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Record 1 2016-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Zoology
Universal entry(ies)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Zoologie
Entrée(s) universelle(s)

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Laws and Regulations
Key term(s)
  • Act to amend the Income Tax Act and to establish the Employment Tax Credit Program
  • Act to amend the Income Tax Act and to establish the Employment Tax Credit Programme
  • An Act to amend the Income Tax Act and to establish the Employment Tax Credit Programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de lois et de règlements

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité
OBS

Utilisation d'une arme dans un champ de tir.

Spanish

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Record 4 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Cables

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles électriques

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Automatic Control Engineering
  • Office Machinery
  • Control Instrumentation (Mechanical Components)
DEF

An instrument that continuously measures the value of a variable quantity or condition and then automatically acts on the controlled equipment to correct any deviation from a desired preset value.

PHR

multistep controll

French

Domaine(s)
  • Automatique
  • Mécanographie
  • Dispositifs de commande (Composants mécaniques)
DEF

Unité de calcul utilisée pour la saisie intensive des données en milieu centralisé [...] permettant d'effectuer l'enregistrement, la vérification et la recherche de données.

CONT

D'une façon tout à fait générale, un système peut se décomposer en deux éléments qui coopèrent : l'un est dit partie opérative et l'autre partie commande. Par exemple, dans une machine-outil à commande numérique, la partie opérative est la machine-outil proprement dite et la partie commande l'équipement de commande numérique [...]

CONT

contrôleur multipas

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ingeniería de control automático
  • Máquinas de oficina
  • Dispositivos de mando (Componentes mecánicos)
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Record 6 2013-08-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
CONT

When audience appear to him for banking admonition he can accommodate them with the hidden secrets and adverse affidavit why the government keeps them as such.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
CONT

[...] il existe une preuve par affidavit contradictoire quant à l'épuisement des procédures d'appel pour les élections.

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remuneration (Personnel Management)
DEF

The remainder of a person's gross salary or wages after deductions usually at the source of salary payment of such items as income tax withholding, retirement insurance payments, and union dues.

OBS

actual wage: term used synonymously with real wages [and] also used to define ... take-home pay ... The term offers little in usefulness and might well be set aside in favor of the more clearly understood terms "real wages" ... or "take-home pay".

OBS

actual wage: term most often used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • net wage
  • actual wages

French

Domaine(s)
  • Rémunération (Gestion du personnel)
DEF

Somme d'argent reçue effectivement par un salarié après que son employeur a déduit, de son salaire brut, les retenues ou précomptes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Remuneración (Gestión del personal)
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Record 8 1993-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Improvement and Fertilizer Management
  • Plant and Crop Production

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumure et amélioration du sol
  • Cultures (Agriculture)

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

A plant of the family Orchidaceae.

Key term(s)
  • vanilla scented bog orchid
  • straw coloured bog orchid
  • straw-colored bog orchid
  • straw colored bog orchid

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
OBS

Plante de la famille des Orchidaceae.

Spanish

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Record 10 1996-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
OBS

Customs Border Services Branch, Revenue Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
OBS

Direction générale des services frontaliers des Douanes, Revenu Canada.

Spanish

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