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PRECAIRE [27 records]

Record 1 2024-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
  • Social Problems
OBS

... Individuals are marginally employed when they are unable to obtain and maintain employment to sustain themselves and their families and have worked less than an average of 20 hours per week during the past 12 months ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
  • Problèmes sociaux

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

shack: an item in the "Structures" class of the "Built Environment Objects" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

cabane précaire : objet de la classe «Constructions» de la catégorie «Éléments du bâtiment».

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Arts, Recreation and Sports
  • Corporate Economics
OBS

The Limited Support to Endangered Arts Organizations component [of the Canada Cultural Investment Fund] supports those rare instances where a professional arts organization faces the prospect of closure but there is a high degree of support for its continuation and a viable business/restructuring plan. Assistance through this component can enable an arts organization to restructure, so it can continue to contribute to the community it is serving.

OBS

Canadian Heritage.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Arts, loisirs et sports
  • Économie de l'entreprise
OBS

Ce volet [du Fonds du Canada pour l'investissement en culture] a été conçu pour les rares occasions où un organisme voué aux arts professionnels fait face à une éventuelle fermeture mais bénéficie d'un degré de soutien élevé pour la poursuite de ses activités et possède un plan d'affaires ou de restructuration viable. L'aide accessible au moyen de ce volet permet à un organisme à vocation artistique de se restructurer afin qu'il puisse continuer à s'investir dans la communauté qu'il dessert.

OBS

Patrimoine canadien.

Spanish

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Record 4 2013-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Property Law (civil law)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

Detention of property by someone other than the owner or possessor on behalf of or with permission of the owner or possessor.

CONT

A lessee has precarious possession of the leased property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (droit civil)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
DEF

Expression utilisée parfois pour désigner la simple détention d'un bien.

Spanish

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Record 5 2013-04-22

English

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

A term loosely applied to the occupation of real property by one person with the consent of the owner or the person entitled to possession, for example, occupation of premises by a licensee. (Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 937).

French

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

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

Spanish

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Record 6 2013-04-22

English

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

Enjoyment, the exercise of a right. It is to a right what possession is to a corporeal thing, and it is therefore divisible, like possession, into simple, rightful, permissive, adverse, etc. (Jowitt, p. 702)

French

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

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2013-04-22

English

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

A use of premises which is not hostile or adverse to the owner. The use of premises by express or implied permission or license granted by the owner. The use of the premises of another with his consent or sufferance. (Ballentine's, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 937).

French

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

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

Spanish

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Record 8 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prefabrication
  • Construction Site Organization
CONT

The new design methods will also radically change the handling of drawings. All the information required can be collected from the data base. As information is stored in one place only and is automatically transferred without manual intervention, it is possible to achieve the target of zero errors. The "scale-less site" has changed the site structure and procedures so that they fit into an efficient design process. 3-D design permits the correct amounts of building materials to be delivered in the exact form to the site or site factory for efficient assembly. We have obtained an industrialised process that is characterised by: Better working conditions; Ecological building; Functionally correct buildings; Quality; Radically shorter design times; Lower costs.

CONT

... on-site factories for prefabricated multiple dwellings have begun to be built in the United States.

OBS

... there are indications of a breakthrough in apartment-house prefabrication in the United States through the building of a plant on the site for the production of standardized parts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préfabrication
  • Organisation des chantiers
CONT

Atelier forain. Les moules utilisés dans un tel atelier seront réemployés ultérieurement sur un autre site, la distance entre les deux emplacements étant telle qu'il est plus économique de déplacer les moules que de transporter les éléments préfabriqués.

CONT

Atelier précaire. Il s'agit d'un atelier de préfabrication destiné à disparaître après l'achèvement de l'ouvrage pour lequel il est installé [...] La préfabrication se fait alors le plus souvent au pied même du bâtiment [...]

OBS

Forain. Qualifie un chantier de fabrication de blocs ou d'éléments préfabriqués, installé provisoirement sur le site d'une opération de construction ou de travaux publics.

Spanish

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Record 9 2009-08-18

English

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

Employment which is casual and generally not the subject of a proper contract or governed by any pay or social protection regulations.

OBS

"Short-term employment" is sometimes used as a synonym of "unstable employment".

French

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

Spanish

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

Trabajo que no se beneficia de las garantías de estabilidad.

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Record 10 2006-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Relations
  • Urban Sociology
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

Indeed much of the square was tenanted with settlers of this class, who established a law of possession among themselves. Many of them were earnest workers, but poor in purse. They knew the land was not their own, but toiled on and hazarded the result. In many cases excellent farms were developed by this squatter community, and when the town was set off from Brownyule they were specially enfranchised by the creating act.

CONT

After describing the plight of [a woman] and her family, moving from squatter settlement to squatter settlement, and eventually living under plastic on the sports field of Wallacedene with the winter rains arriving, [she] wrote: "The case brings home the harsh reality that the Constitution's promise of dignity and equality for all remains for many a distant dream.

CONT

Claudette then moved into the squatter community known as Tent City, located on Toronto's waterfront.

Key term(s)
  • squatters settlement
  • squatters community

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations internationales
  • Sociologie urbaine
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
CONT

Tent City est la première grand colonie de squatters de l'histoire récente de Toronto. Formé en 1998 par un petit groupe de sans-abri sur un site industriel à l'abandon appartenant à Home Depot, ce bidonville a pris de l'ampleur et s'est enrichi de plusieurs maisons construites de toutes pièces à l'aide de matériaux de fortune.

CONT

Lorsqu'une personne tombe malade, que ce soit dans une colonie de squatters en pleine ville ou dans un village pauvre, faut-il établir les priorités en fonction de la transmissibilité ou non de sa maladie?

Key term(s)
  • colonie de squatteurs
  • agglomération de squatteurs
  • campement de squatteurs

Spanish

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Record 11 2004-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
OBS

The Roeher Institute, 1988

Key term(s)
  • Income Insecurity
  • The Disability Income System in Canada

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
OBS

L'Institut Roeher, 1988.

Key term(s)
  • Le revenu précaire
  • Le système de pensions d’invalidité du Canada

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
  • Ecosystems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
  • Écosystèmes

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
  • Ecosistemas
DEF

Concentración provisional de especies migratorias en un área o región determinada.

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Record 13 2001-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 14 1999-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Sciences - General
  • Commercial Fishing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Sciences - Généralités
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

Pêches et Océans Canada. Collection : Rapport technique canadien des sciences halieutiques et aquatiques.

Spanish

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Record 15 1998-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment
DEF

A low-paid job in a fast food restaurant.

OBS

This term is no longer limited only to fast-food restaurants. Also refers to any menial job.

CONT

... a growing proportion of the labor force will drift into so-called McJobs (from McDonald's) in menial service occupations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi
CONT

Ne dites plus «petits boulots»! Ces emplois vont changer votre vie et permettre à d'autres de gagner la leur. Gardes d'enfants, pompistes, livreurs, aides personnelles en tout genre : en réhabilitant des travaux jugés subalternes et en inventant de nouveaux services, on peut créer 200 000 emplois.

Spanish

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Record 16 1997-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
  • Government Accounting
OBS

Programs with low priorities that could be ended anytime.

Key term(s)
  • soft money

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Comptabilité publique
OBS

Soft money est un terme qui devient de plus en plus à la mode pour qualifier des programmes non prioritaires de durée non garantie.

Spanish

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Record 17 1997-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inventory and Material Management
OBS

Terms and equivalent used in the 1994 version of the Supply Manual produced by Public Works and Government Services Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des stocks et du matériel
OBS

Terme et équivalent provenant de la version 1994 du Guide des approvisionnements, édition non paginée, de Travaux publics et services gouvernementaux Canada.

Spanish

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Record 18 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Source(s) : Ford, [1988] 2 R.C.S. [Recueil des arrêts de la Cour suprême du Canada] 712, 758.

Spanish

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Record 19 1995-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)

French

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

Spanish

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Record 20 1993-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 21 1993-04-01

English

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

(Precarious:) dependent upon uncertain premises. (Webster's, 1976).

French

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

Terme de soutien.

OBS

À distinguer de : «defective title, bad title, apparent title, colourable title».

OBS

Terme qui présente un complément d'information utile ou un apparentement avec le terme : «title».

OBS

Extrait du Vocabulaire bilingue de la Common Law - Droit des biens, tome 2 (terminologie française normalisée dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles.

Spanish

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Record 22 1987-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 23 1986-10-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Service
  • Personnel Management (General)
CONT

An indeterminate employee who has received a letter notifying him/her affected (vulnerable) status, and who decides to resign the Public Service of Canada, may, at any time up to the ten working days prior to the expiry of the affected (vulnerable) period, provide a formal letter of resignation from the federal Public Service.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonction publique
  • Gestion du personnel (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 24 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole

Spanish

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Record 25 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Proverbs and Maxims

French

Domaine(s)
  • Proverbes et dictons

Spanish

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Record 26 1976-06-19

English

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

French

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

Spanish

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Record 27 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour and Employment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Travail et emploi

Spanish

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