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1 illegal, act
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2 illegal
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3 wrongful act
Jur. acte illégal/illicite; acte délictueux; acte dommageableEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > wrongful act
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4 computer
computer [kəmˈpju:tər]► computer crime noun ( = illegal activities) criminalité f informatique ; ( = illegal act) délit m informatique* * *[kəm'pjuːtə(r)]noun ordinateur mby computer/on a computer — par/sur ordinateur
the computer is up/down — l'ordinateur fonctionne/est en panne
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5 petty
petty [ˈpetɪ]1. adjectivea. ( = small-minded) mesquinb. ( = trivial) sans importance2. compoundsa. ( = illegal activities) petite délinquance f► petty officer noun ≈ maître m* * *['petɪ]adjective [person, squabble] mesquin; [detail] insignifiant; [regulation] tracassier/-ière; [snobbery] étroit -
6 touch
touch [tʌt∫]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. ( = sense of touch) toucher mb. ( = act of touching) contact mc. ( = character) to give sth a personal touch mettre une note personnelle dans qchd. ( = detail) détail m• small touches, such as flowers, can transform a room de petits détails, par exemple des fleurs, peuvent transformer une piècee. ( = small amount) it's a touch expensive c'est un petit peu cherf. ( = contact)► in touch• I'll be in touch! je te (or vous) téléphonerai !• keep in touch! tiens-nous au courant !• he has lost touch with what is going on il n'est plus dans le coup (inf)► to be out of touch ( = not up to date)• I'm out of touch with the latest developments je ne suis pas au courant des derniers développementsg. (Football) touche fh. ( = person) Mr Wilson is no soft touch M. Wilson n'est pas du genre à se laisser fairea. ( = come into contact with) toucher• they can't touch you if you don't break the law on ne peut rien te faire tant que tu restes dans la légalitéb. ( = tamper with) toucher à• don't touch that switch! ne touchez pas à ce bouton !• I didn't touch it! je n'y ai pas touché !• I didn't touch him! je ne l'ai pas touché !c. ( = deal with) (in exam) I didn't touch the third question je n'ai pas touché à la troisième questiond. [+ food, drink] toucher àe. ( = equal) valoirf. ( = move emotionally) toucherg. ( = reach) [+ level, speed] atteindrea. toucher• don't touch! n'y touchez pas !b. ( = come into contact with) [ends, lands] se toucherc. (speaking, writing) to touch on a subject aborder un sujet4. compounds• it was touch-and-go until the last minute l'issue est restée incertaine jusqu'au bout ► touch screen noun (Technical) écran tactile• touch screen technology technologie f à écran tactile ► touch-sensitive adjective [screen] tactile( = land) atterrir[+ crisis, riot] déclencher ; [+ reaction, argument] provoquer[+ painting, photo] retoucher* * *[tʌtʃ] 1.1) ( physical contact) contact m (physique)at the slightest touch — ( of button) à la moindre pression
2) ( sense) toucher m3) (style, skill) (of artist, writer) touche f; ( of musician) toucher ma fine touch at the net — ( in tennis) un toucher délicat au filet
4) ( little)there's a touch of class/of genius about her — elle a quelque chose d'élégant/de génial
a touch of sarcasm/of garlic — une pointe de raillerie/d'ail
5) ( communication) contact mto get/stay in touch with — se mettre/rester en contact avec
6) Sport touche f2.transitive verb1) ( come into contact with) toucher; ( interfere with) toucher à2) ( affect) gen toucher; ( adversely) affecter; ( as matter of concern) concerner3) ( reach) [price, temperature] atteindre [level]3.when it comes to cooking, no-one can touch him — pour la cuisine, personne ne peut l'égaler
intransitive verb ( come together) [wires, hands] se toucher‘do not touch’ — ‘ne pas toucher’
Phrasal Verbs:- touch on- touch up••to be an easy ou a soft touch — (colloq) être un pigeon (colloq)
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7 unlawful
unlawful [ˈʌnˈlɔ:fʊl]1. adjective[act] illégal2. compounds* * *[ʌn'lɔːfl]adjective [activity, possession] illégal; [killing] indiscriminé; [detention] arbitraire; [arrest] ( without cause) arbitraire; ( with incorrect procedure) sommaireunlawful assembly — Law rassemblement m de nature à troubler l'ordre public
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8 do
I.do1 [du:]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━4. noun5. plural noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► There is no equivalent in French to the use of do in questions, negative statements and negative commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• do you understand? (est-ce que) vous comprenez ?• didn't you like it? tu n'as pas aimé ça ?• don't worry! ne t'en fais pas !• you know him, don't you? vous le connaissez, n'est-ce pas ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The tag is sometimes not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he didn't go, did he? il n'y est pas allé(, n'est-ce pas) ?• (so) you know him, do you? alors comme ça vous le connaissez ?• she said that, did she? ah oui ? elle a dit ça ?c. (in tag responses) they speak French -- oh, do they? ils parlent français -- ah oui ?• he wanted £1,000 for it -- did he really? il en demandait 1 000 livres -- vraiment ?• who broke the mirror? -- I did qui a cassé la glace ? -- moi• may I come in? -- please do! puis-je entrer ? -- je t'en prie !• shall I ring her again? -- no, don't! est-ce que je la rappelle ? -- surtout pas !• I'll tell him -- don't! je vais le lui dire -- surtout pas !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• do you see them often? -- yes, I do vous les voyez souvent ? -- oui• did you see him? -- no I didn't est-ce que tu l'as vu ? -- nond. (substitute for another verb) he's always saying he'll stop smoking, but he never does il dit toujours qu'il va s'arrêter de fumer mais il ne le fait pas• I like this colour, don't you? j'aime bien cette couleur, pas toi ?e. (encouraging) DO come! venez donc !• DO tell him that... dites-lui bien que...• but I DO like pasta! mais si j'aime bien les pâtes !• I am sure he never said that -- he DID say it je suis sûr qu'il n'a jamais dit ça -- je t'assure que si !• so you DO know them! alors comme ça tu les connais !a. faire• what are you doing in the bathroom? qu'est-ce que tu fais dans la salle de bains ?• what do you do for a living? que faites-vous dans la vie ?• the car was doing 100mph la voiture faisait du 160 km/h• now you've done it! c'est malin !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Some do + noun combinations require a more specific French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = finish) to get done with sth en finir avec qchc. ( = cook) faire ; ( = peel) éplucher• how do you like your steak done? comment voulez-vous votre bifteck ?e. ( = suffice) aller à• will a kilo do you? un kilo, ça ira ?► to do + preposition• what are we going to do for money? comment allons-nous faire pour trouver de l'argent ?• what can I do for you? qu'est-ce que je peux faire pour vous ?• could you do something for me? est-ce que tu peux me rendre un service ?• what are you doing to that poor cat? qu'est-ce que tu es en train de faire à ce pauvre chat ?• what have you done with my gloves? qu'as-tu fait de mes gants ?• what am I going to do with you? qu'est-ce que je vais bien pouvoir faire de toi ?a. ( = act) faire• could you lend me £50? -- nothing doing! (inf) tu pourrais me prêter 50 livres ? -- pas question !• how are you doing? comment ça va ?• how's he doing? comment va-t-il ?• how do you do? (on being introduced) enchanté (de faire votre connaissance)c. ( = finish) terminer• have you done? vous avez terminé ?• have you done with that book? vous n'avez plus besoin de ce livre ?d. ( = suit) aller• that will never do! il n'en est pas question !• it doesn't do to tell him what you think of him ce n'est pas une bonne idée de lui dire ce qu'on pense de luie. ( = be sufficient) suffire• can you lend me some money? -- will £10 do? peux-tu me prêter de l'argent ? -- dix livres, ça ira ?• that will do! ça ira !f. ► to have to do with ( = be connected with)what has that got to do with it? qu'est-ce que ça a à voir ?• they say crime has nothing to do with unemployment ils prétendent que la criminalité n'a rien à voir avec le chômage• that has nothing to do with it! cela n'a aucun rapport !• that's got a lot to do with it! ça y est pour beaucoup !• that has nothing to do with you! ça ne vous regarde pas !4. noun• they had a big do for their twenty-fifth anniversary ils ont fait une grande fête pour leur vingt-cinquième anniversaire de mariage5. plural nouna. ( = get rid of) [+ law, controls] abolir ; [+ nuclear weapons] démanteler ; [+ subsidies] supprimer ; [+ building] démolir• this will do away with the need for a UN presence cela rendra la présence des Nations unies superflue• she's always doing herself down il faut toujours qu'elle se rabaisse► do for (inf) inseparable transitive verba. ( = kill) buter (inf !)c. ( = exhaust) épuiser• the door was open: they had done the place over la porte était ouverte: ils avaient mis la maison sens dessus dessous[dress, jacket] se fermerb. ( = parcel together) emballerb. ( = tolerate) supporter• I can't be doing with whining children je ne supporte pas les enfants qui pleurnichent► do without• I could have done without that! je m'en serais bien passé !• I can do without your advice! je vous dispense de vos conseils !II.do2 [dəʊ]* * *I 1. [duː, də]1) ( be busy) faire [washing up, ironing etc]2) ( make smart)3) ( complete) faire [military service, period of time]4) ( finish)have you done (colloq) complaining? — tu as fini de te plaindre?
tell him now and have done with it — dis-le lui maintenant, ce sera fait
that's done it — ( task successfully completed) ça y est; ( expressing dismay) il ne manquait plus que ça
5) ( complete through study) faire [subject, degree, homework]6) ( write) faire [translation, critique]7) ( effect change) faire8) ( hurt) faire9) (colloq) ( deal with)10) ( cook) faire [sausages, spaghetti etc]well done — [meat] bien cuit
11) ( prepare) préparer [vegetables]12) ( produce) monter [play]; faire [film, programme] (on sur)13) ( imitate) imiter [celebrity, mannerism]14) ( travel at) faire15) ( cover distance of) faire [30 km etc]16) (colloq) ( satisfy needs of)17) (colloq) ( cheat)to do somebody out of £5 — refaire (colloq) quelqu'un de 5 livres sterling
18) (colloq) ( rob)to do a bank — faire un casse (colloq) dans une banque
19) (colloq) (arrest, convict)2.to get done for — se faire prendre pour [illegal parking etc]
1) ( behave) fairedo as you're told — ( by me) fais ce que je te dis; ( by others) fais ce qu'on te dit
2) ( serve purpose)3) ( be acceptable)this really won't do! — ( as reprimand) ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
4) ( be sufficient) [amount of money] suffire5) ( finish) finir6) ( get on) [person] s'en sortir; [business] marcher7) ( in health)3.1) (with questions, negatives)own up, did you or didn't you take my pen? — avoue, est-ce que c'est toi qui as pris mon stylo ou pas?
2) ( for emphasis)4) (in requests, imperatives)do sit down — asseyez-vous, je vous en prie
he lives in France, doesn't he? — il habite en France, n'est-ce pas?
‘who wrote it?’ - ‘I did’ — ‘qui l'a écrit?’ - ‘moi’
‘shall I tell him?’ - ‘no don't’ — ‘est-ce que je le lui dis?’ - ‘non surtout pas’
‘he knows the President’ - ‘does he?’ — ‘il connaît le Président’ - ‘vraiment?’
4.so/neither does he — lui aussi/non plus
(colloq) noun GB fête fhis leaving do — son pot (colloq) de départ
Phrasal Verbs:- do in- do out- do up- do with••it's a poor do (colloq) if — c'est vraiment grave si
it was all I could do not to... — je me suis retenu pour ne pas...
nothing doing! — ( no way) pas question!
II [dəʊ]all the dos and don'ts — tout ce qu'il faut/fallait faire et ne pas faire
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9 possession
possession [pəˈze∫ən]b. ( = object) bien m* * *[pə'zeʃn] 1.1) ( state of having) possession f (of de)3) Law ( of property) jouissance f (of de)to take possession of — prendre possession de [premises, property]
4) Sportto be in ou have possession — contrôler le ballon
5) ( by demon) possession f (by par)6) ( colonial) possession f2.possessions plural noun ( belongings) biens mpl••possession is nine-tenths of the law — Prov possession vaut titre Prov
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10 trade
trade [treɪd]1. noun• they do a lot of trade with... ils font beaucoup d'affaires avec...b. ( = job, skill) métier mc. ( = swap) échange ma. [country] faire du commerce (in de)b. [currency, commodity] to be trading at se négocier àc. ( = exchange) échanger( = exchange) to trade A for B échanger A contre B4. compounds► Trade Descriptions Act noun (British) loi protégeant les consommateurs contre la publicité et les appellations mensongères[+ car, television] obtenir une reprise pour( = exchange)* * *[treɪd] 1.1) ( activity) commerce m2) ( sector of industry) industrie f3) ( profession) ( manual) métier m; ( intellectual) profession f2.noun modifier [ route, agreement, balance, deficit] commercial; [ sanctions, embargo] économique; [ association, journal] professionnel/-elle; [ barrier] douanier/-ière3.transitive verb échanger4.intransitive verb Commerce faire du commerceto trade at $10 — Finance s'échanger à $10
to trade on — fig exploiter [name, reputation, image]
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11 crack down (on)
(to act firmly against: The police have cracked down on drug dealers; to crack down on illegal immigration.) prendre des mesures énergétiques; sévir contre -
12 crack down (on)
(to act firmly against: The police have cracked down on drug dealers; to crack down on illegal immigration.) prendre des mesures énergétiques; sévir contre -
13 crime
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14 hustle
1. verb1) (to push quickly and roughly: The man was hustled out of the office.) bousculer2) (to make (someone) act quickly: Don't try to hustle me into making a sudden decision.) bousculer3) ((American) to swindle; to obtain something dishonestly or illegally: to hustle money from old ladies; the car dealer tried to hustle us.)4) ((American) to sell or earn one's living by illegal means: hustling on the streets; hustle drugs.)5) ((American) (slang) to work as a prostitute; to solicit clients.)2. noun(quick and busy activity.) grande activité- hustler -
15 screen
A n1 Cin, Comput, TV écran m ; computer/television screen écran d'ordinateur/de télévision ; on screen Comput sur l'écran ; Cin, TV à l'écran ; the big screen fig le grand écran, le cinéma ; the small screen fig le petit écran, la télévision ; the screen fig le grand écran, le cinéma ; a star of stage and screen une vedette du théâtre et du cinéma ; he writes for the screen Cin il écrit pour le cinéma ; TV il écrit pour la télévision ; ⇒ on-screen ;2 ( panel) ( decorative or for getting changed) paravent m ; ( partition) cloison f mobile ; ( to protect) écran m ; bullet-proof screen écran m pare-balles ; the hedge formed a screen which hid the house from the road la haie formait un écran qui rendait la maison invisible de la route ; a screen of trees un rideau d'arbres ;4 Med visite f de dépistage ;5 Mil rideau m ;6 ( sieve) crible m ;B modif Cin [actor, star] de cinéma ; [appearance, debut, performance] cinématographique, au cinéma.C vtr2 ( shield) ( conceal) cacher, masquer [person, house] ; ( protect) protéger (from de) ; she wore a hat to screen her eyes from the sun elle portait un chapeau pour se protéger les yeux du soleil ; to screen sth from sight ou view cacher or masquer qch ;3 ( subject to test) Admin examiner le cas de [applicants, candidates] ; contrôler le statut de [refugees] ; ( at airport) contrôler [baggage] ; Med faire passer des tests de dépistage à [person, patient] ; to be screened [staff] faire l'objet d'une enquête de sécurité ; to screen sb for cancer/Aids faire passer à qn des tests de dépistage du cancer/du sida ; to screen for cancer/Aids faire des tests de dépistage du cancer/du sida ;4 ( sieve) cribler.■ screen off:▶ screen off [sth], screen [sth] off isoler [part of room, garden].■ screen out:▶ screen [sb] out, screen out [sb] refuser [candidate] ; refuser la demande (de statut) de [refugee] ;▶ screen out [sth], screen [sth] out filtrer [unwanted data, nuisance calls] ; filtrer [light, noise].
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