Practice FrenchC1verb
se prévaloir de
to avail oneself of, to invoke
« Il s’est prévalu de son ancienneté pour obtenir ce poste. »
“He availed himself of his seniority to obtain that position.”
In other languages
- Spanish prevalerse de, acogerse a
- Portuguese valer-se de, prevalecer-se de
- German sich berufen auf
- Italian avvalersi di, appellarsi a
- Arabic يتذرّع بـ
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