English-French translations for reception

• réception
  Je vous invite à présent à une brève réception. I invite you to a brief reception.
  Les ports doivent avoir une installation de réception. Ports must be equipped with reception facilities.
  Nous pouvons aussi agir comme un centre de réception des idées, un laboratoire. We can also act as a reception centre for ideas, as a laboratory.
• abord
  Je voudrais dire quelques mots au sujet des centres d'accueil, une question abordée par M. Moreno Sánchez. I would like to say a few words about reception centres, as initiated by Mr Moreno Sánchez.
  Il y a d'abord les conditions de vie inacceptables, voire inhumaines de centaines d'adultes et d'enfants dans les centres fermés, qui sont des zones de transit terrestre. Firstly, the unacceptable, even inhumane, living conditions of some adults and children in closed reception centres serving as land transit zones.
• acceptation
• accueil
  J'ai reçu un accueil très hostile. I received a very hostile reception.
  Voilà pour les conditions d'accueil. That is all for the reception conditions.
  Monsieur le Président, je vous remercie de cet accueil amical. Mr President, thank you for the warm reception.

Definition of reception

• The act of receiving
• A social engagement, usually to formally welcome someone
• A reaction; the treatment received on first talking to a person, arriving at a place, etc
• The desk of a hotel or office where guests are received
• The conscious adoption or transplantation of legal phenomena from a different culture

Examples

• We have poor TV reception in the valley.
• The new system provides exceptional quality of the reception signal.
• After the wedding we proceeded to the reception.
• The ambassadors jokes met a cold reception.

Related words

• receptionist
• chemoreception
• preception
• reception desk
• reception center
• reception room
• reception centre
• reception hall
• reception and transmission