This glossary has been made to help myself, but also students in my situation, trying to learn some new vocabulary with the right pronunciation and so they also have the equivalent in French so that they can use both words, depending on the language they are using.
a chartered accountant (CA)
Noun
A chartered accountant (CA) is an international accounting designation granted to accounting professionals in many countries around the world, aside from the United States. In the United States, the equivalent to the CA designation is a certified public accountant (CPA).
Example: “A chartered accountant needs to have successfully completed an academic postgraduate programme and upon graduation have worked under a mentoring programme for a period of no lеѕѕ than three years”
fr: un expert-comptable
a commercial traveller
Noun
a person who travels to different places trying to persuade people to buy their company's products or services.
Example: Her father was a commercial traveller, an agent for building materials.
fr: un représentant
a consultant
Noun
a person who provides expert advice professionally.
Example: "she is currently a self-employed business consultant"
fr: un conseiller
a consumer
Noun
a person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
Example: "understanding what motivates consumers is more crucial than ever"
fr: un consommateur
a creditor
Noun
a person or company to whom money is owing.
Example: "he sold his Ferraris to pay off his creditors"
fr: un créancier
a customer
Noun
a person who buys goods or services from a shop or business.
Example: "Mr Harrison was a regular customer at the Golden Lion"
fr: un client
a salesperson
Noun
a person whose job is to sell a product or service in a given territory, in a store, or by telephone
Example: "His mother is a saleswoman."
fr: un commercial
an accountant
Noun
a person whose job is to keep, inspect, and analyse financial accounts.
Example: "accountants are responsible for their client's personal and professional information"
fr: un comptable
an auditor
Noun
a person who conducts an audit.
Example: "the company is required to appoint auditors at each general meeting"
fr: un auditeur
an employee
Noun
a person employed for wages or salary, especially at non-executive level.
Example: "the company has over 500 employees"
fr: un employé
an oil slick
Noun
a film or layer of oil floating on an expanse of water.
Example: "There is an oil slick because an accident has caused it to escape from a ship or container."
fr: une marrée noire
attorney
Noun
a person, typically a lawyer, appointed to act for another in business or legal matters.
Example: "he's an attorney who has a practice in San Diego"
fr: un avocat
ban
Verb
officially or legally prohibit (something).
Example: "parking is banned around the harbour in summer"
fr: interdire
break (a law)
Verb
Break the Law means to fail to obey a law; to act contrary to a law.
Example: “Lisa broke the law when she drove the wrong way on a one-way street.”
fr: enfreindre la loi
break in
Verb
force entry to a building.
Example: "would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in"
fr: entrer par effraction
charge
Verb
formally accuse (someone) of something, especially an offence under law.
Example: "they were charged with assault"
fr: être officiellement accusé d’un crime
chemical fertilizers
Noun
The term “chemical fertilizer” refers to any number of synthetic compound substances created specifically to increase crop yield.
Example: "Natural fertilizers get these nutrients from sources like manure, compost, and blood meal. On the other hand, synthetic fertilizers are derived from man-made compounds like ammonium phosphate and potassium sulfate."
fr: engrais chimiques
convict
Noun
a person convicted of and under sentence for a crime.
Example: "a person serving a usually long prison sentence."
fr: un condamné
intensive farming
Verb
a way of producing large amounts of crops, by using chemicals and machines
Example: "The use of intensive farming can damage the environment."
fr: l’élevage intensif
litigate
Verb
take (a claim or a dispute) to a law court.
resort to legal action to settle a matter; be involved in a lawsuit.
Example: "even a claim which is litigated and defended successfully involves high legal costs"
fr: plaider
manslaughter
Noun
the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or in circumstances not amounting to murder.
Example: "the defendant was convicted of manslaughter"
fr: homicide involontaire
misdemeanor
Verb
a non-indictable offence, regarded in the US (and formerly in the UK) as less serious than a felony.
Example: "he pleaded guilty to misdemeanours"
fr: délit
overfishing
Verb
deplete the stock of fish in (a body of water) by excessive fishing.
Example: "this part of the Mediterranean is terribly overfished"
fr: surpêche
overrule
Verb
reject or disallow by exercising one's superior authority.
Example: "Chief Judge Moran overruled the government's objections"
fr: annuler
the greenhouse effect
Noun
the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
Example: "The greenhouse effect is the way in which heat is trapped close to Earth's surface."
fr: l’effet de serre
the groundwater
Noun
water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
Example: "Groundwater is fresh water (from rain or melting ice and snow) that soaks into the soil and is stored in the tiny spaces (pores) between rocks and particles of soil."
fr: la nappe phréatique
the melting of the ice cap
Noun
The melting of the polar ice caps is caused by the overall increase in global temperature, and this melting can have serious consequences for all organisms on Earth. As the polar ice caps melt, sea levels rise and the oceans become less saline.
Example: "Polar ice caps are melting as global warming causes climate change. "
fr: la fonte de la calotte glaciaire
the use of pesticides
Noun
Pesticides are used in agriculture to control weeds, insect infestation and diseases. There are many different types of pesticides; each is meant to be effective against specific pests. Some examples include: Algaecides to kill and/or slowing the growth of algae.
Example: "Pesticides are potentially toxic to humans and can have both acute and chronic health effects."
fr: l’utilisation des pesticides
to endanger
Verb
transitive verb. : to bring into danger or peril. recklessly endangering innocent lives. intransitive verb. : to create a dangerous situation.
Example: "To endanger something or someone means to put them in a situation where they might be harmed or destroyed completely."
fr: mettre en danger
to impact on
Verb
have a strong effect on someone or something.
Example: "high interest rates have impacted on retail spending"
