grandfather

grand-père

Père de ta mère ou de ton père.

En anglais simple : The father of your mother or father.

• My grandfather lives nearby.
• Her grandfathers were both farmers.
• Did your grandfather teach you to fish?

Synonymes : granddad, grandpa

Expressions courantes : my grandfather, maternal grandfather, paternal grandfather

sauvegarde de deux générations antérieures

Copie sauvegardée d’un fichier informatique datant de deux versions avant la plus récente.

En anglais simple : An older saved copy of a computer file, one version before the previous copy.

• Keep the grandfather file in storage.
• We restored the data from the grandfather backup.
• The archive holds both father and grandfather copies.

Expressions courantes : grandfather file, grandfather backup, grandfather copy

maintenir les droits acquis, exempter

Permettre à une personne ou disposition existante de rester soumise aux anciennes règles malgré l’arrivée de nouvelles règles.

En anglais simple : To let an existing person or arrangement continue under old rules after new rules start.

• The company will grandfather existing customers.
• Current members were grandfathered in when fees increased.
• Will our old permits be grandfathered under the new rules?

Comment l'utiliser : grandfather someone/something in (The company will grandfather existing customers in.); be grandfathered into something (Older plans were grandfathered into the new system.)

Synonymes : exempt

Expressions courantes : grandfather someone in, grandfather existing customers