charity

association caritative, œuvre de bienfaisance

Organisme qui fournit de l’argent, des biens ou des services aux personnes ayant besoin d’aide.

En anglais simple : An organization that gives money, goods, or services to people who need help.

• She works for a charity.
• The charity provides meals for homeless people.
• Several charities helped after the flood.

Synonymes : aid organization

Expressions courantes : local charity, registered charity, work for charity

bienfaisance, action caritative

Activité consistant à aider les personnes pauvres, malades ou dans le besoin.

En anglais simple : The work of helping people who are poor, ill, or in need.

• They raised money for charity.
• He spends weekends doing charity work.
• All ticket sales will go to charity.

Comment l'utiliser : for charity (We held a concert for charity.)

Synonymes : charitable work

Expressions courantes : for charity, charity work, give to charity

charité, aide

Argent, biens ou autre soutien donné aux personnes qui en ont besoin.

En anglais simple : Money, goods, or other help given to people who need them.

• He refused to accept charity.
• The family depended on charity for food.
• She needed a job, not charity.

Synonymes : aid, help

Expressions courantes : accept charity, live on charity, receive charity

charité, bienveillance

Qualité d’une personne qui traite les autres avec bonté, attention et compréhension.

En anglais simple : The quality of treating others with kindness, care, and understanding.

• She treated everyone with charity.
• Try to show some charity toward his mistakes.
• His harsh judgment lacked charity.

Comment l'utiliser : charity toward someone (She showed charity toward people who disagreed with her.)

Synonymes : kindness, compassion, benevolence

Contraires : cruelty

Expressions courantes : show charity, Christian charity, charity toward someone