Consult this page to find suggested English equivalents for "affecter."
affect, allocate, allot, appropriate, assign, commit, dedicate, designate, devote, direct, earmark, give, have an impact on, invest, move, put, redeploy, send, set aside, spend, use
- décisions susceptibles d’affecter le bien-être des Canadiens / decisions that could affect (have an impact on) Canadians’ well-being
- affecter des ressources / allocate (assign, commit, designate, direct) resources
- affecter 15 millions de dollars et 400 heures-personnes à ce projet / allot $15 million and 400 person-hours for this project
- la meilleure façon d’affecter les fonds dont on dispose / the best way to appropriate the funds on hand
- affecter les recettes tirées des taxes à la réparation du réseau routier / dedicate revenues from taxes for highway repairs
- affecter des sommes équivalentes à cette fonction / devote the same amount of money to this task
- affecter les sommes qu’il réclame / earmark the requested funds
- affecter plus d’argent à ce programme / give more money to this program
- les montants que le gouvernement prévoit affecter à la recherche / the amount the government plans to invest in research
- affecter des fonds au système d’éducation / move money into the education system
- affecter l’excédent au remboursement de la dette / put the surplus toward the debt
- cet argent pourrait être affecté à d’autres priorités / this money could be redeployed for other priorities
- affecter des soldats à l’étranger / send troops abroad
- affecter des crédits à ce programme / set aside funding for this program
- affecter ces sommes directement à la formation / spend the money directly on training
- affecter ces sommes à titre de développement régional / use (earmark) the money for regional development
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