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# élargissement — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: élargissement (36 664), élargissements (525). By style: everyday 1 · literary 1 · parliamentary 14 291 · legal and administrative 1 539 · UN documents 21 357.

## enlargement

Used about 21 813 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 13 249 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 221 · UN documents ≈ 7 341). Forms: enlargement, enlargements. Meaning: [enlargement in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enlargement/).

- Les politiciens locaux se sont opposés à l'**élargissement** de l'Union Européenne.
  Local politicians opposed the **enlargement** of the European Union.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2326866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2326866) [\#2329893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329893))

- L’**élargissement** est une question particulière.
  **Enlargement** is one particular issue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 650749)

- PROCESSUS ET STRATÉGIE D’**ÉLARGISSEMENT**
  **ENLARGEMENT** PROCESS AND STRATEGY
  ([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 4131315)

- Cela n &apos; encouragerait pas de tels **élargissements**.
  This would not encourage such **enlargements**.
  ([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 11686411)

- Ces **élargissements** ont toutefois dû être planifiés avec soin.
  However, these **enlargements** had to be well planned.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 895207)

## expansion

Used about 6 973 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 149 · legal and administrative ≈ 151 · UN documents ≈ 6 674). Forms: expansion, expansions. Meaning: [expansion in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/expansion/).

- Enfin, nous prenons note des appels lancés par la résolution en faveur d'un éventuel **élargissement** du mandat de la mission Atalanta.
  Finally, on the scope of the Atalanta mission, we note calls in the resolution for its **expansion** to be considered.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1313617)

- des études de marchés nouveaux, nécessaires à l'**élargissement** des débouchés;
  studies of new markets, necessary for the **expansion** of market outlets;
  ([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 3074347)

- E. **Élargissement** de la composition de la Conférence
  E. **Expansion** of the membership of the Conference
  ([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 29410964)

- l’**élargissement** et le renouvellement du secteur des ouvrages de référence générale et la mise à jour du fonds de bibliothèque,
  the **expansion** and renewal of the general reference section and the updating of the library’s collection,
  ([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 4134952)

- a) L’**élargissement** rapide de la portée du Registre;
  (a) The early **expansion** of the scope of the Register;
  ([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 4561056)

## More sentences

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

- Il fut d'abord étonné de cet **élargissement** subit.
  He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27818)

- Cet **élargissement** de compétences se fait souvent aux dépens des pouvoirs décisionnaires des niveaux inférieurs, où les personnes concernées se voient garantir une influence maximale.
  This increase in competences is often at the expense of decision-making at a lower level, where those affected are guaranteed maximum influence.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1247506)

- À la suite du dernier **élargissement** de l'UE, nous assistons à une diversité encore plus grande des conditions de travail.
  Following the most recent extension to the EU we can see an even greater diversity of work conditions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1016877)

## Grammar

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