affectation

  • 41affectation — ● n. f. ►TYPE Le fait d affecter. Assignment en anglais (maintenant que vous le savez, vous pouvez éviter de le traduire par Assignation ) …

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  • 42Affectation —    Droit administratif: classement    Droit civil: procédure technique originale d utilisation des biens qui consiste à soumettre ceux ci à un usage précis    Droit financier: liaison juridique, réglementée restrictivement par le droit budgétaire …

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  • 43affectation — af·fec·ta·tion || ‚æfek teɪʃn n. insincere behavior, artificial manner, pretense …

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  • 44affectation — noun behaviour, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress. ↘a studied display of feeling. Origin C16: from L. affectatio(n ), from affectare (see affect2) …

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  • 45affectation — n. Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner, pretence, false pretence, artificiality, unnaturalness, stiffness, finical air, mincingness, foppery …

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  • 46affectation — n 1. pretension, pretentiousness, af fectedness, unnaturalness, studiedness, artificial manner; simulation, make believe, artificiality, insincerity; posing, posturing, peacockery; foppery, dandyism, coxcombry. 2. pretense, show, false show, mere …

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  • 47affectation — af·fec·ta·tion …

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  • 48affectation — noun Syn: pretension, pretentiousness, affectedness, artificiality, posturing, airs (and graces); Brit.; informal side …

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  • 49affectation — [ˌæfekˈteɪʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] something that is not part of your natural personality but that you do or say to impress people …

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  • 50affectation — af•fec•ta•tion [[t]ˌæf ɛkˈteɪ ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the pretense of having a knowledge, standing, etc., not possessed 2) conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; pretension 3) an artificial trait, expression, or the like • Etymology: 1540–50;… …

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