labour — English to French

How English labour is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 6 translations with example sentences.

What it means: labour in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: labour (187 056), labours (176). By style: everyday 13 · literary 3 · parliamentary 10 967 · legal and administrative 7 085 · UN documents 169 164.

travail

Used about 93 604 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 6 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 804 · UN documents ≈ 84 582). Forms: travail, travaux.

• Labour created man.

  Le travail a créé l'homme.

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• “All our endeavours are like the labours of those babies,” thought he.

  «Nos besognes ressemblent aux travaux de ces mioches,» pensait-il.

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• Labour Market Ministers require the same support.

  Les ministres du travail ont besoin d'un appui de ce type.

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• Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

  Ministère du travail et des affaires sociales

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• World Confederation of Labour

  Confédération mondiale du travail

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travailleurs

Used about 24 914 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 244 · UN documents ≈ 24 670).

• The argument continues about the "white-collar exemption" that exempts specific white-collar workers from the "eight hours per day, 40 hours per week" working hours, as fixed by labour standards legislation.

  La polémique se poursuit quant à « l'exemption des Cols Blancs » qui exempte des travailleurs cols blancs spécifiques du temps de travail « 8 heures par jours, 40 heures semaines » prévu par la loi sur le temps de travail.

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• We are now witnessing the same phenomenon with predictions for movement of labour from the accession countries.

  Nous remarquons aujourd’hui le même phénomène concernant les prédictions de circulation des travailleurs à partir des pays adhérents.

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• There were 800 female labours in these enterprises out of 1559 workers.

  Sur 1 559 travailleurs dans ces entreprises, 800 étaient des femmes.

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• The EU 2020 strategy, economic governance and the budgetary discipline of the IMF and the ECB hold new anti-grassroots, anti-labour measures in store for women.

  Pour les femmes, la stratégie Europe 2020, la gouvernance économique et la discipline budgétaire du FMI et de la BCE préparent de nouvelles mesures antipopulaires et hostiles aux travailleurs.

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• (e) Convention No. 155 concerning labours relations.

  e) Convention de l ' OIT n° 155 concernant la sécurité, la santé des travailleurs et le milieu de travail.

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main

Used about 9 438 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 609 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 542 · UN documents ≈ 5 286).

• This would promote labour-intensive enterprise and employment.

  C'est ainsi que l'on favorisera les entreprises à forte proportion de main-d'oeuvre et l'emploi.

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• Labour cost (EUR/FTE)

  Coût de la main-d’œuvre (en EUR/EPT)

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• So GON has been trying to add more Inspectors to protect the rights of labours working abroad.

  Le gouvernement essaie donc de leur en adjoindre d ' autres pour protéger les droits de la main-d ' œuvre qui travaille à l ' étranger.

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• This hinders international trade and the free movement of capital and labour.

  Cette situation met en péril le commerce international et la libre circulation du capital et de la main-d'œuvre.

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• Average labour costs per employee

  Coût moyen de la main-d'œuvre par salarié

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je

Used about 4 503 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 975 · UN documents ≈ 3 524).

• I'm in labour.

  Je suis en train d’accoucher.

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• However, I am convinced that we will shortly see the fruit of our labours.

  Mais je suis convaincue qu'au cours des prochaines étapes, nous y parviendrons.

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• as the Charter promised they would, then I suspect that the labours of the 1990s will prove fruitless.

  comme la Charte promet qu ' elles le feraient, alors je doute fort que les efforts des années 90 s ' avéreront fructueux.

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• I am in labour.

  Je suis en train d’accoucher.

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• Mr President, 25 years ago I was working here illegally, doing manual labour.

  - Monsieur le Président, il y a 25 ans, je travaillais ici illégalement en tant que travailleur manuel.

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marché

Used about 731 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 731).

• Quite clearly the labour markets also need to have fewer regulations.

  Il est en outre tout à fait évident que le marché de l'emploi a besoin d'un allègement des réglementations.

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• The Labour Government is determined to make the Single Market work for British business.

  Le gouvernement travailliste est déterminé à ce que le Marché unique profite à l'économie britannique.

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• We have already talked about the participation of older people in the labour market.

  Nous avons déjà parlé de la place qui doit revenir sur le marché de l'emploi aux personnes d'un certain âge.

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• The Labour Government is determined to make the Single Market work for British business.

  Le gouvernement travailliste est déterminé à tirer parti du marché intérieur pour les entreprises britanniques.

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• It is therefore necessary to encourage people to enter the labour market, increasing employment levels and economic growth.

  Il faut donc encourager les personnes à entrer sur le marché de l'emploi, augmenter les niveaux d'emploi et la croissance économique.

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œuvre

Used about 148 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 148).

• As mentioned above, the Unpaid R愦灭;amp;D Labour Scheme will be administered and implemented by the Norwegian Research Council.

  Ainsi qu’il a déjà été indiqué, le régime du personnel de R愦灭;amp;D non rémunéré sera géré et mis en œuvre par le conseil norvégien de la recherche.

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More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• My daughter is in labour.

  Ma fille a des contractions.

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• Labour has tried to one-up the Tories on cruelty to trans people, yet it has not benefited them even a smidgen in the polls.

  Le parti travailliste a tenté de surpasser les conservateurs en matière de cruauté envers les personnes trans, mais cela ne leur a pas rapporté le moindre bénéfice dans les sondages.

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• The plantation slave labour system was abolished in the Netherlands in 1863.

  Le système consistant à faire travailler dans les plantations des gens réduits à l'esclavage a été aboli aux Pays-Bas en 1863.

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