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vivre au-dessus de ses moyens: to live beyond one's means
vivre aux crochets de: to sponge off someone, to live off someone
vivre avec son temps: to move with the times
vivre d'amour et d'eau fraiche: to live a carefree life with very little material means
vivre d'amour et d'eau fraîche: alternative spelling of vivre d'amour et d'eau fraiche
vivre dans une grotte: to live under a rock
vivre en grand seigneur: to live the high life
vivre sa meilleure vie: to be living the dream, to be having the time of one's life
vivre sa vie: to live one's life, to live one's own life, to get on with one's life
vivres: food supplies, provisions
vivrier: food-producing
vizir: vizier
vizirat: vizierate
vlan: wham!, bang!, whack!, wallop!
vlan: bling
vlogue: alternative spelling of vlog
vocable: term
vocabulaire: vocabulary
vocabulaire actif: active vocabulary
vocabulaire passif: passive vocabulary
vocal: voice, vocal
vocal: voice message
vocalement: vocally (with respect to vocals)
vocalique: vowel; vocalic
vocaliquement: vocalically (with regard to vowels
vocalisateur: vocalizer
vocalisation: vocalization
vocalisatrice: vocalizer
vocalise: vocalise (vocal exercise performed by singing one or more vowels without actually forming any words)
vocaliser: to vocalize
vocalisme: vocalism
vocaliste: vocalist
vocatif: vocative, vocative case
vocation: vocation, calling; vocation (employment; career; work)
vocifération: vociferation
vociférer: to shout, scream, vociferate
vocoïde: vocoid, phonetic vowel as opposed as a phonemic one
vodka: vodka
voenkor: a Russian war correspondent, a Russian military reporter
voeu: nonstandard spelling of vœu
voeux: nonstandard spelling of vœux
vogoul: alternative spelling of vogoule
vogue: vogue
vogue la galère: come what may
voguer: to travel through the water; to wander
voici: here (it) is; expresses something in the making or that is happening; used with pronouns, can serve as a loose copula; this is, introduces something one is about to say, whereas voilà something said
voici: ago
voici que: here
voie: way, track; lane (of a highway); calling, path in life
voie d'accélération: acceleration lane
voie d'eau: leak (hole in the hull of a boat which admits water)
voie d'insertion: acceleration lane
voie de circulation: traffic lane, taxiway
voie de communication: communication channel, communication route, communication pathway; connecting road, thoroughfare
voie de droit: right course of law
voie de détresse: runaway truck ramp, emergency escape ramp, truck arrester bed
voie de fait: violence; assault, battery
voie de garage: stabling siding; dead end (position that offers no hope of progress)
voie ferrée: railroad track
voie lactée: the Milky Way (as seen from Earth)