Summary

piggyback {adverb}
sur le dos

to piggyback {verb}
porter sur son dos · être pris en charge

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Synonyms

piggyback: pickaback · pig-a-back

Usage examples

... with a piggyback....
to give sb. a piggyback
... French, for piggyback, also called “ch...

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English-French translation for "piggyback"

 

"piggyback" French translation

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piggyback {adverb}

piggyback {adv.}

sur le dos {adv.}

to piggyback {verb}

to piggyback {vb} (also: to hump)

porter sur son dos {vb}

to piggyback {vb}

être pris en charge {vb}
 

Synonyms

Synonyms (English) for "piggyback":

© Princeton Universitypickaback · pig-a-back

 

Usage examples

Usage examples for "piggyback" in French

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Ahab with a piggyback.

" Achab à dada "?

     to give sb. a piggyback

porter qn sur son dos

In French, for piggyback, also called “chantier terminal”

En français, en ferroutage, appelé aussi “chantier terminal”.

Piggy-back transport is the synonym for rail/road transport.

Le transport par ferroutage est un synonyme du transport rail/route.

Replace “piggyback” by “road-rail transport”.

Remplacer « Unités de Transport Intermodales (UTI) » par « UTI ».

The talk nowadays is of giving priority to rail over road transport and going in for piggybacking.

On parle aujourd'hui de donner la priorité au rail sur la route et de se lancer dans le ferroutage.

The government should build a piggyback rail network and oblige all lorries travelling through France to use it.

Mettre en place un réseau de ferroutage et imposer aux camions traversant le territoire français de l'emprunter.

The QSAT satellite had been designed to be launched in a piggyback fashion with the Japanese launch vehicle H-IIA.

Le satellite QSAT devait être lancé en passager secondaire par le lanceur japonais H-IIA.

Secondly, and this is a very important aspect, promoting rail transport and developing piggyback transport systems.

Ensuite, et c'est un élément extrêmement important, favoriser le transport par rail et développer le ferroutage.

Subject: Mont Blanc tunnel and 'piggyback traffic ' The Mont Blanc tunnel is due to reopen within the next few months.

Objet: Tunnel du Mont Blanc et ferroutage On annonce la réouverture du tunnel du Mont Blanc dans les prochains mois.

Additional mortgage funding could be piggybacked on to the mortgage backed securities that now fund social housing mortgage renewals.

La sécurité du premier ministre est la responsabilité de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada.

I would suggest probably piggybacking our existing air supply to Bosnia, but no one has said that for sure.

J'ai l'impression qu'il nous faudra transporter notre matériel par air, mais personne n'a pu se prononcer catégoriquement là-dessus.

So answers have to be found to pressing problems: the development of piggy-back transport, definition of anti-pollution standards, and so on.

Il importe donc de trouver des solutions qui s'imposent: développement du ferroutage, définition de normes antipollution etc.

Finally, it would mean undertaking to develop 'piggybacking ' and making immediate use of the existing transverse lines, which are under-used.

Enfin, l'engagement de développer le ferroutage en utilisant tout de suite les lignes transversales existantes, qui sont sous-utilisées.

In English, the term piggyback does not refer to combined transport in general but specifically to the transport by rail of road semi-trailers.

Le terme kangourou ne s'applique au transport combiné rail-route en général mais au transport de semi-remorques sur des trains.

Lift-on lift-off machines and equipment capable of handling 40-foot containers and piggyback semi-trailers are also being developed.

Des engins et dispositifs de chargement-déchargement sont mis au point pour la manutention de conteneurs et wagons-conteneurs de quarante pieds.

Affixing plates and orange-coloured markings to carrying wagons transporting road vehicles and in piggyback transport

Apposition de plaques-étiquettes et de signalisations orange sur les wagons porteurs transportant des véhicules routiers et en trafic ferroutage

Of course, there were alternative solutions, such as the Lyons-Turin piggyback project, which was one of the Delors plan's infrastructure projects.

Sans doute évoquait -on des solutions alternatives: le projet de ferroutage Lyon-Turin, inscrit dans les grands travaux du plan Delors.

We examined with great interest the proposals aimed at developing alternative, non-polluting means of transport such as piggyback transport.

Nous avions examiné avec beaucoup d'intérêt les propositions visant à développer les transports alternatifs, non polluants, le ferroutage par exemple.

For instance, small satellites can be launched at reduced cost by “piggybacking” on the launch of a larger satellite.

Ainsi, de petits satellites peuvent être lancés à moindres frais en tant que satellites secondaires d'un plus grand satellite (“piggybacking”).

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