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121 her
her [hɜ:r]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► la precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• look at her! regardez-la !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When l' is the object of a tense consisting of avoir + past participle, e is added to the past participle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Some French verbs take an indirect object. This means they are either followed by à + noun, or require an indirect pronoun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what are you giving Pat? -- we're going to give her a CD qu'allez-vous offrir à Pat ? -- nous allons lui offrir un CD━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• have you phoned Suzy? -- yes, I phoned her last night tu as téléphoné à Suzy ? -- oui je lui ai téléphoné hier soir━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► lui precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• what are you going to say to her? qu'est-ce que tu vas lui dire ?c. (emphatic) elled. ► preposition + her elle━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► son is used instead of sa before a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[hɜː(r), hə(r)] 1. 2.determiner son/sa/ses -
122 inch
inch [ɪnt∫]1. nounpouce m ( = 2,54 cm)• he has grown a few inches since last year ≈ il a grandi de quelques centimètres depuis l'année dernière• he wouldn't budge an inch ( = move) il n'a pas voulu bouger d'un pouce ; ( = make concessions) il n'a pas voulu faire la plus petite concession• give him an inch and he'll take a mile vous lui donnez le doigt, il vous prend le bras• to inch forward/out/in avancer/sortir/entrer peu à peu• to inch sth forward/in/out faire avancer/entrer/sortir qch peu à peu* * *[ɪntʃ] 1.1) ( measurement) pouce m (= 2,54 cm)2) fig ( small amount)2.she won't give ou budge an inch — elle ne veut pas bouger d'un pouce
transitive verb3.to inch towards something — lit se diriger petit à petit vers quelque chose; fig parvenir petit à petit à quelque chose [solution]
••give her an inch and she'll take a mile ou yard — plus on lui en donne, plus elle en veut
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123 September
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124 demerger
scission f;∎ several new companies were formed after the demerger of the holding group plusieurs entreprises nouvelles ont été créées à la suite de la scission du holdingOne market minnow is braving the tight IPO climate. In a little-noticed announcement last week, Hay & Robertson, the firm that owns the Admiral and Mountain brands, and markets trendy Kangol gear, is to embark on a three-way demerger designed to restore shareholder value.
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125 dollarization
dollarisation fThe thought of dumping their own yo-yoing currencies for the strong and stable U.S. dollar has made many beleaguered central bankers swoon. And we're not just talking crisis economies such as Ecuador, which in 2000 jilted its inflation-prone sucre in favor of the dollar: Last April, Canada's second-largest bank proclaimed that dollarization is the "only viable option" to boost the country's ailing economy.
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126 e-tailer
COMPUTING société f de vente en ligneArgos was last night recognised as the country's leading e-tailer, winning the most awards at this year's Visa E-tail Awards, as voted for by Visa customers. The 'Bricks to Clicks' award acknowledged Argos' e-tailing expertise, through its successful integration of its High Street, catalogue and Internet operations, and confirmed its position at the forefront of multi-channel retailing in the UK.
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127 fat cat
(in industry) = personne touchant un salaire extrêmement élevé de façon injustifiéeShell, the self-styled socially responsible oil group, yesterday rekindled the row over boardroom pay by disclosing that its new executive chairman, Phil Watts, won an 82% pay rise to £1.59m last year. The increase in Mr Watts' salary package, including a £455,000 performance bonus, dwarfed the 58% rise given to BP's chief executive Lord Browne which itself retriggered the fat cat furore.
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128 poison pill
familiar (strategy) pilule f empoisonnéePoison-pill provisions are triggered when a hostile suitor acquires a predetermined percentage of company stock. At that point, all existing shareholders except the suitor are granted options to buy additional stock at a dramatic discount, thus diluting the acquirer's share so as to head off a change in control of the company … According to statistics from Thomson Financial Securities Data, 140 companies adopted poison pill provisions in the first half of 2001, up 45 percent from the same period last year.
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