extra money or other… … Financial and business terms