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French system

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noun

  1. a method of spinning in which fibers of extremely short-staple wool are not twisted before being spun.


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Under the French system, very few people have personal pension plans linked to capital investments.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2023

Because the French system is based solely on financial compensation, frustrations abound as to what can be considered fair reparation.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2022

The French system, meanwhile, is already covering 8 million people — a third of the country’s private sector workers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2020

Combining soap-like story arcs with political intrigue, comedy, psychodrama and cliffhangers, it cast a forensic eye over the French system of law and politics and class and race and sex and morality.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2019

The army was organised and distributed after the French system.

From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho