Vocabulary for distribution of wealth
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libbygibson on February 24, 2012
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French | English |
|---|---|
 l'économie (f) | economy |
| le commerce | trade |
| le secteur primaire | primary sector |
| le secteur secondaire | secondary sector (manufacturing) |
| le secteur tertiaire | tertiary sector (sevices) |
| l'aide (f) | aid |
| la dette | debt |
| les créances (f) | debt |
| la croissance | growth |
| la subvention | grant, subsidy |
| les biens (m) | goods |
| les marchandises (f) | goods |
| l'expert (m) | expert |
| l'expert-conseil (m) | consultant |
| l'ingénieur (m) | engineer |
| l'augmentation (f) | increase |
| la hausse | increase |
| le taux de natalité | birth rate |
| le taux de mortalité | death rate |
| la dénatalité | decrease in birth rate |
| l'espérance de vie (f) | life expectancy |
| le déclin | decline |
| la diminution | decrease |
| l'alimentation (f) | diet |
| la nourriture | food, diet |
| la pauvreté | poverty |
| la misère | poverty, hardship |
| la privation | hardship, deprivation |
| la détresse | distress |
| le manque | lack |
| le soutien | support |
| l'outil (m) | tool |
| l'analphabétisme (m) | illiteracy |
| l'état d'urgence | state of emergency |
| le niveau de vie | standard of living |
| la qualité de la vie | quality of life |
| la planification des naissances | family planning |
| le planning familial | family planning |
| la tendance | trend |
| annuler | to cancel |
| devoir | to owe |
| augmenter | to increase |
| diminuer | to decrease |
| se nourrir de | to live on |
| manquer | to lack |
| contaminer | to contaminate |
| soutenir | to support |
| améliorer | to improve |
| éradiquer | to eradicate |
| supprimer | to suppress, eradicate |
| souffrir | to suffer |
| haut | high |
| élevé | high, raised |
| bas, basse | low |
| dans le dénuement | destitute |
| pauvre | poor |
| misérable | wretched, destitute |
| faible | weak |
| répandu | widespread |
| agricole | agricultural |
| l'insufficance (f) | lack, insufficiency |
| la carence | deficiency |
| les inondations (f) | floods |
| la sécheresse | drought |
| la faim | hunger |
| la famine | famine |
| le désert | desert |
| la moisson | harvest |
| la récolte | crop |
| l'épidemie (f) | epidemic |
| la fièvre | fever |
| le choléra | cholera |
| épidémique | epidemic (adj) |
| endémique | endemic |
| sans scrupules | unscrupulous |
| illettré | illiterate |
| analphabète | illiterate |
| insuffisant | insufficient |
| affligé | distressed |
| privé de | deprived of |
| soutenu | supported |
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