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Record 1 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Neglect occurs when a caregiver does not provide for an elder's safety or for their physical and/or psychological needs. Physical neglect can mean failing to provide an elder with adequate and necessary medication or physical therapy, not taking care of their personal hygiene needs, or forcing them to live in unsanitary or potentially harmful conditions. Psychological neglect can mean leaving an older person alone for long periods of time or failing to provide the social contact, activities, and information necessary for an elder to thrive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

négligence psychologique : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Social Problems
  • Sociology of the Family
CONT

Neglect occurs when a caregiver does not provide for an elder's safety or for their physical and/or psychological needs. Physical neglect can mean failing to provide an elder with adequate and necessary medication or physical therapy, not taking care of their personal hygiene needs, or forcing them to live in unsanitary or potentially harmful conditions. Psychological neglect can mean leaving an older person alone for long periods of time or failing to provide the social contact, activities, and information necessary for an elder to thrive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

négligence physique : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Sociology
  • Urban Housing
DEF

An inhabitant of a residential building in which, by reason of dilapidation, overcrowding, faculty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light, or sanitation facilities, or any combination of these factor, living conditions are considered to be detrimental to safety, health, and morals.

CONT

The thing about that last week of the war, in the mind of a 14-year-old London slum-dweller named Donald Wheal, was not the strange public mood of anxious hope, or the utterly blank canvas that was the future, or the sheer painful impossibility of daily life. It as the odour.

OBS

slum : A building... that is deteriorated, hazardous, unsanitary, or lacking in standard convenience.

OBS

In English, "slum" may have two meanings: it can be either the deteriorated building or the area (neighbourhood) made of several such buildings.

OBS

slumdweller: This term is much more often found with a hyphen or a space between "slum" and "dweller".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie urbaine
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)
CONT

Précisons également que le Programme HABITAT vise à assurer à tous l'accès à un habitat approprié et d'améliorer la vie d'au moins cent millions d'habitants de taudis d'ici à 2020.

OBS

taudis : Logement, appartement misérable, qui ne satisfait pas aux conditions de confort et d'hygiène indispensables.

CONT

Quelque 900 millions d'habitants de taudis dans le monde respirent un air vicié et circulant dans des allées étroites couvertes de matières fétides et de sacs en plastique.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-07-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Safety
  • Hygiene and Health
DEF

[That is] unclean enough to endanger health.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Salubrité alimentaire
  • Hygiène et santé
CONT

Dans la plupart des pays en développement, où les gastro-entérites sont l'une des cinq causes de maladie et de décès, les aliments insalubres contribuent de manière importante à ce fardeau évitable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inocuidad Alimentaria
  • Higiene y Salud
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Record 5 2015-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hygiene and Health
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Food Industries
CONT

Unclean, unhealthful or unsanitary conditions or practices shall be deemed to exist if the floors, sidewalls and ceilings are not properly constructed and maintained; or if food in the process of production, storage, sale or distribution is unnecessarily exposed to flies, dust or dirt, or to the products of decomposition or fermentation incident to such production, storage, sale or distribution...

OBS

unsanitary condition : term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • unsanitary conditions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hygiène et santé
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
DEF

conditions non hygiéniques : Conditions ou circonstances de nature à contaminer des aliments, drogues ou cosmétiques par le contact de choses malpropres, ou à les rendre nuisibles à la santé.

CONT

Il est interdit de fabriquer, de préparer, de conserver, d’emballer ou d’emmagasiner pour la vente des aliments dans des conditions non hygiéniques.

OBS

condition non hygiénique : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • conditions non hygiéniques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Higiene y Salud
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
  • Industria alimentaria
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Record 6 2015-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
DEF

a system of employing labor(as in sweatshops) for long hours at low wages and often under unsafe or unsanitary conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Procédé d'exploitation de la main-d'œuvre tendant à avilir les salaires.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Legislature (Constitutional Law)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Public Service
DEF

To give official authority to; delegate legal power to.

CONT

To give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means : I empowered my agent to make the deal for me. The local ordinance empowers the board of health to close unsanitary restaurants.

OBS

Although it is a contemporary buzzword, the word "empower" is not new, having arisen in the mid-17th century with the legalistic meaning "to invest with authority, authorize." Shortly thereafter it began to be used with an infinitive in a more general way meaning "to enable or permit."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir législatif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Fonction publique
DEF

Donner la possibilité légale, l'autorisation de faire quelque chose, par un accord explicite.

OBS

On a constaté que le verbe «empower» peut se traduire selon le contexte par : autoriser; habiliter; mandater (donner mandat à);déléguer (donner pouvoir à), etc. On a remarqué dans le domaine juridique, le verbe «habiliter» est employé dans le sens de «habiliter à faire quelque chose». Cependant, le verbe «autoriser» peut être utilisé dans le sens de «autoriser à faire quelque chose» dans les domaines juridique, administratif et politique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Poder legislativo (Derecho constitucional)
  • Poder ejecutivo (Derecho constitucional)
  • Función pública
DEF

Otorgar poder a favor de otra persona para su representación en juicio o para otros actos.

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Record 8 2009-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pregnancy
  • Sociology of Women

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grossesse
  • Sociologie des femmes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Embarazo
  • Sociología de la mujer
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Record 9 2002-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

persist in dangerous or unsanitary practices.

OBS

injured seaman claiming compensation.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural in this context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

persister à se livrer à des pratiques dangereuses ou malsaines.

OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 10 1992-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Housing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Housing
DEF

A house which is uninhabitable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habitation et logement (Urbanisme)

Spanish

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