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loser ['lu:zə(r)]1 noun∎ to be a good/bad loser être bon/mauvais joueur;∎ you'll be the loser c'est toi qui y perdras;∎ British figurative they're the losers by it ce sont eux les perdants dans cette affaire∎ he's a born loser c'est un vrai raté(c) Stock Exchange valeur f en baisse∎ a real loser guy un vrai raté -
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loser n gen, Games, Sport perdant/-e m/f ; to be a good/bad loser être bon/mauvais perdant ; you won't be the loser by it vous n'y serez pas perdant ; a born loser un perdant né ○ ; that policy's a vote-loser cette politique est destinée à faire perdre des voix. -
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[lu:z]past tense, past participle - lost; verb1) (to stop having; to have no longer: She has lost interest in her work; I have lost my watch; He lost hold of the rope.) perdre2) (to have taken away from one (by death, accident etc): She lost her father last year; The ship was lost in the storm; He has lost his job.) perdre3) (to put (something) where it cannot be found: My secretary has lost your letter.) perdre4) (not to win: I always lose at cards; She lost the race.) perdre5) (to waste or use more (time) than is necessary: He lost no time in informing the police of the crime.) perdre•- loser- loss - lost - at a loss - a bad - good loser - lose oneself in - lose one's memory - lose out - lost in - lost on -
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back [bæk]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun2. adjective3. adverb6. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. [of person, animal] dos m• to stand or sit with one's back to sb/sth tourner le dos à qn/qch• my boss is always on my back j'ai sans arrêt mon patron sur le dos► to get off sb's back (inf) laisser qn tranquille• that's what gets my back up c'est ce qui me hérisse► to put one's back into sth mettre toute son énergie dans qch• you can't just turn your back on your parents tu ne peux quand même pas tourner le dos à tes parents• he turned his back on the past il a tourné la page► on the back of ( = by means of) en profitant de• at the very back tout au fond► at the back of [+ building] derrière ; [+ book] à la fin de ; [+ cupboard, hall] au fond de• he's at the back of all this trouble c'est lui qui est derrière tous ces problèmes► in back (US) [of building, car] à l'arrière► in the back [of car] à l'arrière• to sit in the back of the car être assis à l'arrière► out or round the back (inf) (British) derrièred. (Football, hockey) arrière m2. adjectiveb. [taxes] arriéré3. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. (in space, time) (stand) back! reculez !• stay well back! n'approchez pas !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When followed by a preposition, back is often not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• meanwhile, back in London... pendant ce temps-là, à Londres...• he little suspected how worried they were back at home il était loin de se douter que sa famille s'inquiétait autant► to go back and forth, to go back and forward [person] faire des allées et venues ; [phone calls, emails, letters] être échangéb. ( = returned)► to be back [person] être rentré• everything's back to normal tout est rentré dans l'ordre► ... and backc. ( = reimbursed) I got/want my money back j'ai récupéré/je veux récupérer mon argenta. ( = support) soutenir ; [+ statement] confirmerb. ( = finance) financerc. ( = bet on) parier surd. [+ vehicle] reculer• to back the car in/out entrer/sortir en marche arrière( = move backwards) reculer6. compounds• to do sth by or through the back door faire qch par des moyens détournés ► back line noun (Sport) ligne f d'arrières• to take a back seat (to sth) (inf) passer au second plan (par rapport à qch) ► back-seat driver noun• he's a back-seat driver il est toujours à donner des conseils au conducteur ► back street noun ruelle f• he grew up in the back streets of Leeds il a grandi dans les quartiers pauvres de Leeds ► back-to-back adjective dos à dos• a row of back-to-back houses (British) une rangée de maisons adossées les unes aux autres adverb• they showed two episodes back-to-back ils ont passé deux épisodes à la suite ► back tooth noun (plural back teeth) molaire f• to back away from [+ problem] prendre ses distances par rapport à► back down intransitive verb revenir sur sa position( = draw back) reculer[house][person] sortir à reculons ; [car] sortir en marche arrière ; (of undertaking) revenir sur ses engagements[+ deal, agreement] se retirer de ; [+ undertaking] se soustraire à► back upa. ( = reverse) faire marche arrièrea. [+ theory, claim] confirmer ; [+ person] soutenirb. [+ vehicle] faire reculerc. [+ computer file] faire une copie de sauvegarde de* * *[bæk] 1.1) Anatomy, Zoology dos mto be (flat) on one's back — lit être (à plat) sur le dos; fig être au lit
to turn one's back on somebody/something — lit, fig tourner le dos à quelqu'un/quelque chose
to do something behind somebody's back — lit, fig faire quelque chose dans le dos de quelqu'un
2) ( reverse side) (of page, cheque, hand, fork, envelope) dos m; ( of fabric) envers m; (of medal, coin) revers m3) ( rear-facing part) (of vehicle, head) arrière m; ( of electrical appliance) face f arrière; (of shirt, coat) dos m; (of chair, sofa) dossier mon the back of the door/head — derrière la porte/tête
the shelves are oak but the back is plywood — les étagères sont en chêne mais le fond est en contreplaqué
4) ( area behind building)to be out back —
to be in the back — US être dans le jardin or la cour
there's a small garden out back ou round the back — il y a un petit jardin derrière (la maison)
5) (of car, plane) arrière m6) (of cupboard, drawer, fridge, bus, stage) fond mat ou in the back of the drawer — au fond du tiroir
7) Sport arrière m8) ( end) fin f2.1) ( at the rear) [leg, paw, edge, wheel] arrière; [bedroom] du fond; [page] dernier/-ière (before n); [garden, gate] de derrière2) ( isolated) [road] petit (before n)back alley ou lane — ruelle f
3) Finance, Commerce3.back interest/rent/tax — arriérés mpl d'intérêts/de loyer/d'impôts
1) ( after absence)the mini-skirt is back — ( in fashion) les mini-jupes sont de nouveau à la mode
2) ( in return)to call ou phone back — rappeler
3) ( backwards) [glance, jump, step, lean] en arrière4) ( away)ten pages back — dix pages (avant or plus tôt)
5) ( ago)a week/five minutes back — il y a une semaine/cinq minutes
6) ( a long time ago)7) ( once again)we walked there and took the train back — nous y sommes allés à pied et nous avons pris le train pour rentrer
9) ( in a different location)4.meanwhile, back in France, he... — pendant ce temps, en France, il...
back and forth adverbial phraseto swing back and forth — [pendulum] osciller
5.the film cuts ou moves back and forth between New York and Paris — le film se passe entre New York et Paris
transitive verb1) ( support) soutenir [party, person, bid, bill, strike, action]; appuyer [application]; apporter son soutien à [enterprise, project]2) ( finance) financer [project, undertaking]3) ( endorse) garantir [currency]to back a bill — Commerce, Finance endosser or avaliser une traite
4) ( substantiate) justifier [argument, claim] ( with à l'aide de)5) ( reverse)6) ( bet on) parier sur [horse, favourite, winner]7) (stiffen, line) consolider, renforcer [structure]; endosser [book]; renforcer [map]; maroufler [painting]; doubler [fabric]6.- backed combining form1) ( of furniture)a high-/low-backed chair — une chaise avec un dossier haut/bas
2) (lined, stiffened)canvas-/foam-backed — doublé de toile/de mousse
3) ( supported)4) ( financed)•Phrasal Verbs:- back off- back out- back up••he's always on my back — (colloq) il est toujours sur mon dos
to break the back of a journey/task — faire le plus gros du voyage/travail
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