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# policy — English to French

How English *policy* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [policy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/policy/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: policies (282 146), policy (503 516). By style: everyday 74 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 88 430 · legal and administrative 42 133 · UN documents 655 024.

## politique

Used about 543 478 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 59 · parliamentary ≈ 86 588 · legal and administrative ≈ 33 794 · UN documents ≈ 423 036). Forms: politique, politiques.

- That's not our **policy**.
  Ce n'est pas notre **politique**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Thomz · checked, community translation · [\#5769794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5769794) [\#5776628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5776628))

- The real aim of the **policy** is social cohesion.
  Le véritable objectif de la **politique**, c'est la cohésion sociale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1723157)

- Oversight of remuneration **policies**
  Supervision des **politiques** de rémunération
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2853984)

- III. UNDP oversight **policy**
  III. **Politique** du PNUD en matière de contrôles
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17101090)

- It's a questionable **policy**.
  C'est une **politique** discutable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3142792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3142792) [\#5317097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5317097))

## mesures

Used about 55 463 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 878 · UN documents ≈ 54 585).

- **policies** to foster entrepreneurship,
  des **mesures** visant à favoriser l’entrepreneuriat,
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4467578)

- Since the first oil price shock in 1973, **policies** have been implemented in Denmark to reduce energy consumption.
  6. Depuis le premier choc pétrolier de 1973, le Danemark a pris des **mesures** pour réduire la consommation d &apos; énergie.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4100766)

- assess the economic situation and prospects of Jordan, as well as progress made in implementing the **policy** measures referred to in Article 3(1);
  évalue la situation et les perspectives économiques de la Jordanie, ainsi que les progrès accomplis dans la mise en œuvre des **mesures** visées à l'article 3, paragraphe 1;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3888820)

- **Policy** measures targeting &quot; unborn &quot; and/or &quot; infant &quot; innovative industries or technologies
  **Mesures** d &apos; orientation s &apos; adressant à des industries ou des technologies innovantes &lt; &lt; à naître &gt; &gt; ou &lt; &lt; naissantes &gt; &gt;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17237518)

- That was particularly important for agricultural products, which were affected by unfair domestic **policies** in importing countries.
  C &apos; était particulièrement important pour les produits agricoles, qui étaient pénalisés par des **mesures** déloyales dans les pays importateurs.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18030921)

## More sentences

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

- He doesn't have a health insurance **policy**.
  Il n'a pas de police d'assurance maladie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7942316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7942316) [\#8571226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571226))

- Honesty is the best **policy**.
  L'honnêteté est la meilleure des stratégies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and trotter · checked, community translation · [\#271679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271679) [\#182098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/182098))

- In my room, a no-smoking **policy** is in effect.
  Dans ma chambre, une interdiction de fumer est en vigueur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by weirdie and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11559640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11559640) [\#1227448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1227448))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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