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# orientations — French to English

How French *orientations* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: orientations (50 717). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 4 143 · legal and administrative 5 906 · UN documents 40 666.

## guidance

Used about 18 804 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 2 707 · UN documents ≈ 16 097). Meaning: [guidance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/guidance/).

- **Orientations** non contraignantes sur la mise en œuvre
  Non-binding **guidance** on implementation
  ([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 3976899)

- XVIII. **ORIENTATIONS** ADOPTÉES PAR CONSENSUS
  **GUIDANCE**, BY CONSENSUS DECISION, ON THOSE
  ([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 19151950)

- Calculé selon les **orientations** de l'OCDE pour la réalisation des tests objectifs.
  Calculated as described in the OECD **guidance** on objective tests.
  ([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 2391926)

- WT/MIN/11/W/2 Éléments pour des **orientations** politiques
  WT/MIN/11/W/2 Elements for political **guidance**
  ([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 25554794)

- L'Agence devrait fournir des **orientations** aux fins de fixer les facteurs M.
  **Guidance** should be provided by the Agency for the purpose of setting the M-factors.
  ([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 1634597)

## guidelines

Used about 11 415 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 625 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 707 · UN documents ≈ 5 083).

- Il adopte des **orientations** d'action.
  The European Council provides **guidelines** for action.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1102764)

- des **orientations** techniques relatives aux inspections prévues à l'article 17;
  technical **guidelines** for inspections in accordance with Article 17;
  ([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 885222)

- Plan adopté et recommandations/**orientations** disponibles
  Road map adopted and recommendations/**guidelines** available.
  ([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 28088923)

- Le nombre d'**orientations** devrait si possible être réduit.
  If possible, the **guidelines** should be reduced in number.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 370880)

- **Orientations** communautaires sur les aides d’État au transport maritime de 2004 \[49\].
  Community **guidelines** on State aid to maritime transport 2004 \[49\].
  ([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 2509046)

## directions

Used about 7 627 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 7 625).

- Le chef d’état-major de l’armée de Terre coordonne les grandes **orientations** stratégiques des forces terrestres françaises.
  The Chief of Staff of the French Army coordinates the major strategic **directions** of the land forces.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362875) [\#13362872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362872))

- Application et **orientations** futures
  Implementation and Future **Directions**
  ([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 13471779)

- À titre d'information, le sous-comité du marketing a prévu une conférence téléphonique pour établir les objectifs et les **orientations** pour 1998.
  For your information, the marketing subcommittee is scheduling a phone conference to establish objectives and **directions** for 1998.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#32997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32997) [\#10781346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781346))

- Nouvelles **orientations** et nouveaux besoins : un portefeuille en évolution
  New **directions** and new demands: a changing portfolio
  ([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 1921238)

- Nouvelles **orientations** et nouveaux besoins : le rôle changeant du système des Nations Unies
  New **directions** and new demands: a changing portfolio
  ([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 1455368)

## policy

Used about 1 867 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 173 · UN documents ≈ 1 694). Meaning: [policy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/policy/).

- Nous voulons exercer un droit de codécision sur les grandes **orientations** des politiques.
  We want the right of codecision on the broad outlines of **policy**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 816284)

- On définit actuellement des **orientations** à plus long terme au sujet des personnes déplacées.
  A longer-term **policy** framework on internally displaced persons is being developed.
  ([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 19499251)

- De manière globale, il est demandé la reconduction, dans ses **orientations** générales, de la politique de l'Union dans le domaine de la pêche.
  Review of the main areas of the Union' s fisheries **policy** is called for throughout.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 142365)

- Sur le plan des **orientations**, le Conseil est totalement indépendant du Gouvernement et ne doit rendre compte qu &apos; à son propre comité exécutif et à ses membres.
  It is completely independent of Government on **policy** issues, answerable only to its own elected executive committee and members.
  ([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 6050863)

## strategic

Used about 847 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 847). Meaning: [strategic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/strategic/).

- Le nouveau plan stratégique définira la vision stratégique, les **orientations** de fond et les priorités institutionnelles pour l &apos; avenir, qui serviront de base pour les prochaines activités de programmation.
  The new **strategic** plan will set the strategic vision, substantive orientation and organizational priorities for the future, forming the basis for future programming activities.
  ([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 26150734)

## More sentences

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

- Mais de nombreux travaux doivent encore être menés à bien pour mettre en oeuvre les **orientations** et les décisions prises lors du Conseil européen.
  Much work, however, remains to be done before the objectives and decisions adopted by the European Council can be fully achieved and implemented.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 663478)

- Mais la contradiction est totale entre ces **orientations** positives et la proposition de réforme de l'OCM grandes cultures qui nous est soumise.
  However, there is a total contradiction between those positive steps and the proposal for the reform of the COM in cereals which has been submitted to us.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1949131)

- Ce processus de réflexion a, selon moi, dégagé deux **orientations** claires.
  In my view, this process of reflection has resulted in two distinct approaches.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1922322)

## Grammar

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