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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2021-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Population Movements
DEF

[A] person who is moving or has moved across an international border or within a State away from his/her habitual place of residence, regardless of the person's legal status[, ] whether the movement is voluntary or involuntary[, ] what the causes for the movement are [or] what the length of the stay is.

OBS

migrant: designation used by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

PHR

rural migrant

French

Domaine(s)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Mouvements de population
OBS

Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada (IRCC) facilite l'entrée des migrants qui souhaitent vivre temporairement au Canada, tout en protégeant la santé et en garantissant la sécurité des Canadiens.

OBS

migrant; migrante : désignations en usage à Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada.

PHR

migrant rural

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
  • Movimientos de población
OBS

[Persona] que se traslada desde el lugar en que habita a otro diferente.

OBS

migrante: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que "migrante" engloba a "emigrantes" e "inmigrantes". [...] A este respecto, cabe señalar que el sustantivo "emigrante" pone el foco en la persona que abandona su hogar, mientras que "inmigrante" hace referencia a esa misma persona, pero desde la perspectiva de quien ya ha llegado a su nuevo destino para radicarse en él.

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Record 2 2014-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
OBS

of lobsters, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

des homards, etc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

"Folio" is a term of art to English lawyers meaning a certain number of words(seventy-two or ninety) taken as a unit in reckoning the length of a legal document, a matter of some importance when lawyers were paid by the length of the documents they prepared...(Rowton Simpson, 1976, p. 305).

French

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

Terme de procédure.

OBS

folio : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Market Structure (Trade)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Grain Growing
CONT

A typical grain transaction may begin simply with an exchange of teletype messages or a conversation between a seller and a buyer. However simple its beginnings, each transaction results in a formal legal document of several pages in length.(...) There are five key terms in every grain transaction : quantity, quality, shipping period, price and port(s) of loading or discharge. These are almost always agreed on before any written documents are prepared.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)
  • Économie agricole
  • Culture des céréales

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-03-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
DEF

For a given scale, length of the smooth line between the first and the last scale marks and passing through the centres of all the shortest scale marks.

OBS

1. The line may be real or imaginary, curved or straight. 2. Scale length is expressed in units of length regardless of the units of the measurand or the units marked on the scale.

OBS

scale length : term and definition approved by ISO, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures(BIPM), the International Electrotechnical Commission(IEC), the International Organization of Legal Metrology(OIML), and others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
DEF

Pour une échelle donnée, longueur de la ligne lissée comprise entre le premier et le dernier repère et passant par les milieux de tous les traits les plus petits.

OBS

1. La ligne peut être réelle ou imaginaire, courbe ou droite. 2. La longueur d'échelle est exprimée en unité de longueur quelle que soit l'unité de mesurande ou l'unité marquée sur l'échelle.

OBS

longueur d'échelle : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

OBS

longueur d'échelle : terme et définition entérinés, entre autres, par l'ISO, le Bureau international des poids et mesures (BIPM), par la Commission électrotechnique internationale (CEI) et par l'Organisation internationale de métrologie légale (OIML).

Spanish

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