Sigles et expressions utiles pour la CR aux concours
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Sigles utiles
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International
- a UFO: an Unidentified Flying Object: un OVNI
- NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization: OTAN
- the EU: European Union: UE
- the EEC: European Economic Community: CEE
- AIDS: acquired immune deficiency syndrome: usage: an AIDS patient: SIDA
- HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus: usage: he/she is HIV positive: séropositif
- MS: multiple sclerosis: usage: an MS sufferer: sclérose en plaques
- an NGO: non-governmental organization: ONG
Africa
- the ANC (in South Africa): African National Congress
UK
- the BNP : the British National Party
- a GP (UK): general practitioner
- a MMR vaccine :a vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella
- MOT (UK): Ministry of Transport
- MPs (UK): Member of Parliament
- the MOT test (UK): Ministry of Transport test (verifies that cars are roadworthy apparently)
- the NHS (UK): National Health Service
- the NT: National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or National Beauty
- the RAF (UK) Royal Air Force
- the RSPCA (UK): Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: SPCA (US)
- the TUC (UK): Trades Union Congress
US
- the AARP (US): American Association of Retired Persons (powerful lobby)
- the AFL/CIO (US): American Federation of Labor / Congress of Industrial Organizations (two labor organizations that joined forces in 1955)
- a CPA (US): certified public accountant (expert comptable)
- DMV (US): Department of Motor Vehicles
- FDA (US): Food and Drug Administration
- the NAACP (US): National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (website)
- the NFL (US): National Football League?! (National Labor Federation = NATLFED)
- NRA (US): National Rifle Association
- SEC (US): Securities and Exchange Commission (gendarme de la bourse) Cf. AMF autorité des marchés boursiers?
Hot at the moment
- SAHD: stay at home Dad
- SAHM: stay at home Mom
Expressions à comprendre et à savoir expliquer
- A-levels
- Broadway (in New York)
- Capitol Hill
- Comprehensive ( for a school)
- D-day
- Docklands (in London)
- Downing Street
- Fleet Street
- further education
- He got an ‘F’ (he failed)
- higher education
- Oxbridge
- The Big Three (US): the big three automakers? (Ford, Chrysler, GM)
- the City (London)
- the East End (in London)
- the Home Counties
- the Ivy League (US)
- the M4
- the South Bank (in London)
- Wall Street
- the West End (in London)
- the White House
- Westminster
- Whitehall