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déplacement

displacement

noun deh-plahs-MAHN Rare
Travel & Places Transportation

Also means

travel, movement

Usage Note

déplacement covers both physical movement (a trip, a journey) and the abstract sense of displacing something. Frais de déplacement are travel expenses reimbursed for work trips. In physics, le déplacement refers to displacement of a fluid or vector quantity.

Examples

"Son déplacement à Lyon dure deux jours."

Natural Translation

His trip to Lyon lasts two days.

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