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WHAT IF [100 records]

Record 1 2025-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banquets and Receptions
DEF

A party given for a woman who is about to get married, at which she receives gifts from (usually female) friends and relatives.

CONT

If you are attending any pre-wedding celebrations(for instance, a bridal shower), consider what is your overall budget and allocate a smaller percentage—less than 40 per cent—to those gifts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réceptions et banquets
DEF

Réception donnée pour une fiancée par ses amies et où les invitées offrent des cadeaux.

CONT

Si vous participez à une fête avant le mariage (par exemple, une fête prénuptiale), tenez compte de l'ensemble de votre budget et allouez un plus faible pourcentage (moins de 40 %) au cadeau.

OBS

L'usage de «shower» est très répandu au Canada bien que le terme soit encore considéré comme un anglicisme.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-03-12

English

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

In cases in which the violent relationship between the parents involves situational couple violence or separation-instigated violence, there may not be increased risk to children in all cases, particularly if either type of violence is singular and mild. If the situational couple violence is chronic or severe, what is needed is a more nuanced analysis of the situational causes of the violence and whether it is only one or both of the parents who escalate to physical aggression. If one partner has an anger management problem, then he or she is the parent most at risk for child abuse. If the problem is one of couple communication or chronic conflict over one or several relationship issues, generalization to child abuse is unlikely.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Sociologie de la famille
CONT

[...] dans la violence de couple situationnelle, l'intention n'est pas de contrôler et de dominer l'autre personne. Les conjoints qui sont dans une dynamique de violence de couple situationnelle peuvent avoir de la difficulté à communiquer et à gérer leurs conflits, les principales sources de mésentente étant les enfants, le travail domestique, la consommation d'alcool et de drogues, ainsi que les difficultés financières.

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Auditing (Accounting)
DEF

... the difference between what auditors are supposed to do if they actually follow the requirements of auditing standards and regulation and what the public wants auditors to do.

OBS

... the evolution gap indicates the areas of the audit where there may be a need for evolution, taking into consideration the general public demand, technological advances and how the overall audit process could be enhanced to add more value in the public interest.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vérification (Comptabilité)
DEF

[...] différence entre ce que les auditeurs sont censés faire s'ils respectent effectivement les exigences des normes d'audit et de la réglementation et ce que le public souhaite qu'ils fassent.

OBS

[...] l'écart d'évolution indique les aspects de l'audit qui sont susceptibles de devoir évoluer, compte tenu de ce que demande le grand public, des avancées technologiques et des améliorations dont le processus d'audit dans son ensemble pourrait faire l'objet pour offrir plus de valeur dans l'intérêt du public.

Spanish

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Record 4 2025-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chronology
CONT

But what is a leap day anyway? Here's a science lesson : It takes Earth a little more than 365 days(365. 25 days, to be exact) to orbit the sun. Approximately every four years, we make up that extra time with a "leap day. "If we didn’t add this additional day into our calendars, the seasons would start to shift over time, leading to complications with farming, school schedules, and more.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chronologie
DEF

Jour supplémentaire d'une année de 366 jours.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cronología
CONT

[...] los años bisiestos son años con 366 días en lugar de los habituales 365. El día adicional, conocido como día bisiesto, es el 29 de febrero, y no existe en los años no bisiestos. Cada año divisible por cuatro, como 2024, es bisiesto, excepto algunos años seculares (los años que cierran un siglo), como 1900.

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Record 5 2025-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Oceanography
  • Surfing and Water-Skiing
CONT

Barreling waves are usually found at reef breaks. While the waves at reef breaks are more predictable, they are considerably more dangerous due to what lies below. Coral reefs are very sharp and contain harmful bacteria that can cause serious infection if cut by it. Beginner surfers should use extreme caution when surfing reef breaks...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Océanographie
  • Ski nautique et surfing
OBS

site à rouleaux de récif; rouleau de récif : désignations et définition publiées au Journal officiel de la République française le 15 décembre 2022.

Spanish

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Record 6 2024-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Applications of Automation
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
CONT

Milking robots are automatic milking systems where milking is performed without direct participation of an operator. The cows are milked throughout the day, including 1 or 2 h needed for cleaning the equipment. An average number of milkings per day is 2.5–3. The result is by 10–15% higher production. Cows may visit a milking robot voluntarily or they may be directed to do it through automatic gates. Generally in barns with a milking robot, cows are kept indoors all year.

OBS

When a cow enters the machine, an electronic ear tag or collar will trigger the computer as to what milking this would be and if she is really ready. A robotic arm then swings under her udder. The teats are then washed using rollers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatisation et applications
  • Élevage des animaux
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
CONT

Quel que soit le modèle considéré, le robot de traite est un automate constitué par un bloc de traite et par un bloc de distribution de concentrés. C'est un équipement programmable qui permet d'effectuer la traite des vaches laitières sans intervention directe de l'éleveur : toutes les opérations sont entièrement automatisées, en particulier la pose du faisceau trayeur.

OBS

Le robot de traite se compose de six modules principaux : stalle de traite; système de détection des trayons; bras robotisé pour le branchement de l'unité de traite; système de nettoyage des trayons; système de contrôle comprenant des capteurs et des logiciels; matériel de traite.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Automatización y aplicaciones
  • Cría de ganado
  • Productos lácteos
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Record 7 2024-05-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
CONT

The minutes of a meeting are a record of the circumstances of the meeting, including the names of the participants, the topics discussed and the decisions reached. The minutes should include all essential information in as concise a form as possible. Special attention should be paid to the wording of resolutions, motions and other decisions, particularly if there is a chance that there will be differences of opinion on what was resolved, moved or decided. If it is a formal meeting, all motions must be written out verbatim.

CONT

Your minutes must show: who was at the meeting, and who could have been there (apologies/absent); that the previous minutes were approved (and amendments if necessary); the status of actions from previous meetings; the decisions that were made; the actions that resulted from those decisions.

CONT

The difference between minutes and report of a meeting is that minutes are more structured and detailed, while a report is shorter and covers the main points.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
DEF

Relation officielle écrite de ce qui s'est dit ou fait dans une réunion, une assemblée, et des résolutions que l'on y a adoptées.

CONT

Un procès-verbal est généralement établi à l'issue d'une réunion, puis approuvé par ses membres lors de la réunion suivante.

CONT

Le procès-verbal est considéré comme un document officiel qui relate ce qui a été discuté et décidé au cours d'une réunion ou de toute autre séance. Il est rédigé par un ou une secrétaire de séance, dont le rôle est de rapporter les faits le plus fidèlement possible sans exprimer son avis personnel ni tirer de conclusions.

OBS

Ne pas confondre avec le compte rendu qui ne présente pas un caractère aussi officiel et aussi formel que le procès-verbal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Documentos comerciales y administrativos
  • Reuniones y asambleas (Administración)
DEF

Documento que recoge el desarrollo de una reunión, y especialmente los acuerdos tomados en ella. Se lee y se aprueba con las modificaciones precisas al principio de la siguiente reunión del mismo órgano.

OBS

minutas de un procedimiento: anglicismo proveniente del término inglés "minutes of proceedings". Se desaconseja su uso ya que en español el término "minuta" designa el borrador de un contrato o el documento que expiden los abogados detallando sus honorarios".

OBS

actas: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 8 2024-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
DEF

... the process of changing the values in cells to see how those changes will affect the outcome of formulas on the worksheet.

Key term(s)
  • "what-if" analysis

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Inteligencia artificial
  • Simulación (Sistemas cibernéticos)
Key term(s)
  • análisis de ¿qué pasaría si?
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Record 9 2024-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Transcortical motor aphasia. This language disorder is similar in many ways to Broca's aphasia, which is primarily characterized by trouble producing spontaneous speech. In essence, people with transcortical motor aphasia cannot say what they want to say because they can’t form the words. However, if someone who has transcortical motor aphasia is asked to repeat something, they can do it without difficulty.

Key term(s)
  • trans-cortical motor aphasia
  • trans cortical motor aphasia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Du côté des aphasies non fluentes, l'aphasie transcorticale motrice est caractérisée par un manque d'initiative verbale, alors que la répétition et la compréhension sont préservées. Une lésion dans les aires préfrontales, de l'aire motrice supplémentaire ou des noyaux gris centraux dans l'hémisphère gauche peuvent causer cette aphasie.

Key term(s)
  • aphasie motrice trans-corticale
  • aphasie motrice trans corticale

Spanish

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Record 10 2024-02-22

English

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

What is a "reported decision" as opposed to an "unreported decision?" A reported decision is one that has been published in a case law reporting series. For example, if an OLRB [Ontario Labour Relations Board] decision is published... in the CLRBRs [Canadian Labour Relations Board Reports] or... Canadian Labour Law Reports... it is considered a reported decision.

OBS

The term "decision" can refer to both judicial decisions ("judgments," for example, of a trial-level court or an appeal-level court) and quasi-judicial decisions (for example, of the Canadian Transportation Agency).

PHR

to quote a reported decision, reported decision of the adjudicative tribunal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Décisions (Droit judiciaire)
CONT

Qu'est-ce qu'une décision publiée par opposition à une décision non publiée? Une décision publiée a été publiée dans un recueil de jurisprudence. Par exemple, une décision de la CRTO [Commission des relations de travail de l'Ontario] qui est parue dans [...] les CLRBR [Canadian Labour Relations Board Reports] ou dans les Canadian Labour Law Reports [...] est considérée comme une décision publiée.

OBS

Le terme «décision» peut faire référence à une décision judiciaire («jugement» ou «arrêt») ou à une décision quasi-judiciaire (par exemple, de l'Office des transports du Canada).

OBS

Lorsqu'une décision est publiée sur le Web, mais pas dans un recueil, on dira «décision publiée», et «released decision» ou «published decision». Il s'agit toutefois d'une autre notion, à ne pas confondre avec la présente, où la décision est publiée dans un recueil.

Spanish

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Record 11 2024-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
  • Surveys (Public Relations)
  • Parliamentary Language
  • Sociology of Ideologies
DEF

... a unique form of political consultation that combines techniques of public opinion research and public deliberation to construct hypothetical representations of what public opinion on a particular issue might look like if citizens were better informed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
  • Enquêtes et sondages (Relations publiques)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
  • Sociologie des idéologies

Spanish

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Record 12 2023-12-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Sociology of Communication
CONT

A communication is in plain language if its wording, structure, and design are so clear that the intended readers can easily find what they need, understand what they find, and use that information.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Sociologie de la communication
CONT

Une communication est en langage clair si les mots et les phrases, la structure et la conception permettent au destinataire visé de facilement trouver, comprendre et utiliser l'information dont il a besoin.

Spanish

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Record 13 2023-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
CONT

What is pyometra?... Pyometra is a secondary infection due to hormonal changes in a female's reproductive tract. Following estrus(heat), progesterone levels remain elevated for several weeks, stimulating the uterine lining to thicken in preparation for pregnancy. If pregnancy does not occur for several estrus cycles, the lining increases in thickness until cysts form in the uterus. This condition is called cystic endometrial hyperplasia. The thickened cystic lining secretes fluids, creating an ideal environment where bacteria can grow.

OBS

High progesterone levels, as well as blood cells inhibited from entering the uterus during estrus, are a combination of factors which can often lead to life-threatening infection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
CONT

Le pyomètre est une accumulation de pus dans l’utérus. Ceci est plus fréquent chez les chiennes que les chattes et concerne le plus souvent les animaux âgés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
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Record 14 2023-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religion (General)
  • Sociology
CONT

... what has been stressed so far [in the] analysis are the ways religious minorities, religious diversity, and religious transnationalism can become sources of religious conflict and pose challenges to international security. However, they also offer new, untapped resources for diplomacy and international co-operation.... Faith-based diplomacy recognizes that if religion is a part of the problem of international conflict, it also needs to be a part of the solution. It is with this wider conception of diplomacy that a country's ethnic or religious minorities, through their global social and commercial links to their wider diaspora communities, could become an effective resource for [the country's] foreign policy...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Religion (Généralités)
  • Sociologie

Spanish

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Record 15 2023-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
  • Geophysics
CONT

In terms of technology, survey teams will use ground-penetrating radar devices to roll across the surface of the earth. GPR is much like a medical ultrasound, but instead, high-frequency radio waves penetrate into the ground to form an image of what may be below... The device includes a radar-transmitting antenna that sends the high-frequency waves into the ground that will bounce back to the receiver if they hit anything that is different from the medium of the soil.

Key term(s)
  • ground penetrating radar device
  • ground penetrating radar unit
  • ground probing radar unit
  • ground penetrating radar
  • ground probing radar

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
  • Géophysique
CONT

Un géoradar est un appareil mobile formé notamment d'un émetteur et d'un récepteur de micro-ondes qui permet de créer une image de ce qui se trouve dans le sol.

CONT

Le géoradar [est] un appareil de géophysique de surface servant à détecter les variations de la constante diélectrique des matériaux traversés, [qui] est particulièrement efficace pour détecter le niveau de la nappe phréatique, les contacts stratigraphiques et les grandes structures sédimentaires marquées par des variations de la granulométrie et de la teneur en eau.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos científicos
  • Sondeo y perforación (Construcción)
  • Geofísica
CONT

El georradar es una máquina que funciona con ondas electromagnéticas, emite una serie de impulsos a través del subsuelo que son capaces de detectar si allí hay materiales con diferentes propiedades a los habituales, como un cuerpo o huesos.

OBS

georradar: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, recomienda escribir la palabra "georradar" con doble erre y sin guion entre "geo-" y "radar".

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Record 16 2022-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
  • Investment
CONT

What to do if your home insurance company refuses to insure your property flip project?... Several factors affect an insurance company's decision of whether to insure this type of project or not. Among them is the fact that a house has been vacant, which can play a big role when you buy a house for flipping purposes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
  • Investissements et placements
CONT

Que faire si votre assureur habitation refuse d'assurer votre projet de flip immobilier? [...] Plusieurs aspects viennent influencer la décision d'une compagnie d'assurance d'assurer ou non ce type de projet. Entre autres, lorsque vous achetez une maison dans le but de faire un flip, la vacance de l'habitation peut grandement jouer dans la balance.

Spanish

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Record 17 2022-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Space Physics
CONT

This theory of the variable speed of light was — and still is — controversial. But according to a... paper published... it could be experimentally tested in the near future. If the experiments validate the theory, it means that the laws of nature weren’t always the same as what we experience today and would require a serious revision of Einstein's theory of gravity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Physique spatiale
Key term(s)
  • théorie de la vitesse de la lumière variable

Spanish

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Record 18 2022-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Internet and Telematics
CONT

Time on task, sometimes referred to as task completion time or task time, is another valuable metric for assessing the usability of a product. It describes the time that a user needs to complete a task successfully.

OBS

The time users spend on completing a task is a measure of efficiency. In general, the shorter the duration, the better the user experience. More time might mean users are having a hard time finding what they need on a page, are lost in the flow, or don’t understand how to use the product. Yet, there are exceptions. If the task is meant to keep users engaged, a longer time on task could be good.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Internet et télématique
CONT

[...] le succès des tâches peut être divisé en composants plus subtiles comme le temps passé par tâche, le taux de complétion d'une tâche en particulier (un formulaire, une transaction, un taux de passage, une inscription, le taux de complétion d'un profil …).

Spanish

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Record 19 2022-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Space Physics
CONT

According to the theories of physics, if we were to look at the Universe one second after the Big Bang, what we would see is a 10-billion degree sea of neutrons, protons, electrons, anti-electrons(positrons), photons, and neutrinos.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Physique spatiale
DEF

Théorie cosmologique selon laquelle l'Univers a son origine dans un état primitif hypercondensé à partir duquel il est toujours en expansion.

Spanish

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Record 20 2022-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

The act of coming back to work in person at the offices of the employer after a period of having worked remotely.

CONT

Flexibility will still remain a high priority [...], which may result in some employees continuing their work remotely, or using a hybrid model of working from home and the office. If you are unsure of what your return to the workplace will look like, please have a discussion with your manager to create a plan that suits both your needs.

OBS

return to the workplace; re-entry to the workplace: not to be confused with "return to work," which should preferably be used when work has stopped for a specific period and has later resumed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
  • Travail et emploi
DEF

Action de se rendre à nouveau aux bureaux de l'employeur en personne après avoir travaillé à distance pendant une certaine période.

CONT

Si l'employeur est d'avis que le retour au lieu de travail est nécessaire, il est préférable de le faire graduellement, en tenant compte des préoccupations des employés. Par exemple, malgré la vaccination, nombreux sont ceux qui craignent les variants; d'autres ont perdu un proche en raison de la Covid; certains éprouveront de l'anxiété face au retour au bureau ou à devoir côtoyer des collègues difficiles.

OBS

retour au bureau : ne pas confondre avec «retour au travail», qui devrait être privilégié pour des situations où le travail a cessé pour un certain temps et a après repris.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
  • Trabajo y empleo
CONT

Empresas de todo el mundo están buscando la forma de llevar a las personas de regreso a sus lugares de trabajo tras el levantamiento de cuarentenas. Algunos trabajadores pueden estar ansiosos de salir finalmente de sus casas, pero otros siguen temerosos del contagio, movilizando a las organizaciones a aplicar protocolos y adecuaciones de infraestructura para asegurar su salud. En algunos casos, los empleadores están exigiendo el retorno a la oficina […]

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Record 21 2022-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
  • Astrophysics and Cosmography
  • Space Physics
CONT

... other types of exotic matter have been observed in reality. One example is what is called a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is a state of matter that occurs at extremely low temperatures near absolute zero. In a Bose-Einstein condensate, atoms clump together and behave as if the whole group were a single atom.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique
  • Astrophysique et cosmographie
  • Physique spatiale

Spanish

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Record 22 2021-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
  • Supply (Military)
  • Military Materiel Management
CONT

If no stock exists, the requisition will be referred to the local supply manager who will determine what action will be taken next.

OBS

local supply manager; LSM: designations officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire
  • Approvisionnement (Militaire)
  • Gestion du matériel militaire
OBS

gérant d'approvisionnement local; GAL : désignations uniformisées par le ministère de la Défense nationale et les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 23 2021-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Data Banks and Databases
CONT

... accompanying any data analysis is a metadata analysis, in which one uses the metadata to decide if certain data analytic operations are sensible... what are the properties of the units which emerge from such an analysis... and how to interpret the results.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Banques et bases de données
CONT

Le débat public sur la collecte volumineuse et l'analyse de métadonnées tend à opposer le préjudice causé à la vie privée et l'utilité pour ce qui est de découvrir les réseaux terroristes.

Spanish

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Record 24 2021-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Executive (Constitutional Law)
  • Political Institutions
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

[To] charge the holder of a public office with misconduct.

CONT

When an irate citizen demands that a disfavored public official be impeached, the citizen clearly intends for the official to be removed from office. This popular use of "impeach" as a synonym of "throw out"(even if by due process) does not accord with the legal meaning of the word. When a public official is impeached, that is, formally accused of wrongdoing, this is only the start of what can be a lengthy process that may or may not lead to the official' s removal from office. In strict usage, an official is impeached(accused), tried, and then convicted or acquitted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pouvoir exécutif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Institutions politiques
  • Droit judiciaire
CONT

Pour renverser le président, les députés n'ont qu'un seul moyen : le «mettre en accusation», c'est-à-dire entamer la procédure de destitution appelée «impeachment».

Spanish

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Record 25 2021-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environment
CONT

A second scenario may be an environmental event such as a tornado, hurricane, earthquake, flood or fire. What would happen if such an event completely destroyed your building, your vehicles and all of the equipment and product inside your facility?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Environnement

Spanish

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Record 26 2020-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
CONT

What is [the] ADR service? An independent service that acts as an alternative to going to court, aiming to resolve disputes between landlords and tenants through evidence-based adjudication. If the lead tenant agrees to use the ADR service either when defining a disputed amount, or within 30 working days of defining a disputed amount, the case will be handled by the ADR service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends

Spanish

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Record 27 2020-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
  • Pipes and Fittings
CONT

If pipework... has been removed there is an increased risk of water migration between what should be watertight compartments and [an increased] risk of [the] vessel sinking or capsizing should there be water ingress.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux
  • Tuyauterie et raccords

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Partes de los barcos
  • Tuberías y accesorios
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Record 28 2020-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Law
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

What sets the military justice system apart are some of the public interest factors that must be taken into account by the military prosecutor as the maintenance of the discipline, efficiency, and morale of the CAF [Canadian Armed Forces] needs to be considered. These include :... the effect on the maintenance of good order and discipline in the CAF, including the likely impact, if any, on military operations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit militaire
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Ce qui distingue le système de justice militaire porte sur la considération de facteurs d'intérêt public uniques tels que la nécessité pour le procureur militaire de tenir compte du maintien de la discipline, de l'efficacité et du moral des FAC [Forces armées canadiennes]. Ces facteurs comprennent notamment : [...] les conséquences de la décision du poursuivant sur le maintien de l'ordre et de la discipline au sein des FAC, notamment son incidence possible, le cas échéant, sur les opérations militaires.

Spanish

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Record 29 2020-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Educational Institutions
CONT

What exactly is an academic curriculum vitae... ? [Academic curriculum vitae] are a required part of the application package to many graduate programs. [They] provide the admissions committee insight on... academic achievements, publications(if applicable) and scholarly interests, as well as skills developed through academic degrees and related teaching or research experience.

OBS

CV: curriculum vitae.

OBS

curricula vitae: plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
CONT

Si les CV professionnels ont évolué considérablement au fil du temps et diffèrent grandement d'un endroit à un autre, les CV universitaires demeurent pour leur part remarquablement uniformes dans leur structure et leur motif.

OBS

CV : curriculum vitæ.

OBS

curriculums vitæ : pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 30 2020-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
  • National History
  • Indigenous Peoples
CONT

If Canadians want to reconcile, to begin a new relationship with Indigenous people, then recognizing them as founding people of what would eventually become Canada is the ultimate expression of that desire for reconciliation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
  • Histoires nationales
  • Peuples Autochtones
CONT

Ce pays a été fondé en excluant le grand peuple fondateur, c'est-à-dire [...] les Premières Nations, les Inuit [et] les Métis.

Spanish

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Record 31 2020-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
DEF

The state of feeling whole with oneself without the need to seek fulfillment in a relationship with a partner.

CONT

What self-partnership can mean, if adopted correctly, is the concept of investing in the fulfillment of one's own emotional needs. Beyond the assumption that being single doesn’t mean miserable, it reinforces that individuals can invest in their own joy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
DEF

État d'une personne qui se sent épanouie sans avoir besoin de se réaliser dans une relation avec un ou une partenaire.

OBS

célibat par choix; célibat assumé : termes et définition entérinés par le Comité de terminologie de Radio-Canada.

Spanish

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Record 32 2020-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
CONT

Are people increasingly avoiding the courts, preferring private alternative dispute resolution processes that are not subject to appeal? If that's the case, what is the impact on our independent, public judicial system?

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends
OBS

processus substitutif privé de résolution des différends : 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 33 2019-12-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
CONT

[The] process called visual blind bidding … enables negotiators to keep their preferences private but still see what they are negotiating. All proposals and suggestions are clearly visible for consideration. What is hidden is the acceptance of the other party. Parties can quickly indicate what they are willing to accept without concern about revealing their hand. A deal is declared at the end of a session if both parties have accepted at least one of the same values.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends
OBS

négociation par offres à masque partiel : 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 34 2019-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Injections, Tubing and Transfusions (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
CONT

Scrotox is exactly what it sounds like — injecting botulinum toxin... into your scrotum … Scrotox was first used as a way to relieve scrotum pain if surgery didn’t resolve the issue.

OBS

The term "scrotox" was created by combining the terms "Botox" and "scrotum."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Injections, tubages et transfusions (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
DEF

Injection de toxine botulinique A dans le scrotum pour des raisons médicales ou cosmétiques.

OBS

Le terme «scrotox» est un mot-valise composé des termes «Botox» et «scrotum».

Spanish

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Record 35 2019-08-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Storage Media (Data Processing)
  • Computer Hardware
CONT

What does the message "The smart hard disk check has detected an imminent failure" mean?... Computer disks have hard errors and soft errors.... So if you see such a message, back up your drive and be prepared to replace it soon.... It would be a good idea to back it up to some external media and then buy a compatible disk, and make an image copy so you can directly replace that failing disk.

Key term(s)
  • compatible disc

French

Domaine(s)
  • Supports d'information (Informatique)
  • Matériel informatique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Medios de almacenamiento (Procesamiento de datos)
  • Equipo físico de computadora (Hardware)
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Record 36 2019-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Software
CONT

There are really only three questions that matter in informatics.... 1. What is the problem that we are trying to solve? 2. How will we know when we have succeeded? 3. Is technology the best solution or are there simpler alternatives?... If you know enough to answer them, you might be held up as an informatics guru.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
  • Internet et télématique
  • Logiciels
DEF

Expert en informatique qui utilise ses connaissances pour aider les autres, agissant en quelque sorte de personne-ressource, et qui est vénéré chaque fois qu'il règle un problème.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Informática
  • Internet y telemática
  • Soporte lógico (Software)
CONT

En la actualidad [...] nadie se puede salvar de algún robo o pérdida de un portátil. [...] La prevención es tan sencilla que no se necesita ser un gurú en informática para implementar las medidas de seguridad necesarias para recuperar un portátil.

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Record 37 2019-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

A digital currency that has a single central authority that manages the supply, creates the rules for exchange and use, verifies transactions and maintains a central ledger of transactions.

CONT

There's important differences between true cryptocurrencies and what are generally called "centralized digital currencies"(CDCs). One of the main qualities — if not the central feature — of cryptocurrencies is that they’re decentralized. This means no single person, government, company, or group can control them. CDCs, on the other hand, are on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Key term(s)
  • centralised digital currency
  • centralised cryptocurrency
  • centralized crypto-currency
  • centralised crypto-currency

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
DEF

Monnaie numérique dotée d'une autorité centrale unique qui en gère l'offre, crée les règles d'échange et d'usage, vérifie les transactions et tient un registre centralisé où sont consignées les transactions.

CONT

[...] la promotion d'une monnaie numérique centralisée, sous la houlette du gouvernement, et la limitation des monnaies numériques décentralisées pourraient nuire à l'innovation.

Key term(s)
  • crypto-monnaie centralisée

Spanish

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Record 38 2018-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insurance
  • Recruiting of Personnel
CONT

If [a person is] bondable or qualify for a fidelity bond, what this means is that the company now holds an insurance policy of sorts "against" [this person]. In other words, should [a person] do something illegal that costs the company money, they have insurance that pays out the damage to them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurances
  • Recrutement du personnel
CONT

[...] il est concevable qu'un casier judiciaire empêche les détenus d'accéder à certaines professions, d'obtenir une habilitation de sécurité ou d'être admissibles à un cautionnement.

Spanish

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Record 39 2018-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Emergency Management
  • Fire-Fighting Services
CONT

Contrary to what you might think, you are not indestructible. You have been given protective clothing to ensure that you go home at the end of your shift. This clothing cannot protect you if it stays on the hook in the apparatus room. Wear your hood, pull down your helmet shroud, button your collar and wear your structure gloves.

OBS

structure glove: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • structure gloves

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des urgences
  • Service d'incendie
OBS

gant de protection pour combattre les incendies de bâtiment; gant de protection : termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • gants de protection pour combattre les incendies de bâtiment
  • gants de protection

Spanish

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Record 40 2018-08-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Journalism
  • Television Arts
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
DEF

The second of two film clips in a double chain.

CONT

In [a] television newsroom..., the reels in a double chain are referred to not by number, but by the terms "A roll" and "B roll. "The A roll may carry the main, or only, audio track, usually the interview or narration. If so, the B roll runs silent or carries only natural sound and is used to illustrate what is being said on the A roll.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Presse audiovisuelle
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)

Spanish

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Record 41 2018-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cheese and Dairy Products
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)
CONT

The vast majority of differences reported between organic and conventional milk come from what cows are fed and their breed, and is not anything unique to being organic or conventional in itself. Therefore in terms of nutrients in milk, there is nothing distinct about organic milk that makes it unique from conventionally produced milk once the different factors that influence milk production are compared or adjusted for. If animal genetics, health, breed, diet, management, or environment differs, then so will the composition of the milk produced.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Laiterie, beurrerie et fromagerie
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)
CONT

Les producteurs biologiques nourrissent leurs animaux de plantes sans pesticides. La production de lait conventionnel, quant à elle, a fait de grands progrès dans le volume de lait produit par une vache, ce qui mène à une réduction des gaz à effet de serre.

Spanish

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Record 42 2018-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paints and Varnishes (Industries)
OBS

Manganese. This drier, sold normally in strengths of 6, 9, or 12 percent metal, is what is known as a through drier, acting on both the top and the bottom of the film. Mainly, however, it is an oxidation rather than a polymerization catalyst and can therefore cause wrinkling if employed in excessive amounts.

OBS

manganese drier: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peintures et vernis (Industries)
OBS

siccatif au manganèse : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 43 2018-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
  • Computer Programs and Programming
CONT

... if the Brain virus is active in memory and an application requests the operating system to read from disk the contents of sector 0(the hiding place of Brain), the virus will return the contents of what the legitimate sector 0 would contain, instead of the actual contents. Brain achieves this by modifying("hooking itself into") the interrupt table.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
CONT

[...] si le virus Brain est actif en mémoire et qu'une application demande au système d'exploitation de lire sur disque le contenu du secteur 0 (cachette du virus Brain), le virus communique le contenu de ce que le secteur normal 0 devrait contenir au lieu du contenu réel. Brain parvient à cette opération en modifiant la table des interruptions.

Spanish

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Record 44 2018-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Architecture
CONT

The campus should... hire a space management consultant to review space utilization and provide "what if" analyses of various uses of campus space resources.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Architecture

Spanish

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Record 45 2018-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Informatics
CONT

What are the key characteristics of new apps being deployed, if any; knowing if integrated web solutions into the app are compatible with the mobile device in use? Does the mobile device have supporting capabilities i. e., storage, bandwidth, performance, scalability to support new solutions vendors anticipate to deploy?

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 46 2017-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Percussion Instruments
DEF

The open part of the bell on the bottom.

CONT

Parts of the bell are named after parts of the body. Starting at the top is a suspension ring or a means to hang the bell. This has a variety of names, and sometimes [is] called... if shaped like one, the crown. Then the neck of the bell and its shoulder. The main body of the bell drops to what is termed the waist then the lip and the mouth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à percussion
DEF

Ouverture inférieure de la cloche.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos de percusión
CONT

Se distinguen diferentes partes en las campanas: la corona, el hombro, el tercio, el medio, el medio pie y el pie. [...] La arista entre el medio pie y el pie corresponde en el interior con el punto donde golpea el badajo, que es el de mayor grosor de toda la pieza. El perfil, el grosor de las paredes y el diámetro de la boca determinan el sonido.

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Record 47 2017-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

A child custody assessment is an investigation by a psychologist, psychiatrist or social worker. The assessor interviews the parents to determine their parenting abilities. If the assessor is a psychologist, the assessor will also conduct psychological testing of the parents. The assessor also meets with the children to determine what the children's preferences are and what the children have to say about their relationship with each parent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 48 2017-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Eye
CONT

Viewing Distance at Computer Workstations. ... Accommodation is when the lens capsule in your eye changes shape to focus on a close object. The eyes have a default accommodation distance, called the resting point of accommodation (RPA). That is the distance at which the eyes focus when there is nothing to focus on. In total darkness our eyes are set to focus at a particular distance, so that if the lights were turned on, an object at that distance would be in clear focus. The RPA averages 30 inches for younger people and gets farther away with age.

CONT

... reading from a computer screen... Our eyes have what is called a "dark focus. "This is the point in space where your focus would be if your eyes were totally relaxed. Imagine a pitch black room. In such an environment, where you can’t see anything, your eyes are actually focusing on a fixed point in space, that is why it is called the "dark" focus. This focus is known as the Resting Point of Accommodation(RPA) and is unique to every individual, but it usually rests more than three feet away from your face(and does not depend on time of day or age).

Key term(s)
  • accommodation resting point
  • accommodation resting state

French

Domaine(s)
  • Oeil
DEF

État passif de l'accommodation de l'œil en absence de stimulation (lorsqu'un sujet est plongé dans l'obscurité ou lorsqu'il fixe un espace lumineux vide).

OBS

L'accommodation, de la position de repos au punctum proximum, serait la réponse à la stimulation du système parasympathique; l'accommodation de la position de repos au punctum remotum serait la réponse à la stimulation du système sympathique.

Spanish

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Record 49 2017-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Business and Administrative Documents
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
CONT

Compensation Web Applications(CWA)... is a suite of self-service pay, pension and insurance applications enabling employees to monitor and manage their personal compensation information, as well as calculate pay, pension and insurance "what if" scenarios to assist with financial planning. CWA allows employees to view their pension and insurance benefits statement, their statement of earnings(pay stub), and request changes to their voluntary deductions.

Key term(s)
  • pay cheque stub

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écrits commerciaux et administratifs
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
DEF

État de la rémunération et des retenues sur le salaire, que l'employeur remet au salarié au moment du versement de la paie.

CONT

Les AWR [Applications Web de la rémunération] sont un ensemble d'applications en libre-service sur la paye, les pensions et les assurances qui permettent aux employés de surveiller et de gérer leurs renseignements personnels en matière de rémunération, de même que de calculer leur paye, leurs pensions et leurs assurances en fonction de scénarios hypothétiques, afin de les aider à mieux planifier leurs finances. Les AWR permettent aux employés de consulter leur relevé de pensions et de prestations d'assurance et leurs états des gains (talons de paye), et d'apporter des modifications à leurs retenues volontaires.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Documentos comerciales y administrativos
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
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Record 50 2017-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (Canada)
CONT

The most important city of the province of Quebec, but not its capital. It occupies all the Île de Montréal(or Montréal Island), the biggest island of the Hochelaga Archipelago, at the confluence of the St. Lawrence River and the Ottawa River. In 1535, Jacques Cartier visited the native village of Hochelaga on the slope of what he named "Mont Royal, "but by 1608, year of the foundation of Québec, all the Iroquoians were gone. At the same location, Ville-Marie was founded as a missionary colony by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve in 1642, though it was not until the conclusion of the "Grande Paix"(peace treaty) of 1701 that the colony stopped living in a permanent state of war. The establishment became the great centre of the fur trade and a starting point for expeditions by the coureurs de bois and voyageurs of the time. Trade from the port and agriculture on the surrounding plains contributed to the development of the city. By the 1820s, its population outnumbered that of the city of Québec. A dynamic merchant class began to invest and "St. James Street, "now "la rue Saint-Jacques, "became the country's financial centre. Around 1831, large-scale immigration enabled the population of British origin to be the majority in the city but, at the time of Confederation in 1867 and after, the francophones were again in the majority, gradually making the city the centre of the French culture in America. Erected as a municipality in 1832, the city underwent a steady growth with the addition of the territories of 35 towns over the years. If Toronto grabbed the title of "Business Capital" by the end of the 20th Century, Montréal remained the "Metropolis of Canada. "In 1996, the metropolitan region grouped some 111 municipalities located on three of the islands of the Hochelaga Archipelago, Montréal Island, Jésus Island and Bizard Island, and, on the South Shore, the city of Longueuil and the seven others that were to be part of it on the 1 January 2002, the cities of Boucher...

OBS

Coordinates: 45°30’ 73°36’ (Québec).

OBS

In Canada (with seven exceptions as of December 31, 2004), the name of an inhabited place has the same form in English and French, which form is listed in the Gazetteer of the province or territory in accordance with the inscription in the Incorporation Act of the entity. This rule also applies for the historic designation of an inhabited place, even if the designation is not or no longer gazetteered.

OBS

The "city of Montréal" is the geographical entity: "The city of Montréal takes its name from a contraction of the name given to the mountain by Jacques Cartier in 1535, "Mont Royal", while "City of Montréal" refers to its governing body or administrative instance.

OBS

The inhabitant of Montréal is a "Montrealer" (since 1919), man or woman. The name of the city always takes an accent while the demonym, taking an English form with the addition of an English suffix, is written without the accent.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (Canada)
CONT

La plus importante ville de la province de Québec mais qui n'en est pas la capitale. Elle occupe l'île de Montréal, la plus grande des îles de l'archipel d'Hochelaga, au confluent du fleuve Saint-Laurent et de la rivière des Outaouais. En 1535, Jacques Cartier visite le village autochtone d'Hochelaga sur les pentes de ce qu'il nomme le mont Royal, mais en 1608, à l'époque de la fondation de Québec, tous les Iroquoiens ont disparu de l'emplacement. Le sieur Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve y fonde, en 1642, Ville-Marie, une colonie missionnaire chargée d'évangéliser les «Indiens», mais seule la Grande Paix de 1701 permet à la colonie d'échapper au climat de guerre dans lequel elle doit vivre. L'avantageux emplacement du site en fait un centre de la traite des fourrures et le carrefour des coureurs de bois et des explorateurs. Le commerce et l'agriculture qui se fait sur les plaines environnantes permettent à la ville de se développer. En 1820, elle devient plus populeuse que la ville de Québec. Son dynamisme fait que s'y installe le centre des affaires du pays, sur la «St. James Street» d'alors, devenue la rue Saint-Jacques par la suite. Vers 1831, l'immigration massive permet aux habitants d'origine britannique de devenir majoritaire, mais, à compter de l'époque de la Confédération en 1867, la population francophone redevient supérieure à la population anglophone, la ville devenant le centre de l'expression de la culture française en Amérique. Érigée en municipalité en 1832, elle prend des dimensions imposantes à la faveur de 35 fusions de villes réalisées au fil des ans. Si, Toronto lui ravit le titre de «Capitale des affaires» à la fin du XXe siècle, elle conserve celui de «Métropole du Canada» et de «Ville aux cent clochers». En 1996, la région métropolitaine comprend environ 111 municipalités, celles occupant l'île de Montréal, l'île Jésus et l'île Bizard de l'archipel d'Hochelaga, et, sur la Rive-Sud, la ville de Longueuil et les sept autres [...]

OBS

Coordonnées : 45°30' 73°36' (Québec).

OBS

Au Canada (sauf sept exceptions au 31 décembre 2004), le nom d'un lieu habité a la même forme en français et en anglais, celle consignée au Répertoire de la province ou du territoire conformément à l'inscription sur l'Acte d'incorporation de l'entité. Cette règle s'applique également pour la désignation historique d'un lieu habité même si cette désignation ne figure pas ou plus au Répertoire.

OBS

Un nom de ville est féminin, même lorsque le pseudo-générique «ville» ne le précède pas : «Montréal est située sur une île, au cœur du Saint-Laurent».

OBS

La «ville de Montréal» est la ville géographique : La ville de Montréal doit son nom à la contraction de «mont Royal», nom que donne Jacques Cartier à la montagne dès 1535.». Par contre, «Ville de Montréal» signifie l'administration municipale ou la personne morale.

OBS

Le citoyen ou habitant de la ville de Montréal est un «Montréalais», une «Montréalaise» (depuis 1859); historiquement, l'habitant de Ville-Marie était un ou une «Ville-Mariste».

Spanish

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Record 51 2017-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Doctrines, Systems and Policies
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
CONT

Institutional complementarity is said to exist when the presence or absence of one institution affects the efficiency of the other. This is seen to inhibit radical or fundamental socio-economic change and instead promote institutional reproduction.

CONT

Uncertainty about the future, then, is at the same time uncertainty about institutional complementarity, to the extent that complementarity is measured by economic performance... If we assume that world to be changing, in a direction on which we can make at best educated guesses, then complementarity is not just an uncertain but a moving target, one that we may pursue in bad times by either preserving or rebuilding our institutions, and by refining and upgrading them in good times, without ever knowing for sure, whether what we are doing will really make them more complementary, and with it more productive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines, systèmes et politiques économiques
  • Coopération et développement économiques
CONT

L'analyse historique suggère qu'une stratégie que l'on peut qualifier d'américanisation se heurte au fait que les institutions de la nouvelle économie se sont forgées progressivement à travers un processus d'essais et d'erreurs, à l'issue duquel se manifeste une co-évolution qui peut être lue comme l'expression d'une complémentarité institutionnelle.

CONT

De nouveaux régimes économiques ont émergé ou sont en voie de le faire, mais qu'ils mettent en œuvre soit une complémentarité institutionnelle, soit une hiérarchie dans laquelle est impliquée la finance, plus qu'un déterminisme par les TIC [technologies de l'information et de la communication] en tant que telles.

Spanish

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Record 52 2017-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

The economic impact of capital inflows and the need, if any, for a policy response are likely to be determined by the forces driving them, as well as by the recipient country's exchange rate regime. Under a fully flexible exchange rate system, capital inflows(regardless of what is driving them) will lead to appreciation of the recipient country's currency, a drop in the relative price of imported goods, and a shift of consumption away from nontradables-all of which tend to alleviate inflationary pressures.

CONT

Softly pegged exchange rate regime.

Key term(s)
  • exchange system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

L'économie est aujourd'hui à la croisée des chemins, après la mise en œuvre réussie, depuis 1983, des réformes recommandées par le FMI et par la Banque mondiale, y compris d'importantes coupures budgétaires et d'une plus grande libéralisation des échanges commerciaux et du système de change. On a réduit l'inflation et la croissance a été soutenue.

CONT

L'impact économique d'un afflux de capitaux et la réponse à y apporter le cas échéant dépendront vraisemblablement des forces qui sous-tendent ces flux et du régime de change du pays bénéficiaire.

CONT

Régime de taux de change à arrimage souple.

Key term(s)
  • régime des changes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
DEF

Sistema de cambios en la paridad de la moneda que adopta un país.

CONT

El impacto económico de las corrientes de capital y la necesidad, si la hubiere, de medidas de política para hacerles frente probablemente estarán determinados por sus causas y por el régimen cambiario del país receptor.

CONT

Régimen de vínculo cambiario flexible.

Key term(s)
  • sistema cambiario
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Record 53 2016-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

... the term "state of technology"(a standard term used in licences) is a dynamic concept and both the availability and the economic feasibility of the technology become issues. Dr. Rainer HAMM(Rechtsanwalt)(defence attorney) commented that there is a sensitive major tax on waste water. Those who have a licence to use a river to pollute have to pay a fee depending on the degree of pollution. The waste water effluent fees are quite effective to minimize pollution.... Large corporations also have high incentive to develop technology. It is they who develop technology. While universities can and do develop standards, they cannot build technology and compare standards. That can only be done by industry itself. Thus it is the industry which makes the law by defining the standards of technology. They are motivated to do so by the new device, popular in the United States, known as "technology forcing. "Dr. HAMM was however sceptical of using criminal law to pursue dynamic concepts. If you include a state of technology that can change any time and then punish someone for not having fulfilled the state of technology, then you blur the distinction between what is criminal and what is not criminal.

CONT

... technology forcing (i.e. development of more cost-effective approaches in response to regulations); ...

OBS

technology forcing: This expression (hyphenated) is also used as an adjective, as in "technology-forcing emission limits," "technology-forcing regulations," "technology-forcing standards."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Techniques industrielles
CONT

[...] forçage de la technologie (c.-à-d. élaboration d'approches plus rentables en réaction aux règlements); [...]

CONT

Les exigences fédérales américaines sont en place depuis 1998. Par conséquent, la reformulation des produits permettant de se conformer aux limites de contenu ne devrait pas constituer un forçage technologique.

OBS

forçage : Le fait de soumettre (quelqu'un) à une pression, à une contrainte.

Spanish

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Record 54 2016-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

Only by monitoring, making repeated observations of the plants and soil at a specific location, can we understand what long-term impact our grazing management is having on plants and soil.... This information can be used to decide if a change in grazing management is required to maintain or improve long-term pasture productivity.

CONT

The proper selection of plant species is the first step in long-term pasture production.

OBS

long-term pasture: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’agriculture” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

Pâturages de longue durée : Ce projet avait pour but d'aménager un pâturage de recherche que l'on pourrait utiliser à long terme pour répondre à des questions de recherche prioritaires associées à la gestion du bison.

Spanish

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Record 55 2016-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
CONT

They concluded that le Master would be entitled and obliged to reject the cargo only if he would have had to clause the Bill of lading in a way that would qualify what the shipper ultimately proposed to be stated in the Bill of lading

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime

Spanish

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Record 56 2016-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • Rules of Court
  • National and International Security
CONT

Considerations relating to application of the principle of an open court may be weighed differently by the trial judge, if [a] matter proceeds to trial, for he or she will control the process at the trial including what documentary information adduced at trial should be treated in confidence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Règles de procédure
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
CONT

Si [une] affaire passe en jugement, le juge de première instance pourrait envisager différemment les considérations relatives au «principe de la publicité de la justice», car il contrôlera la procédure au procès, y compris la question de savoir quels documents produits au procès doivent être tenus confidentiels.

OBS

principe de la publicité de la justice; principe de la publicité des débats judiciaires : termes tirés du mini-lexique Terrorisme et sécurité nationale et reproduits avec l'autorisation du Centre de ressources en français juridique de l'Université de Saint-Boniface.

Spanish

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Record 57 2016-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Trade
OBS

Such agents, in return for an extra commission, called a "del credere commission", promise that they will indemnify the principal, if the third party with whom they contract in respect of goods fails to pay what is due under the contract.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Commerce
CONT

Le ducroire est une convention par laquelle un commissionnaire (le commissionnaire(-)ducroire, on dit aussi l’agent ou le mandataire ducroire) intermédiaire dans la relation commerciale, se porte garant de l’exécution par le tiers avec qui il traite de l’opération commerciale pour le compte du commettant. Il vend à l’acheteur en son propre nom, mais pour le compte du fournisseur commettant.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de contratos (common law)
  • Comercio
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Record 58 2016-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

Although agency is a consensual relationship, resulting from agreement between the parties that one should act as agent for the other, it does not follow that all such agreements are strictly contractual, manifesting all the features of the common law contract. An agency may be gratuitous. If so, it is suggested, it is not truly contractual. Admittedly, the main difference between purely consensual and contractual agency lies in the absence or presence of consideration, in the form of remuneration of the agent of what he undertakes to do.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 59 2016-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Another problem involving the use of words is the question of "conditional assault". If one person points a gun at another and says, "Your money or your life!", it might be argued that it is not assault because the plaintiff may avoid any harm by complying with the condition and parting with his money. It could be contended that the requirement of immediacy is absent. Such an argument is fallacious, however, for one cannot impose conditions upon another, when one has no legal right to do so. It would be otherwise of a landowner said to a trespasser, "Get off my land or I’ll throw you off, "for in such a case, the landowner is only threatening to do what he is entitled to do anyway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Un autre problème relié aux paroles est celui des «voies de fait conditionnelles». Si un individu braque une arme sur quelqu'un en lui disant : «la bourse ou la vie!», on pourrait soutenir qu'il n'y a pas de voies de fait parce que le demandeur peut éviter tout préjudice en se soumettant à la condition et en se défaisant de son argent. On pourrait soutenir que le caractère d'imminence est absent, mais cet argument est faux car personne ne peut, sans justification, imposer des conditions à une autre personne. La situation serait différente si un propriétaire disait à un intrus «Si vous ne déguerpissez pas, je vous expulserai moi-même!», puisque, dans ce cas, le propriétaire menace seulement de faire ce qu'il a le droit de faire de toute façon.

OBS

voies de fait conditionnelles : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • voie de fait conditionnelle

Spanish

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Record 60 2016-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
DEF

The branch of philosophy that studies knowledge.

OBS

It attempts to answer the basic question :what distinguishes true(adequate) knowledge from false(inadequate) knowledge? Practically, this question translates into issues of scientific methodology : how can one develop theories or models that are better than competing theories? If also forms one of the pillars of the new sciences of cognition, which developed from the information processing approach to psychology, and from artificial intelligence, as an attempt to develop computer programs that mimic a human's capacity to use knowledge in an intelligent way.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
DEF

Branche de la philosophie qui étudie de façon critique la connaissance, ses fondements, ses principes, ses méthodes et ses conclusions.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Filosofía (Generalidades)
DEF

Parte de la filosofía que trata de los fundamentos y los métodos del conocimiento científico.

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Record 61 2016-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)
CONT

CORRECTIVE ACTION FORM. Complete this form in the event that a deviation occurs(“What would you do if something went wrong?”).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)
CONT

REGISTRE DES MESURES CORRECTIVES. Veuillez remplir ce formulaire en cas de problème ou d’écart («Que feriez-vous si un problème survenait?»).

Spanish

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Record 62 2016-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Employment Benefits
OBS

Human Resources Development Canada.

Key term(s)
  • If you have an accident

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Avantages sociaux
OBS

Développement des ressources humaines Canada.

Key term(s)
  • Si vous avez un accident

Spanish

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Record 63 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Housing
CONT

... what it takes to clean a building situated in the country is typically far less an endeavor than if that same building were located in a metropolitan area. A rural building may warrant only water soaking to remove mild contaminants(such as dirt), while an urban building would most likely require a more in-depth cleaning effort-to remove more hazardous pollutants-to achieve the same level of cleanliness.

French

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

Si les riches ne construisent plus de demeures neuves dans les villes parce qu'ils se détournent vers des «résidences secondaires» à la campagne, en montagne, ou en bord de mer ou de lac, ils ne se retirent plus des maisons qu'ils occupent en ville pour les abandonner à de moins fortunés qui, à leur tour, laissent à de plus pauvres plus mal logés les logis qu'ils habitaient. Le résultat peut aboutir à un délabrement général des immeubles citadins non renouvelés, à moins que n'interfère une administration publique qui construise.

Spanish

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Record 64 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Investment
CONT

What you need is someone who will look at your overall financial situation, and tell you if you have the right kind of life insurance and whether your coverage is adequate; what kind of investment program you should be following, depending on your age and your personal financial objectives; whether you will have enough money to live on in retirement, and if not, what to do about it; and even how to squeeze more savings out of your limited income... there are good financial planners who can give you invaluable assistance in putting your financial situation in order.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Spécialiste chargé d'apprécier la situation financière personnelle d'un particulier et d'établir un programme afin de permettre à ce dernier de satisfaire ses besoins financiers et d'atteindre ses objectifs.

Spanish

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Record 65 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
DEF

A measure of one's understanding of what is needed in a given imaginary practical situation : e. g., what one should do if it is raining when one leaves for school.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
DEF

Test pour lequel le sujet doit interpréter une situation.

CONT

«épreuve de compréhension générale» : L'échelle W.I.S.C. comprend [...] les épreuves suivantes: - Information générale, [...] Compréhension générale, soit quatorze questions comparables aux questions suivantes : [...] Pourquoi arrête-t-on les voleurs? Que ferais-tu si tu voyais le feu prendre dans une maison? [...]

OBS

«épreuve de compréhension générale» : Certains auteurs emploient les termes «test» et «épreuve» comme synonymes. Il est impossible de déterminer s'ils le sont vraiment.

Spanish

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Record 66 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
CONT

[The bottom up approach] allows people to focus more on what one participant referred to as "natural" management entities(such as individual facilities, programs and services) and to escape from the impossible task of trying to manage departmental conglomerates as if they were a single unit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
CONT

[Cette approche ascendante] permet aussi aux gens de se concentrer davantage sur ce que l'un des participants a appelé les entités de gestion «naturelles» (les installations, les programmes et les services individuels) et d'échapper à la tâche impossible de tenter de gérer des «conglomérats» ministériels comme s'il s'agissait d'une seule et même entité.

Spanish

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Record 67 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

... if there is no duress and both parties obtain what they desire from the bargain why should it be unenforceable? It is not difficult to envisage that the promisee may incur a factual detriment and the promisor a factual benefit meaning that enforcement of the bargain would sensibly acknowledge commercial reality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

désavantage de fait : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 68 2015-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
  • Financial Institutions
CONT

To the extent that a retention requirement is judged desirable, key policy questions are : how much should be retained, and what form should the retention take? Implicit in the latter question is a judgment on the degree of discretion originators should be given in choosing the form of retention, if a quantitative retention requirement exists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
  • Institutions financières
CONT

Dans la mesure où les banques étaient les plus impliquées dans le processus de titrisation, des exigences de transparence et de rétention quantitative furent dans un premier temps introduites dans les règlements applicables au secteur bancaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
  • Instituciones financieras
CONT

[...] el Comité ha considerado un requerimiento de retención cuantitativo y ha evaluado sus beneficios asociados frente a las dificultades de su aplicación.

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Record 69 2015-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Advertising
CONT

Media equivalency in sponsorship marketing is a sponsor's measurement of the amount of time or space generated by coverage and exposure of the sponsor's name, and calculating what that time or space would have cost if the sponsor had purchased it based on the medium's or media vehicle's rate card...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Publicité

Spanish

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Record 70 2015-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

... where one party takes means to conceal a defect, or otherwise prevent the other party from learning a material fact; or makes a statement true in terms as far as it goes, but keeps silence as to the other things which, if disclosed, would alter the whole effect of the statement, so that what is in effect told is half-truth, equivalent to falsehood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

dissimulation active : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 71 2015-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

If the pipeline operator undertook customary precautions... on what grounds can it be held liable for the alleged accident?

OBS

customary precautions: term usually used in plural in this context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

précautions d'usage : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Spanish

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Record 72 2015-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security Devices
  • Corporate Security
CONT

The Pyronix Decibell is therefore equipped with three anti-sabotage devices. In the event that an intruder tries to remove the cover of the siren, prise it from the wall or simply unscrew the front from the back, there is a tamper device which will immediately send the siren into alarm condition. These tamper devices are connected to what is known as a 24 hr circuit. This means that if any one tries to tamper with the equipment, whether the alarm is set or unset, night or day the system will go into alarm condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de sécurité
  • Sécurité générale de l'entreprise

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Dispositivos de seguridad
  • Seguridad general de la empresa
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Record 73 2015-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

A contractor must stand by the words of his contract, and, if he will not read what he signs, he alone is responsible for his omission.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

contractant, contractante : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 74 2015-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Such damage, loss or injury as does not flow directly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act.

CONT

Damage may be direct, i. e. caused immediately by the conduct done in breach of duty, e. g. injury to a person in an accident, or indirect, or consequential, when it results from the conduct only after the intervention of other factors, e. g. pecuniary loss resulting from a vehicle being damaged. Whether and, if so, to what extent a person in breach of duty is legally liable to another to whom his breach has caused indirect or consequential damage raises the problem of remoteness of damage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

dommage indirect, préjudice indirect : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 75 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

... one cannot impose conditions upon another, when one has no legal right to do so. It would be otherwise if a landowner said to a trespasser, "Get off my land or I’ll throw you off, "for in such a case, the landowner is only threatening to do what he is entitled to do anyway.

French

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

[...] personne ne peut, sans justification, imposer des conditions à une autre personne. La situation serait différente si un propriétaire disait à un intrus "Si vous ne déguerpissez pas, je vous expulserai moi-même!". Puisque, dans ce cas, le propriétaire menace seulement de faire ce qu'il a le droit de faire de toute façon.

OBS

intrus, intruse, auteur d'une atteinte immobilière, auteure d'une atteinte immobilière : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 76 2015-07-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

If the court is satisfied to accept the legislative judgment as conclusively determining the standard of conduct appropriate to the occasion, it follows that any unexcused deviation is negligence per se.... For the duty to comply is one of "absolute obligation. "This means in the first instance that the defendant will not be heard to excuse his failure to adopt the prescribed safeguard by arguing that what he did was quite adequate or just as good...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 77 2015-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Sociology of Human Relations
  • Demography
CONT

Thus the influence of a consanguine marriage is simply the influence of a double heredity. The proper way to examine the question clearly, is to find what is the proportion of marriages of blood relations in a given population, and then to inquire if there be in the issue of such marriages a larger percentage of insane, epileptic, deaf, dumb, idiotic, scrofulous, or otherwise unhealthy children.

Key term(s)
  • inter marriage
  • inmarriage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
  • Démographie
CONT

On appelle «mariage consanguin» celui qui unit des personnes qui ont, entre elles, une parenté par le sang, tel le cas du mariage entre cousins permis dans les limites de la loi.

Spanish

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Record 78 2015-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
  • Hearing
CONT

If you have a standard telephone and have difficulty hearing what is said, a telephone amplifier may help. It will make incoming speech louder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
  • Ouïe
CONT

Des amplificateurs téléphoniques peuvent aussi se brancher à un téléphone ordinaire pour augmenter le volume de la parole.

Spanish

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Record 79 2015-05-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

The omission of one to perform a duty resting upon him. The neglect or failure on the part of a public officer to do and perform a duty or duties laid on him as such by virtue of his office or required of him by law.

CONT

... even a common practice may itself be condemned as negligent if fraught with obvious risks. "Neglect of duty does not cease by repetition to be neglect of duty", for in the final analysis the standard of reasonable care is measured by what ought ordinarily to be done rather than what is ordinarily done.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 80 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Finance
CONT

... a combination of the reliance and the expectation interest, and it will necessarily be so analyzed if we restrict the scope of the expectation interest to what may be called the net expectancy, in other words, if we make "the expectation interest" and "the lost profit" synonymous.

OBS

Contract damages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Finances

Spanish

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Record 81 2015-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Goods
  • Maritime Law
CONT

The cargo has been the subject-matter of a sale and is on its way from the seller to the buyer. While in transit the seller hears that the buyer has become insolvent. If the seller is still unpaid it would be very hard on him if he were bound to deliver the goods to the buyer despite the latter's insolvency. The seller is therefore given what has been described as an equitable remedy. He may order the shipowner or the master of the ship not to deliver the goods to the purchaser, but to redeliver them to him.. This is called "stoppage in transitu".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport de marchandises
  • Droit maritime
OBS

droit d'arrêt en cours de route : source : Braën, A., Le droit maritime au Québec, Montréal, Wilson et Lafleur, 1992, p. 266

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transporte de mercancías
  • Derecho marítimo
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Record 82 2015-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Noise Pollution
CONT

... if a noise environment is deemed excessive, what effect on the total SPL value would result from removing specific sound sources.

OBS

By noise climate is meant the range of noise level recorded for 80% of the time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution par le bruit
CONT

Le milieu sonore des villes est composé d'une vaste gamme de sons, voulus et non voulus, plaisants ou effrayants.

Spanish

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Record 83 2015-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Maritime Law
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A contract or agreement by which one, who is the lender, lends to another, who is the borrower a certain sum of money, upon condition that if the thing upon which the loan has been made, should be lost by any peril of the sea, or vis major, the lender shall not be repaid, unless what remains shall be equal to the sum borrowed; and if the thing arrives in-safety, or in case it shall not have been injured, but by its own defects or the fault of the master or mariners, the borrower shall be bound to return the sum borrowed, together with a certain sum agreed upon as the price of the hazard incurred.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit maritime
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho marítimo
  • Comercio exterior
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Record 84 2015-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Labour and Employment
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Cognitive learning techniques developed from the notion that :"If clients are clear on what they want to do, why mess around with reinforcement and models? Why not just tell them to do it. "Common approaches to using cognitive learning are behavioural contracts, problem solving approaches, skill training, and cognitive restructuring.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Travail et emploi
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Apprentissage cognitif. Les méthodes d'apprentissage cognitif découlent de la thèse suivante : «Si le client sait ce qu'il veut, pourquoi s'embarrasser de renforcement et de modèles? Pourquoi ne pas lui dire simplement de passer à l'action?» L'apprentissage cognitif fait souvent appel aux contrats de comportement, aux méthodes de résolution de problèmes, à la formation et à la restructuration cognitive.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comportamiento humano
  • Trabajo y empleo
  • Inteligencia artificial
CONT

El foco se traslada del profesor al estudiante, y de la enseñanza al aprendizaje. Se vuelve con ello al aprendizaje cognitivo, es decir, a concienciar al alumno de los errores cometidos, y contrastarlos con las formas correctas en lugar de pretender una automatización de estructuras sin la intervención del metalenguaje.

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Record 85 2015-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
CONT

What price the efficiency of marginal-product distribution if it gives a sizable fraction of the total product to property owners?

OBS

To socialists, like Poland’s Oscar Lange, the efficiency of the marginal-product method of distribution in enlarging the size of the social pie was not an excuse for labor’s not receiving all of the product.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 86 2015-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
OBS

The law of downward-sloping demand : When the price of a good is raised(at the same time that all other things are held constant), less of it is demanded. Or, what is the same thing :If a greater quantity of a good is put on the market, then-other things being equal-it can be sold only at a lower price.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 87 2015-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
  • National Accounting
CONT

... the "full employment budget surplus or deficit" measures what would be the budget position if the economy were at full employment and the legislated tax and spending structures were in effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
  • Comptabilité nationale

Spanish

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Record 88 2015-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Conditions and Forecasting
  • National Accounting
CONT

... the "full-employment budget surplus or deficit" measures what would be the budget position if the economy were at full employment and the legislated tax and spending structures were in effect.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prévisions et conjonctures économiques
  • Comptabilité nationale

Spanish

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Record 89 2015-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • System Names
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
  • Informatics
  • Public Service
OBS

CWA [Compensation Web Applications] is a suite of self-service pay, pension and insurance applications enabling employees to monitor and manage their personal compensation information, as well as calculate pay, pension and insurance "what if" scenarios to assist with financial planning. CWA allows employees to view their Pension and Insurance Benefits Statement, their Statement of Earnings(Pay Stub), and request changes to their Voluntary Deductions. Employees can also use the Pension Benefits Calculator, the Service Buyback Estimator, the Retirement Package, the Pension Portability Package, the Service Buyback Package and the Public Service Health Care Plan(PSHCP) Web Application to help them make important pension and insurance related decisions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de systèmes
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
  • Informatique
  • Fonction publique
OBS

Les AWR [Applications Web de la rémunération] sont un ensemble d’applications en libre-service sur la paye, les pensions et les assurances qui permettent aux employés de surveiller et de gérer leurs renseignements personnels en matière de rémunération, de même que de calculer leur paye, leurs pensions et leurs assurances en fonction de scénarios hypothétiques, afin de les aider à mieux planifier leurs finances. Les AWR permettent aux employés de consulter leur relevé de pensions et de prestations d’assurance et leurs états des gains (talons de paye), et d’apporter des modifications à leurs retenues volontaires. En outre, le Calculateur de pension de retraite, l’Estimateur du rachat de service, l’application Web du Régime de soins de santé de la fonction publique ainsi que les trousses d’information sur la retraite, sur la transférabilité des pensions et le rachat de service peuvent aider les employés à prendre des décisions importantes en ce qui concerne leurs pensions et leurs assurances.

Spanish

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Record 90 2015-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Estates (common law)
DEF

In most states, a widow may either take her share under her husband's will or waive his will and claim her statutory share which commonly is an amount equal to what she would receive if he had died intestate.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 91 2015-02-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal System
  • The Legislature (Constitutional Law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
OBS

Though common in writings generally, vagueness raises due-process concerns if legislation does not provide fair notice of what is required, restricted, or prohibited, because enforcement may become arbitrary.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théorie du droit
  • Pouvoir législatif (Droit constitutionnel)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
DEF

Situation d’incertitude, concernant les règles juridiques précises qui doivent s’appliquer dans un certain cas.

CONT

[La] coutume est l'exemple-type du «flou juridique» [...] c'est-à-dire de ces concepts qui, derrière certaines formules universelles, demeurent indéterminés ou sous-déterminés dans leur contenu.

Spanish

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Record 92 2014-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
OBS

For two centuries socialist critics of the present order have asserted that labor has the right to the full product of society. What price the efficiency of marginal-product distribution if it gives a sizable fraction of the total product to property owners? This, they [the socialist critics] asserted, represents "exploitation" of labor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi

Spanish

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Record 93 2014-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
CONT

[A social media] submitted that if there is a consistent way to count pages for both the numerator and the denominator of the page impression ratio that is different from what is currently being used(counting full pages), it could be used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
DEF

Pour ce qui est de compter le nombre de consultations de pages, tant pour le numérateur que le dénominateur du rapport de consultations de pages, [un média social] a fait valoir que s’il existe une façon uniforme de le faire autre que celle utilisée actuellement (dénombrement des pages entières), elle devrait être privilégiée.

Spanish

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Record 94 2014-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Sociology of Work
CONT

Generally, staff know more than auditors about what is really going on. Yet most corporate whistleblowers are given little or no protection if they choose to challenge dishonest management. For this and other good reasons, it's unlikely that a staff member would ever approach the board directly with an ethical concern about senior management, compromising the board's ability to supervise management.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Sociologie du travail
CONT

Il [le chef des affaires juridiques] surveille la conformité à la politique en consultation avec la haute direction et veille à ce que la haute direction et le conseil d'administration reçoivent des rapports réguliers sur les préoccupations d'ordre éthique et les enquêtes sur l'éthique.

Spanish

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Record 95 2014-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rights and Freedoms
  • Sociology of Human Relations
CONT

The discrimination is frequently practised in a very subtle manner. Overt discrimination is rare. Rather, it is the Tribunal' s task to consider all of the circumstances to determine if there is what is described in the Basi case as the "subtle scent of discrimination. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits et libertés
  • Sociologie des relations humaines
CONT

La discrimination se pratique souvent de manière subtile. Rares sont les cas de discrimination pratiqués ouvertement. Il appartient donc au Tribunal de tenir compte de toutes les circonstances pour établir s'il existe ce qui a été décrit comme «de subtiles odeurs de discrimination».

Spanish

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Record 96 2014-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Jewellery
  • Biometrics
DEF

Ornaments, most usually spectacles and lorgnettes which are sometimes embellished.

CONT

The issuing State shall decide to what extent it permits facial ornaments to appear in stored(and displayed) portraits. In general, if such ornaments are permanently worn, they should appear in the stored image.

OBS

In English a difference is to be made between facial ornaments and ear ornaments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
  • Biométrie
DEF

Bijoux qui, placés, accrochés et même incrustés sur le visage, contribuent à sa parure particulièrement en Orient, l'occident féminin ayant préféré les fards et les mouches.

CONT

L’État émetteur doit décider dans quelle mesure il permet que des ornements faciaux apparaissent dans les portraits stockés (ou affichés). En général, si de tels ornements sont portés de façon permanente, ils devraient apparaître dans l’image stockée.

OBS

Les boucles d'oreille sont considérées comme faisant partie des ornements de visage dans le découpage que fait la langue française.

Spanish

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Record 97 2014-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
  • Investment
DEF

A percentage rate of change calculated by comparing the data for a quarter with the data for the previous quarter and then compounding this figure at an annual rate to show what growth would be if it were to continue at the same rate, from one quarter to the next, for a whole year.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Taux de croissance calculé en comparant les données d'un trimestre à celles du trimestre précédent, puis ramené sur une base annuelle comme si la croissance devait se poursuivre d'un trimestre à l'autre au même rythme durant une année entière.

Spanish

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Record 98 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation.... The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval... In a single interval, team members are placed one arm length apart from each other.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 99 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation.... The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval... In a double-arm interval, the team members are spaced two arm lengths apart [from each other].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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Record 100 2014-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
  • Emergency Management
CONT

The search leader [of a disaster site] will determine if the teams will walk the area in an open-or a closed-line formation. The open-line formation is utilized in large areas where visibility is good. The search team members walk the site in straight lines in what is referred to as a single-or double-arm interval...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
  • Gestion des urgences

Spanish

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