Mar 27, 2007 13:12
17 yrs ago
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English term

flip/flipper

English to French Bus/Financial Real Estate
COntexte

Randy: This is the fifth home that we have renovated.

Neil: I think we were the original ***flippers,*** you know we would buy a house that had been on the market for nine months. We would fix it up and sell it in a day.

Slate: > Randy & Neil
***Flipping houses*** in Winnipeg
for over 23 years

Neil: I was ***flipping*** through the real estate news, found this picture of this house, and I thought “that would be a great house!”

Proposed translations

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Selected

spéculer/spéculateur

Termium:
Subject Field(s)
  – Real Estate
Subject Field(s)
  – L'immobilier
 
flipper Source

spéculeur Source PROPOSAL, MASC

spéculeuse Source PROPOSAL, FEM

DEF – Personne qui réalise un
spécule. Source

EX – C'est un spéculeur adroit : il
vient de réaliser un profit de 15 000 $
sur la vente de cette maison
achetée il y a un mois à peine.
Source

OBS – Spéculeur est dérivé de
spécule; il forme avec spéculateur
une sorte de doublet bien différencié
par le sens. Source

Peer comment(s):

agree Jerome Elhaik : agree. Sorry Francis I sent my answer just after yours, I hadn't seen it yet.
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agree Lidija Lazic
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Merci Francis !"
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spéculer/spéculateur

see the translation at www.granddictionnaire.com. They say "spéculeur" but "spéculateur" is défintely better, maybe "spéculeur" is Canadian French.
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