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HOLDING COURSE [8 records]

Record 1 2023-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing Storage
CONT

Garment racks—also called clothing racks—are really just racks that hold your clothing. They come in an array of different shapes and sizes, but all of them are fit for holding a small portion of your wardrobe. Unlike wardrobes, they’re usually free-standing and open, letting you put some of your favorite pieces on display—and of course, expand your closet.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rangement des vêtements
DEF

Présentoir où sont accrochés les vêtements [...]

CONT

Un cintre pour jupe vous permettra de suspendre un coupon de tissu juste décati afin d'éviter les marques de pliage, ou encore les pièces d'un projet en attente d'être cousu. [...] Un portant à vêtements est l'idéal, mais si l'espace manque, une barre de penderie de quelques dizaines de centimètres aménagée entre deux meubles peut parfaitement faire l'affaire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Safety
CONT

What is assessed during a health inspection. Inspections comprehensively assess food safety in the food establishment. Of course, inspections assess kitchen and "back of the house" areas such as storerooms, cleaning areas, dish rooms, coolers and freezers, food preparation, and food holding areas. In addition, inspections will also generally include the outside premises(parking lot and dumpster and/or recycling areas) and the front of the house(server stations, dining rooms, and restrooms) as these may also impact the operation of the food establishment in providing safe food for customers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salubrité alimentaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inocuidad Alimentaria
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Record 3 2013-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Traffic Control
CONT

When you are assigned a holding altitude you can expect ATC to assign you an altitude that will permit you to make a normal descent on the inbound course.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circulation et trafic aériens
DEF

Altitude fixée par le contrôle d'approche à un aéronef volant en IFR, devant évoluer ou évoluant sur le circuit d'attente, avant d'atterrir.

OBS

altitude d'attente : terme uniformisé par le CUTA - Opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-05-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
OBS

plea discussions: term usually used in the plural in this context.

OBS

Plea bargaining. ... Crown counsel and defence counsel negotiate out of court, and reach an agreement. Without purporting rigidly to limit the area on which agreements may be made, we say that usually such agreements are: 1. That Crown counsel will, if the accused pleads guilty to a lesser charge, withdraw a major charge. ... 2. That Crown counsel, in return for a plea of guilty by the accused to a charge, will recommend to the Court the imposition of some lenient form of sentence, say probation. Or there may be a bargain which embraces both the above factors.

OBS

People in the business like to call it plea negotiation.

OBS

For reasons that will become evident in the course of this working paper,... we prefer to abandon the expression "plea bargaining"(which, to some, has an inherently negative connotation) in favour of more neutral terminology. In our view, the process with which we are concerned(though unquestionably flawed) may better be described as that of "plea negotiation", or the holding of "plea discussions". The object of that process is to reach a satisfactory agreement, not to give the accused a "bargain. "Accordingly, our recommendations eschew the expression "plea bargain" and replace it with "plea agreement". We define that expression(again, in neutral terms) as "any agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the prosecutor's agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
CONT

[...] le marchandage de plaidoyers est une entente intervenue hors de cour entre d'une part un procureur de la Couronne, - qui cherche à régler la cause avec un minimum de temps et de frais, - et, d'autre part, l'accusé qui espère voir réduire le nombre ou la gravité des accusations portées ou obtenir le choix d'un procès sommaire ou une réduction de peine. Par une telle entente le procureur de la Couronne promet à l'accusé, en échange de son consentement à plaider coupable, de recommander au juge d'entériner cette promesse.

OBS

Les spécialistes préfèrent parler de négociation de plaidoyers.

OBS

plea bargaining (en italique) : Cette expression anglaise est consacrée par la pratique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
CONT

Práctica judicial [...] mediante la cual la procuraduría puede optar por reducir los cargos que pesan sobre un inculpado, si éste denuncia a otros culpables.

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Record 5 2006-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paddle Sports
CONT

The forward stroke is the same for both bow and stern paddlers. Of course there [are] all kinds of fancy techniques you can learn, but you should know that the upper hand on the paddle grips the handle on top, and does not hold the thing like... a golf club. The lower arm, holding the paddle's throat-does most of the work, so you might switch paddling sides once in a while to keep both arms evenly exercised.

OBS

Technique/tactics.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de pagaie
OBS

Technique/tactique.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
OBS

For reasons that will become evident in the course of this working paper,... we prefer to abandon the expression "plea bargaining"(which, to some, has an inherently negative connotation) in favour of more neutral terminology. In our view, the process with which we are concerned(though unquestionably flawed) may better be described as that of "plea negotiation", or the holding of "plea discussions". The object of that process is to reach a satisfactory agreement, not to give the accused a "bargain". Accordingly, our recommendations eschew the expression "plea bargain" and replace it with "plea agreement". We define that expression(again, in neutral terms) as "any agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the prosecutor's agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
OBS

[...] une transaction intervenue entre le coupable et des représentants de la société.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
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Record 7 1986-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
OBS

central :holding to a middle course or position between extremes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

Norme correspondant à un «bon usage» de la langue française qui n'est marqué par aucun caractère régional.

Spanish

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Record 8 1985-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Transport
OBS

holding course(U. S.).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport aérien
OBS

Terme uniformisé par le CUTA opérations aériennes.

Spanish

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