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jouer serré: to play a close game, to play a tight game
jouer sur du velours: to play it safe, not to take any risk; to be onto a sure thing, to have it made, to have it all tied up, to have it easy
jouer sur les mots: to argue semantics, to play on semantics, to quibble, to deliberately misinterpret someone's words
jouer sur tous les tableaux: to play the field, to play several sides at once, to keep plates spinning (especially in a romantic context)
jouet: toy; plaything
joueur: playful
joueur: player
joueur contre joueur: player versus player
joueur contre l'environnement: player versus environment
joueur de deuxième but: second baseman
joueur de premier but: first baseman
joueur de troisième but: third baseman
joueur-animateur en direct: streamer (“one who streams to a live audience online”)
joufflu: chubby-cheeked; puff-cheeked
joug: yoke; balance beam
jouir: to enjoy; to have an orgasm; to come, cum; to ejaculate
jouissance: use, possession, enjoyment; enjoyment, deep pleasure; sexual pleasure, sensual delight; orgasm, climax
jouisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of jouir
jouisseur: sensualist; person reaching pleasure during sexual intercourse
jouisseur: seeking sensual pleasure; showing enjoyment, delight, pleasure
jouissif: orgasmic; very pleasurable; very enjoyable
joujou: a toy; a plaything
joule: joule
jour: day; daylight, light; opening, aperture
jour après jour: day after day, day in, day out
jour avec: good day
jour de congé: day off
jour de l'an: New Year's Day
jour de paie: payday
jour du Seigneur: Sunday, Lord's Day
jour du Souvenir: Remembrance Day
jour et nuit: day and night (all the time, unceasingly)
jour fixe: fixed day
jour férié: bank holiday; public holiday
jour ouvrable: workday, business day; weekday
jour pour jour: to the day
jour sans: bad day
jour-amende: One of the days specified in a financial penalty whereby a certain amount of money (measured in units per day) must be paid by a fixed date, any unpaid days resulting in days in prison
jour-homme: man-day (one person's working time)
jour-lumière: light day (astronomical distance)
journal: That is relative to each day; journal
journal: diary, journal; newspaper; periodical; newsbreak; log
journal de bord: logbook
journal de caisse: cashbook (book used to record amounts of money received or paid out)
journal de classe: homework notebook
journal intime: diary, journal (daily log of experiences)
journal parlé: radio news
journal télévisé: news broadcast, newscast, newsbreak (news report that is transmitted over the air for television)
journalier: daily, every day; uncertain, ephemerous, precarious
journalier: a journeyman, laborer employed on a daily basis
journalisme: journalism
journalisme d'enquête: investigative journalism (form of journalism in which the reporter deeply investigates a single topic of interest)
journalisme d'investigation: investigative journalism (form of journalism in which the reporter deeply investigates a single topic of interest)
journaliste: a journalist; an anchor, anchorperson, anchorman or anchorwoman; a reporter
journaliste reporter d'images: video journalist
journalistique: journalistic
journalistiquement: journalistically (in a journalistic way)
journalièrement: daily, on the daily, on a daily basis; each day
journalope: hack (journalist); presstitute
journellement: daily (every day)