English-French translations for to begin with

• dans un premier temps
  Dans un premier temps, l'Europe doit garantir l'application de la législation environnementale. To begin with, Europe must ensure that environmental legislation is applied.
  Dans un premier temps, le personnel et l'infrastructure de ce centre proviendront du centre de satellites de l'UEO. The staff and infrastructure of this centre should come, to begin with, from the WEU' s satellite centre.
  Nous sommes parvenus à un bon compromis: huit ans pour les médicaments génériques, dans un premier temps, c’est une victoire du Parlement européen. We have reached a good compromise: eight years for generic medicinal products, to begin with: the European Parliament achieved this.
• d’abord

Definition of to begin with

• initially, at first, at the very start
• in the first place

Examples

• To begin with, we moved the furniture out of the room.
• Double my wages? You werent paying me anything to begin with!

Related words

• begin to ferment
• begin to laugh
• begin to move
• begin to see red
• begin to shift
• begin to work