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Record 1 2014-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial Accounting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité générale

Spanish

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Record 2 1989-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
OBS

In use at the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
OBS

En usage au ministère des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien.

Spanish

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Record 3 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Photography
OBS

shutter release button or lever mounted on the body of a camera instead of on the actual shutter assembly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Photographie

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
CONT

Competency levels describe the major stages in the development of student competencies, thereby helping teachers to interpret information and situate the student's level of development of a competency as an integral concept, in order to orient learning or draw up a progress report.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie
CONT

Un niveau de compétence est la description de la compétence langagière d'une personne, à l'oral ou à l'écrit, à un moment donné de son apprentissage. Le système des Canadian Language Benchmarks comprend 12 niveaux de compétence répartis en 3 stades de certification : débutant (niveaux 1 à 4), intermédiaire (niveaux 5 à 8) et avancé (niveaux 9 à 12).

Spanish

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Record 5 1995-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Military Titles
OBS

Title and abbreviation officially approved by the Department of National Defence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations militaires diverses
OBS

Titre et abréviation uniformisés par le ministère de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeroindustry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions aéronautiques

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-03-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 8 2008-03-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Municipal Law
CONT

In December 2000, the National Assembly adopted Bill 170 (An Act to reform the municipal territorial organization of the metropolitan regions of Montreal, Quebec and the Outaouais). Under this act, five major municipalities in the areas of Montreal, Longueuil, Quebec City, Lévis and Hull will be created as the result of amalgamations involving some sixty towns and cities (henceforth known as "boroughs").

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit municipal
CONT

L'Assemblée nationale a adopté en décembre 2000 le projet de loi 170 (Loi portant réforme de l'organisation territoriale municipale des régions métropolitaines de Montréal, de Québec et de l'Outaouais). Il prévoit la fusion d'une soixantaine de villes (qui deviendront des «arrondissements») en cinq grandes municipalités dans les régions de Montréal, Longueuil, Québec, Lévis et Hull.

Spanish

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Record 9 2010-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Stock Exchange
DEF

Preferred shares in which the payment of a dividend (usually at a fixed rate) is calculated according to a predetermined formula and not determined by the earnings of the issuer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Bourse
DEF

Actions privilégiées ne donnant pas à leur titulaire le droit de partager, avec les actionnaires ordinaires, la distribution de bénéfices au-delà du montant de dividende prescrit.

OBS

Au Canada, sous l'influance de l'anglais, on emploie souvent abusivement l'expression «action non participante», alors que le mot «participant» se dit plutôt de la personne qui jouit du droit de participation.

Key term(s)
  • action privilégiée non participante

Spanish

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Record 10 2021-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Biology
  • Fish
  • Aquaculture
DEF

A fish egg with a specific gravity greater than that of water, that sinks to the bottom.

OBS

demersal egg; non-buoyant egg: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • demersal eggs
  • non-buoyant eggs

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie marine
  • Poissons
  • Aquaculture
DEF

Œuf de poisson à densité supérieure à celle de l'eau, qui tombe vers le fond.

OBS

œuf démersal : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

OBS

œufs démersaux : pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • œufs démersaux

Spanish

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