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21 équivaloir
équivaloir [ekivalwaʀ]➭ TABLE 29 intransitive verbto be equivalent (à to)• ça équivaut à dire que... it amounts to saying that...* * *ekivalwaʀverbe transitif indirectéquivaloir à — to be equivalent to [quantité]; to amount to [effet]; to be tantamount to [effet négatif]
* * *ekivalwaʀ vtéquivaloir à (= être égal à) — to be equivalent to, (= représenter) to amount to
* * *équivaloir verb table: valoirA équivaloir à vtr ind to be equivalent to [quantité]; to amount to [effet]; to be tantamount to [effet négatif]; ça équivaut à un refus/à refuser it's tantamount to a refusal/to refusing.B s'équivaloir○ vpr les deux solutions s'équivalent there isn't much to choose between the two solutions; ça s'équivaut! it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.[ekivalwar]équivaloir à verbe plus préposition[être égal à] to be equal ou equivalent to[revenir à] to amount to————————s'équivaloir verbe pronominal (emploi réciproque) -
22 tête
n. f.1. Avoir la tête de l'emploi (iron.): To 'look the part'. Les croque-morts n'ontpas toujours la tête de l'emploi, c'est souvent des rigolos! Undertakers aren't always the mournful buggers we expect them to be!3. Faire la mauvaise tête: To be 'pig-headed', to be obstreperous and reluctant to comply.4. Avoir ses têtes: To 'have one's (little) favourites', to let oneself be ruled by likes and dislikes where relationships at work are concerned.5. Avoir une tête à coucher dehors avec un billet de logetnent: To have an 'ugly mug', to have an unattractive face (in fact, to have the kind of features that would even get you turned a way from a welfare hostel).6. Faire un prix à la tête du client: To quote a price according to the likely means of a customer. Au garage, lesprix sont un peu à la tête du client! If you drive a Rolls, they'll charge the earth for repairs!7. Tête de pipe: Portrait-photograph. J'ai vu sa tête de pipe dans le canard! I've seen his mug somewhere in a paper!10. Affaire tête de lard (pol.): Dead-end enquiry, one where witnesses and accused alike make the police's job more arduous by refusing to co-operate.11. Se payer la tête de quelqu'un: To 'take the piss out of someone', to 'take the mickey', to poke fun at someone.12. Etre tombé sur la tête: To be 'bonkers', 'potty', to be mad. T'es tombé sur la tête, quoi?! You crazy in the head?!a To 'take a header', to dive into the water.b (fig.): To 'go under', to become bankrupt.14. Petite tête! (jocular form of address): Salut, petite tête! Mornin' mate! Alors, comment ça va, petite tête?! Well, how's tricks?!15. Cause à mon cul, ma tête est malade! (sarcastic retort): 'Get knotted'—I don't want to hear what you've got to say!16. La tête et lesjambes: The combination of brains and brawn. (The expression courir avec la tête et les jambes originates from the racing cyclist's slang and refers to competitors who use critical judgement when exerting physical effort. In the 1960s, a television quiz-cum-competition with that name teamed up scholars and sportsmen to compete for prizes.)17. Tenir la tête (Gambling slang): To act as judge and arbiter at the tables. (August Le Breton in his L 'ARGOT CHEZ LES VRAIS DE VRAI explains that this 'refereeing' activity is often given to a 'cleaned-out' player by a gambling baron; the position carries a small commission on stakes.) -
23 Contrat Première Embauche
, CPEThe CPE was introduced by the Villepin government in 2006, in an attempt to reduce France's high levels of youth unemployment. It created a new form of work contract for young people, with less guarantees of job security than normal French work contracts. Left-wing student unions, encouraged by opposition parties, protested vigorously against the new contract, calling it discriminatory against youth, and an attack on the acquired social rights of employees. It was portrayed as a contract by which employers would be free to sack young employees without reason. In scenes reminiscent of 1968 (seesoixante- huit), students closed down a number of universities and set up barricades. After initially refusing to give in, the government eventually decided to scrap the CPE which by the, according to opinion polls, had become a very unpopular plan.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Contrat Première Embauche
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24 Monde Diplomatique, le
Monthly supplement of Le Monde, devoted to critical analysis of political and economic issues. Though read by people of all shades of opinion in the French establishment and higher echelons of public service, le Monde Diplomatique, the paper, which defines itself as a "paper of opinion", is distinctly anti-neoliberal, and as such a firm critic of unbridled economic liberalism and consumerism. The paper is published worldwide, in 71 editions and 27 languages, and is seen to represent a certain French view, refusing subservience to the hegemony of American though and policy in the fields of social and economic affairs.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Monde Diplomatique, le
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refusing — index disinclined, dissident, nonconsenting, reluctant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Refusing — Refuse Re*fuse (r?*f?z ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refused} ( f?zd ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refusing}.] [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL. refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back, give back, restore (see {Refund} to repay), or. fr. L … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
refusing to admit — index dissenting Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
refusing to agree — index dissenting, irreconcilable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
refusing to harmonize — index irreconcilable Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
refusing to obey — index contumacious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
refusing to relent — index persistent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
refusing — re·fuse || rɪ fjuËz n. garbage, trash, waste v. decline, deny, reject … English contemporary dictionary
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