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Record 1 2019-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
DEF

A hashtag repurposed by users to criticize that which it was intended to promote.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
DEF

Mot-clic repris par les utilisateurs pour critiquer ce qu'il est censé promouvoir.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comunicaciones colaborativas y sociales
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Record 2 2018-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Collaborative and Social Communications
DEF

Post an antagonistic message intended to criticize and insult someone for something they have written [or posted].

CONT

[Internet] users who espouse unpopular positions in discussions risk being "flamed" - or subjected to violent verbal abuse, often in capital letters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
  • Communications collaboratives et sociales
DEF

Adresser à un ou plusieurs internautes un message électronique à caractère agressif ou malveillant.

OBS

Incendier un individu ou un groupe consiste à le dénigrer dans un article féroce, en réaction à un article qu'il a posté.

OBS

incendier : terme et définition publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 8 décembre 2002.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
  • Comunicaciones colaborativas y sociales
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Record 3 2015-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

The court is so vague about the nature of the evidence in the record supporting the imposition of a duty that it is impossible to criticize the outcome, but the law here is worth noting, especially the rule that a promise by a tenant to remain as a tenant under a month to month lease will support an otherwise unenforceable promise by the landlord.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A manager who only interacts with employees to criticize their work or when a problem arises.

CONT

The president is acting like a seagull, swooping in, making a lot of noise and flying out. When operating in this mode, executives focus on finding people to criticize but never balance their efforts with finding an equal number of employees to praise. Counteract this tendency by spending time trying to catch employees in the act of doing something right, and praise them accordingly. This will improve morale for all your workers. If you focus only on being a seagull manager, your employees will cringe at the sight of you, will do only the minimum effort to get by and will tell all their friends to avoid your business.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
DEF

Gestionnaire qui intéragit avec ses employés seulement pour critiquer leur travail ou lorsque survient un problème.

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Industry-Government Relations (Econ.)
CONT

The [Foreign Investment Review] Agency resulted from concerns about foreign domination of the Canadian economy... However, economic nationalists criticize FIRA because it does not have jurisdiction over the activities of non-Canadian businesses already in Canada, which dominate many fields of the economy.

Key term(s)
  • foreign control

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Relations de l'industrie avec l'État (Écon.)
CONT

Mainmise étrangère sur les industries d'un pays.

CONT

Domination étrangère des industries d'un pays.

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
  • Regional Dialects and Expressions
CONT

... Mr. Churkin slammed the Serbs for withholding information on what was really going on in Garadze.

DEF

(Informal). Criticize harshly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
  • Régionalismes et usages particuliers

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-05-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phraseology
CONT

He has put down five lobsters at a sitting.

OBS

Put someone down :criticize, denigrate. To knock or dump on someone.(R. Chapman, American Slang, 1986, p. 353).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie
OBS

Bouffer avidement et avec excès.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
CONT

... if we are to criticize the diversion of copyright, this means we would have to go over the entire case-law on «petty cash».

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
CONT

[...] si on veut critiquer le détournement du droit d'auteur, il faut revenir sur toute la jurisprudence relative à la «petite monnaie».

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
OBS

Padding which it contains, except, of course, that one might criticize a little the...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
CONT

sauf, cela va sans dire, qu'il y aurait peut-être lieu de lui reprocher (au budget) certaines concessions aux exigences de la politique qui s'y trouvent. (Débats, 2 a/ 27, ed. n.r., p. 545).

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Group Dynamics
DEF

One given to quibbling over insignificant details.

OBS

cavil (v.): to raise captious and frivolous objection ....

OBS

quibble(v.) : to object to something or criticize something on minor grounds that typically reflect an exaggerated tendency to find fault.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dynamique des groupes
DEF

Celui, celle qui aime à ergoter.

CONT

(...) l'ergoteur qui fait obstruction.

OBS

ergoter : Trouver à redire sur de vétilles; contester avec des arguments, des raisonnements captieux.

Spanish

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Record 11 1984-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
OBS

essay test : Test or examination involving writing to a specified length on a given topic. It tests ability to discuss, evaluate, analyze, summarize or criticize.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Docimologie
DEF

Exercice d'argumentation et de discussion, par écrit, d'un problème posé comme sujet.

Spanish

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