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OCCUPATION [16 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2025-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hotel Industry (General)
  • Tourist Lodging
DEF

Percentage derived by dividing the total number of rooms occupied during a given time period (night week, year) by the total number of rooms available for occupancy during that time period.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hôtellerie (Généralités)
  • Hébergement (Tourisme)
DEF

Nombre de nuitées enregistrées dans un établissement d'hébergement par rapport au nombre de places disponibles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hotelería (Generalidades)
  • Alojamiento (Turismo)
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Record 2 2022-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Military Tactics
  • International Relations
CONT

The regime known as belligerent occupation refers to a situation where the forces of one or more states exercise effective control over a territory of another state without the latter state's volition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Tactique militaire
  • Relations internationales
DEF

Situation d'un État envahi et placé provisoirement sous domination militaire étrangère au cours ou à l'issue d'un conflit.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Public Law
  • International Relations
CONT

Occupation consists in establishing sovereignty over territory not under the authority of any other state whether newly discovered or, in an unlikely case, abandoned by the state formerly in control.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit international public
  • Relations internationales
DEF

[...] mode d'acquisition d'un territoire sans maître par l'action d'un état qui établit son autorité sur ce territoire et acquiert ainsi la souveraineté sur celui-ci.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-12-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

A specific activity in which one engages in order to earn one's living.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Ensemble de tâches effectuées en échange d'une rémunération.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 5 2016-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
CONT

Hunting is a recognized avocation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
CONT

La chasse est une occupation reconnue.

OBS

occupation : terme tiré du Mini-lexique du droit des autochtones et reproduit avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 6 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications Switching
DEF

A condition in a switching system in which no paths or circuits are available to complete a call and a busy tone is returned to the calling party. In this situation there is no alternative but to hang up and try the call again.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation (Télécommunications)
DEF

Dans un système de commutation, occupation de tous les circuits; empêche le demandeur de faire l'appel. Celui-ci entend alors une tonalité d'occupation; il doit raccrocher et renouveler l'appel.

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The taking possession of things which before belonged to nobody, with an intention of appropriating them to one's own use. (Black's, 5th ed. 1979, p. 973).

DEF

Possession in fact. The use of premises. (Ballentine, p. 879)

DEF

Period during which person owns, rents, or otherwise occupies real property or premises. (Black, 5th, p. 973)

CONT

At common law a tenant "pur autre vie" could not devise his estate, and it always devolved on his death according to the rules of occupancy. "Occupancy" was invented to explain the title to land which was neither inheritable nor devisable, and which therefore would belong to the first occupier (as the first person to get seisin) after the death of the tenant "pur autre vie". (Megarry & Wade, 4th ed., 1975, p. 101).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

Le terme «occupancy» et son équivalent «occupation» s'emploient dans toutes les acceptions : large, restreinte et métonymique.

OBS

occupation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-08-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

[The] usual or principal business, calling, trade or work a person is engaged in earning a living.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Activité déterminée dont une personne tire ses moyens d'existence.

OBS

Le mot «occupation» désigne en français une façon de remplir son temps et non une activité professionnelle.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Trabajo y empleo
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Record 9 2010-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
OBS

En téléphonie, pour juger l'efficacité d'un plan de fréquences dans le domaine de l'encombrement spectral, on définit l'indice d'occupation spectrale comme le rapport: i = B/4n, où B (kHz) est la largeur de bande totale du plan de fréquences et n le nombre de voies téléphoniques bilatérales de 4 kHz qu'il est possible de transmettre en utilisant ce plan de fréquences. [...] L'indice d'occupation décroît quand la capacité augmente [...]

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Switching

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commutation téléphonique

Spanish

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Record 11 1998-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Labour and Employment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Emploi défini par l'ensemble des tâches, des obligations et des responsabilités qui globalement constituent le travail d'une personne.

Spanish

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Record 12 1995-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Documents and Works
OBS

Published in 1989 by Statistics Canada. Information found in AMICUS.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de documents et d'œuvres
OBS

Publié en 1989 par Statistique Canada. Renseignement trouvé dans AMICUS.

Spanish

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Record 13 1994-11-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Graphics
  • Mathematics
DEF

... a family of sets which covers the plane with no gaps....

CONT

A number of experimental techniques have been used to measure the fractal dimension of scale invariant structures grown in various experiments. The most widely applied methods can be divided into the following categories: (a) digital image processing of two-dimensional pictures, (b) scattering experiments, (c) covering the structures with monolayers, and (d) direct measurement of dimension-dependent physical properties.

PHR

covering map, theorem, transformation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infographie
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Disposition la moins dense d'unités (boules, carrés, cellules, disques ou sphères identique) dans un espace, de telle sorte que tout point de l'espace se trouve soit à l'intérieur soit à la surface d'une unité.

PHR

remplissage fermé, fini, ouvert, particulier, privilégié.

PHR

remplissage de boules, d'un ensemble.

Spanish

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Record 14 1992-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aboriginal Law
OBS

An "estate" in reserve land created by the Certificate of Occupation entitling a band member to "possess" reserve land temporarily.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit autochtone

Spanish

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Record 15 1992-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
CONT

New buildings are being announced and absorption levels are keeping pace with 1988 levels.

OBS

Absorption rate: an estimate of the rate at which a particular classification of space - such as new office space, new housing, or new condominium units - will be sold or occupied each year (The Language of Real Estate, 1982, p. 3).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
OBS

Proposition d'après "absorption rate" : taux d'occupation.

Spanish

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Record 16 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
OBS

an act of occupying seats in a racially segregated establishment as an organized protest against discrimination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
OBS

occupation par des manifestants, d'un lieu plus ou moins relié à l'objet de leurs revendications.

Spanish

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