Crossword clues for vivant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vivant \Vi`vant"\, n. [F., p. pr., living.] In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (cx card games English) In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Vivant is a small Belgian social liberal political party in Belgium founded by millionaire Roland Duchâtelet. In the regional elections in June 2004, the party formed a strategic alliance with the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD). Both parties are founded on the principle of individualism and can be called liberal. In 2007, the party announced it would likely merge with the VLD.
Vivant is economically liberal, advocating a basic income guarantee for all citizens. Vivant considers the basic income as an inalienable part of the legal minimum wage (approximately half of it for full-time employment). In order to tax goods more evenly, wherever they are manufactured in order to respond to automatisation, globalization and an ageing population, Vivant proposes to shift taxes from labour to final consumption. (All taxes in the chain of production are an inclusive part of the price paid by the consumers and could be considered as a consumption tax, each tax in each stage with its specific side effects.) Vivant also proposes a flat tax on income in two steps, 0% on to 1350 Euro and 50% from there. The VLD doesn't support all of these measures. Vivant also has direct democracy as one of its key points.
In the regional elections of 2004, partner VLD lost heavily, dragging Vivant with it to third place among Flemish political parties. Although interest in Vivant increased during the elections, the party remained a marginal force in Belgian politics. Vivant is particularly strong in the German-speaking community of Belgium, where it won 7.3% and two representatives in the Parliament of the German community.
While vivant means "alive" or "lively" in French, as an acronym "VIVANT" stands for Voor Individuele Vrijheid en Arbeid in een Nieuwe Toekomst, ("for individual freedom and labour in a new future") in Dutch.
Usage examples of "vivant".
Under these circumstances Bedaux was no longer the charming bon vivant.
Vivant, Chateaubriand avait pour lui tous les critiques, petits et grands.
Senator, Herm had taken a different tack than that of his predecessor, Lew Alton, and cunningly played at being a bon vivant, a pleasant fellow who could be bought occasionally.
In short, the cardinal was a man of wit, and what is called a bon vivant.
It chronicled her cock-tailed devolution from Delaware insecticide heiress elegantly tamping shreds of hard-boiled egg onto crustless toast triangles, loving the attention, then shamelessly hamming it up, becoming a haggard mal vivant gurgling fragments of sea shanties into the pipes beneath the kitchen sink.
But her husband, who is a garmentdistrict executive, sure looks like a bon vivant.
I know he is a bon vivant because while she was away buying a diet soda, he put my card in the pocket of his beach jacket and said, I cant do anything here, but Ill call you when I get back to New York.
Pitt didn't feel like a Good Samaritan and even less like a bon vivant as he punched out the numbers on the phone.
Hazel d'Ark, pirate, clonelegger and bon vivant, strode scowling through the dimly lit steel corridors and wished she was somewhere else.
Dumas was a bon vivant who did everything out in the open, to the great enjoyment and shock of all those around him.
But unlike the exotic beauties who hung on fiction's bon vivant master spy, Toshie possessed a high order of intellectual ability.
One moment he was a well-dressed bon vivant, the next an animated corpse.
Willie was now a man of the world, a bon vivant, as he ordered ham and eggs from the pretty waitress of The Elite Restaurant on Broadway.
Kantor the monologist, Kantor the financier, Kantor the bon vivant waving his silver-headed walking stick.
The only light came from a few small crude pottery lamps, but it was sufficient for me to see, not only the traces of paint on the walls, but the tableau vivant before me.