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Meaning: [procurement in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/procurement/). - Telle est précisément le but des **achats** publics avant commercialisation. That is where the whole mission of pre-commercial **procurement** comes in. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1204667) - La société Heungjin a été associée à la KOMID et, en particulier, à son service des **achats**. Heungjin has been associated with KOMID, and, more specifically, KOMID's **procurement** office. ([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 2776242) - Chaîne d ' approvisionnement/ **achats**/ logistique Supply chain/ **procurement**/ logistics ([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 27117163) - Dans mon pays, la Lituanie, le prix d'**achat** du lait a augmenté de 40 % en 2007. In my country, Lithuania, the milk **procurement** price increased by 40% in 2007. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1049290) - Passation de marchés, **achats** publics avant commercialisation et marchés publics de solutions innovantes **Procurement**, pre-commercial procurement and public procurement of innovative solutions ([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 3060221) ## purchase Used about 21 491 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 176 · UN documents ≈ 12 296). Forms: purchase, purchases, purchasing. Meaning: [purchase in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/purchase/). - Où sont mes **achats** ? Where are my **purchases**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#13634633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13634633) [\#13634616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13634616)) - Le tableau de maître, la peinture de David dont il avait proposé l'**achat** à M. Leblanc, n'était, le lecteur l'a deviné, autre chose que l'enseigne de sa gargote, peinte, on s'en souvient, par lui-même, seul débris qu'il eût conservé de son naufrage de Montfermeil. The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed that M. Leblanc should **purchase**, was nothing else, as the reader has divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at Montfermeil. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17435) - Ces **achats** seront notamment transfrontaliers. Some of these **purchases** will be cross-border. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584765) - CONDITIONS D'**ACHAT** DES BETTERAVES **PURCHASE** TERMS FOR BEET ([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 950823) - Pouvoir d ' **achat** des exportations **Purchasing** power of exports ([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 5027658) ## equipment Used about 6 487 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 19 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 405 · UN documents ≈ 5 063). Meaning: [equipment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/equipment/). - Peut-être pourrions-nous engager une réflexion sur les possibilités d'organiser des groupements d'**achats**. Perhaps consideration could be given to how this might be done and to how resources can be pooled in acquiring **equipment**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 310243) - Dépenses relatives aux **achats** d’équipements et de mobilier à Luxembourg Expenditure for **equipment** and furniture in Luxembourg ([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 5056514) - **Achat** de mobilier et de matériel Acquisition of furniture and **equipment** ([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 23032389) - c) **Achats** de biens tels que les véhicules et le matériel de communication; (c) procuring goods, such as vehicles and communication **equipment**; ([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 20677272) - Dépenses relatives aux **achats** d’équipements et de services liés aux technologies de l’information et de la communication du domaine politique «Énergie» Expenditure related to information and communication technology **equipment** and services of the ‘Energy’ policy area ([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 5057037) ## buying Used about 1 144 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 112 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 022). - L'**achat** de copies pirates est illégal. **Buying** pirated copies is illegal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10360250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10360250) [\#10976075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10976075)) - pour les charpentiers, les manœuvres et les maçons, pour les **achats** de bois et de pierres de taille nécessaires aux réparations de la maison. to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for **buying** timber and cut stone to repair the house. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 22:6) - Les seuls **achats** d'intervention auraient un coût budgétaire de l'ordre de trois milliards d'euros". Intervention **buying** alone would have a budgetary cost of EUR 3 billion. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 162383) - de mettre fin aux **achats** à l'intervention à prix fixe; to close intervention **buying**-in at fixed price; ([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 1801573) - Je suis intéressé par l'**achat** d'un de ceux-ci. I'm interested in **buying** one of those. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3819750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3819750) [\#8422022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8422022)) ## services Used about 742 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 19 · UN documents ≈ 723). Meaning: [services in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/services/). - Nous devons suivre l'exemple des États-Unis et donner plus de poids aux **achats** publics de services de recherche et de développement. We need to follow the example of the US and focus more on procuring research and development **services**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1206235) - 2004/31 Rapport du Bureau des services d ' **achats** interorganisations pour l ' exercice biennal 2004/31 Report of the Inter-Agency Support **Services** Office for the biennium 2002-2003 ([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 13643356) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je ne peux pas me permettre l'**achat** d'une nouvelle voiture. I can't afford to buy a new car. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by autuno and CK · checked, community translation · [\#249932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249932) [\#6291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6291)) - Je ne veux pas d'un foutu bon d'**achat**. Donnez-moi seulement du liquide ! I don't want a bloody voucher. Just give me cash! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and nickyeow · checked, community translation · [\#1111118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1111118) [\#9854028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9854028)) - Actuellement le pouvoir d'**achat** de dix dollars est inférieur à celui de cinq dollars il y a trois ans. Now ten dollars buys less than five dollars did three years ago. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#241791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241791) [\#5483790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5483790)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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