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Record 1 2023-11-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Data Banks and Databases
  • Digital Currency
CONT

A public blockchain is one where anyone is free to join and participate in the core activities of the blockchain network. Anyone can read, write, and audit the ongoing activities on a public blockchain network, which helps achieve the self-governed, decentralized nature often touted when blockchain is discussed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banques et bases de données
  • Monnaie électronique
CONT

La chaîne de blocs publique est celle dont tout le contenu (informations et transactions) est public. Elle est accessible à tous [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
DEF

An allied group of unions in one or several industries, covering a geographical area, such as a district, province or country. An example of a national federation is the Canadian Labour Congress. National federations may join together to form confederations or international federations such as the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions(ICFTU).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
DEF

Regroupement de syndicats au sein d'une ou de plusieurs industries, au niveau d'un territoire géographique déterminé comme un district, une province ou un pays, par exemple, le Congrès du travail du Canada. Des fédérations nationales peuvent aussi accepter de se regrouper pour former des confédérations ou des fédérations internationales, par exemple, la Confédération internationale des syndicats libres (CISL).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

What distinguishes an open community from a closed one is that anyone may join and contribute, that the direction and goals are determined collaboratively by all members of the community, and that the resulting work is made available under a free license.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

Servitude resulting from inability to pay debts. Translation: péonage. The word péon appeared in French before 1880 as a borrowing from Spanish. Petit Robert (p. 1397) gives "paysan pauvre (qui n’a pas de cheval); the notion of poverty can be captured in one term.

OBS

A syntagma that uses the noun debt and the derivative peonage (peon, noun, borrowing from Spanish; -age, combining form). The term refers to the poor agricultural workers of Brazil who are semi-slaves of the landowners.

CONT

As late as 1960, millions of workers were subject to so-called debt peonage: forced to buy food and other necessities from their employers at prices that exceeded their wages, they remained in penury forever.

OBS

This social neologism is a pleonasm, since the accepted meaning of peonage incorporates the notion of semi-slavery due to inability to pay debts. Random House gives for peonage : 2. The practice of holding persons in servitude or partial slavery, as to work off a debt.(p. 1677). Debt peonage, therefore, will join free gift among the many pleonasms in our language.

Key term(s)
  • peonage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
CONT

Significantly, many rebel groups that make use of children and youth consider them as war slaves. They are war slaves because they do not join of their free will, nor can they leave, and they are only minimally fed and clothed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
CONT

Il est significatif que bon nombre de groupes rebelles qui utilisent des enfants et des jeunes considèrent ces derniers comme des esclaves de guerre. Ce sont des esclaves dans la mesure où ils ne se sont pas enrôlés de leur plein gré et ne peuvent pas quitter le groupe, et où ils sont minimalement nourris et vêtus.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-07-05

English

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

... the plaintiff is today free to join all concurrent tortfeasors as co-defendants in a single action, whether they are jointly or only severally liable for the injury.

OBS

jointly liable: As opposed to "severally liable".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
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Record 7 2010-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Programs and Courses
OBS

Canadian Airlines International invites you to join Canadian Plus, a truly rewarding program. With Canadian Plus, you earn points when you fly with Canadian Airlines International or any of our other airline partners. You can also earn points through our extensive Canadian Plus partner network. Accumulate enough points and you can redeem them for free air travel.

Key term(s)
  • Canadian Plus Plan

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes et de cours
OBS

Canadian Plus est notre façon de vous dire «Merci de voyager avec nous». C'est simple, plus vous voyagez sur les ailes de Canadien International, plus vous accumulez de points - et plus vous pouvez en profiter. L'adhésion est gratuite et vous pouvez accumuler ou échanger des points avec Canadien International et avec ses nombreux partenaires commerciaux - des transporteurs, des hôtels, des sociétés de location de voitures [...] même des fleuristes!

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Commercial Law
OBS

The American Arbitration Association, the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, the Mexico City National Chamber of Commerce and the Quebec National and International Commercial Arbitration Centre, join together to announce the formation of the Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Center for the Americas(CAMCA), the first international dispute resolution center founded to resolve private, cross-border commercial disputes relating to the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA). CAMCA will operate as an impartial educational and administrative international forum devoted specifically to facilitating the resolution of private commercial disputes arising within the scope of NAFTA, and will study, promote and administer procedures for the resolution of disputes through the use of arbitration, mediation and other conflict resolution procedures.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Droit commercial
OBS

Information obtenue au Centre d'arbitrage commercial national et international du Québec établi à Québec (Québec). Le président du Conseil de ce centre était présent lors de la signature de l'accord pour la création de CAMCA.

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Cancers and Oncology
OBS

The Gilda's Club Mission : The mission of Gilda's Club is to provide meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer and their families and friends can join with others to build emotional and social support as a supplement to medical care. Free of charge and nonprofit, Gilda's Club offers support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social event in a nonresidential, homelike setting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Cancers et oncologie
OBS

À Montréal.

OBS

La Maison Gilda est un lieu de rencontre non résidentiel gratuit pour les personnes atteintes du cancer. La Maison Gilda est bien plus qu'un groupe de soutien; c'est un endroit où les personnes atteintes du cancer peuvent se retrouver et participer à des réunions de groupe, à des conférences et à des activité sociales qui les aideront à retrouver la joie de vivre. Plus important encore, les membres de la Maison Gilda peuvent rencontrer des personnes qui se trouvent dans la même situation qu'eux et donc se donner mutuellement le soutien émotif dont ils ont besoin.

Spanish

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Record 10 2001-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Law
CONT

Be free to join the trade union of his choice.

OBS

Employee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit du travail
CONT

Être libre d'adhérer au syndicat de son choix.

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
CONT

Every employee is free to join the trade union of his choice and to participate in its lawful activities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
DEF

Actes qui ne sont pas défendus par la loi.

CONT

L'employé est libre d'adhérer au syndicat de son choix et de participer à ses activités licites.

Spanish

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Record 12 2000-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orthoses
CONT

The orthosis is constructed of lightweight graphite composite materials with a single, free-motion ankle joint on the medial side of the leg.

CONT

Flexion/extension control knee join with free ankle joints

French

Domaine(s)
  • Orthèses

Spanish

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Record 13 1977-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

[Bivalves of the] family Pectinidae(...) [have a] shell varying in size, orbicular to oval, [the] valves of some shells [are] equally convex but usually one valve [is] more inflated than [the] other, [the] margins [are] usually, but not invariably closed; [the] umbos [are] central, on either side of which are triangular auricles(ears), [the] anterior one on [the] RV [is] usually with [a] distinct byssal notch or indentation below it; [the] surface [is] smooth or with radial ribs or folds, some species with concentric sculpture of raised lamellae; [the] interior [is] smooth or with fine radial riblets; [the] hinge line [is] straight; [the] external ligament [is] obsolete or nearly so, [the] resilium internal, amphidetic, in [a] triangular pit below [the] umbones; young shells(...) [have] small taxodont teeth which become obsolete later; cardinal crura or laminae [are] commonly present; diverging from either side of [the] ligamental pit; rounded laminae(auricular crura) [are] present on [the] interior of some shells where [the] auricles join [the] valves; adults [are] monomyarian, with posterior adductors only; [they are] free, attached by [a] byssus or cemented by RV; [the] upper(L) valve [is] usually more brightly colored; [the] margin of [the] mantle(...) [has] short filaments and commonly(...) [has] eyes; dioecious(...). "Trias.-Rec. ".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les Lamellibranches de la] famille des Pectinidae (...) [ont une] coquille équilatérale, équivalve ou inéquivalve, libre ou fixée, soit par un byssus qui passe dans une échancrure de l'oreillette antérieure de la valve droite, soit par soudure directe de la région umbonale de la valve droite; [des] crochets médians; [un] bord cardinal droit prolongé en deux oreillettes; [une] fossette ligamentaire triangulaire centrale; [un] ligament rarement visible extérieurement; [une] charnière faite (surtout chez le jeune) de lames symétriques par rapport au ligament - charnière de type isodonte -; [une] ligne palléale entière; une seule impression musculaire subcentrale.

Spanish

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