Glossary entry (derived from question below)
anglais term or phrase:
account them
français translation:
les forcer a rendre des comptes
anglais term
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account them
Il est question d'une vidéo traitant des similitudes entre surveillance publique et surveillance privée.
Les données sont toujours au centre du débat. Est-il question de surveiller les entreprises en plus de les contrôler ?
"If we're ever going to get corporations to stop spying on us, for governments to hold them to ***account*** and audit them, and make sure they're doing what they say they're doing, and not sneakily spying on us even though they claim they're not then we're going to have to end both the state and private practice of surveillance."
Merci beaucoup.
| 4 +4 | les forcer a rendre des comptes/ |
Francois Boye
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| 5 | leur demander des comptes |
FX Fraipont (X)
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| 4 +1 | leur demander de rendre des comptes |
Sandrine Pantel
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| 4 +1 | exiger des comptes |
Mireille BOULANGER
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Jul 22, 2015 15:33: Rob Grayson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Jul 24, 2015 14:36: Alexandre Tissot changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1334324">Alexandre Tissot's</a> old entry - "account them"" to ""les forcer a rendre des comptes/""
Non-PRO (3): GILLES MEUNIER, AbrahamS, Rob Grayson
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Proposed translations
États-Unis
An economic geek with social skills
Native in: français
Works in: anglais vers français, français vers anglais, espagnol vers anglais, and 1 more.
les forcer a rendre des comptes/
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Note added at 22 hrs (2015-07-23 13:00:58 GMT)
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Erratum: ‘à rendre’ au lieu de a rendre
| Merci, François. |
| agree |
writeaway
: oui, mais pourquoi 'forcer' ? that amounts to overkill/over-translation
13 minutes
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| agree |
AbrahamS
: My preferred option
29 minutes
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| agree |
Daryo
3 heures
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| agree |
Jean-Claude Gouin
8 heures
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leur demander des comptes
| Merci, FX. |
France
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Native in: français (Variant: Standard-France) 
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leur demander de rendre des comptes
| Merci, Sandrine. |
exiger des comptes
| Merci, Mirei. |
| agree |
writeaway
: my preferred option. stronger than demander but not with the overkill of 'forcer'.
13 minutes
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thank you writeaway
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Discussion
mais 'to hold them to account" n'est-ce pas pareil que dire 'to hold them accountable"?
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