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# promotion — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: promotion (177 567), promotions (2 245). By style: everyday 35 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 979 · legal and administrative 5 622 · UN documents 170 174.

## promotions

Used about 149 630 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 274 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 509 · UN documents ≈ 141 812). Forms: promotion, promotions.

- I deserve a **promotion**.
  Je mérite une **promotion**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cromwellt and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#3763331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3763331) [\#2338865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2338865))

- Their prosperity is crumbled up behind the scenes, into nice little **promotions**.
  Leur prospérité s'émiette sur la cantonade en bonnes petites **promotions**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1078)

- What do we need expensive **promotions** for?
  Pourquoi avons-nous besoin de **promotions** onéreuses?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1560611)

- Physical distribution and **promotion**
  Distribution physique et **promotion**
  ([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 3782933)

- **Promotions** and transfers of judges
  **Promotions** et transferts des juges
  ([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 22337691)

## droits

Used about 1 873 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 1 773).

- When Europe plays a role on the international stage our policies must therefore include the **promotion** of human rights and democracy.
  Étant donné le rôle que joue l'Europe sur la scène internationale, nos politiques doivent promouvoir les **droits** de l'homme et la démocratie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 944955)

- Export **Promotion** Capital Goods Scheme (‘EPCGS’);
  **droits** préférentiels à l’importation des biens d’équipement («EPCGS»);
  ([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 2208895)

- (b) The work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in the **promotion** of the economic, social and cultural rights of children;
  b) Le travail accompli par le Comité des **droits** de l &apos; enfant pour promouvoir les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels des enfants; ¶
  ([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 9177693)

## More sentences

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

- My **promotion** hangs on his decision.
  Mon avancement dépend de sa décision.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#251216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251216) [\#1104397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1104397))

- The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the **promotion** of fools.
  Les sages hériteront la gloire, Mais les insensés ont la honte en partage.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 3:35)

- - (SK) In almost all European countries there are tough legal measures against holocaust denial and the **promotion** of fascism.
  - (SK) Dans presque tous les pays européens, il existe des dispositions juridiques strictes contre la négation de l'Holocauste et la propagande fasciste.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1176277)

## 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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