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VILLAIN [8 records]

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Record 1 2020-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stock Exchange
  • Investment
CONT

Who says "concept" stocks are dead. A new air conditioning unit using air and water as a coolant rather than the environmental villain Freon has investors so excited that the stock is selling for $20 a share without sales, earnings or products.

OBS

The correct French equivalent is "action" in this context because "stock" and "share" are used interchangeably as a singular noun. However, "stock" is usually a collective noun, with "actions" as its French equivalent and "shares" as its synonym.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bourse
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Actions d'une compagnie qui a créé et mis sur le marché un produit ou un service nouveau et très intéressant (qui n'a toutefois pas encore fait ses preuves). Cette compagnie n'ayant aucun antécédent en ce qui concerne les bénéfices, il est très difficile d'en faire une analyse précise. Les actions d'une compagnie de ce genre sont très spéculatives.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

A tyrant or an aggressor who carries out or who is capable of carrying out extremely wicked or evil deeds.

CONT

At home they are in constant search of heroes, while abroad they are on the lookout for supervillains--tyrants and aggressors whose indisputable nastiness makes it easier to comprehend why so much of the outside world often seems an unfriendly if not dangerous place.

OBS

This neologism has been formed by derivation. The prefix "super-", meaning "surpassing" or "to a great or extreme degree, "has been added to the word "villain".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • History (General)
  • Political Science (General)
DEF

One of a new breed of historians who denies the existence of gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps.

CONT

All that was too much for Jurgen Habermas, a noted philosopher at the University of Frankfurt. In a series of replies to Hillgruber, Nolte and other revisionist historians, Habermas savaged "the apologetic tendency in German history-writing". While Habermas conceded that the German past must and will be "historicized", he accused the neorevisionists of a "scandalous" manipulation of the facts, in the service of right-wing political ends. He accused Nolte of "killing two birds with one stone" by representing Bolshevik crimes as the model for Hitler's actions, thereby both diminishing the uniqueness of the Holocaust and presenting an acceptable new villain.

Key term(s)
  • revisionist

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoire (Généralités)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Historia (Generalidades)
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
Key term(s)
  • neo revisionista
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Record 4 2005-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

[People] know we are not villains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

[Les gens] savent que nous ne sommes pas des croque-mitaines.

OBS

Pluriel : des croque-mitaines; des croquemitaines.

OBS

croquemitaine : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 5 1992-03-10

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 6 1992-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Just deserts are what the villain gets. This desert means simply "what he deserves".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Traduction (Généralités)
DEF

Comme il convient, comme il le faut, comme cela devait arriver.

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rural Planning (Agriculture)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagements ruraux (Agriculture)

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Decisions (Practice and Procedural Law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)

Spanish

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