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  • 101 extravagance

    noun His wife's extravagance reduced them to poverty; Food is a necessity, but wine is an extravagance.) dépense excessive

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  • 102 grind down

    (to crush: She was ground down by poverty.) écraser

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  • 103 grinding

    1) (with a sound of grinding: The train came to a grinding stop.) grinçant
    2) (severe: grinding poverty.) écrasant

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  • 104 hand in hand

    (with one person holding the hand of another: The boy and girl were walking along hand in hand; Poverty and crime go hand in hand.) la main dans la main

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  • 105 housing benefit

    noun (a payment given by a government to people who are entitled to it according to certain criteria (eg poverty) when they buy or rent a house, an apartment etc.)

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  • 106 instance

    ['instəns]
    (an example, especially of a condition or circumstance: As a social worker, he saw many instances of extreme poverty.) exemple

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  • 107 justify

    1) (to prove or show (a person, action, opinion etc) to be just, right, desirable or reasonable: How can the government justify the spending of millions of pounds on weapons when there is so much poverty in the country?) justifier
    2) (to be a good excuse for: Your state of anxiety does not justify your being so rude to me.) justifier
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    - justification

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  • 108 need

    [ni:d] 1. negative short form - needn't; verb
    1) (to require: This page needs to be checked again; This page needs checking again; Do you need any help?) avoir besoin de
    2) (to be obliged: You need to work hard if you want to succeed; They don't need to come until six o'clock; She needn't have given me such an expensive present.) avoir besoin de, falloir
    2. noun
    1) (something essential, that one must have: Food is one of our basic needs.) besoin
    2) (poverty or other difficulty: Many people are in great need.) besoin
    3) (a reason: There is no need for panic.) besoin
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    - needlessly - needy - a need for - in need of

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  • 109 pinched

    adjective ((of a person's face) looking cold, pale or thin because of cold, poverty etc: Her face was pinched with cold.) aux traits tirés

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  • 110 privation

    (poverty; hardship.) privation

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  • 111 relate

    [rə'leit] 1. verb
    1) (to tell (a story etc): He related all that had happened to him.) raconter
    2) ((with to) to be about, concerned or connected with: Have you any information relating to the effect of penicillin on mice?) se rapporter à
    3) ((with to) to behave towards: He finds it difficult to relate normally to his mother.) entrer en rapport avec
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    - relation - relationship - relative 2. adjective
    1) (compared with something else, or with each other, or with a situation in the past etc: the relative speeds of a car and a train; She used to be rich but now lives in relative poverty.) relatif
    2) ((of a pronoun, adjective or clause) referring back to something previously mentioned: the girl who sang the song; the girl who sang the song.) relatif
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  • 112 relationship

    1) (the friendship, contact, communications etc which exist between people: He finds it very difficult to form lasting relationships.) relation
    2) (the fact that, or the way in which, facts, events etc are connected: Is there any relationship between crime and poverty?) relation
    3) (the state of being related by birth or because of marriage.) lien de parenté

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  • 113 root out

    1) (to pull up or tear out by the roots: The gardener began to root out the weeds.) arracher, déraciner
    2) (to get rid of completely: We must do our best to root out poverty.) extirper

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  • 114 specify

    1) (to mention particularly: He specified the main ilnesses that are caused by poverty.) préciser
    2) (to order specially: She ordered a cake from the baker and specified green icing.) mentionner
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    - specifically

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  • 115 want

    [wont] 1. verb
    1) (to be interested in having or doing, or to wish to have or do (something); to desire: Do you want a cigarette?; She wants to know where he is; She wants to go home.) vouloir
    2) (to need: This wall wants a coat of paint.) avoir besoin de
    3) (to lack: This house wants none of the usual modern features but I do not like it; The people will want (= be poor) no longer.) manquer (de)
    2. noun
    1) (something desired: The child has a long list of wants.) demande
    2) (poverty: They have lived in want for many years.) pauvreté
    3) (a lack: There's no want of opportunities these days.) manque (de)
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    - want ad - want for

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  • 116 abject

    1 [state, conditions] misérable ; [failure] lamentable ; abject poverty misère f ;
    2 [slave, coward] abject ; [apology] servile.

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  • 117 afflict

    afflict vtr [poverty, disease, recession] frapper ; [grief] accabler ; [illness] toucher ; to be afflicted by être accablé de [grief] ; être touché par [illness].

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  • 118 belt

    A n
    1 Fashn ceinture f ; he had a gun in his belt il avait un pistolet à la ceinture ;
    2 Aut, Aviat ceinture f ; safety ou seat belt ceinture de sécurité ;
    3 ( area) ceinture f ; a belt of industry une ceinture industrielle ; a belt of poverty around the inner city une zone de pauvreté autour du centre urbain ; a belt of trees une rangée d'arbres ; mountain/earthquake belt zone f de montagnes/de séisme ;
    4 Meteorol zone f ; a belt of rain/of low pressure une zone de pluie/de basse pression ;
    5 Tech courroie f ;
    6 Sport (in boxing, judo) ceinture f ; to be a black belt être ceinture noire ; the world heavyweight belt le titre mondial des poids lourds ;
    7 ○ ( blow) beigne ○ f, coup m de poing ; to give sb a belt flanquer une beigne ○ à qn ; I gave the ball a good belt j'ai donné un grand coup de pied dans le ballon ;
    8 Sch ( for punishing) lanière f de cuir.
    B ○ vtr
    1 ○ ( hit) flanquer une beigne à ○, gifler [person] ; donner un grand coup de pied dans [ball] ; he belted him in the mouth/across the face il lui a flanqué une beigne en plein sur la bouche/la figure ;
    2 Sch ( as punishment) donner une correction à [qn] (avec une lanière de cuir) ;
    3 ○ = belt down.
    C vi ( go fast) he belted home il est rentré chez lui à toute vitesse ; to belt along ou down [person] dévaler [qch] à toute vitesse [street] ; [car] filer sur [motorway].
    D belted pp adj [coat] avec (une) ceinture.
    to tighten one's belt se serrer la ceinture ; to hit sb below the belt donner un coup bas à qn ; that remark was a bit below the belt cette remarque était un coup bas ; she has 15 years' experience/two tournaments under her belt elle a 15 ans d'expérience/deux tournois à son actif ; a belt and braces job ○ un boulot ○ où deux précautions valent mieux qu'une.
    ■ belt down ○:
    ▶ belt down [sth], belt [sth] down US avaler [qch] d'un trait [drink].
    ■ belt off ○ filer à toute vitesse.
    ■ belt out:
    ▶ belt out [sth], belt [sth] out [person] chanter [qch] à pleins poumons ; [jukebox] brailler.
    ■ belt up
    1 GB ○ ( shut up) la fermer ○, se taire ; belt up! ferme-la! ○ ;
    2 Aut attacher sa ceinture de sécurité.

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  • 119 combat

    A n Mil combat m ; in combat au combat ; to send sb into combat envoyer qn au combat ; close/single combat combat rapproché/singulier.
    B modif [aircraft, helmet, troops, zone] de combat.
    C vtr ( p prés etc - tt-) combattre [violence, racism, crime, inflation] ; lutter contre [hunger, disease, poverty, fear].

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  • 120 condemn

    A vtr
    1 ( censure) condamner (for doing pour avoir fait) ; condemned for human rights abuses condamné pour le non respect des droits de l'homme ; to condemn sth as pointless/provocative condamner la futilité/l'aspect provocateur de qch ; to condemn sb as an opportunist dénoncer l'opportunisme de qn ;
    2 Jur ( sentence) to condemn sb to death/life imprisonment condamner qn à mort/à perpétuité ;
    3 ( doom) to be condemned to do être condamné à faire ; to condemn sb to condamner qn à [isolation, poverty] ;
    4 ( declare unsafe) déclarer [qch] inhabitable [building] ; déclarer [qch] impropre à la consommation [meat] ;
    5 ( betray) condamner.
    1 [cell] des condamnés à mort ; condemned man/woman condamné/-e m/f à mort ;
    2 [building] déclaré inhabitable.

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