English-French translations for strictly speaking

• à proprement parler
  On ne peut soulever un problème de santé à des fins qui, à proprement parler, ne présentent pas d'intérêt. We cannot use a health issue for purposes that strictly speaking have no relevance.
  La question de la dette est certes importante, mais ce n’est pas à proprement parler un outil de développement. The debt issue is certainly important, but it is not, strictly speaking, a development tool.
  Bien sûr, en tant que telle, cette question n'est pas, à proprement parler, de la compétence de la Commission. As such, of course, this question is not strictly speaking within the Commission's competence.

Definition of strictly speaking

• Being totally accurate (used as a phrase to specify

Examples

• The two main vegetables for this recipe are tomatoes and peppers. Well, strictly speaking, tomatoes are a fruit.

Related words

• strictly
• strictly increasing function
• strictly monotonically increasing
• very strictly