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Record 1 2000-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Labour Relations
DEF

A procedure once quite widespread in the form of kickbacks or payment of fees for obtaining employment. These payments were in the form of a partial return of wages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Relations du travail
DEF

Versement fait par l'ouvrier à son employeur ou chef d'atelier en vue d'obtenir un emploi ou de le conserver.

Spanish

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Record 2 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aeronautics and Aerospace Industry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aéronautique et aérospatiale
OBS

OACI

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Wind Energy
DEF

A wind that accelerates as it moves downslope because of its low temperature and greater density.

CONT

A fall wind is a larger-scale phenomenon than the individual-slope scale [wind] and is produced by accumulated cold air spilling down a slope or over a mountain range.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique de l'atmosphère
  • Énergie éolienne
DEF

Phénomène de plus grande envergure que le vent de gravité, comme dans le cas d'un mouvement de l'air froid d'un intérieur élevé vers une côte maritime plus chaude.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-07-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parliamentary Language
DEF

One of the fundamental periods into which a Parliament is divided, usually consisting of a number of separate sittings. Sessions are begun by a Speech from the Throne and ended by prorogation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire parlementaire
DEF

Une des périodes de base qui divise une législature et qui comprend normalement plusieurs séances. Les sessions commencent par un discours du Trône et se terminent par une prorogation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje parlamentario
DEF

Uno de los períodos básicos en que se divide una legislatura y que normalmente comprende un número de sesiones. Los períodos de sesiones comienzan por un Discurso del Trono y se terminan por clausura o disolución del Parlamento.

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Record 5 2019-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiography (Medicine)
  • Dentistry
DEF

An extraoral body-section radiography depicting an entire maxilla, or both maxilla and mandible, on a single film.

Key term(s)
  • ortho-pantomography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiographie (Médecine)
  • Dentisterie
CONT

La radiographie panoramique dentaire (orthopantomographie) donne sur une même image l'intégralité des deux maxillaires par rotation du tube radiogène autour de la tête du patient durant quelques secondes.

Key term(s)
  • ortho-pantomographie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiografía (Medicina)
  • Odontología
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Record 6 1996-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archery

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tir à l'arc

Spanish

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Record 7 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
OBS

(économétrie) (conseil conomique, du Canada)

Spanish

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Record 8 2004-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
DEF

Total elasticity of the tax system (built-in elasticity plus elasticity due to discretionary changes in the tax system) [which is] measured by the annual mean growth in receipts divided by the annual mean growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema tributario
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Record 9 1993-11-03

English

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

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inventory and Material Management
  • Production Management
CONT

Receiving accepts the goods, the warehouse returns them to stock, inventory management updates the records...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des stocks et du matériel
  • Gestion de la production
DEF

En gestion des stocks, service chargé de prendre livraison des articles destinés à l'entreposage et d'en vérifier la qualité.

Spanish

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