English-French translations for oil slick

• marée noire
  Troisième problème majeur: la marée noire. The third major problem was the problem of the oil slick.
  La France ne disposait pas de bateaux antipollution suffisants pour faire face à cette marée noire. France did not have enough anti-pollution vessels to deal with this oil slick.
  Mais c'est également un secteur très fragile, on vient encore de le voir avec la marée noire. But it is also a very vulnerable sector, as we recently saw with the oil slick.

Definition of oil slick

• A thin film of oil floating on the surface of water, especially one that has leaked or been discharged from a ship etc

Related words

• oil so.'s palm
• soil one’s pants
• make someone's blood boil
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