English-French translation for "to eat up"

to eat up {vb} (also: to devour, to wolf)

to eat up {vb} [fig.]

to eat [ate|eaten] {vb}

to eat [ate|eaten] {vb}

to eat [ate|eaten] {vb} (also: to pig out)

to eat [ate|eaten] (without appetite) {vb}

to eat [ate|eaten] {v.t.}

to eat [ate|eaten] (very little) {v.t.}

The conclusion is that development eats ups improvements.

I trust that resources for the latter will not be eaten up by the Expo.

The processors and the retailers will eat it all up.

Income taxes alone now eat up almost one-quarter of every family's budget.

Only two-thirds of that was spent; 25 % of that was eaten up by administrative costs.

Much of the budget for the program will be eaten up in new administrative costs.

Of course forests eat up CO2 but once they are fully grown this no longer happens.

That is the case in Gabon today, with debt repayment eating up 45 per cent of our public resources every year.

In agriculture the so-called reserve has already been eaten up four weeks after the reserve was entered under BSE.

If that is not maintained, the $7 billion surplus in the EI fund will be eaten up and will disappear.

Thirdly, low quotas and the resultant extortionate fines are eating up the subsidies for the 1999 harvest.

Or should TGV's be priced lower because they eat up a lot less capacity than a freight train?

This is normal towards the end of a Financial Perspective, when new tasks appear for which no provision was made earlier, and funds are eaten up by these tasks.

I fear that we are in danger of creating certain agencies that will eat up the Community budget and of complicating work which could be carried out through them.

Studies in Ireland and Denmark, as well as the UK, show that this eats up some 4 % of charities’ total expenditure.

The fuel bill is eating up so much of the national budgets of those poor countries that hardly anything is left for development purposes.

Because that alliance is fragile and what is the point in Europe being an economic giant if, like the ogre in the fable, it is now eating up its children?

Mr. Downes: From the perspective of a defence counsel, it eats up a good chunk of time. In terms of court time, you will generally set aside a day to hear this kind of application.

A large chunk of resources in developing countries is eaten up by debt servicing and repayment, which further vitiate the capacity of these countries to invest in development.

Debt was eating up most of the export earnings of developing countries, and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative continued to stumble for lack of resources and speed.