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1 heavy

'hevi
adjective

1) (having great weight; difficult to lift or carry: a heavy parcel.) tung, solid, massiv

2) (having a particular weight: I wonder how heavy our little baby is.) tung

3) (of very great amount, force etc: heavy rain; a heavy blow; The ship capsized in the heavy seas; heavy taxes.) kraftig, tung, solid

4) (doing something to a great extent: He's a heavy smoker/drinker.) stor-

5) (dark and dull; looking or feeling stormy: a heavy sky/atmosphere.) (storm)tung

6) (difficult to read, do, understand etc: Books on philosophy are too heavy for me.) tung, vanskelig, trettende

7) ((of food) hard to digest: rather heavy pastry.) tung(tfordøyelig)

8) (noisy and clumsy: heavy footsteps.) tung, grov, klosset

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- heavily
- heaviness
- heavy-duty
- heavy industry
- heavyweight
- heavy going
- a heavy heart
- make heavy weather of

alvorlig
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tung

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subst. \/ˈhevɪ\/

1) ( teater) skurkerolle

2) ( hverdagslig for heavyweight) tungvekt

heavies ( militærvesen) tungt artilleri, tungt kavaleri

the heavies ( slang) utrykningspolitiet storavisene
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adj. \/ˈhevɪ\/

1) tung, grov, massiv, solid

• a heavy burden

• heavy industry

• heavy responsibility

• heavy water

tungtvann

• heavy drugs

• heavy features

grove trekk

• a heavy wall

2) ( om tøystoff) tykk, kraftig

3) ( militærvesen) tung, tungt (be)væpnet

• a heavy bomber

• heavy weapons

4) stor, vanskelig, høy, omfattende

• heavy expences

• a heavy loss\/defeat

• heavy taxes

• a heavy building programme

et omfattende byggeprogram

• heavy demand

stor etterspørsel

5) sterk, voldsom, kraftig, tett

• a heavy blow\/storm

• open heavy fire

• heavy snowfall

6) bratt, dyp, dyp og kraftig, solid

• a heavy rise

• a heavy sigh

• heavy silence

• a heavy sound\/voice

• a heavy meal

et solid måltid

7) ladet, tynget ned av, fylt, mettet

8) (hverdagslig, også heavy with child) gravid

9) ( om vin) tung

10) ( om mat) mektig, tungt fordøyelig

11) tung, ufremkommelig

• heavy soil

• a heavy track

• a heavy road

• heavy ground

ufremkommelig terreng

12) tung, klumpet, klosset, treg, tungfør

• a heavy building

• heavy handwriting

• a heavy gait

13) ( handel) flau

14) ( spesielt teater) alvorlig, verdig

• play the heavy father

15) kjedelig, ensformig, tungt fordøyelig, vanskelig tilgjengelig

• a heavy book\/play\/poem

• heavy stuff

• a heavy writer

16) tung, mørk, dyster

• a heavy sky

• heavy clouds

17) streng, hard, tung

• heavy punishment

18) besværlig, tung, vanskelig

• heavy work

19) tung, nedtrykt, bedrøvet, sørgmodig, sørgelig, nedslående

• with a heavy heart

• heavy tidings (news)

20) søvnig, døsig, sløv, tung (i hodet)

21) ( slang) strevsom, langtekkelig, kjedelig

22) ( slang) tøff, heftig

be too heavy on somebody ( hverdagslig) være for streng mot noen

a heavy buyer person som handler mye, storhandler

a heavy crop en god avling

a heavy dose en kraftig dose

a heavy drinker en som drikker tett, en som har alkoholproblemer

a heavy eater en storeter

a heavy fine en høy bot

heavy guns eller heavy artillery tungt artilleri, grovt artilleri

a heavy loser person som taper mye

be heavy on bruke mye av, forbruke mye av

• the car is heavy on oil

• don't be so heavy on the butter

heavy order eller heavy marching order marsjordre med full oppakning

a heavy part ( teater) en alvorlig rolle, en seriøs rolle

heavy rates høye avgifter

heavy roads ( også) tungt føre

heavy sale dårlig omsetning

a heavy sea ( sjøfart) høy sjø

a heavy smoker en storrøyker

heavy traffic tungtrafikk sterk trafikk, mye trafikk

the heavy villain den store skurken, den store kjeltringen

heavy with full av, full med

heavy with sleep søvndrukken

heavy woollens tykt ullstoff

make heavy weather of ( overført) gjøre mye vesen\/oppstyr av
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adv. \/ˈhevɪ\/

tungt, langsomt

be heavy into something\/someone ( hverdagslig) ha dilla på noe(n), være veldig opptatt av noe(n)

• she's heavy into new age music

hun har dilla på new age-musikk

lie heavy on hvile tungt på, tynge

time hangs heavy (on my hands) tiden faller meg lang, tiden går så sakte

English-Norwegian dictionary > heavy
2 precio + ponerse por las nubes

(v.) = price + go through the roof, price + spiral out of control, price + spiral out of control, price + soar through the roof

Ex. And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex. With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy.

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(v.) = price + go through the roof, price + spiral out of control, price + spiral out of control, price + soar through the roof

Ex: And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex: With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy.

Spanish-English dictionary > precio + ponerse por las nubes
3 Abgabe

Abgabe f 1. FIN levy; 2. GEN royalty, charge, tax; 3. IMP/EXP levy; 4. STEUER imposition; 5. WIWI charge, tax, duty royalty (Förderungsabgabe)
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f 1. < Finanz> levy; 2. < Geschäft> royalty, charge, tax; 3. <Imp/Exp> levy; 4. < Steuer> imposition; 5. <Vw> charge, tax, duty Förderungsabgabe royalty ■ zur Abgabe von Angeboten auffordern < Geschäft> invite tenders

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Abgabe
(Ausgabe) issue, (Aushändigung) delivery, turning over, (Einreichung) filing, (Fahrkarte) surrender, (Gebühr) fee, (Kommunalsteuer) rate (Br.), lot (Br.), scot, (Steuer) duty, impost, imposition, tax, direct tax (US), assessment (Br.), (Tribut) tribute, (Umlage) levy, contribution, surcharge, (Verbrauchssteuer) excise, duty, (Verkauf) sale, sell-off, (Zoll) duty, lot (Br.), toll;
• Abgaben abgerechnet (Pächter) beyond reprises;
• frei von Abgaben duty-free, tax-free, scot-free;
• gegen Abgabe von upon delivery of;
• Abgaben [public] dues, (an der Börse) sales;
• direkte Abgaben direct taxes;
• drückende Abgaben heavy burden, oppressive taxes;
• erpresste Abgabe exaction;
• gewerbliche Abgaben industrial charges;
• größere Abgaben (Börse) heavy sales (selling);
• hohe Abgaben heavy taxes;
• indirekte Abgaben indirect taxes;
• innere (inländische) Abgaben internal taxes (charges);
• kommunale Abgaben municipal rates;
• öffentliche (staatliche) Abgaben public charges (taxes), rates and taxes;
• soziale Abgaben social [security] contributions, compulsory welfare;
• städtische Abgaben municipal taxes, town rates (taxes, dues), urban rates;
• ständige Abgaben perpetual taxes;
• steuerliche Abgaben fiscal burden;
• zusätzliche Abgaben supplementary charges;
• Abgabe von Anteilen (Rückversicherung) ceding of quotas;
• Abgabe von Beteiligungen realization from investments;
• Abgabe einer Einkommensteuererklärung filing of an income-tax return;
• Abgabe einer Erbschaftssteuererklärung filing of an Inland Revenue affidavit;
• Abgabe einer Erklärung issue of (making) a statement;
• Abgabe von Geboten bidding;
• Abgabe des Gepäcks depositing of luggage (Br.), checking of baggage in the baggage room (US);
• Abgabe auf das Grundvermögen levy on real estate;
• Abgabe einer Offerte making an offer;
• Abgabe auf die Prämieneinkünfte levy on premium income;
• Abgabe von Scheinangeboten puffing;
• Abgabe unter Selbstkostenpreis sale below cost;
• Abgaben für Umweltverschmutzung effluent charges;
• Abgabe des jährlichen Vermögensberichts beim Börsenaufsichtsamt filing of its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission;
• mit Abgaben belegen to impose taxes, to levy [contributions], to tax (US);
• Abgaben erheben to impose (collect) a duty (tax);
• hohe Abgaben bezahlen müssen to be taxed heavily;
• alle Abgaben werden vom Schiff getragen steamer pays dues (S.p.d.);
• Abgabebeschränkungen sales restrictions;
• Abgabedruck (Börse) sales pressure;
• Abgabefrist filing term;
• Abgabekurs (Emission) issue price;
• Abgabeliste declaration of goods shipped;
• Abgabemarke revenue stamp;
• Abgabematerial (Börse) stock offered, offerings.

Business german-english dictionary > Abgabe
4 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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1) (государственный) налог;
пошлина, сбор to levy a tax on ≈ облагать( кого-л., что-л.) налогом direct taxes ≈ прямые налоги admissions tax ≈ налог на зрелищные предприятия classified tax ≈ дифференцированный налог (система с разной ставкой налогообложения в зависимости от вида собственности) delinquent tax ≈ налоги, не выплаченные в срок earmarked tax ≈ адресный налог (сборы от него должны быть использованы на определенные цели) franchise tax ≈ франшизный налог (налог штата на зарегистрированную в нем корпорацию за право заниматься франшизным бизнесом) heavy tax ≈ большой налог income tax ≈ подоходный налог indirect taxes ≈ косвенные налоги individual income tax ≈ личный подоходный налог nuisance tax ≈ небольшой налог (выплачивается по частям) payroll tax ≈ налог на заработную плату pollution tax ≈ 'налог на загрязнение' (налагаемый на компанию, если ее производственная деятельность загрязняет окружающую среду) sales tax ≈ налог с оборота school tax ≈ школьный налог (налог, которым облагаются жители округа;
собранные средства идут на содержание школ) sin tax ≈ налог на табак, алкогольные напитки, азартные игры и т. п. single tax ≈ единый земельный налог state income tax ≈ подоходный налог штата windfall profit tax ≈ налог на сверхприбыль tax avoidance ≈ уменьшение в результате перерасчета суммы налога tax exile ≈ эмиграция из-за налогов, бегство от налогов
2) бремя, гнет, груз, испытание, напряжение Syn: burden, load
2. гл.
1) а) облагать налогом;
подвергать налоговому обложению б) юр. таксировать, определять размер убытков, штрафа, судебных издержек Syn: assess, impose, levy
2) чрезмерно напрягать, утомлять;
подвергать испытанию (память, свои силы и т. п.) she taxes my patience ≈ она испытывает мое терпение
3) делать выговор, отчитывать( кого-л.) ;
обвинять, осуждать( with) to tax smb. with ingratitude ≈ упрекать кого-л. в неблагодарности. to tax smb. with trickery ≈ обвинить кого-л. в мошенничестве.
4) амер.;
разг. спрашивать или назначать цену;
устанавливать или брать плату What will you tax me? ≈ Сколько это будет (мне) стоить? Syn: charge налог, сбор;
пошлина - national *es государственные налоги - local *es местные сборы - direct *es прямые налоги - income * подоходный налог - single * единый земельный налог - inheritance * налог на наследство - profits * налоги на прибыли - corporation * налог на корпорацию - purchase * торговая пошлина - inspector of *es налоговый или финансовый инспектор - collector of *es = tax-collector - free of * сборщик налогов - after * после удержания налога;
за вычетом налога, "чистый" - * assessment налогообложение - * revenue поступление в казну от налогов - * benefit выигрыш на налогах - * incentives налоговые льготы (для поощрения, капиталовложений) - * rates величина налога - * rates on the unemployed налоги на безработных - * сuts сокращение налогов - to lower * rates уменьшить налоги - to impose a * on smb., smth. облагать кого-л., что-л. налогом - to collect *es взимать налоги;
собирать пошлину - to pay *es платить налоги - to pay a hundred dollars in *es заплатить налог в сумме ста долларов издержки - court *es судебные издержки бремя, испытание;
чрезмерное требование - this is a * on her strenght это подрывает ее силы - this was a * on his patience ему пришлось запастись терпением - this was a * on my time это отняло у меня уйму времени (американизм) (разговорное) размер счета (американизм) членские взносы( в обществе, профсоюзе и т. п.) облагать налогом;
подвергать обложению (налогом) - to * incomes брать налог с доходов, подвергать доходы налогообложению - to be heavily *ed нести тяжелое налоговое бремя (юридическое) таксировать, определять или устанавливать размер (штрафа, издержек, убытков) - to * the costs of an action определять размер судебных издержек испытывать, подвергать испытанию - to * smb.'s patience испытывать чье-л. терпение - to * one's powers to the utmost требовать максимального напряжения сил - it *es one's memory надо напрячь память делать выговор, выговаривать( кому-л. за что-л.) ;
упрекать - to * smb. with rudeness упрекать кого-л. в грубости обвинять, осуждать - to * smb. with trickery обвинить кого-л. в мошенничестве - to * smb. with a failure возложить на кого-л. ответственность за провал( американизм) (разговорное) назначать или спрашивать цену;
брать плату - what will you * me? сколько вы с меня возьмете? (американизм) взимать членские взносы (в обществе, профсоюзе) accrued ~ накопившаяся задолженность по выплате налогов achieve a ~ saving добиваться экономии за счет уменьшения налоговых платежей ad valorem ~ налог на стоимость additional income ~ дополнительный подоходный налог additional ~ дополнительный налог additional value for ~ purposes добавленная стоимость для налогообложения advance corporation ~ (ACT) авансовый налог с корпорации advance ~ предварительное определение судебных издержек after ~ после удержания налога airport ~ налог с пассажиров, отбывающих за границу из данного аэропорта allowance against ~ налоговая льгота alternative minimum ~ (AMT) минимальный альтернативный налог amusement ~ налог на развлечения (на билеты в кино, театры и т.п.) amusement ~ налог на развлечения attract income ~ взимать подоходный налог basic rate income ~ базисная ставка подоходного налога basic rate of ~ базисная налоговая ставка beverage ~ налог на продажу напитков business ~ налог на предпринимателя business ~ налог на предприятие business ~ налог на торгово-промышленное предприятие calculated income ~ вычисленный подоходный налог capital gains ~ налог на доход от прироста капитала capital gains ~ налог на доходы от прироста капитала capital gains ~ налог на увеличение рыночной стоимости капитала capital gains ~ on shares налог на доход от прироста капитала от акций capital ~ налог на капитал capital transfer ~ налог на перевод капитала capital yields ~ налог на доход от капитала car ~ налог на автомобиль carbon dioxide ~ налог на выбросы в атмосферу диоксида углерода charge ~ облагать налогом charter ~ чартерный налог church ~ церковный налог city ~ муниципальный налог climate improvement ~ налог на выбросы в атмосферу диоксида углерода commercial earnings ~ налог на доходы от торговли commercial enterprise subject to value-added ~ торговое предприятие, облагаемое налогом на добавленную стоимость community ~ местный налог company ~ налог на доходы компании company ~ налог с доходов компании consumption ~ налог на потребление consumption ~ налог потребления contingent ~ скрытый налог corporate income ~ налог с доходов корпорации corporate income ~ подоходный налог корпорации corporate profits ~ налог на прибыли корпорации corporate ~ налог с доходов компаний или корпораций corporate ~ налог с доходов корпорации corporation ~ налог на корпорацию county ~ муниципальный налог coupon ~ купонный налог current ~ on wealth действующий налог на имущество death ~ налог на наследство deduct ~ удерживать налоги deferred income ~ налог на доход будущего периода deferred ~ отсроченный налог delinquent ~ неуплаченный налог development ~ налог на строительство direct ~ прямой налог ~ (государственный) налог;
пошлина;
сбор;
direct (indirect) taxes прямые (косвенные) налоги dividend ~ налог на дивиденды due ~ причитающийся налог emergency ~ чрезвычайный налог entrance ~ вступительный налог equalization ~ уравнительный налог equalizing ~ равномерное распределение налогов estate ~ налог на наследство estate ~ налог на передачу имущества по наследству excise ~ акциз excise ~ акцизный налог excise ~ акцизный сбор expenditure ~ налог на расходы extraordinary ~ особый налог federal ~ федеральный налог final ~ окончательный размер налога flat-rate ~ налог, взимаемый по единой ставке flat-rate ~ пропорциональный налог for ~ purposes в целях налогообложения for ~ reasons по причинам налогообложения franchise ~ налог на монопольные права и привилегии full-year ~ сумма налогов за год general consumption ~ налог на все виды потребления gift ~ налог на дарение gift ~ налог на дарения (США) graduated income ~ прогрессивный подоходный налог graduated ~ прогрессивный налог head ~ налог. подушный налог heavy ~ большой, обременительный налог;
nuisance tax амер. небольшой налог, выплачиваемый по частям hidden ~ налог. скрытый налог hydrocarbon ~ налог. налог за выбросы углеводородов в окружающую среду I cannot ~ my memory не могу вспомнить;
to tax (smb.'s) patience испытывать (чье-л.) терпение impose a ~ облагать налогом income ~ подоходный налог individual income ~ персональный подоходный налог industrial ~ промышленный налог inheritance ~ налог на наследство initial car ~ регистрационный налог на автомобиль inland revenue ~ государственный налог input ~ налог на производственные затраты input value-added ~ налог на добавленную стоимость insurance ~ налог на страхование interest equalization ~ уравнительный налог на доход от процентов internal revenue ~ налог на внутренние доходы investment income ~ подоходный налог на капиталовложения investment ~ налог на капиталовложения ~ напряжение, бремя, испытание;
it is a great tax on my time это требует от меня слишком много времени land ~ земельный налог land ~ налог на земельную собственность land transfer ~ налог на перевод за границу платежей за землю land value ~ налог на стоимость земельных участков levy a ~ облагать налогом single ~ единый земельный налог;
to levy a tax (on smb., smth.) облагать (кого-л., что-л.) налогом local income ~ местный подоходный налог local income ~ муниципальный подоходный налог local property ~ местный налог на недвижимое имущество local property ~ местный поимущественный налог local ~ местный налог local ~ муниципальный налог lump sum ~ аккордный налог lump sum ~ налог на совокупную сумму доходов motor vehicle ~ налог на автомобиль multistage ~ многоступенчатый налог municipal ~ муниципальный налог national income ~ государственный подоходный налог national ~ государственный налог national ~ федеральный налог negative income ~ отрицательный подоходный налог (лица с доходом ниже установленного уровня и имеющие семью освобождаются от налога и пучают финансовую помощь от налоговой системы) negative income ~ отрицательный подоходный налог net wealth ~ налог на имущество, исключая долги net worth ~ налог на собственность nonpersonal ~ налог на недвижимое имущество nonrecurring ~ единовременный налог nonrefundable purchase ~ невозмещаемый налог на покупки heavy ~ большой, обременительный налог;
nuisance tax амер. небольшой налог, выплачиваемый по частям output ~ налог на объем производства overall ~ effect эффект полного налогообложения overpaid ~ переплаченный налог pay-as-you-earn ~ налог, взимаемый по мере поступления доходов pay-as-you-earn ~ (PAYE ~) подоходный налог, автоматически вычитаемый из заработной платы payroll ~ налог на заработную плату penalty ~ пеня personal income ~ личный подоходный налог personal property ~ личный поимущественный налог personal property ~ налог на личное имущество personal ~ личный подоходный налог personal ~ налог на движимое имущество personal ~ подушный налог petrol ~ налог на нефть petroleum revenue ~ (PRT) налог на доход от продажи нефти poll ~ подушный налог price excluding ~ цена без учета налога profits ~ налог на прибыли progressive ~ прогрессивный налог property transfer ~ налог на передачу правового титула proportional ~ пропорциональный налог provisional ~ временная налоговая ставка raw materials ~ налог на сырье real estate ~ налог на недвижимость registration ~ сбор за регистрацию regressive ~ регрессивный налог relief from ~ освобождение от уплаты налога relief from ~ скидка с налога remit ~ освобождать от уплаты налога residual ~ остаточный налог retail sales ~ налог с розничного оборота retained ~ удержанный налог sales ~ налог на доходы от продаж sales ~ налог на продажи sales ~ налог с оборота sales ~ торговый сбор seamen's income ~ подоходный налог с моряков seamen's ~ налогообложение моряков single ~ единый земельный налог;
to levy a tax (on smb., smth.) облагать (кого-л., что-л.) налогом single ~ единый налог specific ~ индивидуально определенный налог specific ~ специальный налог state ~ государственный налог substantive ~ law материальное налоговое законодательство succession ~ налог на наследуемую недвижимость supplementary ~ дополнительный налог surplus ~ чрезмерный налог tax взимать членские взносы ~ делать выговор, отчитывать (кого-л.) ;
обвинять, осуждать (with) ~ назначать цену ~ (государственный) налог;
пошлина;
сбор;
direct (indirect) taxes прямые (косвенные) налоги ~ налог ~ напряжение, бремя, испытание;
it is a great tax on my time это требует от меня слишком много времени ~ облагать налогом;
таксировать ~ облагать налогом ~ облагать пошлиной ~ обложение ~ юр. определять размер убытков (штрафа и т. п.) ;
определять размер судебных издержек ~ пошлина ~ размер счета ~ сбор ~ амер. разг. спрашивать, назначать цену;
what will you tax me? сколько это будет (мне) стоить? ~ таксировать, определять размер (о судебных издержках) ~ членские взносы ~ чрезмерно напрягать, подвергать испытанию;
утомлять;
the work taxes my powers эта работа слишком тяжела для меня ~ in arrears просрочка уплаты налога ~ on capital налог на капитал ~ on capital accretion налог на прирост стоимости капитала ~ on corporate net wealth налог на нетто-активы корпорации ~ on distributions налог на оптовую торговлю ~ on energy налог на электроэнергию ~ on funds налог на капитал ~ on income подоходный налог ~ on income from capital налог на доход с капитала ~ on industry налог на промышленное производство ~ on land value increment налог на прирост стоимости земли ~ on personal net wealth налог на личные нетто-активы ~ on real rate of return налог на реальную ставку прибыли ~ on the conveyance of property налог на передачу права собственности ~ on the transfer of property налог на передачу права собственности ~ on unearned income налог на непроизводственный доход ~ on unearned income налог на нетрудовой доход ~ on unearned income налог на рентный доход ~ on value added налог на добавленную стоимость ~ on wealth налог на имущество ~ on yield of pension scheme assets налог на доход от капитала, вложенного в фонд пенсионного обеспечения I cannot ~ my memory не могу вспомнить;
to tax (smb.'s) patience испытывать (чье-л.) терпение trade ~ налог на торговую деятельность trade ~ торговый налог transfer ~ налог на передачу собственности turnover excluding ~ налог с учетом оборота turnover including ~ налог без учета оборота turnover ~ налог с оборота undistributed profit ~ налог на нераспределенную прибыль unearned income ~ налог на рентный доход value added ~ налог на добавленную стоимость vehicle ~ налог на автотранспортные средства wage bill ~ налог на фонд заработной платы wage ~ налог на заработную плату wealth ~ налог на имущество ~ амер. разг. спрашивать, назначать цену;
what will you tax me? сколько это будет (мне) стоить? windfall profits ~ налог на непредвиденную прибыль withholding ~ налог на процентный доход и дивиденды, выплачиваемые нерезидентам withholding ~ налог путем вычетов withholding ~ налог с суммы дивидендов, распределяемых среди держателей акций withholding ~ подоходный налог, взимаемый путем регулярных вычетов из заработной платы ~ чрезмерно напрягать, подвергать испытанию;
утомлять;
the work taxes my powers эта работа слишком тяжела для меня

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > tax
6 gran aumento

f.

1 big increase.

2 high magnification.

* * *

(n.) = heavy increase

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

* * *

(n.) = heavy increase

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > gran aumento
7 chute

chute [∫yt]

feminine noun

   a. fall

• faire une chute de 3 mètres/mortelle to fall 3 metres/to one's death

• faire une chute de cheval to fall off a horse

• la loi de la chute des corps the law of gravity

• chute libre (en parachutisme) free fall

• être en chute libre [économie, ventes] to be in free fall

• « attention, chute de pierres » "danger, falling rocks"

   b. [de cheveux] loss ; [de feuilles] falling

• lotion contre la chute des cheveux hair restorer

   c. [d'empire, roi, gouvernement] fall ; [de monnaie, cours] fall (de in)

   d. chute (d'eau) waterfall

• de fortes chutes de pluie/neige heavy rainfall/snowfalls

   e. ( = déchet) offcut

   f. [d'histoire drôle] punch line

   g. la chute des reins the small of the back

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ʃyt
nom féminin

1) ( action de tomber) fall

faire une chute — [personne] to have ou take US a fall; [objet] to fall

faire une chute de moto — to fall off a motorbike

faire une chute de 5 mètres — to fall 5 metres [BrE]

2) ( fait de se détacher) ( de feuille) fall

chute des cheveux — hair loss

chutes de pierres — falling rocks

3) ( cascade)

chute d'eau — waterfall

les chutes du Niagara — Niagara Falls

4) Météorologie fall

fortes chutes de neige — heavy snowfall (sg)

5) ( baisse) drop (de in); ( de monnaie) fall; Finance

chute du dollar — fall in the price of the dollar

chute de la Bourse — fall on the stock market

chute de tension — Médecine sudden drop in blood pressure

6) (de ministre, régime) fall (de of); ( d'empire) collapse (de of); Armée (de ville, forteresse) fall (de of)

7) Religion

la chute — the Fall

8) ( fin) (de texte, film) ending; ( d'histoire) punch line

9) (de tissu, papier, cuir) offcut

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Phrasal Verbs:

- chute des corps

- chute libre

- la chute des reins

- chute du rideau

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ʃyt nf
1) (en tombant) fall

faire une chute — to fall

faire une chute de 10 m — to fall 10 m

faire une chute de cheval — to fall off a horse

une mauvaise chute — a bad fall

faire une mauvaise chute — to have a bad fall

entraîner qn dans sa chute — to bring sb down with one

2) [objet, rocher, mur] fall

chute de pierres — rock fall

la chute du Mur (de Berlin) — the fall of the Berlin Wall

3) [feuilles] fall

la chute des cheveux — hair loss

4) [cours, marchés, valeurs, bourses] fall, [prix, taux, consommation, demande] fall, drop, [dollar, euro] fall

la chute de qch; la récente chute des taux d'intérêt — the recent drop in interest rates, the recent fall in interest rates

la chute brutale de qch — the sudden drop in sth

la forte chute de qch — the sharp drop in sth, the sharp fall in sth

entraîner qch dans sa chute — to bring sth down with one

5) (chute d'eau) waterfall

6) [bois, papier, tissu] (= déchet) scrap

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chute nf

1 ( action de tomber) fall; faire une chute [personne] to have ou take US a fall; [objet] to fall; faire une chute de cheval/moto to fall off a horse/motorbike; une chute de 5 mètres a 5-metre^GB fall; faire une chute de 5 mètres to fall 5 metres^GB;

2 ( fait de se détacher) ( de feuille) fall; chute des cheveux hair loss; attention aux chutes de pierres look out for falling rocks;

3 ( cascade) chute d'eau waterfall; les chutes du Niagara Niagara Falls; barrage de haute chute Électrotech dam with a high head;

4 Météo fall; fortes chutes de neige/pluie heavy snowfall (sg)/rainfall (sg);

5 ( baisse) (de température, pression, prix etc) fall (de in), drop (de in); ( des ventes) drop (de in); ( de monnaie) Fin chute du dollar fall in the price of the dollar; chute de la Bourse fall on the stock market; chute de tension Méd sudden drop in blood pressure; il a fait une chute de tension his blood pressure dropped suddenly; chute de 5% 5% drop;

6 ( faillite) (de ministre, gouvernement, régime, d'empire) fall (de of); ( d'empire commercial) collapse (de of); Mil (de ville, forteresse) fall (de of);

7 Relig la chute the Fall;

8 ( fin) (de texte, film) ending; ( d'histoire) punch line;

9 ( pente) slope;

10 (de tissu, papier, cuir) offcut.

Composés

chute des corps Phys gravity; chute libre free-fall; descendre en chute libre [parachutiste, avion] to be in free-fall; tomber en chute libre [personne, objet] to fall through the air; économie/prix/popularité en chute libre fig plummeting economy/prices/popularity; la chute des reins the small of the back; chute du rideau Théât fall of the curtain, end of the play.

[ʃyt] nom féminin

1. [perte d'équilibre] fall

faire une chute to fall, to take a tumble

faire une chute de cheval to come off a horse

il a fait une chute de neuf mètres he fell nine metres

il m'a entraîné dans sa chute he dragged ou pulled me down with him

‘attention, chute de pierres’ ‘danger! falling rocks’

chute libre free fall

faire du saut en chute libre to skydive

la livre est en chute libre (figuré) the pound's plummetting

2. [perte] fall

la chute des cheveux hair loss

au moment de la chute des feuilles when the leaves fall

3. [baisse - des prix] drop, fall

chute des ventes COMMERCE fall-off in sales

chute de tension

a. MÉDECINE drop in blood pressure

b. ÉLECTRICITÉ & PHYSIQUE voltage drop

chute de pression pressure drop

4. [effondrement - d'un gouvernement, d'une institution] collapse, fall

entraîner quelqu'un dans sa chute to drag somebody down with one

5. MILITAIRE fall

6. BIBLE

la Chute the Fall

7. MÉTÉOROLOGIE

chutes de neige snowfall

chutes de pluie rainfall

8. [fin - d'une histoire] punch line

la chute du jour (littéraire) nightfall, the day's end

9. ANATOMIE

chute des reins small of the back

10. [déchet - de tissu] scrap ; [ - de bois, de métal] offcut, trimming

chutes de pellicule film trims

11. CONSTRUCTION [d'un toit] pitch, slope

chute d'eau nom féminin

waterfall

CHUTES

les chutes du Niagara (the) Niagara Falls

les chutes Victoria (the) Victoria Falls

les chutes d'Iguaçu (the) Iguaçu Falls

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8 Steuer

Steuer f 1. IMP/EXP levy; 2. STEUER tax, duty, imposition; 3. WIWI tax • jmdm. eine Steuer auferlegen STEUER impose a tax on sb • von der Steuer befreit sein STEUER be exempt from taxes, be not subject to taxation • von der Steuer freistellen STEUER exempt sb from tax
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f 1. <Imp/Exp> levy; 2. < Steuer> tax, duty, imposition; 3. <Vw> tax ■ jmdm. eine Steuer auferlegen < Steuer> impose a tax on sb ■ von der Steuer freistellen < Steuer> exempt sb from tax

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Steuer
tax, (Abgabe) impost, imposition, assessment, lot (Br.), rate (Br.), (Auto) [steering] wheel, (Zoll) customs duty;
• Steuern und Kosten abgezogen clear;
• abzüglich Steuern less taxes;
• einschließlich Steuer tax included;
• frei von Steuern tax-exempt (-free);
• mit Steuern überladen tax-ridden;
• nach Abzug der Steuern after [deduction for] taxes, tax[es] paid;
• von Steuern erdrückt crushed by (burdened with) taxation;
• vor Steuern pretax, less taxes, grossed;
• vor Berücksichtigung (Abzug) der Steuern prior to deduction of taxes, less taxes;
• zuzüglich Steuer plus tax;
• auf den Verbraucher abgewälzte Steuer tax shifted onto the consumer;
• abzuziehende Steuer tax to be deducted;
• allgemeine Steuern general taxes;
• angefallene Steuern accrued taxes;
• angeglichene Steuer (EU) harmonized tax;
• anteilmäßige Steuer pro-rata (proportional) tax;
• aufgehobene Steuer obsolete tax;
• ausgewiesene Steuern declared taxes;
• mit einem höheren Satz berechnete Steuer higher-rate tax;
• im Abzugswege zu bezahlende Steuer tax payable by deduction;
• zu viel bezahlte Steuer excess tax;
• degressive Steuer degressive tax;
• direkte Steuern tax payable direct, assessed (direct) taxes;
• doppelte Steuer double tax;
• drückende Steuern oppressive taxes;
• einbehaltene Steuern taxes withheld;
• vom Parlament eingeführte (beschlossene) Steuern parliamentary taxes;
• nicht eingegangene Steuern tax-collection shortage;
• einheitliche Steuer uniform tax;
• einmalige Steuer non-recurring tax;
• entstandene Steuern taxes incurred;
• erhobene Steuern taxes levied;
• fortlaufend erhobene Steuer tax by stages;
• jährlich erhobene Steuer annual tax;
• im Veranlagungswege erhobene Steuern assessed taxes;
• erträgliche Steuern reasonable taxation;
• fällige Steuern matured taxes, (Bilanz) accrued taxes payable;
• geschätzte Steuer estimated tax;
• gesparte Steuer duty saved;
• gestaffelte Steuer progressive (graduated) tax;
• nach oben gestaffelte Steuer progressive tax;
• gestundete Steuer deferred tax;
• zu viel gezahlte Steuer excess tax;
• harmonisierte Steuern (EU) harmonized taxes;
• harte Steuern grievous taxes;
• hinterzogene Steuer defrauded (evaded) tax;
• hohe Steuern heavy taxes;
• indirekte Steuern expenditure (indirect, outlay, excise) taxes, excise [duty];
• innerstaatliche Steuern internal taxes;
• kommunale Steuern county rates (Br.), local (municipal) taxes (US);
• latente Steuern (Bilanz) deferred taxes;
• laufende Steuern U.K. taxation (Br.);
• negative Steuern negative taxes;
• örtliche Steuern local rates (taxes, US);
• pauschalierte Steuer composition (lump-sum) tax, all-in-one rate;
• progressive Steuer progressive (graduated) tax;
• prohibitive Steuer prohibitive tax;
• regressive Steuer tax on a descending scale;
• rückständige Steuern tax [in] arrears, arrears of taxes, delinquent (US) (back) taxes;
• rückwirkende Steuer regressive tax;
• sonstige Steuern taxes other than federal income (US);
• städtische Steuern rates (Br.), local (municipal, US) taxes;
• vom Pächter zu tragende Steuern taxes payable by the tenant;
• überfällige Steuern back taxes;
• überhöhte (übermäßige) Steuern excessive taxes;
• überzahlte Steuer excess (overpaid) duty;
• umfassende Steuer blanket tax;
• unerhobene Steuer unlevied tax;
• unwirtschaftliche Steuer nuisance tax;
• veranlagte Steuer assessment, assessed (scheduled) tax;
• verdeckte Steuer stealth tax;
• vereinnahmte Steuer tax suffered;
• verschleierte (versteckte) Steuer hidden tax;
• völkerrechtswidrige Steuer illegal tax;
• im Abzugswege zahlbare Steuern tax payable by deduction;
• in Raten zahlbare Steuer duty payable on instalment;
• zu zahlende Steuer assessment, rating (Br.);
• in Naturalien zu zahlende Steuer tax in kind;
• zurückvergütete Steuer refunded tax;
• zusätzliche Steuer additional tax;
• zweckgebundene Steuern apportioned taxes;
• Steuer auf Abfindungen bei vorzeitiger Pensionierung tax on individual retirement arrangement;
• Steuern und Abgaben taxes and dues;
• inländische Steuern und Abgaben internal revenue taxes (US);
• indirekte Steuern auf die Ansammlung von Kapital indirect taxes on the raising of capital;
• Steuern für Ausgaben im privaten Bereich private expenditure taxes;
• Steuer für Devisenausländer non-resident tax;
• Steuern vom Einkommen, vom Ertrag und vom Vermögen taxes on income and property;
• Steuern auf im Ausland angefallene Einkünfte (Erträge) tax on foreign earnings;
• Steuern und sonstige Einkünfte general fund;
• Steuern auf Einkünfte aus selbstständiger Arbeit tax on income or profits from trade, profession or vocation;
• Steuern der EU-Bediensteten tax paid by European civil servants;
• Steuern und Gebühren taxes and fees
• Steuer auf alkoholische Getränke alcoholic beverage tax (Br.), liquor excise tax (US), liquor excise tax (US);
• Steuer auf nicht ausgeschüttete Gewinne undistributed profits tax, accumulated earnings tax (US);
• Steuer auf Grundbesitz general property tax (US);
• Steuer auf kurzfristige Kursgewinne short-term capital gains tax;
• Steuer mit höherem Satz higher-rate tax;
• Steuer mit normalem Steuertarif basic tax rate;
• Steuer auf selbstständige Tätigkeit tax in respect of any profession or vocation;
• Steuern und Umlagen rates and taxes;
• Steuern vom Vermögen tax on capital;
• Steuer auf das bewegliche (persönliche) Vermögen personal tax (US);
• Steuern auf den Wertzuwachs (Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen) taxes on capital appreciation;
• Steuer auf Wettgewinne tax on racing bets;
• Zölle und Steuern customs and excise entries;
• Steuern, Zölle und Abgaben taxes, duties, imposts and excises (US);
• Steuern abführen to pay taxes;
• Steuer gleich vom Ertrag abführen to pay a tax at the source;
• Steuern an die Finanzverwaltung abführen to hand over a tax to the commissioners of the Inland Revenue (Br.);
• Steuer abschaffen to abolish a tax;
• Steuer in Etappen abschaffen to phase out a tax;
• von der Steuer absetzen to deduct from the tax;
• Steuer auf den Kunden abwälzen to pass on (shift) a tax to the customer;
• Steuer anrechnen to impute a tax, (Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen) to credit taxes;
• in USA gezahlte Steuer in der Bundesrepublik anrechnen to allow United States taxes as credit against Federal Republic taxes;
• neue Steuer auferlegen to impose a new tax on the people;
• Steuer wieder aufheben to withdraw (abandon, back down, eliminate) a tax;
• Steuer aufschlüsseln to break down a tax;
• Steuern ausschreiben to levy taxes, to tax (US);
• von der Steuer befreien to frank (exempt, relieve) from a tax;
• Steuern einfach als Geschäftskosten behandeln to treat taxes simply as business expense;
• mit Steuern belasten (belegen) to lay (impose, burden) taxes upon;
• Höhe einer Steuer berechnen to assess (fix, compute the amount of) a tax;
• Steuern bereitstellen to allow (make provisions) for taxation;
• sich über zu hohe Steuern beschweren to grumble at high taxation;
• Steuer beseitigen to abolish a tax;
• Steuern bezahlen to return taxes to the treasury, to pay one’s taxes;
• Steuern nach dem Vermögen bezahlen to pay scot and lot (Br.);
• bei der Steuer in Abzug bringen to relieve;
• Steuer zum Normalsatz in Abzug bringen to deduct income tax at the standard rate from payment;
• Steuer einbehalten to retain a tax;
• Steuer bei der Lohnzahlung einbehalten to withhold a tax from wage payment (US);
• Steuer an der Quelle einbehalten to deduct a tax at source;
• Steuer einführen to impose a tax on the people;
• sich für niedrigere Steuern einsetzen to fight for lower taxes;
• Steuern eintreiben to collect (exact) taxes;
• Steuern einziehen to collect taxes;
• Steuern erheben to raise revenue, to levy (lay) taxes;
• Steuer an der Quelle erheben to levy a tax at the source;
• Steuern erhöhen to increase (raise) the taxes, to raise tax rates;
• Steuer erlassen to remit (abate) a tax;
• Steuer ermäßigen to reduce (lower, cut down) a tax;
• Steuer erstatten to repay (refund) a tax;
• überzahlte Steuer erstatten to refund an excess of tax;
• Steuern festsetzen to assess (graduate) taxes upon;
• Steuer herabsetzen to reduce (lower, abate, cut down) a tax;
• j. zu einer Steuer heranziehen to assess (tax, US) s. o.;
• Steuern hereinholen to get in taxes;
• Steuern hinterziehen to evade [paying] a tax, to defraud the revenue [authorities];
• Steuer auf etw. legen to impose (levy) a tax on s. th., to put (lay) a duty [up]on s. th.;
• größere Geldbeträge für die Steuer aufbringen müssen to have to fork out a lot of money to the collector of taxes;
• Steuer niederschlagen to drop a tax;
• Steuer pauschalieren to compound for a tax;
• Steuer rückvergüten to refund a tax;
• von Steuern befreit sein to be exempt from taxes;
• von der Steuer erfasst sein to be in the tax net;
• von der Steuer schon erfasst sein to have suffered tax;
• mit Steuern verbunden sein to involve taxes;
• Steuern senken to lighten (lower, cut [down]) the taxes;
• Steuern sparen to save on [income] taxes;
• Steuer stunden to defer payment of taxes;
• Steuer überwälzen to shift (pass on) a tax;
• Steuer umgehen to dodge a tax, to avoid payment of a tax;
• Steuern umlegen to apportion taxes;
• der Steuer unterliegen to be taxable (liable to a tax);
• nicht der Steuer unterliegen to be tax-exempt;
• der Steuer unterwerfen to fiscalize;
• nur in der Stadt selbst getätigte Umsätze der Steuer unterwerfen to allocate only receipts from sales within the city for tax purpose;
• Steuer veranlagen to assess a tax;
• Steuer verlangen to charge duty;
• Steuer vermeiden to avoid (dodge) taxes;
• Steuern verpachten to farm out taxes;
• 500 Euro an Steuern zahlen to pay euro 500 in taxes;
• höhere Steuern zahlen to write bigger tax cheques (Br.) (checks, US);
• zu niedrige Steuern zahlen to underpay taxes;
• für Steuern zurückstellen to allow (make provisions) for taxation;
• in Amerika fällige Steuern auf ausländische Einkünfte bis zur Transfermöglichkeit zurückstellen to defer American tax on income from abroad until it is repatriated;
• gezahlte Steuer zurückverlangen to claim tax back;
• Steuer-ABC taxation primer;
• Steuerabgabe levy.

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9 baja

f.

1 drop, fall (descenso).

redondear el precio a la baja to round the price down

el precio del cacao sigue a la baja the price of cocoa is continuing to fall

tendencia a la baja downward trend

jugar a la baja (finance) to bear the market

2 redundancy (cese) (forzado).

dar de baja a alguien to lay somebody off; (en empresa) to expel somebody (en club, sindicato)

darse de baja (de) to resign (from); (dimitir) to drop out (of); (salirse) to unsusomebodyscribe (from) (de subscripción)

3 sick leave (por enfermedad) (permiso). (peninsular Spanish)

estar/darse de baja to be on/take sick leave

baja por maternidad maternity leave

4 loss, casualty (military).

bajas civiles civilian casualties

5 pasha, Moslem honorary title, Moslem honourary title, pacha.

6 doctor's excuse, doctor's line, doctor's note.

7 lay off period.

8 termination of employment.

pres.indicat.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: bajar.

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baja

► nombre femenino

1 (descenso) fall, drop

■ la baja del precio del petróleo the fall in the price of oil

■ el dólar sigue a la baja the dollar continues to fall

2 MILITAR casualty

■ el ejército sufrió pocas bajas the army suffered few casualties

3 (por enfermedad) sick leave; (justificante) medical certificate, doctor's note

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FRASEOLOGÍA

dar de baja (a enfermo) to give a sick note to 2 (a socio de club) to expel 3 (a soldado) to declare missing

darse de baja (de un club) to cancel one's membership, leave, drop out 2 (en una suscripción) to cancel one's subscription 3 (por enfermedad) to take sick leave

estar de baja (enfermo) to be off sick 2 (pasado) to be dropping, on the way out

estar en baja to be dropping, on the way out

■ los concursos televisivos están en baja television quiz shows are on the way out

ser baja (deportista) to be injured, not be playing 2 (militar) to be reported missing

■ Osuna es baja para el partido de mañana Osuna is out of tomorrow's game

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1. f., (m. - bajo) 2. noun f.
1) casualty

2) fall, drop, slump

3) discharge

4) dismissal

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- dar de baja
- darse de baja
- estar de baja
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SF

1) (=descenso) fall, drop

se produjo una baja continuada de las temperaturas — there was a continued fall o drop in temperatures

una baja repentina de los beneficios — a sudden fall o drop in profits

sigue la baja en la cotización del euro — the euro continues to fall

el gobierno anunció una baja de los tipos de interés — the government announced a cut in interest rates

• a la baja — [evolución, tendencia] downward

se ha producido una orientación del mercado a la baja — the market has started on a downward trend

el precio del algodón sigue a la baja — the price of cotton continues to fall

la patronal está presionando los salarios a la baja — employers are forcing wages down

• abrir a la baja — (Bolsa) to open down

• cerrar a la baja — (Bolsa) to close down

la Bolsa cerró a la baja en el día de ayer — the Stock Exchange closed down o was down at the close of trading yesterday

• corregir algo a la baja — to adjust sth downwards

• cotizarse a la baja — (Bolsa) to trade low

• estar en baja — to be in decline

su reputación estuvo en baja en los últimos meses — his reputation was on the o in decline over the last few months

la Bolsa está en baja — there is a downward trend in the Stock Exchange, the Stock Exchange is in decline

2) (=cese)
[en organización, suscripción, trabajo]
hubo tantas bajas que el club tuvo que cerrar — so many people left that the club had to close down

la baja de dos de los países miembros — the departure of two member countries

el nuevo estilo de la revista ha causado numerosas bajas — the new style of the magazine has led many people to cancel their subscription

• dar de baja — [+ socio] to expel; [+ abogado, médico] to strike off; [+ militar] to discharge; [+ empleado] to dismiss, fire; [+ empresa, sociedad] to dissolve; [+ coche] to take out of circulation; [+ avión, tren] to decommission; [+ teléfono, luz] to have disconnected

la dieron de baja del club por no pagar la suscripción — her membership of the club was cancelled because she had failed to pay her subscription

la dirección decidió dar de baja al nuevo profesor — the board decided to dismiss the new teacher

hemos dado de baja la luz — we had the electricity disconnected

• darse de baja — [de club, institución, partido] to leave; [de revista, periódico] to cancel one's subscription

numerosos suscriptores han decidido darse de baja de la revista — many readers have decided to cancel their subscription to the magazine

nos dimos de baja del teléfono — we had the telephone disconnected

• pedir la baja — to hand in one's resignation

baja incentivada — voluntary redundancy

baja por incentivo — voluntary redundancy

baja por jubilación — retirement

baja por jubilación anticipada — early retirement

baja voluntaria — [por dimisión] voluntary redundancy; [por jubilación] early retirement

3) (=ausencia laboral)

• dar de baja, se le dará de baja a partir del día de la operación — she will be on sick leave from the day of the operation

• estar de baja — to be on sick leave, be off sick

• pedir la baja — to ask for o apply for sick leave

baja laboral — leave

baja maternal — maternity leave

baja médica — sick leave

baja permanente — indefinite sick leave

baja por enfermedad — sick leave

el número de bajas por enfermedad — the number of people taking sick leave

baja por maternidad — maternity leave

baja por paternidad — paternity leave

baja retribuida — paid leave

4) (Dep) [por descalificación] suspension; [por lesión] injury

el equipo sufrió dos bajas por sendas tarjetas rojas — the team lost two players for red card offences

el partido registró varias bajas en ambos equipos — there were several injuries for both teams during the match

5) Esp (Med) (=certificado) medical certificate, sick note *

6) (Mil) (=víctima) casualty

hasta la fecha no ha habido ninguna baja — there have been no casualties to date

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femenino

1) ( descenso) fall, drop

su popularidad está en baja — his popularity is waning o declining

la baja de las tasas de interés — the cut in interest rates

a la baja: tendencia a la baja downward trend; los que juegan a la baja — those who are selling for a fall, the bears

2)

a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave; ( certificado) medical certificate

está (dado) de baja — he's off sick o on sick leave

b) (Dep)

el equipo tiene varias bajas — the team is missing several regulars

c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty

los rebeldes tuvieron trece bajas — the rebels lost thirteen men

- baja por maternidad

3)

a) ( en entidad)

ha habido varias bajas — ( en clase) several students have dropped out o left; ( en asociación) several members have left

darse de baja — ( en club) to cancel one's membership, leave; ( en partido) to resign, leave

lo dieron de baja en el club por no pagar la cuota — they canceled his membership to the club for not paying his fees

causó baja en nuestra empresa — (Esp) he left our employment

b) (Mil) ( cese) discharge

dar de baja — to discharge

pidió la baja en el ejército — he applied to be discharged from the army

c) ( en puesto)

el equipo lo dio de baja — the club cut him (AmE), the club released him (BrE)

lo dieron de baja por invalidez — he was dismissed because of illness o on health grounds

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- baja incentivada

- baja voluntaria

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femenino

1) ( descenso) fall, drop

su popularidad está en baja — his popularity is waning o declining

la baja de las tasas de interés — the cut in interest rates

a la baja: tendencia a la baja downward trend; los que juegan a la baja — those who are selling for a fall, the bears

2)

a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave; ( certificado) medical certificate

está (dado) de baja — he's off sick o on sick leave

b) (Dep)

el equipo tiene varias bajas — the team is missing several regulars

c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty

los rebeldes tuvieron trece bajas — the rebels lost thirteen men

- baja por maternidad

3)

a) ( en entidad)

ha habido varias bajas — ( en clase) several students have dropped out o left; ( en asociación) several members have left

darse de baja — ( en club) to cancel one's membership, leave; ( en partido) to resign, leave

lo dieron de baja en el club por no pagar la cuota — they canceled his membership to the club for not paying his fees

causó baja en nuestra empresa — (Esp) he left our employment

b) (Mil) ( cese) discharge

dar de baja — to discharge

pidió la baja en el ejército — he applied to be discharged from the army

c) ( en puesto)

el equipo lo dio de baja — the club cut him (AmE), the club released him (BrE)

lo dieron de baja por invalidez — he was dismissed because of illness o on health grounds

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- baja incentivada

- baja voluntaria

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baja¹

¹ = drop, fall.

Ex: Perfect recall can only be achieved by a drop in the proportion of relevant documents considered.

Ex: There has been a rapid increase in the number and costs of science, technology and medicine scholarly titles in recent years, and a fall in subscriptions.

* a la baja = on the wane.

* estar a la baja = be down.

* ir a la baja = be down.

* Nombre + a la baja = Nombre + down.

baja²

² = leave.

Ex: The induction course will give all the necessary employment details relating to such matters as the amount of leave entitlement, insurance stoppages, what to do in case of sickness, etc..

* baja maternal = maternity leave, maternal leave.

* baja paternal = paternal leave.

* baja por enfermedad = sick leave, sickness leave.

* baja por maternidad = maternity leave, parental leave, maternal leave.

* baja por paternidad = paternal leave.

* baja temporal = temporary leave.

* dar de baja = take out of + circulation.

* estar de baja = be off work.

* estar de baja por enfermedad = be off work sick.

baja³

³ = termination.

Ex: No area of library operations would be unaffected -- from the selection of materials to the hiring and termination of personnel.

* dado de baja = written-off.

* darse de baja de una suscripción = unsubscribe.

baja⁴

⁴ = casualty.

Ex: Unfortunately, there are indications that the use of rubber stamps in libraries may be among the first casualties of the information revolution.

* baja de guerra = war casualty.

* baja en combate = combat casualty.

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baja

feminine

A (descenso) fall, drop

una baja en el número de inscripciones a fall o drop in the number of enrollments

su popularidad está en baja his popularity is waning o declining o on the wane

hubo una baja de tensión ( RPl); there was a drop in voltage

a la baja: el precio del crudo sigue a la baja the price of crude oil continues to fall

continúa la tendencia a la baja en las cuatro bolsas the downward trend continues o stocks continue to fall on all four exchanges

los que jugaban a la baja those who were selling for a fall, the bears

B

1

( Esp) ( Dep): Pardo es baja para el partido del domingo Pardo is out of Sunday's game

el equipo tiene varias bajas the team is without several of its usual players

2 ( Mil) (muerte) loss, casualty

los rebeldes tuvieron trece bajas the rebels lost thirteen men

registraron varias bajas they suffered several casualties o the loss of several men

3 ( Esp) ( Rels Labs) (permiso) sick leave; (certificado) medical certificate

debe presentar la baja you must produce your medical certificate

está (dado) de baja desde hace dos meses he's been off sick o on sick leave for two months

Compuesto:

baja por maternidad

maternity leave

C

1

(en un club, una organización): ha habido or se han registrado or se han producido varias bajas (en una clase) several students have dropped out o left; (en una asociación) several members have left

lo dieron de baja en el club por no pagar la cuota they canceled his membership of the club o threw him out of the club for not paying his subscription

darse de baja (en un club) to cancel one's membership, leave; (en un partido) to resign, leave; (en el consulado) to have one's name removed from the register; (de un sitio web) to unsubscribe

2 ( Mil) (cese) discharge

pidió la baja en el ejército he applied for a discharge o to be discharged from the army

fue dado de baja he was discharged

3

(en un puesto): la empresa lo dio de baja the company dismissed him, the company cut him ( AmE), the company sacked him ( BrE)

lo dieron de baja por invalidez he was dismissed because of illness o on health grounds

durante los tres meses posteriores a la fecha de la baja in the three months following termination of employment

causó baja en nuestra organización en mayo de 2008 ( Esp); he left our employment o ( frml) employ in May 2008

Compuestos:

● baja incentivada

voluntary redundancy ( with incentive payment)

● baja vegetativa

reducir la plantilla mediante bajas vegetativas to reduce the workforce by attrition ( AmE) o ( BrE) natural wastage

● baja voluntaria

voluntary redundancy

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Del verbo bajar: ( conjugate bajar)

baja es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

Multiple Entries:
baja
bajar
baja sustantivo femenino
1 ( descenso) fall, drop;
◊ una baja en los precios a fall o drop in prices;

la baja de las tasas de interés the cut in interest rates;
tendencia a la baja downward trend
2
a) (Esp) (Rels Labs) ( permiso) sick leave;

( certificado) medical certificate;
◊ está (dado) de baja he's off sick o on sick leave;

baja por maternidad (Esp) maternity leave
b) (Dep):

◊ el equipo tiene varias bajas the team is missing several regulars

c) (Mil) ( muerte) loss, casualty

3 ( en entidad):
◊ darse de baja ( en club) to cancel one's membership, leave;

( en partido) to resign, leave;
(Mil) ( cese) discharge;
◊ dar de baja to discharge

bajar ( conjugate bajar) verbo intransitivo
1
a) [ascensor/persona] ( alejándose) to go down;

( acercándose) to come down;
◊ baja por las escaleras to go/come down the stairs;

ya bajo I'll be right down
b) ( apearse) baja de algo ‹de tren/avión› to get off sth;

‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth
c) (Dep) [ equipo] to go down

2
a) [ marea] to go out

b) [fiebre/tensión] to go down, drop;

[ hinchazón] to go down;
[ temperatura] to fall, drop
c) [precio/valor] to fall, drop;

[ calidad] to deteriorate;
[ popularidad] to diminish;
◊ baja de precio to go down in price

verbo transitivo
1 ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
2 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
3
a) baja algo (de algo) ‹de armario/estante› to get sth down (from sth);

‹ del piso de arriba› ( traer) to bring sth down (from sth);
( llevar) to take sth down (to sth)
b) baja a algn de algo ‹de mesa/caballo› to get sb off sth

4
a) ‹persiana/telón› to lower;

‹ ventanilla› to open
b) ‹ cremallera› to undo

5 ‹ precio› to lower;
‹ fiebre› to bring down;
‹ volumen› to turn down;
‹ voz› to lower
bajarse verbo pronominal
1 ( apearse) bajase de algo ‹de tren/autobús› to get off sth;
‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth;
‹de pared/árbol› to get down off sth
2 ‹ pantalones› to take down;
‹ falda› to pull down
bajo,-a
I adjetivo
1 low
2 (de poca estatura) short: es muy bajo para jugar al baloncesto, he's a bit too short to play basketball
3 (poco intenso) faint, soft: en este local la música está baja, the music isn't very loud here
4 (escaso) poor: su nivel es muy bajo, his level is very low
este queso es bajo en calorías, this cheese is low in calories
5 Mús low
6 fig (mezquino, vil, ruin) base, despicable: tiene muy bajos instintos, he's absolutely contemptible
bajos fondos, the underworld
la clase baja, the lower class
II adverbio low: habla bajo, por favor, please speak quietly
por lo b., (a sus espaldas, disimuladamente) on the sly: con Pedro es muy amable, pero por lo bajo echa pestes de él, she's very nice to Pedro, but she's always slagging him off behind his back
(como mínimo) at least: ese libro cuesta cinco mil pesetas tirando por lo bajo, that book costs at least five thousand pesetas
III sustantivo masculino
1 Mús (instrumento, cantante, instrumentista) bass
2 (de un edificio) ground floor
3 (de una prenda) hem
IV mpl Mec underneath: las piedras del camino le rozaron los bajos del coche, we scratched the bottom of the car against the stones on the road
V preposición
1 (lugar) under, underneath
bajo techo, under shelter
bajo tierra, underground
bajo la tormenta, in the storm
2 Pol Hist under
bajo la dictadura, under the dictatorship 3 bajo cero, (temperatura) below zero
4 Jur under
bajo fianza, on bail
bajo juramento, under oath
bajo multa de cien mil pesetas, subject to a fine of one hundred thousand pesetas
bajo ningún concepto, under no circumstances
firmó la declaración bajo presión, she signed the declaration under pressure
La traducción más común del adjetivo es low. Sin embargo, recuerda que cuando quieres describir a una persona debes usar la palabra short: Es muy bajo para su edad. He's very short for his age.
baja sustantivo femenino
1 (informe médico) sick note
baja por enfermedad, sick leave
baja por maternidad, maternity leave
2 (descenso) drop, fall
3 Mil (víctima, herido) casualty: nuestro ejército no ha sufrido bajas, we haven't suffered any casualties
♦ Locuciones: coger la baja, (por enfermedad) to take sick leave
darse de baja, (de una asociación, una actividad) to resign [de, from], drop out [de, of]
estar de baja, (por enfermedad) to be off sick
Fin jugar a la baja, to operate for a fall
bajar
I verbo transitivo
1 (descender) to come o go down: bajé corriendo la cuesta, I ran downhill ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (llevar algo abajo) to bring o get o take down: baja los disfraces del trastero, bring the costumes down from the attic
3 (un telón) to lower
(una persiana) to let down
(la cabeza) to bow o lower
4 (reducir el volumen) to turn down
(la voz) to lower
5 (los precios, etc) to reduce, cut
6 (ropa, dobladillo) tengo que bajar el vestido, I've got to let the hem down
7 Mús tienes que bajar un tono, you've got to go down a tone
II verbo intransitivo
1 to go o come down: bajamos al bar, we went down to the bar
2 (apearse de un tren, un autobús) to get off
(de un coche) to get out [de, of]: tienes que bajarte en la siguiente parada, you've got to get off at the next stop
3 (disminuir la temperatura, los precios) to fall, drop: ha bajado su cotización en la bolsa, its share prices have dropped in the stock exchange
' baja' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bajar
- bajinis
- bajo
- borrarse
- cabeza
- cámara
- despacio
- estar
- estofa
- forma
- fresca
- fresco
- grosera
- grosero
- jugar
- marea
- media
- medio
- planta
- riñón
- telebasura
- temblor
- temporada
- tensión
- tintorro
- voz
- clase
- fondo
- incapacidad
- petiso
- renacuajo
- roto
English:
alternate
- attrition rate
- breath
- breathe
- casualty
- discharge
- downstairs
- downturn
- downward
- downwards
- fall behind
- floor
- form
- ground floor
- house
- low-calorie
- lower
- lower-class
- off
- off-peak
- quietly
- season
- shoddiness
- sick
- sick-leave
- simmer
- slide
- undertone
- voice
- whisper
- work
- down
- drop
- go
- ground
- hushed
- low
- red
- slump
- small
- sweep
- tide
- under
- voluntary
- water
- way

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baja nf

1. [descenso] drop, fall;

una baja en las temperaturas a drop in temperature;

no se descarta una baja en los tipos de interés a cut in interest rates isn't being ruled out;

redondear el precio a la baja to round the price down;

el precio del cacao sigue a la baja the price of cocoa is continuing to fall, the slump in the price of cocoa is continuing;

la bolsa de Madrid sigue a la baja share prices on the Madrid stock exchange are continuing to fall;

tendencia a la baja downward trend;

las eléctricas cotizaron ayer a la baja share prices for the electricity companies fell yesterday;
Fin
jugar a la baja to bear the market

2. [cese] lay-off, Br redundancy;

han anunciado veinte bajas [forzadas] they have announced twenty lay-offs o Br redundancies;

la empresa ha sufrido bajas entre sus directivos [voluntarias] a number of managers have left the firm;

la pérdida de las elecciones provocó cientos de bajas en el partido the election defeat caused hundreds of people to leave the party;

dar de baja a alguien [en una empresa] to lay sb off;
[en un club, sindicato] to expel sb;
darse de baja (de) [dimitir] to resign (from);
[salirse] to drop out (of);
pedir la baja [de un club, organización] to ask to leave;
[del ejército] to apply for a discharge
Comp
baja incentivada voluntary lay-off o Br redundancy;
baja por jubilación retirement;

baja retribuida paid leave;

baja no retribuida unpaid leave;

baja con sueldo paid leave;

baja sin sueldo unpaid leave

3. Esp [por enfermedad] [permiso] sick leave;
[documento] sick note, doctor's certificate;
estar/darse de baja to be on/take sick leave

Comp
baja por enfermedad sick leave;
baja por maternidad maternity leave;

baja por paternidad paternity leave

4. Mil loss, casualty;

se registraron numerosas bajas en el combate they suffered heavy casualties in the battle, a number of people were lost in the battle

5. Dep [por lesión] casualty, injured player;
[por sanción] suspended player;
al no haberse recuperado todavía, el brasileño causa o [m5] es baja para el próximo encuentro as he still hasn't recovered from injury, the Brazilian is out of the next game;

acudieron a la final con varias bajas importantes they went into the final with a number of important players missing

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baja

f

1 descenso fall, drop;

jugar a la baja FIN gamble on a bear market

2 persona casualty;

bajas pl MIL casualties

3 ( dimisión, cese)

:

causar baja resign, leave;

dar de baja dismiss;

darse de baja resign, leave ( por because of);

estar de baja (por enfermedad) be off sick, be on sick leave

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baja nf

1) descenso: fall, drop

2) : slump, recession

3) : loss, casualty

4)

dar de baja : to discharge, to dismiss

5)

darse de baja : to withdraw, to drop out

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baja n

1. (disminución) fall / drop

una baja de temperatura a drop in temperature

una baja del precio del carbón a fall in the price of coal

2. (persona lesionada)

hay muchas bajas para el partido de mañana a lot of players are out of tomorrow's game

3. (persona muerta) casualty [pl. casualties]

la flota regresó sin bajas the fleet returned without any casualties

4. (documento) sick note / doctor's note

pidió la baja por enfermedad he asked for a sick note

dar de baja a alguien (en el trabajo) to give someone sick leave (en un club etc) to cancel someone's membership

darse de baja (en un club, etc) to cancel your membership

estar de baja to be off sick / to be on sick leave

Spanish-English dictionary > baja
10 alborotar el gallinero

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > alborotar el gallinero
11 alborotar el palomar

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > alborotar el palomar
12 armar la de Dios

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > armar la de Dios
13 armar un gran revuelo

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > armar un gran revuelo
14 causar un gran revuelo

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons, make + a splash

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex. Israeli wine may be young, but it's making a splash worldwide.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons, make + a splash

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex: Israeli wine may be young, but it's making a splash worldwide.

Spanish-English dictionary > causar un gran revuelo
15 frenar

v.

1 to brake (automobiles).

El auto frena de repente The car brakes suddenly.

Ricardo frenó el auto Richard braked the car.

2 to check.

los altos tipos de interés frenan a los inversores the high interest rates are holding investors back

3 to rein in, to rein up, to rein back.

El jinete frenó al caballo The rider reined in the horse.

María frenó su lengua Mary checked her tongue.

4 to halt, to set back, to slow down to a halt.

El movimiento frenó The movement slowed down to a halt.

5 to scotch, to spoke.

El mecánico frena la rueda The mechanic scotches the wheel.

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frenar

► verbo transitivo

1 to brake

2 figurado to restrain, check

► verbo intransitivo

1 to brake

■ frenó de golpe he jammed on the brakes

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verb

1) to brake

2) check

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1. VT

1) (Aut, Mec) to brake

2) (=contener) [+ inflación, crecimiento, avance, deterioro] to check, slow down; [+ pasiones, entusiasmo] to curb; [+ enemigo, ataque] to check, hold back

su novia tiene que frenarle para que no beba tanto — his girlfriend has to restrain him from drinking so much

2.

VI (Aut) to brake

frena, que viene una curva — brake, there's a bend coming up

frenar en seco — to brake sharply o suddenly

3.

See:

frenarse

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) (Transp) to brake

2) <proceso/deterioro> to slow... down; <alza/inflación> to curb, check; <progreso/desarrollo> to hold... back

para frenar la ola de refugiados — to stem the flow of refugees
2.
frenar vi to brake, apply the brake(s) (frml)
3.
frenarse v pron (refl) to restrain oneself

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= put + the brakes on, stultify, rein in, curb, apply + the brakes, slow down, slow up, brake, hold + Nombre + back.

Ex. At the heart of the debate on Community budget and agricultural reforms has been the UK's insistence on the need to put the brakes on runaway spending on agriculture.

Ex. Excessive standardisation also tends to stultify development and improvement of IT products.

Ex. If librarians hope to rein in escalating periodical prices, they must become more assertive consumers.

Ex. A book detection system was installed to curb thefts which had been seriously eroding the library's resources for some time, creating a heavy drain on the limited book budget.

Ex. The conclusion by the article 'Children's bookstores: applying the brakes' is that the rapid growth in children's bookstores and bookselling, documented in previous surveys, may have finally reached a plateau.

Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.

Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.

Ex. Last year the system was upgraded so the car will brake if the driver fails to react to a dangerous situation.

Ex. Despite the improvements in the 17th edition, the scheme has been held back for years by the old policy of 'integrity of numbers' referred to above, the effects of which are not likely to be quickly mitigated.

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* frenar el gasto público = curb + public spending.

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1.
verbo transitivo

1) (Transp) to brake

2) <proceso/deterioro> to slow... down; <alza/inflación> to curb, check; <progreso/desarrollo> to hold... back

para frenar la ola de refugiados — to stem the flow of refugees
2.
frenar vi to brake, apply the brake(s) (frml)
3.
frenarse v pron (refl) to restrain oneself

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= put + the brakes on, stultify, rein in, curb, apply + the brakes, slow down, slow up, brake, hold + Nombre + back.

Ex: At the heart of the debate on Community budget and agricultural reforms has been the UK's insistence on the need to put the brakes on runaway spending on agriculture.

Ex: Excessive standardisation also tends to stultify development and improvement of IT products.

Ex: If librarians hope to rein in escalating periodical prices, they must become more assertive consumers.

Ex: A book detection system was installed to curb thefts which had been seriously eroding the library's resources for some time, creating a heavy drain on the limited book budget.

Ex: The conclusion by the article 'Children's bookstores: applying the brakes' is that the rapid growth in children's bookstores and bookselling, documented in previous surveys, may have finally reached a plateau.

Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.

Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.

Ex: Last year the system was upgraded so the car will brake if the driver fails to react to a dangerous situation.

Ex: Despite the improvements in the 17th edition, the scheme has been held back for years by the old policy of 'integrity of numbers' referred to above, the effects of which are not likely to be quickly mitigated.

* frenar el gasto público = curb + public spending.

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frenar [A1 ]

vt

A ( Transp) to brake

B

1 ‹proceso/deterioro› to slow … down, check; ‹alza/inflación› to curb, check, slow … down; ‹progreso/desarrollo› to hold … back, slow … up/down

frena la maduración de la fruta it stops the fruit ripening so quickly, it slows down the ripening process of the fruit

a veces uno tiene que frenar la lengua there are times when one has to hold one's tongue

para frenar la ola de refugiados to stem the flow of refugees

2 ‹ilusiones/esperanzas› to put a damper on

■ frenar

vi

to brake, apply the brake(s) ( frml)

■ frenarse

v pron

( refl) to restrain oneself

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frenar ( conjugate frenar) verbo transitivo
1 (Transp) to brake
2 ‹proceso/deterioro› to slow … down;
‹alza/inflación› to curb, check;
‹progreso/desarrollo› to hold … back
verbo intransitivo
to brake, apply the brake(s) (frml)
frenar verbo transitivo
1 (un vehículo, máquina) to brake
2 (contener) (crisis, inflación, etc) to slow down
(una tendencia, un impulso) to restrain
' frenar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
retardar
- seco
English:
arrest
- brake
- check
- put on
- slam on
- apply
- curb

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frenar

♦ vt

1. [en vehículo] to brake

2. [contener] to check;
[disminuir] to curb, to slow down;
medidas para frenar el desempleo measures to curb unemployment;

nadie pudo frenar a la estrella brasileña no one could stop the Brazilian star;

los altos tipos de interés frenan a los inversores the high interest rates are holding investors back

♦ vi
[en vehículo] to brake
♦ See also the pronominal verb frenarse

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frenar

I v/i AUTO brake;

frenar en seco brake sharply

II v/t fig

slow down; impulsos check

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frenar vt

1) : to brake

2) detener: to curb, to check

frenar vi

: to apply the brakes

♦ See also the reflexive verb frenarse

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frenar vb to brake

Spanish-English dictionary > frenar
16 infractor

m.

lawbreaker, infringer, transgressor, offender.

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infractor

► adjetivo

1 offending

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 offender

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(f. - infractora)

noun

offender

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infractor, -a
SM / F offender (de against)
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- tora masculino, femenino offender

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= offender, abuser, defaulter, harmdoer, victimiser [victimizer, -USA], lawbreaker, violator.

Ex. The much-criticized DELINQUENT WOMEN was changed to FEMALE offenders in the 1974 Supplement to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Ex. The article 'Are you a user or an abuser?' urges librarians and borrowers to use the library with restraint.

Ex. Libraries make special arrangements for short-term loans lasting as little as two hours in some cases, and charge heavy fines to act as a deterrent to defaulters.

Ex. The act of 'harmdoing' is defined, & the impact of legal structures on the behavior of the harmdoer & victim is examined.

Ex. The victimizers acted with impunity & largely went unpunished.

Ex. Blacks are generally overrepresented as lawbreakers and Latinos and Whites are underrepresented as lawbreakers on television news compared to their respective crime rates.

Ex. In the past teachers and lecturers have been the most flagrant violators of the author's copyright.

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* infractor de la ley = scofflaw.

* infractor de tráfico = scofflaw.

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- tora masculino, femenino offender

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= offender, abuser, defaulter, harmdoer, victimiser [victimizer, -USA], lawbreaker, violator.

Ex: The much-criticized DELINQUENT WOMEN was changed to FEMALE offenders in the 1974 Supplement to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH).

Ex: The article 'Are you a user or an abuser?' urges librarians and borrowers to use the library with restraint.

Ex: Libraries make special arrangements for short-term loans lasting as little as two hours in some cases, and charge heavy fines to act as a deterrent to defaulters.

Ex: The act of 'harmdoing' is defined, & the impact of legal structures on the behavior of the harmdoer & victim is examined.

Ex: The victimizers acted with impunity & largely went unpunished.

Ex: Blacks are generally overrepresented as lawbreakers and Latinos and Whites are underrepresented as lawbreakers on television news compared to their respective crime rates.

Ex: In the past teachers and lecturers have been the most flagrant violators of the author's copyright.

* infractor de la ley = scofflaw.

* infractor de tráfico = scofflaw.

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infractor - tora

masculine, feminine

offender

los infractores de la ley tributaria tax offenders

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infractor
◊ - tora sustantivo masculino, femenino

offender
infractor,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino offender

' infractor' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
infractora
English:
lawbreaker
- offender

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infractor, -ora

♦ adj

offending

♦ nm,f

offender

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infractor

I adj offending atr

II m, infractora f offender

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infractor, - tora n

: offender

Spanish-English dictionary > infractor
17 levantar un gran revuelo

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > levantar un gran revuelo
18 meter el lobo en el redil

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex. There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

* * *

(v.) = set + the cat among the pigeons, put + the cat among the pigeons

Ex: There is a new book just coming out that promises to set the cat among the pigeons on the Shakespeare scene.

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > meter el lobo en el redil
19 precio + dispararse

(v.) = price + spiral out of control, price + go through the roof, price + soar through the roof

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex. And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof.

Ex. With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy.

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(v.) = price + spiral out of control, price + go through the roof, price + soar through the roof

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Ex: And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof.

Ex: With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy.

Spanish-English dictionary > precio + dispararse
20 precio de la vivienda

(n.) = house price

Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

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(n.) = house price

Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

Spanish-English dictionary > precio de la vivienda

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