FRENCH WORD OF THE DAY: Octroi

Octroi: A financial gift, donation, allocation, concession—in essence, a sum of money given to someone.

As seen in: « À la veille de l’ouverture du Sommet de la Francophonie à Kinshasa, la première ministre Pauline Marois a annoncé vendredi l’octroi d’une aide totale de 300 000$ à des organisations humanitaires qui œuvrent en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). »

(Translation: “On the eve of the opening of the Summit of Francophones in Kinshasa, premier Pauline Marois announced Friday a total aid allocation of $300,000 towards humanitarian organizations that operate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).”)

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201210/12/01-4582557-rdc-marois-annonce-une-aide-humanitaire-de-300-000-.php

About these ads

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s