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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Negotiable Instruments (Commercial Law)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

An unconditional order in writing signed by the drawer, requiring the addressee to pay a stated sum of money to a specified person, or to bearer, on demand or at a future time.

CONT

Discounting of a bill of exchange, non payment of a bill of exchange, to negotiate a bill of exchange

OBS

According to some authors, a "draft" is a "bill of exchange" which, unlike a bill of exchange, may be made non-negotiable. However, the two terms are frequently used synonymously.

Key term(s)
  • letter of exchange

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de commerce (Droit)
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Effet de commerce par lequel une personne (le tireur) ordonne à une autre personne (le tiré) de verser, sans condition, une certaine somme d'argent, à vue, sur demande ou à une certaine date, à une troisième personne appelée le «bénéficiaire», à l'ordre de ce dernier ou au porteur.

OBS

La France ne fait pas de distinction entre «traite» et «lettre de change» alors qu'on en fait parfois une en Amérique du Nord.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos negociables (Derecho mercantil)
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Orden incondicional por escrito, dirigida de una persona a otra, firmada por la persona que la otorga, requiriendo de la persona a quien va dirigida el pago a la vista o en un plazo fijo o futuro determinable, de cierta suma de dinero, a la orden o al portador.

CONT

descuento de una letra de cambio, falta de pago de una letra de cambio, negociar una letra de cambio.

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Record 2 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Security and Employment Insurance
CONT

Where a contriboutor defaults in respect of an instalment payable by him, the Minister shall forthwith demand payment from the contributor of the amount in default(except that where a contributor is on leave of absence without pay the Minister shall not make such a demand until he ceases to be on leave of absence without pay) and hereupon the amount in default, with interest as provided in subsection(7) to the date of demand, shall be payable,(a) in a lump sum immediately,...

OBS

demand: Unemployment Insurance Act, 1985 (with amendments to March 1, 1991).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité sociale et assurance-emploi
CONT

Lorsqu'un contributeur n'effectue pas un versement dont il est redevable, le ministre le somme immédiatement de payer le montant en souffrance (s'il est en congé non payé, la sommation ne lui est faite qu'après qu'il a cessé d'être en congé non payé) sur quoi le montant, en souffrance, majoré des intérêts prévus par le paragraphe (7) jusqu'à la date de la sommation, devient payable a) en une somme forfaitaire immédiatement, [...]

OBS

Lexique de l'assurance-chômage, Emploi et Immigration Canada, 1992.

OBS

sommation : Loi sur l'assurance-chômage, 1985 (avec modifications jusqu'au 1er mars 1991).

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

The part of the World Wide Web that is not discoverable by means of standard search engines, including password-protected or dynamic pages and encrypted networks.

CONT

The content of the deep web is hidden behind HTTP [Hypertext Transfer Protocol] forms and includes many very common uses such as Web mail, online banking, private or otherwise restricted access social-media pages and profiles, some Web forums that require registration for viewing content, and services that users must pay for, and which are protected by paywalls, such as video on demand and some online magazines and newspapers.

OBS

invisible Web; deep Web; hidden Web: The Translation Bureau recommends in its revised 2013 Linguistic Recommendation that "Web" be capitalized when it is used as a noun meaning the "World Wide Web."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
DEF

Partie du Web correspondant à l'ensemble des documents Web qui ne sont pas indexés par les outils de recherche traditionnels.

CONT

Cependant, un[e] grande part du web invisible reste accessible à tous, mais son utilisation restant souvent une affaire d'initiés ou d'habitués. En effet, les moteurs de recherche ne trouvant pas l'information contenue dedans, il est indispensable pour l'utilisateur d'y accéder par une manipulation supplémentaire, en utilisant par exemple un moteur de recherche interne à la base de données ou en effectuant une navigation personnelle.

OBS

Web invisible; Web caché; Web profond : Le Bureau de la traduction préconise dans sa Recommandation linguistique révisée en 2013 la majuscule initiale lorsque «Web» est employé en tant que nom.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Internet y telemática
OBS

web profunda: El Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, de la Real Academia Española, indica que "Web" se escribe con mayúscula cuando es sustantivo y hace referencia a la red mundial de comunicaciones. Sin embargo, la Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), recuerda que, por ser un sustantivo común que se ha incorporado al español, deberá escribirse en redonda (no en cursiva) y con la inicial minúscula.

OBS

web profunda: No se debe confundir con "Internet profundo". Internet y Web, a pesar de ser conceptos muy próximos, no son sinónimos. La Web es un sistema comprendido dentro de Internet y usa ésta como medio de difusión. El uso muchas veces no reconoce esta diferencia y emplea estos conceptos indistintamente.

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Record 4 2017-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Video Technology
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Telecommunications
DEF

... a service that gives users unlimited access to a wide range of programs for a monthly flat rate.

OBS

The users have full control over the subscription, and can decide when to start the program. They can also pause, fast forward, rewind and stop the show as preferred. It is pay TV programming, and includes TV series and block-buster movies, but with no programming schedule. Top-quality content is available anytime, on demand, directly on the user's TV set. Content is also frequently updated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vidéotechnique
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Télécommunications
OBS

vidéo à la demande par abonnement; VADA : terme et abréviation publiés au Journal officiel de la République française le 8 avril 2017.

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-01-20

English

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

An assignment for the benefit of his creditors made by a debtor voluntarily, as distinguished from a compulsory assignment which takes place by operation of law in proceedings in bankruptcy. Such constitutes an assignment of a debtor's property in trust to pay his debts generally, in distinction from a transfer of property to a particular creditor in payment of his demand, or to a conveyance by way of collateral security or mortgage.(Black, 6th, p. 119)

French

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

cession volontaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2015-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Security
CONT

Attornment has two analogous senses, the first relating to personal property and the second relating to land. It may mean either (1) an act by a bailee in possession of goods on behalf of one person acknowledging that he will hold the goods on behalf of someone else; or (2) a person’s agreement to hold land as tenant of someone else. (Garner, 1987, p. 75). 1

CONT

In recent times the term [attornment] has been loosely used to refer to the demand of a new owner for rents made on the tenant, which demand is generally accompanied by a direction from the previous owner to the tenant requiring him to pay all future rents to the new owner.(The Canadian Law Dictionary, p. 41)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des sûretés
OBS

attournement : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l’accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 7 2015-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Law
  • Rules of Court
  • Negotiable Instruments (Commercial Law)
DEF

A person who accepts a bill of exchange.

CONT

The request may be to pay the money on demand, or at some stated future time. If the drawee accepts the request, he becomes liable as acceptor of the bill.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit commercial
  • Règles de procédure
  • Effets de commerce (Droit)
DEF

Personne qui accepte une traite.

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-12-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tourism Publicity
DEF

An evaluation technique [that] derives willingness to pay for environmental benefits at specific locations by using information on the amount of money and time that people spend to visit the location; form of environmental resource accounting; uses the information on the money and time that consumers spend on enjoying a recreational site as a proxy for the demand for that site.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stimulation du tourisme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Publicidad turística
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Record 9 2007-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing (Electricity)
DEF

The minimum billing demand for which the customer must pay under the terms of a contract...

CONT

Contracted load means the connected load which the consumer requires and is so specified in the agreement or in the sanction accorded for the service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tarification (Électricité)
DEF

Puissance à facturer minimale fixée en vertu d'un abonnement, pour laquelle le client est tenu de payer [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tarificación (Electricidad)
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Record 10 2003-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pricing (Electricity)
DEF

The prices are based on the time of day when the electricity is actually used. These rates allow consumers to pay less for the electricity they use during "off-peak, "or low electrical demand periods. Electricity used during the "on-peak" hours is more costly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tarification (Électricité)
DEF

Fixation du prix en fonction des périodes de la journée où l'électricité est réellement utilisée. L'électricité consommée durant les heures creuses ou lorsque la demande est faible peut donc être facturée à un prix moins élevé. L'électricité utilisée durant les heures de pointe coûte plus cher au consommateur.

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
CONT

... we have to pay exorbitant instalments interests thereof besides an inflated tariff,... twice. Banks demand infidelity insurance from private security companies...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
DEF

Montant de la majoration de prime éventuellement demandé en contrepartie d'un fractionnement de la prime.

OBS

intérêts de fractionnement : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR. Extrait de la norme NF-K40-001, reproduite avec l'autorisation de l'AFNOR.

Key term(s)
  • intérêt de fractionnement

Spanish

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Record 12 2001-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
  • Environmental Economics
DEF

Method based on a hypothetical market and using survey techniques to determine the willingness of people to pay for a specific improvement in the environment, so as to estimate the shape of a hypothetical demand curve.

CONT

Contingent valuation methods (CVM) are being used increasingly; they employ a direct method of valuing benefits associated with parks and protected areas. The method consists of surveying selected populations to ask individuals what they are willing to pay (WTP) for the environmental good being assessed or what they are willing to accept as compensation (WTA) for the loss of the environmental good. The "environmental good" must be defined by the surveyor and frequently involves a bundle of goods such as access to a protected area (for compatible uses), specific recreational activities, or experiences associated with a visit to a protected area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Le but des méthodes économiques d'évaluation de l'environnement est de suppléer au marché en révélant les préférences des individus à travers un marché "vert", vrai ou hypothétique. Les unes travaillent directement, par exemple par questionnaire - c'est le cas de la Contingent Valuation Methode (CVM), ou méthode des "enchères". Les autres interviennent indirectement, c'est-à-dire par le biais de quelqu'autre révélateur des préférences, par exemple par le biais du prix de certains biens sur le marché dont l'environnement est considéré comme un attribut.

OBS

Équivalent formulé par analogie avec «closed-ended contingent valuation/évaluation des contingences en forme de gestion fermée» dans une enquête statistique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Métodos estadísticos
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 13 1999-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Statistical Methods
  • Environmental Economics
CONT

There are several technical methods which are related to CVM [contingent valuation methods] but which are increasingly viewed as distinct from CVM, called discrete choice methods. They are different from CVM in that "instead of eliciting willingness to pay for the environmental good or service in a specified "state", the [methods] offer respondents a series of choice tasks among hypothesized alternatives which describe a wider range of "states" by altering various levels of several attributes, among which price is merely one attribute". These are new methods and are not as well known or accepted as CVM approaches. Two of the emerging methods are titled-discrete choice modeling and discrete choice experiments(DCE). Discrete choice modeling is a technique used to derive a demand curve for an area based on different combinations of "discrete choices". A large sample is usually required to undertake this analysis where respondents are asked to select one choice("bundle of goods and services" related to the protected area with a price associated with it) over another choice. The results of this analysis produces a demand curve which can be used to estimate the value of benefits.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes statistiques
  • Économie environnementale
CONT

Appliquées dans des centaines d'études à travers le monde anglo-saxon, mais relativement peu en France, les techniques de préférences déclarées ont connu un développement important lié à la fois aux avancées dans le domaine de la modélisation des choix discrets, à l'avènement des micro-ordinateurs portables et à l'impossibilité pour les systèmes d'information classiques transports (enquêtes structurelles, panels...), basés implicitement sur des préférences révélées et non sur les méthodes contingentes, d'apporter un éclairage sur de nouveaux biens ou services.

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Auditing (Accounting)
  • Government Accounting
DEF

Control which compensates for what initially appears to be a weakness in a system.

OBS

A payroll system may not of itself contain sufficient control procedures to ensure that all employees are paid each week. However, the employees themselves act as a compensating control in as much as they will demand to know why their pay cheque has not been received.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
  • Comptabilité publique
DEF

Contrôle établi pour assurer que les erreurs découvertes sont corrigées et que les mesures nécessaires sont prises pour remédier à leur cause.

Spanish

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Record 15 1994-04-27

English

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

Taking of rents by Mortgagee in Possession to protect his rights in case of default by mortgager.

OBS

attornment : In recent times, the term has been loosely used to refer to the demand of a new owner for rents made on the tenant, which demand is generally accompanied by a direction from the previous owner to the tenant requiring him to pay all future rents to the new owner.

French

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

saisie-arrêt: procédure par laquelle un créancier défend à un tiers de faire tout paiement [...] à son débiteur [puis] demande au tribunal de lui attribuer les fonds [...] saisis arrêtés. [LEJUR 69]

Spanish

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Record 16 1993-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collective Agreements and Bargaining
CONT

on contract demand for guaranteed income and pay under a security plan.(GT 4-69 reshaping)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conventions collectives et négociations
OBS

Il s'agit des revendications qu'un syndicat veut voir figurer dans une convention sous forme de dispositions contractuelles.

Spanish

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Record 17 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
OBS

the currency that members pay to the Fund is normally held for the account of the Fund by the members's central bank, mainly in the form of noninterest-bearing demand note, against which the Fund can obtain the currencies

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
OBS

la monnaie que les membres paient au Fonds est normalement détenue pour le compte du Fonds par la banque centrale du membre, sous forme de bon à vue ne produisant pas d'intérêts, contre lesquels le Fonds peut obtenir les monnaies en question [trad.]

Spanish

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