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HOLDING GROUP [19 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Systems
  • International Relations
DEF

A person who is part of a small group holding power in a state.

CONT

Oligarch. It’s a word that refers to wealthy elites, people who don’t just hold power and money but who control enough resources to influence politics or government in a meaningful way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes politiques
  • Relations internationales
DEF

Membre d'un régime politique au sein duquel le pouvoir est exercé par un groupe privilégié restreint.

CONT

ll y avait un lien très étroit entre les oligarques et le système politique dans les années 1990.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Regímenes políticos
  • Relaciones internacionales
DEF

Cada uno de los individuos que componen una forma de gobierno en la cual el poder político es ejercido por un grupo minoritario.

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Record 2 2019-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Proper Names
  • Personnel Management (General)
  • Federal Administration
Universal entry(ies)
CX
occupation code, see observation, Canada
OBS

The Correctional Services Group comprises positions that are primarily involved in the custody, control and correctional influence of inmates in the institutions of Correctional Service Canada or the custody and control of detainees being held under the ’’Immigration and Refugee Protection Act’’(IRPA) security certificates in federal holding centres or detention facilities and the training of staff engaged in custodial and correctional work at a staff college of Correctional Service Canada.

OBS

CX: Government of Canada occupational group code.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations diverses
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)
  • Administration fédérale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
CX
occupation code, see observation, Canada
OBS

Le groupe Services correctionnels comprend les postes dont les fonctions principales consistent à garder et à surveiller les détenus et détenues des établissements du Service correctionnel du Canada, à exercer sur eux une influence correctionnelle ou à garder et à surveiller des détenus et détenues, en vertu d'un certificat de sécurité délivré en application de la « Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés », dans des centres de surveillance ou établissements de détention fédéraux, et à former, à un collège du Service correctionnel du Canada, le personnel préposé au travail de garde et de correction.

OBS

CX : code de groupe professionnel du gouvernement du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 3 2014-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Types of Documentation (Library Science)
OBS

The Depository Services Program(DSP) is administered by Public Works and Government Services Canada, Communication Group. The DSP was established in 1927... Its primary objective is to ensure that Canadians have ready and equal access to federal government information. The DSP achieves this objective by supplying these materials to a network of more than 650 libraries in Canada and to another 100 institutions around the world holding collections of Canadian government publications.

Key term(s)
  • Depository Services Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Documentation (Bibliothéconomie)
OBS

Le Programme des services de dépôt (PSD) est administré par Travaux Publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada, Groupe Communication Canada. Le PSD a été établi en 1927. Le mandat principal du PSD est de voir à ce que les Canadiens aient un accès immédiat et légal à l'information diffusée par le gouvernement fédéral. Le PSD réalise cela en fournissant ces documents à un réseau de plus de 700 bibliothèques et quelques 148 autres établissements dans le monde qui ont des collections de publications du gouvernement du Canada.

Key term(s)
  • Programme des services aux dépositaires

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Finance
OBS

The Co-operators Group Limited is the co-operative holding company for The Co-operators group of companies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Finances
OBS

Le Groupe Co-operators limitée (GCL) est la coopérative qui détient le groupe des sociétés Co-operators.

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A surgical instrument used for holding open the edges of a wound or incision or for drawing back underlying organs, tissues and structures adjacent to the operative field.

CONT

[Retractors are] a group of instruments used for holding the incision open to provide exposure of the surgical area. Retractors are available in various styles including pointed or blunt hook ends, wire loops or blades of various widths and depths. Small models held by the fingers or hand retract skin and subcutaneous tissue in shallow surgical areas. Larger models retract muscle tissue and organs in deeper surgical areas.

PHR

Flexible, hand held, hand operating, pediatric, rake, ribbon, right angle, self retaining, self-retaining operating retractor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Appareil destiné à écarter les deux lèvres d'une incision chirurgicale ou les bords d'une cavité naturelle pour accéder aux organes profonds.

CONT

Pour obtenir une exposition de qualité du champ opératoire, les chirurgiens ont naturellement recours aux écarteurs chirurgicaux.

OBS

Certains [écarteurs] nécessitent la présence d'un aide qui les maintient dans la position voulue (par exemple, écarteur de Farabeuf, crochet de Hartmann, valves de Mayo ou de Leriche). D'autres ne nécessitent pas l'aide d'un tiers, qu'ils soient fixés indirectement à la table d'opération (par des piquets : Toupet; par des compas : Rochard; ou par des cadres : Bergeret) ou qu'ils soient autostatiques, à crémaillère ou à ressort (par exemple, écarteurs abdominaux de Gosset ou de Ricard, écarteurs thoraciques de Finochietto).

PHR

Écarteur abdominal, rectal, vaginal, vésical.

PHR

Écarteur à genoux, à nerfs, à plâtre, à prostate, de lèvres, pour plâtre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental quirúrgico
DEF

Instrumento para mantener separados los bordes de una herida o laspartes musculares de una amputación.

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Record 6 2008-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting
DEF

The financial statements covering the business of a holding company and its subsidiary companies; the "group accounts" take the form of one or several sets of consolidated statements or a set consisting of the financial statements of each company in the group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale
OBS

Recueil d'états financiers constitué des états individuels, combinés ou encore consolidés de sociétés liées.

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Organizations and Associations (Admin.)
OBS

The Conference is an independent group and has no formal affiliation with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Commonwealth Secretariat or the Commonwealth Heads of Government. CSPOC operates on a two-year cycle, holding a conference of the full membership every two years, usually early in January, and a meeting of the Standing Committee at the same time the intervening year. The Conference aims to : Maintain, foster, and encourage impartiality and fairness on the part of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Parliaments; Promote knowledge and understanding of parliamentary democracy in its various forms; and Develop parliamentary institutions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Organismes et associations (Admin.)
OBS

Conférence de présidents des parlements du Commonwealth (non officiel)

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Education (General)
OBS

The purposes of the Association are : to promote, advance and improve visual art education in the Province of Manitoba; to maintain a liaison with Manitoba Teachers’ Association(MTS), The Canadian Society for Education through Art(CSEA) and other organizations as the executive deems necessary for the purposes of exchanging ideas and monitoring trends and developments in Art education; to promote a special program for art educators at the annual Special Area Group Conferences(SAG) ;to promote the educational activities of its members by holding meetings, seminars and programs of professional development; to furnish recommendation to MTS on matters affecting teachers and the teaching of art; to publish a newsletter and/or journal on a regular basis; and to interchange publications with other provincial organization.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Birds
OBS

The BC Exotic Bird Society came into being in 1951 and was known as The British Columbia Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society of Western Canada. In 1966 the name of the society was changed to The BC Cage Bird Society and later in 1993 it became The BC Exotic Bird Society holding it's meetings in Langley, BC, and having members throughout Canada. The BC Exotic Bird Society is a registered non-profit organization, supported by a volunteer group of bird loving members. The Society provides an opportunity for people who are interested in exotic birds to get together and exchange information and knowledge on the proper care, feeding habits, and breeding requirements of our feathered friends.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Oiseaux

Spanish

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Record 10 2004-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephony and Microwave Technology
OBS

The [traffic] on a group of circuits or a group of switches) equals the amount of traffic divided by the duration of the observation, provided that the period of observation and the holding times are expressed in the same time units. Observation : calculated in this way is expressed in erlangs.

Key term(s)
  • flow of traffic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Téléphonie et techniques hyperfréquences
OBS

L'[intensité] (par un faisceau de circuits ou un groupe d'organes de connexion) est égale au volume du trafic divisé par la durée de l'observation, sous réserve que la période d'observation et les durées d'occupation soient exprimées en mêmes unités. Observation: une intensité moyenne du trafic calculée de cette façon s'exprime en erlangs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Telefonía y tecnología de microondas
CONT

La intensidad del tráfico cursado (por un haz de circuitos o por un grupo de órganos de conexión) es igual al volumen del tráfico dividido por la duración de la observación, siempre que el periodo de observación y los tiempos de ocupación se expresen en las mismas unidades. La intensidad media del tráfico así calculada se expresa en erlangs.

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Record 11 2003-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
OBS

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome(EDS) is a group of hereditary connective tissue disorders characterized by defects of the major structural protein in the body(collagen). Collagen, a tough, fibrous protein, plays an essential role in "holding together", strengthening, and providing elasticity to bodily cells and tissues. Due to defects of collagen, primary EDS symptoms and findings include abnormally flexible, loose joints(articular hypermobility) that may easily become dislocated; unusually loose, thin, "stretchy"(elastic) skin; and excessive fragility of the skin, blood vessels, and other bodily tissues and membranes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Symptômes (Médecine)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités nacionales canadienses
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
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Record 12 2001-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Orbital Stations
CONT

The Habitat Holding Rack (HHR) is a host system that accommodates SSBRP [Space Station Biological Research Project] subrack payloads (that is, habitats) that house biological specimens (e.g. rodent, plant, insect, aquatic, egg, cell and tissue culture, etc.) in a low-acceleration environment on the International Space Station (ISS). The HHR provides the functional support services required by each subrack payload, including structural, mechanical, power, thermal conditioning, data, video, and command and control functions. The HHR also provides a passive vibration control system to protect the payloads from International Space Station (ISS) vibration.

OBS

habitat holding rack; HHR : term and abbreviation officially approved by the International Space Station official approval Group(ISSOAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations orbitales
CONT

Le HHR [Habitat Holding Rack] fournit les supports d'expériences ayant trait à la science «du vivant», y compris l'énergie électrique, les transmissions de données et divers autres équipements scientifiques.

OBS

bâti de recherche en sciences de la vie; HHR : terme et abréviation uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de la Station spatiale internationale (GTTSSI).

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
DEF

Form of "holding company" in which a management group has control of several existing banks. Each bank in the group has its own board of directors, but the holding company coordinates the activities of all banks in the group, and owns a majority of capital stock in member banks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque

Spanish

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Record 14 1998-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans
DEF

Lending by one member of a financial holding group to another member of the same group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
DEF

Prêt par une institution financière à une autre appartenant au même groupe financier.

Key term(s)
  • prêt intergroupe

Spanish

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Record 15 1996-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foreign Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

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Record 16 1994-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security
  • Corporate Security
  • Protection of Property
DEF

An organized method of recording, issuing, collecting and holding all the keys in a given building or group of buildings in order to maintain effective security.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité
  • Sécurité générale de l'entreprise
  • Sécurité des biens
DEF

Procédure relative à la distribution, à l'entreposage, à la collecte, à l'inscription et à la conservation des clés par le musée.

Spanish

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Record 17 1992-12-29

English

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

Individuals interested in group counseling holding master's or doctoral degrees, and engaged in practice, teaching, or research in group work; persons holding undergraduate degrees who are interested in group work, but not actively engaged in practice, teaching, or research; students. Seeks to assist and further interests of children, youth, and adults by providing effective services through the group medium, preventing problems, providing maximum development, and remediating disabling behaviours.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 18 1987-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 19 1987-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Institutions
DEF

A group consisting of a holding company that has controlling interest in two or more financial companies operating in different areas of the financial system-e. g., trust companies, life insurance companies, mutual funds, investment counsellors, general insurance companies, mutual funds, investment counsellors, general insurance companies, and sometimes investment dealers and banks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Institutions financières
DEF

Ensemble de firmes composé d'une société de portefeuille qui détient un intérêt majoritaire dans deux ou plusieurs institutions financières qui opèrent dans des segments différents du marché, telles que des compagnies de fiducie, des compagnies d'assurance-vie, des fonds mutuels, des firmes de conseiller en placement, des compagnies d'assurance générale et parfois même des banques ou des maisons de courtage en valeurs mobilières.

Spanish

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