lib

libération

Mouvement visant à libérer un groupe de règles sociales injustes ou d’une domination.

En anglais simple : The movement to free a group from unfair social rules or control.

• She joined the women’s lib movement.
• Women’s lib changed how many people thought about work.
• They discussed women’s lib at the meeting.

Synonymes : liberation

Expressions courantes : women’s lib, women’s lib movement

libéral

Personne qui défend des idées politiques libérales.

En anglais simple : A person who supports liberal political ideas.

• He calls himself a lib.
• The libs supported the new policy.
• She argued with a lib about taxes.

Synonymes : liberal

Contraires : conservative

Expressions courantes : a lib, the libs

bibliothèque

Bibliothèque, surtout un ensemble de code réutilisable par des programmes informatiques.

En anglais simple : A library, especially a collection of computer code that programs can use.

• The program needs this lib.
• I installed the missing lib yesterday.
• These libs provide useful functions.

Synonymes : library

Expressions courantes : shared lib, install a lib, load a lib

libertarien

Personne qui souhaite une grande liberté individuelle et un pouvoir limité du gouvernement.

En anglais simple : A person who believes people should have great freedom and the government should have little power.

• He is a lib who opposes most taxes.
• The lib candidate wants fewer government rules.
• Several libs spoke about individual freedom.

Synonymes : libertarian

Expressions courantes : a lib, lib candidate