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# travailleurs — French to English

How French *travailleurs* 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: travailleurs (114 116). By style: everyday 73 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 14 576 · legal and administrative 6 886 · UN documents 92 575.

## workers

Used about 89 754 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 11 236 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 164 · UN documents ≈ 73 289).

- Les **travailleurs** sont en grève.
  The **workers** are on strike.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#326360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326360) [\#465119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/465119))

- Ceci fit exclamer les **travailleurs**.
  This elicited an exclamation from the **workers**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23998)

- Les dirigeants ont trompé les **travailleurs**.
  The leaders deceived the **workers**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 716775)

- Liberté d'association des **travailleurs**
  Freedom of association for **workers**
  ([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 161507)

- Enfants de **travailleurs** non saoudiens (migrants)
  Children of non-Saudi (migrant) **workers**
  ([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 15213123)

## employees

Used about 12 149 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 291 · UN documents ≈ 9 643). Forms: employed, employees, employers.

- Les **travailleurs** ont enduré sept années de mise en œuvre de cette stratégie.
  **Employees** have endured seven years of implementation of this strategy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1038080)

- En 2005, HSW employait environ 2400 **travailleurs**, alors qu’en 2002, ils étaient encore 3173.
  In 2005 HSW had about 2400 **employees**, down from 3173 in 2002.
  ([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 1985387)

- **Travailleurs** indépendants (% de l &apos; emploi total)
  Self-**employed** (% of total employment)
  ([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 15393786)

- Il ne s’agit pas de faire de la flexibilité à sens unique, mais d’appliquer les droits des **travailleurs**.
  This is not just about having flexibility as a one-way street, but of bringing in the rights of **employees**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 672724)

- le rapport entre le nombre total de participants à des cours de FPC et le nombre total de **travailleurs**,
  Ratio of the total number of participants in CVT courses to the total number of persons **employed**.
  ([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 937372)

## labour

Used about 751 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 607 · legal and administrative ≈ 143). Meaning: [labour in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/labour/).

- La libre circulation des capitaux et des marchandises est une aberration économique si elle ne s’accompagne pas d’une libre circulation comparable pour les services et les **travailleurs**.
  Free movement of goods and capital without similarly free movement of services and **labour** is economic nonsense.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 657006)

- Principales conventions de l'ONU/OIT relatives aux droits de l'homme et aux droits des **travailleurs**
  Core human and **labour** rights UN/ILO Conventions
  ([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 689654)

- Je voudrais ensuite savoir si vous souhaitez inclure une telle proposition concernant la levée des obstacles à la libre circulation des **travailleurs** dans les conclusions de la Présidence suédoise.
  My second question is whether you wish to include such a proposal on lifting the barriers to free movement of **labour** as part of the Swedish Presidency's conclusions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1295645)

## rights

Used about 304 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 304).

- Les directives relatives aux licenciements collectifs et au maintien des droits des **travailleurs** en cas de transferts d' entreprises relèvent également de cette problématique.
  The directives on mass redundancies and safeguarding employee **rights** during takeovers also belong here.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 195382)

## all

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). Meaning: [all in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/all/).

- Pourtant, quel que soit le contraste, tous ces **travailleurs**, depuis le plus haut jusqu'au plus nocturne, depuis le plus sage jusqu'au plus fou, ont une similitude, et la voici: le désintéressement.
  Nevertheless, whatever may be the contrast, **all** these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this is it: disinterestedness.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15596)

## More sentences

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

- Il est bon que les enfants soient **travailleurs**.
  It is good that children are industrious.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#748523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/748523) [\#6851471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6851471))

- La Gazette du Textile a une grande audience auprès des **travailleurs** du secteur.
  Textile News has a large following among those working in the textile industry.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LittleBoy · checked, community translation · [\#28683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28683) [\#4573588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4573588))

- Les **travailleurs** formèrent une chaîne humaine.
  The laborers formed a human barricade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#326343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326343) [\#1243461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1243461))

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