strike : grève to be on strike : être en grève to go on strike : faire grève a striker : grèviste Examples: “French railway workers are on strike today for better working conditions” “Strikers have blocked the entrances to the factory and say they will stay until their claims are satisfied” “Some employers in [...]
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black hat (seo) (chapeau noir) : illegal or dishonest ways to get one’s website highly ranked in search engines. The activity of improving rankings is called search engine optimization (SEO) When an internet company uses black hat SEO techniques, they are trying to trick the search engines by over-exploiting the search criteria. A good, honest [...]
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Mailshot (anglais britannique) : mailing A French-speaker would naturally think that when he uses the word ‘mailing’ he is using the same word that an English-speaker would use. This is not the case. ‘Mailing’ for me is an activity – the gerund form of the verb ‘to mail’. It is not possible then (at least [...]
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Utilisez le bouton ‘pause’ pour ralentir la vidéo!! vocabulaire balance sheet (bilan) assets – tangible/intangible (actif) liabilities – short term/long term (passif) profit (bénéfice) profit margin loss (perte) debt gross (brut) net pretax (avant impôts) after tax (après impôts) part one of this series is here: accountancy vocabulary
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redundancy : licenciement (économique) to get made redundant : se faire licencié “The directors have promised that there will be no redundancies, something that the unions have feared” “I’m looking for a job because I was made redundant from my last job”
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taxman : percepteur taxman : le fisc Taxman can be used to describe a person whose job it is to collect taxes, or the tax authorities in general. examples: “I had a phone call from a taxman today. He said we hadn’t paid our tax for 2008″ “If you are dishonest about how much money [...]
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a temp – (temporary worker) : intérimaire, vacataire to temp (verb -regular) : travailler comme intérimaire “When I first came to London, I couldn’t find a permanent job, so I worked as a temp for a few weeks.” “Temping is a good way to get experience before looking for a regular job.” Note also: In [...]
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funding : financement Everyone thought my idea was a good one, but because of the recession, they told me my project would never get the funding. Although mostly a private operation, the committee did receive some government funding
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Warehouse : entrepôt Warehousing : entreposage Warehouseman : manutentionaire The word warehouse is a compound word – ware (goods, stock) and house. Ware is a homophone of wear (porter-vêtements). Hardware is the word used for things used for maintentance and repair. In computers, it is used for the physical parts of a computer, as opposed [...]
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invoice : facture An invoice is a bill that shows goods and services delivered. Sometimes an invoice can also be used as a delivery note (bon de livraison). The action of making and sending invoices is called ‘invoicing’.
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