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  • 1 percent of return

    рекл. = response rate 2),

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > percent of return

  • 2 return

    return [rɪ'tɜ:n]
    retour ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (e), 1 (h)-(j) renvoi ⇒ 1 (b) rendu ⇒ 1 (c) aller et retour ⇒ 1 (d) réapparition ⇒ 1 (e) rendement ⇒ 1 (f) rendre ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c), 2 (d), 2 (h) rapporter ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (i) renvoyer ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (e) remettre ⇒ 2 (b) retourner ⇒ 3 revenir ⇒ 3 réapparaître ⇒ 3
    1 noun
    ∎ on her return à son retour;
    ∎ on his return to France à son retour en France;
    ∎ the point of no return le point de non-retour;
    ∎ British by return (of post) par retour du courrier;
    ∎ a return to normal un retour à la normale;
    ∎ a return to traditional methods un retour aux méthodes traditionnelles;
    ∎ the strikers' return to work la reprise du travail par les grévistes;
    ∎ return to office (of politician) reprise f de fonctions
    (b) (giving or taking back) retour m; (sending back) renvoi m, retour m; (of stolen property) restitution f; (of overpayment) remboursement m;
    ∎ on return of this coupon sur renvoi de ce bon;
    ∎ on sale or return (goods) vendu avec possibilité de retour;
    ∎ no deposit, no return (on bottle) ni retour, ni consigne;
    ∎ it's a small return for all your kindness c'est une modeste récompense pour votre bonté
    (c) (returned article) rendu m; (library book) livre m (de bibliothèque) que l'on rapporte;
    ∎ Theatre returns may be available on the day of the performance des places peuvent se libérer le jour de la représentation
    (d) British (round trip, ticket) aller et retour m;
    ∎ two returns to Edinburgh, please deux allers et retours pour Édimbourg, s'il vous plaît
    (e) (reappearance → of fever, pain, good weather) réapparition f, retour m
    (f) Finance (yield) rendement m, rapport m;
    ∎ a 10 percent return on investment un rendement de 10 pour cent sur la somme investie;
    ∎ how much return do you get on your investment? combien est-ce que ton investissement te rapporte?;
    ∎ to bring a good return être d'un bon rapport;
    ∎ return on capital retour m sur capital;
    ∎ return on capital employed retour m sur capital permanent;
    ∎ return on capital invested retour m sur capitaux investis;
    ∎ return on equity rendement m sur fonds propres;
    ∎ return on investment retour m sur investissements;
    ∎ return on net assets rendement m de l'actif net;
    ∎ return on sales retour m sur ventes
    (g) (for income tax) (formulaire m de) déclaration f d'impôts
    (h) Sport (in tennis) retour m;
    ∎ return of service retour m de service;
    ∎ to make a good return (of service) bien renvoyer le service;
    ∎ what a brilliant return! ce retour est superbe!
    (i) Architecture retour m
    (j) (on keyboard) touche f retour
    (a) (give back) rendre; (take back) rapporter; (send back) renvoyer, retourner; Marketing (goods) renvoyer;
    ∎ the jewels have been returned to their rightful owners les bijoux ont été rendus à leurs propriétaires légitimes;
    ∎ I have to return the library books today il faut que je rapporte les livres à la bibliothèque aujourd'hui;
    ∎ return this coupon for your fabulous free gift renvoyez ce bon pour obtenir votre magnifique cadeau;
    ∎ return to sender (on envelope) retour à l'expéditeur;
    ∎ she returned my look elle me regarda à son tour;
    ∎ the soldiers returned our fire les soldats répondirent à notre tir;
    ∎ Telecommunications to return a call rappeler
    (b) (replace, put back) remettre;
    ∎ she returned the file to the drawer elle remit le dossier dans le tiroir;
    ∎ to return an animal to the wild remettre un animal en liberté
    (c) (repay → kindness, compliment) rendre (en retour);
    ∎ how can I return your favour? comment vous remercier?;
    ∎ to return sb's greeting rendre un salut à qn;
    ∎ they returned our visit the following year ils sont venus nous voir à leur tour l'année suivante
    (d) (reciprocate → affection) rendre;
    ∎ she did not return his love l'amour qu'il éprouvait pour elle n'était pas partagé
    (e) Sport (in tennis → serve) renvoyer;
    ∎ to return (the) service renvoyer le service
    (f) British (elect) élire;
    ∎ she was returned as member for Tottenham elle a été élue député de Tottenham
    (g) (reply) répondre
    (h) Law (pronounce → verdict) rendre, prononcer;
    ∎ the jury returned a verdict of guilty/not guilty le jury a déclaré l'accusé coupable/non coupable
    (i) Finance (yield → profit, interest) rapporter
    (j) Cards (in bridge) rejouer;
    ∎ East returns clubs for dummy's ace Est rejoue pique pour l'as du mort
    (go back) retourner; (come back) revenir; (reappear → fever, pain, good weather, fears) revenir, réapparaître;
    ∎ they've returned to Australia (speaker is in Australia) ils sont revenus en Australie; (speaker is elsewhere) ils sont retournés ou repartis en Australie;
    ∎ as soon as she returns dès son retour;
    ∎ to return home rentrer (à la maison ou chez soi);
    ∎ let's return to your question revenons à votre question;
    ∎ when I returned to consciousness quand j'ai repris connaissance, quand je suis revenu à moi;
    ∎ to return to work reprendre le travail;
    ∎ she returned to her reading elle reprit sa lecture;
    ∎ he soon returned to his old ways il est vite retombé dans ou il a vite repris ses anciennes habitudes;
    ∎ the situation should return to normal next week la situation devrait redevenir normale la semaine prochaine;
    ∎ her colour returned elle a repris des couleurs;
    ∎ Nautical to return to port rentrer au port;
    ∎ to return from the dead ressusciter d'entre les morts
    (a) (results) résultats mpl; (statistics) statistiques fpl, chiffres mpl;
    ∎ the election returns les résultats mpl des élections;
    ∎ first returns indicate a swing to the left les premiers résultats du scrutin indiquent un glissement à gauche
    (b) Finance (profit) bénéfices mpl
    ∎ many happy returns (of the day)! bon ou joyeux anniversaire!
    en retour, en échange;
    ∎ in return, he's letting me use his car en retour ou en échange, il me laisse utiliser sa voiture;
    ∎ if you will do sth in return si vous voulez bien faire qch en retour;
    ∎ you must expect the same treatment in return il faut vous attendre à la pareille
    en échange de;
    ∎ in return for which… moyennant quoi…;
    ∎ in return for this service… en récompense de ce service…
    ►► return address adresse f de l'expéditeur;
    British return air fare tarif m aérien aller-retour;
    Accountancy returns book journal m des rendus;
    return cargo cargaison f de retour;
    returned cheque chèque m retourné;
    British return fare tarif m aller (et) retour;
    return flight vol m de retour;
    return freight fret m de retour;
    return journey (voyage m du) retour m;
    Computing return key touche f retour;
    Accountancy returns ledger journal m des rendus;
    Sport return match match m retour;
    British return ticket (billet m d')aller (et) retour m
    ✾ Book 'The Return of the Native' Hardy 'Le Retour au pays natal'

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  • 3 return on sales

    return on sales 1. ECON, FIN Umsatzgewinnrate f, Umsatzrentabilität f, Umsatzrendite f (profit in percent of turnover); 2. S&M Gewinnspanne f

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > return on sales

  • 4 percent return on investment

    Отношение дохода, полученного от фирмы, к деньгам и собственности, вложенным в фирму.

    Англо-русский словарь по инвестициям > percent return on investment

  • 5 percentage return on sales

    percentage return on sales ECON, FIN Umsatzgewinnrate f, Umsatzrentabilität f, Umsatzrendite f (profit in percent of turnover)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > percentage return on sales

  • 6 this investment will yield a return of five percent

    English-Macedonian dictionary > this investment will yield a return of five percent

  • 7 response rate

    1) соц. процент ответивших (на вопрос) (доля лиц, согласившихся ответить, в общем числе людей, которым было предложено ответить на вопросы)
    2) рекл. показатель отклика [ответной реакции\], уровень отклика (количество оплаченных заказов или общее количество оплаченных и кредитных заказов, выраженное в процентах к общему числу экземпляров отправленной по почте рекламы или к общему числу контактов с ней)
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > response rate

  • 8 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.
       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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  • 9 buy-and-hold

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    For these people, buy-and-hold is going to be the more satisfying approach to investing. — Для этих людей стратегия "покупать и держать" представляется более удовлетворительным подходом к инвестированию.

    In a period when buy-and-hold produces a 12 percent return, one timing model could produce 6 percent, another 18 percent. And during a period when buy-and-hold loses 10 percent, timing could lose money or make money. — В период, когда стратегия "покупать и держать" приносит доход в размере 12%, одна модель выбора времени сделки может принести доход в размер 6%, а другая — в размере 18%.

    When a buy-and-hold investor outperforms the market, he or she is likely seen as a competent stock picker. — Когда инвестор, придерживающийся стратегии "покупать и держать" достигает большего дохода, чем среднерыночный, он или она скорее всего воспринимается как лицо, умело выбирающее акции.

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > buy-and-hold

  • 10 compound

    1. сущ.
    общ. смесь, соединение, состав; строение, структура, целостное образование
    2. прил.
    общ. сложный, составной

    compound word — сложное [составное\] слово

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    3. гл.
    1) общ. смешивать, комбинировать, сочетать, составлять

    to combine ingredients — смешивать компоненты [ингредиенты\]

    2)
    а) юр. (отказываться от возбуждения иска, жалобы за материальное вознаграждение; приходить к соглашению о замене судебного преследования материальным вознаграждением)
    3) фин. начислять [рассчитывать\] сложные проценты (начислять проценты на сумму номинальной стоимости долга или вклада и ранее начисленных процентов)

    For example, with $100 in an account earning five percent interest, compounded monthly, you would earn $5.11 in year one. However, in the second year, you would earn five percent on $105.11, or $5.37, giving you a real return that is actually higher than five percent. — Например, если бы на счете, приносящем доход по (годовой) ставке 5% и подразумевающем ежемесячное начисление сложных процентов, имелось бы 100 долл., вы бы заработали в первый год 5,11 долл. Однако, во второй год вы бы заработали 5% от 105,11 долл., т. е. 5,37 долл., что дало бы вам реальную доходность выше, чем 5%.

    See:
    4) общ. осложнять ( положение); усугублять ( трудности)

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > compound

  • 11 tax

    (on income) impôt m, contributions f pl; (on goods, services, imports) taxe f;
    ∎ most of my income goes on tax la plus grande partie de mes revenus va aux impôts;
    ∎ I paid over $5,000 in tax j'ai payé plus de 5000 dollars d'impôts;
    ∎ there is a high tax on whisky le whisky est fortement taxé;
    ∎ to put a ten percent tax on sth imposer ou taxer qch à dix pour cent;
    ∎ to levy a tax on sth frapper qch d'une taxe;
    ∎ to be liable to tax être assujetti(e) à l'impôt;
    ∎ before tax hors taxe; (income) avant impôt;
    ∎ after tax après impôt;
    ∎ exclusive of tax hors taxe;
    ∎ tax and spend = politique alliant une fiscalité élevée et de fortes dépenses publiques
    tax adjustment redressement m fiscal ou d'impôt; tax allowance abattement m fiscal, déduction f fiscale;
    tax assessment avis m d'imposition, fixation f de l'impôt;
    tax audit vérification f fiscale;
    tax authorities administration f fiscale;
    tax avoidance évasion f fiscale;
    tax band tranche f d'imposition;
    tax base assiette f fiscale;
    tax benefit avantage m fiscal;
    tax bite proportion f du revenu pris par l'impôt;
    tax bracket tranche ou fourchette f d'imposition;
    tax break allègement m fiscal;
    tax burden pression f fiscale, poids m de la fiscalité;
    tax ceiling plafond m fiscal ou de l'impôt;
    tax centre centre m des impôts;
    tax code barème m fiscal;
    tax collector percepteur m d'impôt, receveur m des contributions;
    tax consultant conseiller(ère) m, f fiscal(e);
    tax credit aide f fiscale, avoir m fiscal;
    tax cut baisse f ou réduction f des impôts;
    tax cutting baisse ou réduction des impôts;
    tax deducted at source impôt retenu à la base ou à la source;
    tax deduction déduction fiscale;
    tax deduction at source perception f à la source;
    American tax dollars impôts m pl (payés par la population); tax domicile domicile m fiscal;
    tax evasion fraude f ou évasion fiscale;
    tax exemption exemption f d'impôt;
    tax exile = personne qui réside à l'étranger pour minimiser la responsabilité fiscale;
    tax form déclaration f d'impôts;
    tax fraud fraude fiscale;
    EU tax harmonization harmonisation f fiscale;
    tax haven paradis m fiscal;
    tax holiday = période de grâce accordée pour le paiement des impôts;
    tax incentive incitation f fiscale, avantage fiscal;
    tax inspection contrôle m fiscal;
    tax inspector inspecteur(trice) m, f des contributions directes ou des impôts;
    tax law droit m fiscal;
    tax laws législation f fiscale;
    tax liability (of person) assujetissement m à l'impôt; (of goods, product) exigibilité f de taxe;
    tax loophole échappatoire f fiscale;
    tax loss déficit m fiscal reportable;
    tax on luxury goods taxe de luxe;
    tax office centre des impôts;
    tax official agent m du fisc;
    tax privilege privilège m fiscal;
    tax provision disposition f fiscale;
    tax resources ressources f pl fiscales;
    tax rate taux m d'imposition;
    tax rebate dégrèvement m fiscal;
    tax reduction abattement fiscal;
    tax refund (on goods) détaxe f; (of income tax) restitution f d'impôts;
    tax regime régime m fiscal;
    tax relief dégrèvement fiscal;
    tax return déclaration de revenu, feuille f d'impôt;
    tax revenue recettes f pl ou rentrées f pl fiscales;
    tax roll rôle m d'impôt ou des contributions;
    tax rules réglementation f fiscale;
    tax schedule barême d'imposition;
    tax shelter avantage fiscal;
    tax shield protection f fiscale;
    tax survey enquête f fiscale;
    tax system régime fiscal ou d'imposition;
    tax threshold minimum m imposable, seuil m d'imposition;
    tax on value taxation f à la valeur;
    tax on weight taxation au poids;
    tax year année f fiscale ou d'imposition
    (person, company) imposer, frapper d'un impôt; (goods, services, imports) taxer, frapper d'un taxe;
    ∎ the rich will be more heavily taxed les riches seront plus lourdement imposés;
    ∎ luxury goods are taxed at 28 percent les articles de luxe sont taxés à 28 pour cent;
    ∎ small businesses are being taxed out of existence accablées d'impôts, les petites entreprises disparaissent

    Tax cutting can encourage people to do the right thing. Tax relief for charitable giving, and a tax holiday for charities, is accepted by both major parties, and does help increase the amount of charitable money.

    English-French business dictionary > tax

  • 12 Cavaco Silva, Aníbal Antônio

    (1939-)
       Leading figure in post-1974 Portugal, Social Democrat leader, prime minister (1985-95), president of the Republic since 2006. Born in the Algarve in 1939, Cavaco Silva was educated in Faro and Lisbon and, in 1964, obtained a degree in finance at the University of Lisbon. Like many of the younger leaders of post-1974 Portugal, Cavaco Silva underwent an important part of his professional training abroad; in December 1973, he received a doctorate in economics from York University, Great Britain. He entered academic life as an economics and finance professor in 1974 and taught until he entered politics full-time in 1980, when he was named minister of finance in the sixth constitutional government of Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader and prime minister Sá Carneiro. He was elected a PSD deputy to the Republican Assembly in October 1980. Following the general legislative elections of October 1985, Cavaco Silva was named prime minister of the 10th constitutional government. His party, the PSD, strengthened its hold on the legislature yet again in the 1987 election when, for the first time since the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal was ruled by a party with a clear majority of seats in the legislature.
       Cavaco Silva, who has emphasized a strong free-enterprise and denationalization policy in the framework of economic rejuvenation, served as prime minister (1985-95) and, in the elections of 1987 and 1991, his party won a clear majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic (more than 50 percent), which encouraged stability and economic progress in postrevolutionary Portugal. In the 1995 general elections, the Socialist Party (PS) defeated the PSD; he ran for the presidency of the republic in 1995 and lost to Jorge Sampaio. Cavaco Silva retired briefly from politics to teach at the Catholic University. In October 2005, he announced his return to politics and became a candidate for the upcoming presidential election. On 22 January 2006, he received 50.5 percent of the vote and was sworn in on 9 March 2006.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Cavaco Silva, Aníbal Antônio

  • 13 take

    take [teɪk]
    prendre ⇒ 1A (a), 1A (b), 1B (a), 1B (c)-(e), 1C (b), 1D (a), 1D (b), 1E (a), 1F (a), 1G (a), 1G (b), 1G (d), 1H (a), 1H (b), 1I (a), 1I (c), 1I (d), 1I (f), 1I (g), 2 (a)-(c) porter ⇒ 1B (a) mener ⇒ 1B (b) conduire ⇒ 1C (a) recevoir ⇒ 1D (c) croire ⇒ 1F (b) supporter ⇒ 1F (d) supposer ⇒ 1G (c) contenir ⇒ 1I (e) passer ⇒ 1I (i)
    (pt took [tʊk], pp taken ['teɪkən])
    A.
    (a) (get hold of) prendre; (seize) prendre, saisir;
    ∎ let me take your coat donnez-moi votre manteau;
    ∎ she took the book from him elle lui a pris le livre;
    ∎ to take sb's hand prendre qn par la main;
    ∎ she took his arm elle lui a pris le bras;
    ∎ Peter took her in his arms Peter l'a prise dans ses bras;
    ∎ the wolf took its prey by the throat le loup a saisi sa proie à la gorge
    (b) (get control of, capture → person) prendre, capturer; (→ fish, game) prendre, attraper; Military prendre, s'emparer de;
    ∎ they took the town that night ils prirent ou s'emparèrent de la ville cette nuit-là;
    ∎ to take sb prisoner faire qn prisonnier;
    ∎ to take sb alive prendre ou capturer qn vivant;
    ∎ I took his queen with my rook j'ai pris sa reine avec ma tour;
    ∎ to take control of a situation prendre une situation en main;
    ∎ we took our courage in both hands nous avons pris notre courage à deux mains;
    ∎ you're taking your life in your hands doing that c'est ta vie que tu risques en faisant cela;
    ∎ to take the lead in sth (in competition) prendre la tête de qch; (set example) être le premier à faire qch
    B.
    (a) (carry from one place to another) porter, apporter; (carry along, have in one's possession) prendre, emporter;
    ∎ she took her mother a cup of tea elle a apporté une tasse de thé à sa mère;
    ∎ he took the map with him il a emporté la carte;
    ∎ she took some towels up(stairs)/down(stairs) elle a monté/descendu des serviettes;
    ∎ don't forget to take your camera n'oubliez pas (de prendre) votre appareil photo;
    ∎ figurative the committee wanted to take the matter further le comité voulait mener l'affaire plus loin;
    ∎ the devil take it! que le diable l'emporte!;
    ∎ you can't take it with you (money when you die) tu ne l'emporteras pas avec toi dans la tombe
    (b) (person → lead) mener, emmener; (→ accompany) accompagner;
    ∎ her father takes her to school son père l'emmène à l'école;
    ∎ could you take me home? pourriez-vous me ramener ou me raccompagner?;
    ∎ to take sb across the road faire traverser la rue à qn;
    ∎ may I take you to dinner? puis-je vous inviter à dîner ou vous emmener dîner?;
    ∎ he offered to take them to work in the car il leur a proposé de les emmener au bureau en voiture ou de les conduire au bureau;
    ∎ to take oneself to bed aller se coucher;
    ∎ please take me with you emmène-moi, s'il te plaît;
    ∎ humorous I can't take you anywhere tu n'es pas sortable;
    ∎ the estate agent took them over the house l'agent immobilier leur a fait visiter la maison;
    ∎ he took her round the museum il lui a fait visiter le musée;
    ∎ she used to take me along to meetings (avant,) elle m'emmenait aux réunions;
    ∎ this road will take you to the station cette route vous mènera ou vous conduira à la gare;
    ∎ I don't want to take you out of your way je ne veux pas vous faire faire un détour;
    ∎ her job took her all over Africa son travail l'a fait voyager dans toute l'Afrique;
    ∎ that's what first took me to Portugal c'est ce qui m'a amené au Portugal;
    ∎ whatever took him there? qu'allait-il faire là-bas?;
    ∎ the record took her to number one in the charts le disque lui a permis d'être première au hit-parade
    ∎ she took a handkerchief from her pocket elle a sorti un mouchoir de sa poche;
    ∎ I took a chocolate from the box j'ai pris un chocolat dans la boîte;
    ∎ take a book from the shelf prenez un livre sur l'étagère;
    ∎ take your feet off the table enlève tes pieds de la table;
    ∎ he took the saucepan off the heat il a ôté ou retiré la casserole du feu
    (d) (appropriate, steal) prendre, voler;
    ∎ to take sth from sb prendre qch à qn;
    ∎ someone's taken my wallet on a pris mon portefeuille;
    ∎ his article is taken directly from my book le texte de son article est tiré directement de mon livre
    (e) (draw, derive) prendre, tirer;
    ∎ a passage taken from a book un passage extrait d'un livre;
    ∎ a phrase taken from Latin une expression empruntée au latin;
    ∎ the title is taken from the Bible le titre vient de la Bible;
    ∎ to take a print from a negative tirer une épreuve d'un négatif
    C.
    (a) (of bus, car, train etc) conduire, transporter;
    ∎ the ambulance took him to hospital l'ambulance l'a transporté à l'hôpital;
    ∎ this bus will take you to the theatre ce bus vous conduira au théâtre;
    ∎ will this train take me to Cambridge? est-ce que ce train va à ou passe par Cambridge?
    (b) (bus, car, plane, train) prendre; (road) prendre, suivre;
    ∎ American take a right prenez à droite
    D.
    (a) (have → attitude, bath, holiday) prendre; (make → nap, trip, walk) faire; (→ decision) prendre;
    ∎ she took a quick look at him elle a jeté un rapide coup d'œil sur lui;
    ∎ American familiar let's take five soufflons cinq minutes□ ;
    ∎ he took a flying leap il a bondi;
    ∎ American vulgar to take a shit or a dump chier;
    ∎ archaic or literary to take a wife prendre femme
    ∎ to take a photo or a picture prendre une photo;
    ∎ she took his picture or a picture of him elle l'a pris en photo;
    ∎ we had our picture taken nous nous sommes fait photographier ou prendre en photo;
    ∎ familiar he takes a good photo (is photogenic) il est photogénique□
    (c) (receive, get) recevoir; (earn, win → prize) remporter, obtenir; (→ degree, diploma) obtenir, avoir;
    ∎ he took the blow on his arm il a pris le coup sur le bras;
    ∎ you can take the call in my office vous pouvez prendre l'appel dans mon bureau;
    ∎ the bookstore takes about $3,000 a day la librairie fait à peu près 3000 dollars (de recette) par jour;
    ∎ how much does he take home a month? quel est son salaire mensuel net?;
    ∎ Cards we took all the tricks nous avons fait toutes les levées;
    ∎ their team took the match leur équipe a gagné ou remporté le match
    E.
    (a) (assume, undertake) prendre;
    ∎ to take the blame for sth prendre la responsabilité de qch;
    ∎ you'll have to take the consequences c'est vous qui en subirez les conséquences;
    ∎ she takes all the credit for our success elle s'attribue tout le mérite de notre réussite;
    ∎ I take responsibility for their safety je me charge de leur sécurité;
    ∎ to take the part of Hamlet jouer (le rôle d')Hamlet
    ∎ he took my side in the argument il a pris parti pour moi dans la dispute;
    ∎ the boy took an oath or a vow to avenge his family le garçon a fait serment ou a juré de venger sa famille;
    ∎ American to take the Fifth (Amendment) invoquer le Cinquième Amendement (pour refuser de répondre)
    ∎ may I take the liberty of inviting you to dinner? puis-je me permettre de vous inviter à dîner?;
    ∎ he took the opportunity to thank them or of thanking them il a profité de l'occasion pour les remercier
    F.
    (a) (accept → job, gift, payment) prendre, accepter; (→ cheque, bet) accepter;
    ∎ the doctor only takes private patients le docteur ne prend pas les patients du service public;
    ∎ the owner won't take less than $100 for it le propriétaire en veut au moins 100 dollars;
    ∎ does this machine take pound coins? cette machine accepte-t-elle les pièces d'une livre?;
    ∎ to take a bribe se laisser acheter ou corrompre;
    ∎ you'll have to take me as I am il faut me prendre comme je suis;
    ∎ take things as they come prenez les choses comme elles viennent;
    ∎ I won't take "no" for an answer pas question de refuser;
    ∎ it's my last offer, (you can) take it or leave it c'est ma dernière offre, c'est à prendre ou à laisser;
    ∎ I'll take it from here je prends la suite;
    ∎ I'll take it from there je verrai à ce moment-là
    ∎ to take sb's advice suivre les conseils de qn;
    ∎ take it from me, he's a crook croyez-moi, c'est un escroc
    ∎ let's take things one at a time prenons les choses une par une;
    ∎ the mayor took their questions calmly le maire a entendu leurs questions avec calme;
    ∎ how did she take the questioning? comment a-t-elle réagi à ou pris l'interrogatoire?;
    ∎ they took the news well or in their stride ils ont plutôt bien pris la nouvelle;
    ∎ to take sth badly prendre mal qch;
    ∎ familiar to take things easy or it easy se la couler douce;
    ∎ familiar take it easy! (don't get angry) du calme!□
    (d) (bear, endure → pain, heat, pressure, criticism) supporter; (→ damage, loss) subir;
    ∎ don't take any nonsense! ne te laisse pas faire!;
    ∎ your father won't take any nonsense ton père ne plaisante pas avec ce genre de choses;
    ∎ she can take it elle tiendra le coup;
    ∎ esp American I'm not taking any! je ne marche pas!;
    ∎ we couldn't take any more on n'en pouvait plus;
    ∎ I can't take much more of this je commence à en avoir assez, je ne vais pas supporter cela bien longtemps;
    ∎ I find his constant sarcasm rather hard to take je trouve ses sarcasmes perpétuels difficiles à supporter;
    ∎ don't expect me to take this lying down ne comptez pas sur moi pour accepter ça sans rien dire;
    ∎ those shoes have taken a lot of punishment ces chaussures en ont vu de toutes les couleurs;
    ∎ to take heavy loads (crane, engine etc) supporter de lourdes charges;
    ∎ it won't take your weight ça ne supportera pas ton poids
    (e) (experience, feel)
    ∎ to take fright prendre peur;
    ∎ to take an interest in sb/sth s'intéresser à qn/qch;
    ∎ don't take offence ne vous vexez pas, ne vous offensez pas;
    ∎ no offence taken il n'y a pas de mal;
    ∎ we take pleasure in travelling nous prenons plaisir à voyager;
    ∎ she takes pride in her work elle est fière de ce qu'elle fait;
    ∎ to take pride in one's appearance prendre soin de sa personne
    G.
    (a) (consider, look at) prendre, considérer;
    ∎ take Einstein (for example) prenons (l'exemple d')Einstein;
    ∎ take the case of Colombia prenons le cas de la Colombie;
    ∎ taking everything into consideration tout bien considéré;
    ∎ to take sb/sth seriously prendre qn/qch au sérieux
    ∎ do you take me for an idiot? vous me prenez pour un idiot?;
    ∎ what do you take me for? pour qui me prenez-vous?;
    ∎ I took you for an Englishman je vous croyais anglais;
    ∎ he took me for somebody else il m'a pris pour quelqu'un d'autre;
    ∎ to take the news as or to be true tenir la nouvelle pour vraie;
    ∎ how old do you take her to be? quel âge est-ce que tu lui donnes?
    (c) (suppose, presume) supposer, présumer;
    ∎ he's never been to Madrid, I take it si je comprends bien, il n'a jamais été à Madrid;
    ∎ I take it you're his mother je suppose que vous êtes sa mère
    (d) (interpret, understand) prendre, comprendre;
    ∎ we never know how to take his jokes on ne sait jamais comment prendre ses plaisanteries;
    ∎ don't take that literally ne le prenez pas au pied de la lettre;
    ∎ he was slow to take my meaning il lui a fallu un moment avant de comprendre ce que je voulais dire
    H.
    (a) (require) prendre, demander;
    ∎ how long will it take to get there? combien de temps faudra-t-il pour y aller?;
    ∎ the flight takes three hours le vol dure trois heures;
    ∎ it will take you ten minutes vous en avez pour dix minutes;
    ∎ it took him a minute to understand il a mis une minute avant de comprendre;
    ∎ it took us longer than I expected cela nous a pris plus de temps que je ne pensais;
    ∎ it takes time to learn a language il faut du temps pour apprendre une langue;
    ∎ what kind of batteries does it take? quelle sorte de piles faut-il?;
    ∎ my car takes unleaded ma voiture roule au sans-plomb;
    ∎ he took a bit of coaxing before he accepted il a fallu le pousser un peu pour qu'il accepte;
    ∎ it took four people to stop the brawl ils ont dû se mettre à quatre pour arrêter la bagarre;
    ∎ it takes a clever man to do that bien malin ou habile qui peut le faire;
    ∎ it takes courage to admit one's mistakes il faut du courage pour admettre ses erreurs;
    ∎ it takes patience to work with children il faut de la patience ou il faut être patient pour travailler avec les enfants;
    ∎ one glance was all it took un regard a suffi;
    ∎ the job took some doing la tâche n'a pas été facile;
    ∎ that will take some explaining voilà qui va demander des explications;
    ∎ her story takes some believing son histoire n'est pas facile à croire;
    ∎ to have what it takes to do/to be sth avoir les qualités nécessaires pour faire/être qch;
    ∎ we need someone with leadership qualities - she has what it takes il nous faut quelqu'un qui ait des qualités de dirigeant - ce n'est pas ce qui lui manque;
    ∎ familiar he's so lazy - it takes one to know one! il est vraiment paresseux - tu peux parler!
    ∎ "falloir" takes the subjunctive "falloir" est suivi du subjonctif;
    ∎ noun that takes an "s" in the plural nom qui prend un "s" au pluriel
    I.
    (a) (food, drink etc) prendre;
    ∎ do you take milk in your coffee? prenez-vous du lait dans votre café?;
    ∎ how do you take your coffee? qu'est-ce que tu prends dans ton café?;
    ∎ I invited him to take tea je l'ai invité à prendre le thé;
    ∎ she refused to take any food elle a refusé de manger (quoi que ce soit);
    ∎ to take drugs se droguer;
    ∎ how many pills has he taken? combien de comprimés a-t-il pris ou absorbé?;
    ∎ to be taken twice a day (on packaging) à prendre deux fois par jour;
    ∎ to take the air prendre l'air
    (b) (wear) faire, porter;
    ∎ she takes a size 10 elle prend du 38;
    ∎ what size shoe do you take? quelle est votre pointure?
    (c) (pick out, choose) prendre, choisir; (buy) prendre, acheter; (rent) prendre, louer;
    ∎ I'll take it je le prends;
    ∎ what newspaper do you take? quel journal prenez-vous?;
    ∎ take your partners (at dance) invitez vos partenaires
    (d) (occupy → chair, seat) prendre, s'asseoir sur;
    ∎ take a seat asseyez-vous;
    ∎ take your seats! prenez vos places!;
    ∎ is this seat taken? cette place est-elle occupée ou prise?
    (e) (hold → of container, building etc) contenir, avoir une capacité de;
    ∎ this bus takes fifty passengers c'est un car de cinquante places
    (f) (ascertain, find out) prendre;
    ∎ to take sb's pulse/temperature prendre le pouls/la température de qn;
    ∎ to take a reading from a meter lire ou relever un compteur
    (g) (write down → notes, letter) prendre;
    ∎ he took a note of her address il a noté son adresse
    (h) (subtract) soustraire, déduire;
    ∎ they took 10 percent off the price ils ont baissé le prix de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ take 4 from 9 and you have 5 ôtez 4 de 9, il reste 5
    (i) School & University (exam) passer, se présenter à; (course) prendre, suivre;
    ∎ I took Latin and Greek at A level ≃ j'ai pris latin et grec au bac;
    ∎ she took her degree last year elle a obtenu son diplôme l'an dernier;
    ∎ she takes us for maths on l'a en maths
    ∎ to take a service célébrer un office;
    ∎ the assistant director took the rehearsals l'assistant réalisateur s'est occupé des répétitions
    (k) (contract, develop)
    ∎ to take a chill, to take cold prendre froid;
    ∎ to take sick, to be taken ill tomber malade;
    ∎ I was taken with a fit of the giggles j'ai été pris d'un fou rire;
    ∎ she took an instant dislike to him elle l'a tout de suite pris en aversion
    (l) (direct, aim)
    ∎ she took a swipe at him elle a voulu le gifler;
    ∎ Football to take a penalty tirer un penalty
    ∎ she takes all her problems to her sister elle raconte tous ses problèmes à sa sœur;
    ∎ he took the matter to his boss il a soumis la question à son patron;
    ∎ Law they intend to take the case to the High Court ils ont l'intention d'en appeler à la Cour suprême
    ∎ he took an axe to the door il a donné des coups de hache dans la porte;
    ∎ take the scissors to it vas-y avec les ciseaux;
    ∎ his father took a stick to him son père lui a donné des coups de bâton;
    ∎ Law they took legal proceedings against him ils lui ont intenté un procès
    (o) (catch unawares) prendre, surprendre;
    ∎ to take sb by surprise or off guard surprendre qn, prendre qn au dépourvu;
    ∎ his death took us by surprise sa mort nous a surpris
    (p) (negotiate → obstacle) franchir, sauter; (→ bend in road) prendre, négocier
    (q) familiar (deceive, cheat) avoir, rouler;
    ∎ they took him for every penny (he was worth) ils lui ont pris jusqu'à son dernier sou
    (a) (work, have desired effect) prendre;
    ∎ did the dye take? est-ce que la teinture a pris?;
    ∎ it was too cold for the seeds to take il faisait trop froid pour que les graines germent
    (b) (become popular) prendre, avoir du succès
    (c) (fish) prendre, mordre
    3 noun
    (a) (capture) prise f
    (b) Cinema, Photography & Television prise f de vue; Radio enregistrement m, prise f de son; (of record etc) enregistrement m
    (c) American (interpretation) interprétation f;
    ∎ what's your take on her attitude? comment est-ce que tu interprètes son attitude?
    (d) American familiar (takings) recette□ f; (share) part□ f;
    ∎ to be on the take toucher des pots-de-vin□, palper
    (astonish) étonner, ébahir; (disconcert) déconcerter;
    ∎ her question took him aback sa question l'a déconcerté;
    ∎ I was taken aback by the news la nouvelle m'a beaucoup surpris
    ressembler à, tenir de;
    ∎ she takes after her mother in looks physiquement, elle tient de sa mère
    (a) (dismantle) démonter;
    ∎ figurative they took the room apart looking for evidence ils ont mis la pièce sens dessus dessous pour trouver des preuves
    (b) (criticize) critiquer
    prendre à part, emmener à l'écart;
    ∎ the boss took her aside for a chat le patron l'a prise à part pour discuter
    (a) (remove) enlever, retirer;
    ∎ take that knife away from him enlevez-lui ce couteau;
    ∎ they took away his pension ils lui ont retiré sa pension;
    ∎ they took their daughter away from the club ils ont retiré leur fille du club;
    ∎ his work took him away from his family for long periods son travail le tenait éloigné de sa famille pendant de longues périodes;
    ∎ euphemism the police took his father away son père a été arrêté par la police;
    ∎ it takes away the fun ça gâche tout
    (b) (carry away → object) emporter; (→ person) emmener;
    ∎ British sandwiches to take away (sign) sandwiches à emporter;
    ∎ not to be taken away (in library) à consulter sur place
    (c) Mathematics soustraire, retrancher;
    ∎ nine take away six is three neuf moins six font trois
    ∎ that doesn't take away from his achievements as an athlete ça n'enlève rien à ses exploits d'athlète;
    ∎ to take away from the pleasure/value of sth diminuer le plaisir/la valeur de qch
    (a) (after absence, departure) reprendre;
    ∎ she took her husband back elle a accepté que son mari revienne vivre avec elle;
    ∎ the factory took back the workers l'usine a repris les ouvriers
    (b) (gift, unsold goods, sale item etc) reprendre
    (c) (return) rapporter; (accompany) raccompagner;
    ∎ take it back to the shop rapporte-le au magasin;
    ∎ he took her back home il l'a raccompagnée ou ramenée chez elle
    (d) (retract, withdraw) retirer, reprendre;
    ∎ I take back everything I said je retire tout ce que j'ai dit;
    ∎ all right, I take it back! d'accord, je n'ai rien dit!
    ∎ that takes me back to my childhood ça me rappelle mon enfance;
    ∎ that song takes me back forty years cette chanson me ramène quarante ans en arrière;
    ∎ it takes you back a bit, doesn't it? ça ne nous rajeunit pas tout ça, hein?
    (f) Typography transférer à la ligne précédente
    (a) (carry, lead downstairs → object) descendre; (→ person) faire descendre;
    ∎ the lift took us down to the 4th floor l'ascenseur nous a amenés au 4ème étage
    (b) (lower) descendre;
    ∎ she took the book down from the shelf elle a pris le livre sur l'étagère;
    ∎ can you help me take the curtains down? peux-tu m'aider à décrocher les rideaux?;
    ∎ she took his picture down from the wall elle a enlevé sa photo du mur;
    ∎ he took his trousers down il a baissé son pantalon
    (c) (note) prendre, noter;
    ∎ he took down the registration number il a relevé le numéro d'immatriculation;
    ∎ to take down a letter in shorthand prendre une lettre en sténo
    (d) (dismantle → scaffolding, circus tent) démonter
    se démonter
    (a) (lead → person) faire entrer; (carry → washing, harvest etc) rentrer
    (b) (bring into one's home → person) héberger; (→ boarder) prendre; (→ orphan, stray animal) recueillir;
    ∎ she takes in ironing elle fait du repassage à domicile
    ∎ the police took him in la police l'a mis ou placé en garde à vue
    (d) (air, water, food etc)
    ∎ she can only take in food intravenously on ne peut la nourrir que par intraveineuse;
    ∎ whales take in air through their blowhole les baleines respirent par l'évent
    (e) (understand, perceive) saisir, comprendre;
    ∎ he was sitting taking it all in il était là, assis, écoutant tout ce qui se disait;
    ∎ he didn't take in the real implications of her announcement il n'a pas saisi les véritables implications de sa déclaration;
    ∎ I can't take in the fact that I've won je n'arrive pas à croire que j'ai gagné;
    ∎ she took in the situation at a glance elle a compris la situation en un clin d'œil
    (f) (make smaller → garment) reprendre; (→ in knitting) diminuer;
    ∎ you'd better take in the slack on the rope tu ferais bien de tendre ou retendre la corde;
    ∎ Nautical to take in a sail carguer ou serrer une voile
    (g) (cover → several countries etc) comprendre, englober; (→ questions, possibilities) embrasser;
    ∎ the tour takes in all the important towns l'excursion passe par toutes les villes importantes
    (h) (attend, go to) aller à;
    ∎ to take in a show aller au théâtre;
    ∎ she took in the castle while in Blois elle a visité le château pendant qu'elle était à Blois;
    ∎ they took in the sights in Rome ils ont fait le tour des sites touristiques à Rome
    (i) familiar (cheat, deceive) tromper□, rouler;
    ∎ don't be taken in by him ne vous laissez pas rouler par lui;
    ∎ I'm not going to be taken in by your lies je ne suis pas dupe de tes mensonges□ ;
    ∎ he was completely taken in il marchait complètement
    (a) (remove → clothing, lid, make-up, tag) enlever;
    ∎ the boy took his clothes off le garçon a enlevé ses vêtements ou s'est déshabillé;
    ∎ she took her glasses off elle a enlevé ses lunettes;
    ∎ he often takes the phone off the hook il laisse souvent le téléphone décroché;
    ∎ to take sb off a list rayer qn d'une liste;
    ∎ the surgeon had to take her leg off le chirurgien a dû l'amputer de la jambe;
    ∎ Cars to take off the brake desserrer le frein (à main);
    ∎ figurative he didn't take his eyes off her all night il ne l'a pas quittée des yeux de la soirée;
    ∎ I tried to take her mind off her troubles j'ai essayé de lui changer les idées ou de la distraire de ses ennuis;
    ∎ familiar his retirement has taken ten years off him sa retraite l'a rajeuni de dix ans□ ;
    ∎ to take sth off sb's hands débarrasser qn de qch;
    ∎ I'll take the baby off your hands for a few hours je vais garder le bébé pendant quelques heures, ça te libérera
    (b) (deduct) déduire, rabattre;
    ∎ the teacher took one point off her grade le professeur lui a retiré un point;
    ∎ the manager took 10 percent off the price le directeur a baissé le prix de 10 pour cent
    (c) (lead away) emmener;
    ∎ she was taken off to hospital on l'a transportée à l'hôpital;
    ∎ the murderer was taken off to jail on a emmené l'assassin en prison;
    ∎ her friend took her off to dinner son ami l'a emmenée dîner;
    ∎ she took herself off to Italy elle est partie en Italie;
    ∎ to take the passengers off (by boat from a ship) débarquer les passagers;
    ∎ the injured man was taken off the ship by helicopter le blessé a été évacué du bateau par hélicoptère
    ∎ to take some time off prendre un congé;
    ∎ take a few days off prenez quelques jours de vacances ou de congé;
    ∎ she takes Thursdays off elle ne travaille pas le jeudi
    (e) familiar (copy) imiter□ ; (mimic) imiter□, singer
    (f) (discontinue → train, bus etc) supprimer; (→ show, programme) annuler
    (a) (aeroplane) décoller;
    ∎ they took off for or to Heathrow ils se sont envolés pour Heathrow
    (b) familiar (person → depart) partir□ ; (hurriedly) se barrer, se tirer;
    ∎ he took off without telling us il est parti sans nous avertir
    ➲ take on
    (a) (accept, undertake) prendre, accepter;
    ∎ don't take on more than you can handle ne vous surchargez pas;
    ∎ she took it on herself to tell him elle a pris sur elle de le lui dire;
    ∎ he took the job on (position) il a accepté le poste; (task) il s'est mis au travail;
    ∎ to take on a bet accepter un pari
    (b) (contend with, fight against) lutter ou se battre contre; (compete against) jouer contre;
    ∎ the unions took on the government les syndicats se sont attaqués ou s'en sont pris au gouvernement;
    ∎ I shouldn't like to take him on je n'aimerais pas avoir affaire à lui;
    ∎ he took us on at poker il nous a défiés au poker
    (c) (acquire, assume) prendre, revêtir;
    ∎ her face took on a worried look elle a pris un air inquiet;
    ∎ the word takes on another meaning le mot prend une autre signification
    (d) (load) prendre, embarquer
    (e) (hire) embaucher, engager
    familiar (fret, carry on) s'en faire;
    ∎ don't take on so! ne t'en fais pas!
    (a) (remove → object) prendre, sortir; (→ stain) ôter, enlever; (extract → tooth) arracher;
    ∎ take the cheese out of the refrigerator sors le fromage du réfrigérateur;
    ∎ he took the knife out of his pocket il a sorti le couteau de sa poche;
    ∎ take your hands out of your pockets enlève les mains de tes poches;
    ∎ they took their children out of school ils ont retiré leurs enfants de l'école;
    ∎ Medicine to take out sb's appendix/tonsils enlever l'appendice/les amygdales à qn;
    ∎ figurative to take the food out of sb's mouth retirer le pain de la bouche de qn
    (b) (carry, lead outside → object) sortir; (→ person) faire sortir; (escort) emmener;
    ∎ to take sb out to dinner/to the movies emmener qn dîner/au cinéma;
    ∎ I took her out for a bike ride je l'ai emmenée faire un tour à vélo;
    ∎ would you take the dog out? tu veux bien sortir le chien ou aller promener le chien?
    (c) (food) emporter;
    ∎ American sandwiches to take out (sign) sandwiches à emporter
    (d) (obtain → subscription) prendre; (→ insurance policy) souscrire à, prendre; (→ licence) se procurer; (→ patent) prendre;
    ∎ to take out a mortgage faire un emprunt immobilier
    (e) familiar (destroy → factory, town) détruire□ ;
    ∎ to take sb out (kill) buter qn, zigouiller qn, refroidir qn;
    ∎ the planes took the factory out by bombing les avions ont détruit l'usine (en la bombardant)
    ∎ to take out one's partner changer la couleur annoncée par son partenaire
    ∎ to take sb out of himself/herself changer les idées à qn;
    ∎ familiar working as an interpreter takes a lot out of you le travail d'interprète est épuisant□ ;
    ∎ familiar the operation really took it out of him l'opération l'a mis à plat;
    ∎ familiar it takes the fun out of it ça gâche tout□ ;
    ∎ familiar to take it out on sb s'en prendre à qn□ ;
    ∎ familiar he took his anger out on his wife il a passé sa colère sur sa femme□ ;
    ∎ familiar don't take it out on me! ne t'en prends pas à moi!□
    ∎ he wants his daughter to take over the business il veut que sa fille reprenne l'affaire;
    ∎ she took over my classes elle a pris la suite de mes cours;
    ∎ will you be taking over his job? est-ce que vous allez le remplacer (dans ses fonctions)?
    (b) (gain control of, invade) s'emparer de;
    ∎ the military took over the country l'armée a pris le pouvoir;
    ∎ she takes the place over (by being bossy etc) elle joue les despotes;
    ∎ fast-food restaurants have taken over Paris les fast-foods ou French Canadian restaurants-minute ont envahi Paris
    (c) Finance (buy out) absorber, racheter;
    ∎ they were taken over by a Japanese firm ils ont été rachetés par une entreprise japonaise
    (d) (carry across) apporter; (escort across) emmener;
    ∎ I'll take you over by car je vais vous y conduire en voiture;
    ∎ the boat took us over to Seattle le bateau nous a emmenés jusqu'à Seattle
    (e) Typography transférer à la ligne suivante
    ∎ who will take over now that the mayor has stepped down? qui va prendre la relève maintenant que le maire a donné sa démission?;
    ∎ I'll take over when he leaves je le remplacerai quand il partira;
    ∎ will he allow her to take over? va-t-il lui céder la place?;
    ∎ compact discs have taken over from records le (disque) compact a remplacé le (disque) vinyle
    (b) (army, dictator) prendre le pouvoir
    (a) (have a liking for → person) se prendre d'amitié ou de sympathie pour, prendre en amitié; (→ activity, game) prendre goût à;
    ∎ I think he took to you je crois que vous lui avez plu;
    ∎ we took to one another at once nous avons tout de suite sympathisé;
    ∎ she didn't take to him il ne lui a pas plu;
    ∎ we've really taken to golf nous avons vraiment pris goût au golf
    (b) (acquire as a habit) se mettre à;
    ∎ to take to drink or to the bottle se mettre à boire;
    ∎ to take to doing sth se mettre à faire qch;
    ∎ she took to wearing black elle s'est mise à s'habiller en noir
    (c) (make for, head for)
    ∎ he's taken to his bed with the flu il est alité avec la grippe;
    ∎ the rebels took to the hills les insurgés se sont réfugiés dans les collines;
    ∎ they took to the woods ils se sont enfuis dans les bois;
    ∎ to take to the road prendre la route;
    ∎ to take to the boats monter dans les canots de sauvetage
    ➲ take up
    (a) (carry, lead upstairs → object) monter; (→ person) faire monter;
    ∎ the lift took us up to the 25th floor l'ascenseur nous a amenés au 25ème étage
    (b) (pick up → object) ramasser, prendre; (→ passenger) prendre; (→ paving stones, railway tracks) enlever;
    ∎ she took up the notes from the table elle a ramassé ou pris les notes sur la table;
    ∎ they're taking up the street la rue est en travaux;
    ∎ we finally took up the carpet nous avons enfin enlevé la moquette
    (c) (absorb) absorber
    (d) (shorten) raccourcir;
    ∎ you'd better take up the slack in that rope tu ferais mieux de retendre ou tendre cette corde
    (e) (fill, occupy → space) prendre, tenir; (→ time) prendre, demander;
    ∎ this table takes up too much room cette table prend trop de place ou est trop encombrante;
    ∎ moving house took up the whole day le déménagement a pris toute la journée;
    ∎ her work takes up all her attention son travail l'absorbe complètement
    (f) (begin, become interested in → activity, hobby) se mettre à; (→ job) prendre; (→ career) commencer, embrasser;
    ∎ when did you take up Greek? quand est-ce que tu t'es mis au grec?;
    ∎ I've taken up gardening je me suis mis au jardinage
    (g) (continue, resume) reprendre, continuer;
    ∎ I took up the tale where Susan had left off j'ai repris l'histoire là où Susan l'avait laissée;
    ∎ she took up her knitting again elle a repris son tricot
    (h) (adopt → attitude) prendre, adopter; (→ method) adopter; (→ place, position) prendre; (→ idea) adopter;
    ∎ they took up residence in town ils se sont installés en ville;
    ∎ to take up one's duties entrer en fonctions
    (i) (accept → offer) accepter; (→ advice, suggestion) suivre; (→ challenge) relever
    (j) (discuss) discuter, parler de; (bring up) aborder;
    ∎ take it up with the boss parlez-en au patron
    (k) (shares, stock) souscrire à
    (l) Finance (option) lever, consolider; (bill) honorer, retirer
    reprendre, continuer
    ∎ he took it upon himself to organize the meeting il s'est chargé d'organiser la réunion
    (a) (accept offer, advice of)
    ∎ his daughter took him up on his advice sa fille a suivi ses conseils;
    ∎ he might take you up on that someday! il risque de vous prendre au mot un jour!;
    ∎ she took him up on his promise elle a mis sa parole à l'épreuve
    ∎ I'd like to take you up on that point j'aimerais revenir sur ce point avec vous
    ∎ to take up with sb se lier d'amitié avec qn, prendre qn en amitié;
    ∎ she took up with a bad crowd elle s'est mise à fréquenter des vauriens
    ∎ to be taken up with doing sth être occupé à faire qch;
    ∎ she's very taken up with him elle ne pense qu'à lui;
    ∎ she's taken up with her business elle est très prise par ses affaires;
    ∎ meetings were taken up with talk about the economy on passait les réunions à parler de l'économie
    ✾ Film 'Take the Money and Run' Allen 'Prends l'oseille et tire-toi'
    ✾ Film 'You Can't Take It With You' Capra 'Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous'
    ⓘ Take me to your leader Il s'agit de la formule prononcée par les extra-terrestres fraîchement débarqués sur terre dans les vieux films de science-fiction et adressée au premier terrien rencontré. On emploie cette phrase ("menez-moi jusqu'à votre chef") de façon humoristique lorsque, dans une situation donnée, on désire parler au responsable.

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  • 14 tax

    tax [tæks]
    1 noun
    (a) (on income) contributions fpl; Administration & Finance impôt m;
    ∎ to levy or to collect taxes lever ou percevoir des impôts;
    ∎ most of my income goes in tax la plus grande partie de mes revenus va aux impôts;
    ∎ I don't pay much tax je ne paie pas beaucoup d'impôts;
    ∎ I paid over $5,000 in tax j'ai payé plus de 5000 dollars d'impôts;
    ∎ to be liable to tax être assujetti à l'impôt;
    ∎ after tax net, après impôt;
    ∎ before tax avant impôt
    (b) (on goods, services, imports) taxe f;
    ∎ to levy or to put a 10 percent tax on sth frapper qch d'une taxe de 10 pour cent, imposer ou taxer qch à 10 pour cent;
    ∎ there is a high tax on whisky le whisky est fortement taxé;
    ∎ baby food is free of tax les aliments pour bébés sont exempts ou exonérés de taxe;
    ∎ a tax on books/knowledge une taxe sur les livres/le savoir;
    ∎ to be liable to tax être assujetti à l'impôt;
    ∎ before tax hors taxe;
    ∎ exclusive of tax hors taxe
    (c) figurative (strain) épreuve f;
    ∎ it was a tax on his strength/nerves ça l'a beaucoup éprouvé (physiquement)/(psychologiquement)
    (a) (person, company) imposer, frapper d'un impôt; (goods) taxer, frapper d'une taxe;
    ∎ the rich will be more heavily taxed les riches seront plus lourdement imposés ou payeront plus d'impôts;
    ∎ luxury goods are taxed at 28 percent les articles de luxe sont taxés à 28 pour cent ou font l'objet d'une taxe de 28 pour cent;
    ∎ we're being taxed out of existence on nous accable d'impôts
    ∎ to tax one's car acheter la vignette (automobile)
    (c) figurative (strain → patience, resources) mettre à l'épreuve; (→ strength, nerves) éprouver
    ∎ to tax sb with sth accuser ou taxer qn de qch;
    ∎ to tax sb with doing sth accuser qn d'avoir fait qch
    ►► tax adjustment redressement m fiscal ou d'impôt;
    tax allowance abattement m fiscal, déduction f fiscale;
    tax assessment avis m d'imposition, fixation f de l'impôt;
    tax audit vérification f fiscale;
    tax authorities administration f fiscale;
    tax avoidance optimisation f ou évasion f fiscale, French Canadian évitement m fiscal;
    tax band tranche f d'imposition;
    tax base assiette f fiscale;
    tax benefit avantage m fiscal;
    tax bite proportion f du revenu pris par l'impôt;
    tax bracket tranche f d'imposition, fourchette f d'imposition;
    tax break réduction f d'impôt, allègement m fiscal;
    tax burden pression f fiscale, poids m de la fiscalité;
    tax ceiling plafond m fiscal, plafond m de l'impôt;
    tax centre centre m des impôts, CDI m;
    tax clearance quitus m fiscal;
    tax code barème m fiscal;
    tax collection recouvrement m d'impôts, perception f d'impôts;
    tax collector percepteur m d'impôt, receveur m des contributions;
    tax consultant conseiller(ère) m,f fiscal(e), conseil m fiscal;
    tax credit aide f fiscale, avoir m fiscal;
    tax cut baisse f ou réduction f des impôts;
    tax deduction prélèvement m fiscal, déduction f fiscale;
    tax deduction at source perception f à la source;
    British tax disc vignette f (automobile);
    American tax dollars argent m du contribuable;
    tax domicile foyer m ou domicile m fiscal;
    tax evasion fraude f fiscale, évasion f fiscale;
    tax exemption exonération f d'impôt, exemption f d'impôt;
    tax exile = personne qui réside à l'étranger pour minimiser la responsabilité fiscale;
    tax expert fiscaliste mf;
    tax form feuille f ou déclaration f d'impôts;
    tax fraud fraude f fiscale;
    tax harmonization harmonisation f fiscale;
    tax haven paradis m fiscal;
    tax holiday période f de grâce (accordée pour le paiement des impôts);
    tax impact incidence f fiscale;
    tax incentive incitation f fiscale, avantage m fiscal;
    tax inspection contrôle m fiscal;
    tax inspector inspecteur(trice) m,f des contributions directes ou des impôts;
    tax law droit m fiscal;
    tax liability (of person) assujetissement m à l'impôt; (of goods, product) exigibilité f de l'impôt;
    tax loophole échappatoire f fiscale;
    tax loss déficit m fiscal reportable;
    tax office centre m des impôts;
    tax official agent m du fisc;
    tax privilege privilège m fiscal;
    tax rate taux m d'imposition;
    tax rebate dégrèvement m fiscal;
    tax reduction abattement m fiscal;
    tax refund (of income tax) restitution f d'impôts; (on goods) détaxe f;
    tax relief (UNCOUNT) dégrèvement m fiscal;
    ∎ to get tax relief on sth obtenir un dégrèvement ou allégement fiscal sur qch;
    tax return déclaration f de revenu, feuille f d'impôt;
    tax revenue recettes fpl ou rentrées fpl fiscales;
    tax roll rôle m d'impôt ou des contributions;
    tax shelter avantage m fiscal;
    tax shield protection f fiscale;
    tax system régime m fiscal ou d'imposition;
    tax threshold minimum m imposable, seuil m d'imposition;
    ∎ the government has raised tax thresholds in line with inflation le gouvernement a relevé les tranches de l'impôt pour tenir compte de l'inflation;
    tax write-off (expense) dépense f déductible des impôts; (loss) perte f déductible des impôts;
    tax year année f fiscale, année f d'imposition (qui commence en avril en Grande-Bretagne)

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  • 15 premium

    1. сущ.
    сокр. prem
    1) общ. награда, вознаграждение, премия (что-л. предоставляемое в качестве стимула в каком-л. проекте, какой-л. системе и пр.)

    consumer premium — подарок [премия\] потребителю*

    The program will award points to consumers for each brewery visit during the week, allowing them to earn premiums such as beer mugs and logo shirts.

    Mortgage brokers, who match borrowers with lenders, can earn premiums by steering borrowers to higher-rate loans.

    They claim that lenders on the higher-than-market rate loans will pay a premium to the mortgage broker and that those payments will be used to pay the fees associated with the low-interest loans.

    See:
    2) страх. = insurance premium

    ATTRIBUTES: adjustable, assumed 3) а), base 3. 3) а), direct 1. 3) а), earned 1. 1) а), fixed 1. 4) а), flexible 1. 2) б), gross 1. 3) а), а initial 1. 2) б), level 2. 3) б), lump sum, net 3. 3) а), n1а outstanding 1. 3) а), periodic 1. 1) а), regular 1. 2) б), n2 subject 1. 2) б), n2 underlying 1. 2) б), n2 variable 1. 2) б), n2 written 1. 4) а), б

    annual [yearly\] premium — ежегодная премия

    monthly [biweekly, weekly\] premium — ежемесячная [двухнедельная, еженедельная\] премия

    annual [monthly, weekly\] premium insurance — страхование с ежегодной [ежемесячной, еженедельной\] уплатой премий [премии\]

    annual premium policy — полис с ежегодной уплатой премий [премии\]

    ATTRIBUTES:

    paid premium — уплаченная [выплаченная\] премия

    The refund of paid premium is based on the insured's age at death and is decreased by any benefits paid under the plan.

    Company-paid premiums are deductible by the employer as an ordinary and necessary business expense. — Уплаченные компанией премии подлежат вычету работодателем как обычные и необходимые деловые расходы.

    For federal tax purposes the employer-paid premiums are taxed as additional earned income for the employee. — Для целей федерального налогообложения, уплаченные работодателем премии облагаются налогом как дополнительный заработанный доход работника.

    Employee-paid premiums for health insurance vary by salary. — Размер уплачиваемых работником премий по страхованию здоровья меняется в зависимости от размера оклада.

    We can recover overpaid premiums for the last three policy years.

    unpaid premium — неуплаченная [невыплаченная\] премия

    The late charge formula is the unpaid premium amount multiplied by four percent.

    COMBS:

    life insurance premiums, life premiums — премии по страхованию жизни

    non-life insurance premiums, non-life premiums — премии по страхованию иному, чем страхование жизни; премии по страхованию "не жизни"

    health insurance premiums, health premiums — премии по страхованию здоровья

    liability insurance premiums, liability premiums — премии по страхованию ответственности

    disability insurance premiums, disability premiums — премии по страхованию от [на случай\] нетрудоспособности

    property insurance premiums, property premiums — премии по страхованию имущества

    premium payment — уплата [выплата\] премии; премиальный платеж

    Mortgage insurance premium payments are made once per year. — Выплаты премий по ипотечному страхованию осуществляются раз в год.

    premium of $1000, $1000 premium — премия [надбавка\] в размере 1000 долл.

    Our commercial premium finance program allows you to finance premiums from $0 to $200000 or more.

    The policies in question have a waiver of premium benefit, whereby the insurer would waive premiums during any period in which the policyholder is disabled.

    We cede premiums and losses to reinsurers under quota share reinsurance agreements. — Мы передаем премии и убытки перестраховщиками на основании договоров квотного перестрахования.

    Also, under our quota share assumed reinsurance contracts, we will continue to assume premiums through the third quarter of 2006. — Также, на основании принятых договоров квотного перестрахования, мы будем продолжать принимать премии на протяжении третьего квартала 2006 г.

    to write premiums — подписывать премии*; страховать*, принимать на страхование*, осуществлять страхование*

    In general, for insurers to write premiums in California, they must be admitted by the Insurance Commissioner. — В общем, для того, чтобы страховщики смогли осуществлять страховую деятельность в Калифорнии, они должны получить разрешение уполномоченного по страхованию.

    The company is licensed to write insurance business in all 50 states, has specialty lines in risk insurance for architects and lawyers and is expected to write premiums of $75 million this year. — Компания имеет лицензию на осуществление страховой деятельности во все 50 штатах, предлагает специальные разновидности страхования рисков для архитекторов и юристов и, как ожидается, подпишет в этом году премий на сумму 75 млн долл.

    Moreover, an insurance company that earns premiums between $300,000 and $1,000,000 is taxed at a reduced rate.

    If you want to pay premiums for a limited time, the limited payment whole life policy gives you lifetime protection but requires only a limited number of premium payments.

    to raise [to increase\] premiums — увеличивать премии

    to reduce [to decrease, to cut\] premiums — уменьшать премии

    premiums go down — премии снижаются [уменьшаются\]

    See:
    adjustable premium, advance premium, annual premium, annuity premium, base premium, beneficiary premium, deposit premium, direct premiums, earned premium, financed insurance premium, financed premium, fixed premium, flexible premium, graded premium, gross premium, in-force premiums, initial premium, level premium, lump sum premium, modified premium, mortgage insurance premium, net premium, net retained premiums, new business premiums, outstanding premiums, periodic premium, premium earned, premiums in force, premium written, regular premium, reinsurance premium, renewal premium, retained premiums, retrospective premium, return premium, single premium, subject premium, surplus line premium, surplus lines premium, underlying premium, unearned premium, valuation premium, vanishing premium, variable premium, written premium, yearly premium, overall premium limit, premium audit, premium auditor, premium base, premium bordereau, premium conversion, premium discount, premium financing, premium holiday, premium income б), premium loan, premium notice, premium rate 1) б), premium receipt, premium refund, premium subsidy, premium tax, premium trust fund, return of premium, waiver of premium, continuous-premium whole life, premium only plan, premium-to-surplus ratio
    3)

    to fetch a premium [a premium price\] — продаваться с надбавкой [с премией\]

    Premium products generally fetch a premium price. — Премиальные товары обычно продаются с надбавкой [с премией\].

    to command a premium [a premium price\] — продаваться с надбавкой [с премией\], продаваться по премиальной цене

    Some products command a premium price in the marketplace simply because they are considered to be higher in quality. — Некоторые товары продаются на рынке по премиальной цене просто из-за того, что они считаются товарами более высокого качества.

    to command a premium — содержать надбавку [премию\]* (о ценах, ставках)

    As long as there is a threat of war in the Middle Eastern oil fields, oil prices will command a premium. — До тех пор, пока существует угроза войны на территории средневосточных нефтяных месторождений, цены на нефть будут содержать надбавку.

    to attract a premium/a premium price/a premium rate — продаваться с премией [надбавкой\], стоить дороже; оплачиваться с надбавкой [с премией\]*

    Because of their locations these houses attract a premium. — Благодаря своему расположению эти дома стоят дороже.

    Therefore, when we buy your diamond, we can pay a premium over the current market price.

    For which services are customers willing to pay a premium when flying with a low-fare airline?

    Ant:
    See:
    б) фин. премия (сумма, на которую цена размещения или текущая рыночная цена ценной бумаги больше ее номинала)

    ATTRIBUTES: amortizable б)

    COMBS:

    $20-a-share premium — премия в размере $20 на (одну) акцию

    H-P will buy 1,2 million Convex shares at $14.875 a share, representing a 1,25-a-share premium over the price of Convex stock. — "H-P" купит 1,2 млн акций компании "Конвекс" по цене 14,875 долл. за штуку, что означает уплату премии в размере 1,25 долл. на акцию сверх цены акций "Конвекса".

    COMBS:

    premium over [to\] market price — премия к рыночной цене, премия сверх рыночной цены

    premium over [to\] issue price — премия к эмиссионной цене, премия сверх эмиссионной цены

    premium payment — уплата [выплата\] премии; премиальный платеж

    Mortgage insurance premium payments are made once per year. — Выплаты премий по ипотечному страхованию осуществляются раз в год.

    premium of $1000, $1000 premium — премия [надбавка\] в размере 1000 долл.

    10% premium, premium of 10% — премия [надбавка\] в размере 10%

    The shares jumped to a 70 per cent premium on the first day.

    Of all the common bond-tax errors, the most surprising to me is neglecting to amortize premiums paid on taxable bonds.

    For premium securities, we project the excess coupon. payments using our prepayment assumption.

    Ant:
    See:
    в) фин. премия (при оценке стоимости предприятия или крупных пакетов акций: разница, на которую фактически согласованная цена предприятия/пакета акций больше базовой рыночной цены)
    See:
    г) эк. премия; надбавка (сумма, на которую цена товара, услуги или ценной бумаги превышает цену сходного товара, услуги или ценной бумаги)

    Currently, US small caps are trading at a 15.7 per cent premium to large caps. — В настоящее время, акции американских компаний с маленькой капитализацией по сравнению с акциями компаний с большой капитализацией торгуются с премией в размере 15,7%.

    Platinum usually trades at a premium to gold. — Платина обычно продается по более высокой цене, чем золото.

    See:
    д) фин. ажио (превышение стоимости золотых или серебряных денег по сравнению с бумажными деньгами)
    Syn:
    agio в)
    See:
    е) эк. премия; надбавка (в самом общем смысле: дополнительная сумма, на которую увеличена базовая стоимость или другая базовая величина)

    перен. to put [place\] a premium on (smth.) — считать (что-л.) исключительно важным [ценным\], придавать (чему-л.) большое значение

    He put a premium on peace and stability. — Он считает исключительно важным поддержание мира и стабильности.

    Employers today put a premium on reasoning skills and willingness to learn. — В наше время работодатели придают большое значение умению рассуждать и готовности учиться.

    Ant:
    See:
    4) эк. тр. премия, (премиальная) надбавка (дополнительное вознаграждение, выплачиваемое в дополнение к заработной плате в качестве поощрения за хорошую работу, работу в сверхурочные и т. п.)

    COMBS:

    premium payment — уплата [выплата\] премии; премиальный платеж

    premium of $1000, $1000 premium — премия [надбавка\] в размере 1000 долл.

    to attract a premium/a premium rate — оплачиваться с надбавкой [с премией\]*

    In many industries work on Saturday or Sunday will attract a premium on the ordinary hourly rate. — Во многих отраслях работа в субботу или воскресенье предусматривает выплату надбавки сверх обычной часовой ставки.

    Neither federal law nor state law requires local government employers to give employees paid holidays or to pay a premium when employees must work on what would otherwise be a holiday.

    Syn:
    bonus 3)
    See:
    5) фин. = option premium

    Investors willing to buy stock at certain prices might consider selling puts to earn premiums, while those willing to sell shares at certain prices might think about selling calls.

    When you purchase an option, you pay a premium. — Покупая опцион, вы уплачиваете премию.

    See:
    2. прил.
    1) общ. первосортный, высшего качества [сорта\], исключительный, премиальный

    premium product — премиальный товар, товар высшего сорта

    premium card — первоклассная [приоритетная, премиальная\] карта [карточка\]*

    premium space — привилегированное [премиальное\] место*

    premium advertising — премиальная [первосортная, элитная\] реклама*

    premium customer — премиальный клиент [покупатель\]*

    premium quality — премиальное [высшее\] качество; премиальный [высший\] сорт

    premium grade — премиальный [высший\] сорт

    See:
    2) эк. премиальный, с премией, с надбавкой (о ценах, ставках выше обычного уровня)

    premium price — цена с надбавкой, цена с премией, премиальная цена

    See:

    * * *
    premium; PM; Prem премия, маржа: 1) премия (надбавка) к цене, курсу: разница между более высокой текущей (рыночной) и номинальной ценами финансового актива (напр., облигации); см. discount; 2) разница между более высоким срочным (форвардным) и наличным валютными курсами, т. е. валюта на срок продается с премией; 3) ажио: более высокая стоимость золотых или бумажных денег по отношению к бумажным деньгам; 4) цена опциона: сумма, уплачиваемая за получение права продать или купить финансовый инструмент; 5) = insurance premium; 6) платеж по рентному контракту; 7) = call premium; 8) льгота, призванная привлечь вкладчиков или заемщиков, а также покупателей товаров и услуг (напр., повышенная процентная ставка, скидки с цен и др.); 9) надбавка к рыночной цене, которую иногда приходится уплачивать при заимствованиях ценных бумаг для их поставки по "короткой" продаже; 10) разница в цене между данной ценной бумагой и сходными бумагами или индексом (напр., говорят: "бумага продается с премией к аналогичным бумагам"); 11) новая ценная бумага, продающаяся с премией; 12) надбавка к рыночной цене ценных бумаг в случае тендерного предложения; см. premium raid;
    * * *
    Финансы/Кредит/Валюта
    отклонение в сторону превышения рыночного курса денежных знаков и ценных бумаг от их нарицательной стоимости
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    разница между рыночной ценой и ценой эмиссии акции или ценной бумаги; при начале операции с акциями нового выпуска говорится, что рыночная цена включает премию по отношению к цене эмиссии
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    сумма, выплачиваемая держателем полиса для получения страховой суммы в нужный момент
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    Банки/Банковские операции
    премия, вознаграждение, надбавка

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > premium

  • 16 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

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  • 17 put

    put [pʊt]
    mettre ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c)-(f), 1 (i) dire ⇒ 1 (g) soumettre ⇒ 1 (h) placer ⇒ 1 (i), 1 (l) investir ⇒ 1 (k), 1 (l) miser ⇒ 1 (m)
    (pt & pp put, cont putting)
    ∎ put the saucepan on the shelf mets la casserole sur l'étagère;
    ∎ she put her hand on my shoulder elle a mis sa main sur mon épaule;
    ∎ put the chairs nearer the table approche les chaises de la table;
    ∎ he put his arm around my shoulders il passa son bras autour de mes épaules;
    ∎ she put her arms around him elle l'a pris dans ses bras;
    ∎ to put one's head round the door/through the window passer la tête par la porte/par la fenêtre;
    ∎ did you put any salt in? as-tu mis du sel (dedans)?;
    ∎ put some more water on to boil remettez de l'eau à chauffer;
    ∎ he put another brick on the pile il a mis une autre brique sur la pile;
    ∎ to put a coin/a letter/a gun into sb's hand glisser ou mettre une pièce/une lettre/un revolver dans la main de qn;
    ∎ she put a match to the wood elle a allumé le bois;
    ∎ to put an advert in the paper mettre une annonce dans le journal;
    ∎ they want to put me in an old folks' home ils veulent me mettre dans une maison pour les vieux;
    ∎ to put a child to bed mettre un enfant au lit, coucher un enfant;
    ∎ to put a man on the moon envoyer un homme sur la lune;
    ∎ he put the telescope to his eye il a porté la longue-vue à son œil;
    ∎ to put honour before riches préférer l'honneur à l'argent;
    ∎ to put a play on the stage monter une pièce;
    ∎ to put a guard on the door faire surveiller la porte;
    ∎ figurative I didn't know where to put myself! je ne savais plus où me mettre!;
    ∎ put yourself in my position or place mettez-vous à ma place;
    ∎ to put oneself into sb's hands s'en remettre à qn;
    ∎ put it out of your mind or head sors-le-toi de la tête;
    ∎ I had long put this thought out of my mind ça faisait longtemps que je m'étais sorti cette idée de la tête;
    ∎ we put a lot of emphasis on creativity nous mettons beaucoup l'accent sur la créativité;
    ∎ don't put too much trust in what he says ne te fie pas trop à ce qu'il dit;
    ∎ familiar put it there! (shake hands) tope-là!, serrons-nous la pince!
    ∎ he put his fist through the window il a passé son poing à travers le carreau;
    ∎ he put a bullet through his head il s'est mis une balle dans la tête;
    ∎ she put her pen through the whole paragraph elle a rayé tout le paragraphe d'un coup de stylo
    (c) (impose → limit, responsibility, tax) mettre;
    ∎ to put a ban on sth interdire qch;
    ∎ it puts an extra burden on our department c'est un fardeau de plus pour notre service;
    ∎ the new tax will put 5p on a packet of cigarettes la nouvelle taxe augmentera de 5 pence le prix d'un paquet de cigarettes
    ∎ you're putting me in an awkward position vous me mettez dans une situation délicate;
    ∎ I hope I've not put you to too much trouble j'espère que je ne vous ai pas trop dérangé;
    ∎ music always puts him in a good mood la musique le met toujours de bonne humeur;
    ∎ the new rules will be put into effect next month le nouveau règlement entrera en vigueur le mois prochain;
    ∎ to put sb out of a job mettre qn au chômage;
    ∎ to put a prisoner on bread and water mettre un prisonnier au pain sec et à l'eau;
    ∎ the money will be put to good use l'argent sera bien employé;
    ∎ to put sb to sleep endormir qn;
    ∎ euphemism the dog had to be put to sleep il a fallu piquer le chien
    (e) (write down) mettre, écrire;
    ∎ I forgot to put my address j'ai oublié de mettre mon adresse;
    ∎ what date shall I put? quelle date est-ce que je mets?
    ∎ to put an end or a stop to sth mettre fin ou un terme à qch
    (g) (say, express) dire, exprimer;
    ∎ I wouldn't put it quite like that je ne dirais pas cela;
    ∎ I don't know how to put it je ne sais comment dire;
    ∎ to put one's thoughts into words exprimer sa pensée, s'exprimer;
    ∎ let me put it this way laissez-moi l'exprimer ainsi;
    ∎ it was, how shall I put it, rather long c'était, comment dirais-je, un peu long;
    ∎ to put it another way,… en d'autres termes,…;
    ∎ he put it better than that il l'a dit ou formulé mieux que ça;
    ∎ you could have put that better tu aurais pu tourner cela un peu mieux;
    ∎ she put it politely but firmly elle l'a dit poliment mais clairement;
    ∎ as Churchill once put it comme l'a dit Churchill un jour;
    ∎ to put it briefly or simply, they refused bref ou en un mot, ils ont refusé;
    ∎ to put it bluntly pour parler franc;
    ∎ putting it in terms you'll understand… plus simplement, pour que vous compreniez…
    (h) (present, submit → suggestion, question) soumettre; (→ motion) proposer, présenter;
    ∎ to put a proposal to the board présenter une proposition au conseil d'administration;
    ∎ he put his case very well il a très bien présenté son cas;
    ∎ I have a question to put to the Prime Minister j'ai une question à soumettre au Premier ministre;
    ∎ Law I put it to you that… n'est-il pas vrai que…?;
    ∎ I put it to the delegates that now is the time to act je tiens à dire aux délégués que c'est maintenant qu'il faut agir
    (i) (class, rank) placer, mettre;
    ∎ I wouldn't put them in the same class as the Beatles je ne les mettrais ou placerais pas dans la même catégorie que les Beatles;
    ∎ I put my family above my job je fais passer ma famille avant mon travail
    ∎ to put sb to work mettre qn au travail;
    ∎ they put her on the Jones case ils l'ont mise sur l'affaire Jones
    (k) (devote → effort) investir, consacrer;
    ∎ to put a lot of time/energy into sth consacrer beaucoup de temps/d'énergie à qch, investir beaucoup de temps/d'énergie dans qch;
    ∎ she puts more into their relationship than he does elle s'investit plus que lui dans leur relation;
    ∎ to put a lot of work into sth/doing sth beaucoup travailler à qch/pour faire qch;
    ∎ Sport he put everything he had into his first service il a tout mis dans son premier service
    (l) (invest → money) placer, investir;
    ∎ she had put all her savings into property elle avait investi ou placé toutes ses économies dans l'immobilier
    (m) (bet) miser, parier;
    ∎ to put money on a horse miser ou parier sur un cheval;
    ∎ he put all his winnings on the red il misa tous ses gains sur le rouge
    ∎ to put the shot lancer le poids
    ∎ to put a ship into port rentrer un bateau au port
    ∎ Nautical to put to sea lever l'ancre, appareiller;
    ∎ they had to put back into harbour ils ont dû rentrer au port;
    ∎ we put into port at Bombay nous avons relâché ou fait relâche à Bombay
    3 noun
    (a) Sport lancer m (du poids);
    ∎ his third put son troisième lancer
    (b) Stock Exchange option f de vente, put m;
    ∎ put and call stellage m, double option f
    ►► Stock Exchange put band période f de validité d'une option de vente;
    Stock Exchange put bond emprunt m à fenêtre;
    Stock Exchange put option option f de vente;
    Stock Exchange put warrant warrant m à la vente
    (a) (spread → gossip, story) faire courir; (→ rumour) faire circuler;
    ∎ to put it about that… faire circuler le bruit que…;
    ∎ it is being put about that he intends resigning le bruit court qu'il a l'intention de démissionner
    ∎ to put a boat about virer de bord
    ∎ to put it or oneself about (be promiscuous) coucher à droite à gauche
    Nautical virer de bord
    (a) (communicate → gen) faire comprendre; (→ feeling) communiquer;
    ∎ to put sth across to sb faire comprendre qch à qn;
    ∎ I don't know how to put the argument across to them je ne sais pas comment leur faire comprendre cet argument;
    ∎ she knows how to put her ideas across elle sait bien faire passer ses idées;
    ∎ she's good at putting herself across elle sait se mettre en valeur
    ∎ to put one across on sb avoir qn, rouler qn;
    ∎ don't try putting anything across on me! ne me prends pas pour un imbécile!
    (a) (book, piece of work) mettre de côté, poser
    (b) (disregard, ignore) écarter, laisser de côté;
    ∎ let's put aside our differences of opinion for the moment laissons nos différends de côté pour le moment;
    ∎ put aside all gloomy thoughts oublie toutes ces pensées maussades
    (c) (save, keep) mettre de côté;
    ∎ we have a little money put aside nous avons un peu d'argent de côté
    (estimate) estimer;
    ∎ they put the cost of repairs to the bridge at around $10,000 ils estiment le montant des réparations du pont à environ 10 000 dollars;
    ∎ I wouldn't have put her (age) at more than twenty-five je ne lui aurais pas donné plus de vingt-cinq ans;
    ∎ what would you put it at? quelle est votre estimation?
    (a) (tidy) ranger; (return to its place) remettre à sa place; (car) garer;
    ∎ put your toys away! range tes jouets!;
    ∎ put your money/wallet away (I'm paying) range ton argent/ton portefeuille
    (b) (save) mettre de côté;
    ∎ I have a few pounds put away j'ai un peu d'argent de côté, j'ai quelques économies;
    ∎ to put something away for one's old age mettre quelque chose de côté pour sa retraite
    (c) familiar (lock up → in prison) coffrer; (→ in mental home) enfermer□
    (d) familiar (eat) enfourner, s'envoyer; (drink) descendre, écluser;
    ∎ he can really put it away! (food) il a un sacré appétit!; (drink) qu'est-ce qu'il descend!
    (a) (replace, return) remettre;
    ∎ put that record back where you found it! remets ce disque où tu l'as trouvé!
    (b) (postpone) remettre;
    ∎ the meeting has been put back to Thursday la réunion a été repoussée ou remise à jeudi
    (c) (slow down, delay) retarder;
    ∎ the strike has put our schedule back at least a month la grève nous a fait perdre au moins un mois sur notre planning
    (d) (turn back → clock) retarder;
    ∎ we put the clocks back next weekend le week-end prochain, on passe à l'heure d'hiver;
    ∎ figurative this decision has put the clock back cette décision nous a ramenés en arrière
    (e) familiar (drink) descendre, écluser
    ∎ Nautical to put back (to port) rentrer au port
    (save → money) mettre de côté; (→ supplies) mettre en réserve;
    ∎ have you got anything put by? avez-vous un peu d'argent de côté?
    (a) (on table, floor etc) poser;
    ∎ put that knife down at once! pose ce couteau tout de suite!;
    ∎ put me down! lâche-moi!;
    ∎ put that down! laisse (ça)!;
    ∎ to put the phone down raccrocher;
    ∎ he put the phone down on me il m'a raccroché au nez;
    ∎ it's one of those books you just can't put down c'est un de ces livres que tu ne peux pas poser avant de l'avoir fini;
    ∎ I couldn't put it down (book) je l'ai lu d'un trait
    (b) (drop off → passenger) déposer, laisser
    (c) (write down) écrire, inscrire; (enrol, enter on list) inscrire;
    ∎ put down your name and address écrivez votre nom et votre adresse;
    ∎ she put us down as Mr and Mrs Smith elle nous a inscrits sous le nom de M. et Mme Smith;
    ∎ it's never been put down in writing ça n'a jamais été mis par écrit;
    ∎ I can put it down as expenses je peux le faire passer dans mes notes de frais
    (d) (on agenda) inscrire à l'ordre du jour;
    ∎ to put down a motion of no confidence déposer une motion de censure
    (e) (quell) réprimer, étouffer;
    ∎ the revolt was put down by armed police la révolte a été réprimée par les forces de police
    (f) (belittle) rabaisser, critiquer;
    ∎ he's always putting students down il passe son temps à critiquer les étudiants;
    ∎ you shouldn't put yourself down tu ne devrais pas te sous-estimer
    ∎ to have a cat/dog put down faire piquer un chat/chien
    ∎ I've already put £50 down on the sofa j'ai déjà versé 50 livres pour le canapé
    (i) (store → wine) mettre en cave
    (j) (put to bed → baby) coucher
    (k) (land → plane) poser
    (l) (close → umbrella) fermer
    (land → plane, pilot) atterrir, se poser
    classer parmi;
    ∎ I think they'd put me down as a mere amateur je crois qu'ils me classeraient parmi les simples amateurs
    inscrire pour;
    ∎ put me down for £20 inscrivez-moi pour 20 livres;
    ∎ I'll put you down for Thursday at three o'clock je vous mets jeudi à trois heures;
    ∎ they've already put their son down for public school ils ont déjà inscrit leur fils dans une école privée
    mettre sur le compte de;
    ∎ you can't put all the country's problems down to inflation vous ne pouvez pas mettre tous les problèmes du pays sur le compte de l'inflation;
    ∎ I put it down to her stubbornness je mets ça sur le compte de son entêtement;
    ∎ we'll have to put it down to experience au moins on a appris quelque chose
    (a) literary (sprout → shoots, leaves) produire
    (b) formal (state → argument, reason) avancer
    (a) (suggest → proposal, idea, hypothesis) avancer; (→ candidate) proposer;
    ∎ she put her name forward for the post of treasurer elle a posé sa candidature au poste de trésorière;
    ∎ to put one's best foot forward (walk faster) presser le pas; figurative se mettre en devoir de faire de son mieux
    (b) (turn forward → clock, hands of clock) avancer;
    ∎ we put the clocks forward next weekend le week-end prochain, on passe à l'heure d'été
    (c) (bring forward) avancer;
    ∎ the meeting has been put forward to early next week la réunion a été avancée au début de la semaine prochaine
    ➲ put in
    (a) (place inside bag, container, cupboard etc) mettre dans;
    ∎ he put the eggs in the fridge il a mis les œufs dans le réfrigérateur;
    ∎ to put one's contact lenses in mettre ses lentilles de contact;
    ∎ to put one's head in at the window passer la tête par la fenêtre;
    ∎ Sport (in rugby) to put the ball in remettre la balle en jeu
    (b) (insert, include) insérer, inclure;
    ∎ have you put in the episode about the rabbit? as-tu inclus l'épisode du lapin?
    (c) (interject) placer;
    ∎ her name was Alicia, the woman put in elle s'appelait Alicia, ajouta la femme
    (d) (install) installer;
    ∎ we're having central heating put in nous faisons installer le chauffage central;
    ∎ the voters put the Tories in les électeurs ont mis les conservateurs au pouvoir;
    ∎ they've put in a new manager at the factory ils ont nommé un nouveau directeur à l'usine
    (e) (devote → time) passer;
    ∎ I've put in a lot of work on that car j'ai beaucoup travaillé sur cette voiture;
    ∎ I put in a few hours' revision before supper j'ai passé quelques heures à réviser avant le dîner;
    ∎ to put in an hour's work faire une heure de travail;
    ∎ to put in a full day at the office passer toute la journée au bureau;
    ∎ you only get out what you put in on ne récolte que ce qu'on sème
    (f) (submit → request, demand) déposer, soumettre;
    ∎ they put in a claim for a 10 percent pay rise ils ont déposé une demande d'augmentation de salaire de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ to put in an application for a job déposer sa candidature pour ou se présenter pour un emploi
    Nautical relâcher, faire relâche;
    ∎ we put in at Wellington nous avons relâché ou fait relâche à Wellington
    présenter;
    ∎ we're putting him in for the 500 metres nous le présentons pour le 500 mètres;
    ∎ to put pupils in for an examination présenter des élèves à un examen
    ∎ to put in for sth (post) poser sa candidature pour qch; (leave, promotion) faire une demande de qch, demander qch;
    ∎ she put in for a transfer to Florida elle a demandé à être mutée en Floride
    ➲ put off
    (a) (drop off → passenger) déposer, laisser;
    ∎ just put me off at the corner vous n'avez qu'à me laisser ou me déposer au coin
    (b) (postpone → meeting, appointment) remettre à plus tard, repousser; (→ decision, payment) remettre à plus tard, différer; (→ work) remettre à plus tard; (→ guests) décommander;
    ∎ the meeting has been put off until tomorrow la réunion a été renvoyée ou remise à demain;
    ∎ I kept putting off telling him the truth je continuais à repousser le moment de lui dire la vérité;
    ∎ I can't put him off again je ne peux pas encore annuler un rendez-vous avec lui
    ∎ once he's made up his mind nothing in the world can put him off une fois qu'il a pris une décision, rien au monde ne peut le faire changer d'avis
    (d) (distract) déranger, empêcher de se concentrer;
    ∎ he deliberately tries to put his opponent off il fait tout pour empêcher son adversaire de se concentrer;
    ∎ the noise put her off her service le bruit l'a gênée ou dérangée pendant son service
    (e) (repel) dégoûter, rebuter;
    ∎ it's the smell that puts me off c'est l'odeur qui me rebute;
    ∎ don't be put off by his odd sense of humour ne te laisse pas rebuter par son humour un peu particulier;
    ∎ it put me off skiing for good ça m'a définitivement dégoûté du ski;
    ∎ it put me off my dinner ça m'a coupé l'appétit
    (f) (switch off → television, radio etc) éteindre
    Nautical déborder du quai, pousser au large;
    ∎ to put off from the shore quitter la côte, prendre le large
    (a) (clothes, make-up, ointment) mettre;
    ∎ put your hat on mets ton chapeau;
    ∎ to put on one's make-up se maquiller
    (b) (present, stage → play, opera) monter; (→ poetry reading, slide show etc) organiser;
    ∎ why can't they put something decent on for a change? (on TV, radio) ils ne pourraient pas passer quelque chose d'intéressant pour une fois?
    (c) (lay on, provide → train) mettre en service;
    ∎ they put on excellent meals on Sundays ils servent d'excellents repas le dimanche;
    ∎ they have put on twenty extra trains ils ont ajouté vingt trains
    (d) (gain → speed, weight) prendre;
    ∎ I've put on a few pounds j'ai pris quelques kilos
    (e) (turn on, cause to function → light, radio, gas) allumer; (→ record, tape) mettre; (→ handbrake) mettre, serrer;
    ∎ put the heater on mets ou allume le chauffage;
    ∎ he put on some Vivaldi/the news il a mis du Vivaldi/les informations;
    ∎ I've put the kettle on for tea j'ai mis de l'eau à chauffer pour le thé;
    (f) (start cooking) mettre (à cuire);
    ∎ I forgot to put the peas on j'ai oublié de mettre les petits pois à cuire
    (g) (bet) parier;
    ∎ I put £10 on the favourite j'ai parié 10 livres sur le favori
    (h) (assume) prendre;
    ∎ to put on airs prendre des airs;
    ∎ he put on a silly voice il a pris une voix ridicule;
    ∎ to put on an act jouer la comédie;
    ∎ familiar don't worry, he's just putting it on ne t'inquiète pas, il fait du cinéma ou du chiqué
    (i) familiar (tease) faire marcher;
    ∎ you're putting me on! là, tu me fais marcher!
    (j) (apply → pressure) exercer
    (k) (add) ajouter;
    ∎ the tax increase will put another 10p on a gallon of petrol l'augmentation de la taxe va faire monter le prix du gallon d'essence de 10 pence
    (l) (impose) imposer;
    ∎ new restrictions have been put on bringing animals into the country de nouvelles restrictions ont été imposées à l'importation d'animaux dans le pays
    ∎ it's hard to put a price on it c'est difficile d'en évaluer ou estimer le prix
    (n) (advance → clock) avancer
    ∎ could you put him on, please? pouvez-vous me le passer, s'il vous plaît?
    (help find) indiquer à;
    ∎ I'll put you onto a good solicitor je vous donnerai le nom d'un ou je vous indiquerai un bon avocat;
    ∎ she's put me onto quite a few bargains elle m'a indiqué plusieurs bonnes affaires;
    ∎ to put the police/taxman onto sb dénoncer qn à la police/au fisc;
    ∎ what put you onto the butler, detective inspector? qu'est-ce qui vous a amené à soupçonner le maître d'hôtel, commissaire?
    ➲ put out
    (a) (place outside) mettre dehors, sortir;
    ∎ have you put the dustbin out? as-tu sorti la poubelle?;
    ∎ I'll put the washing out (to dry) je vais mettre le linge (dehors) à sécher;
    ∎ to put a cow out to grass mettre une vache en pâture
    ∎ to put sb's eye out éborgner qn;
    ∎ you almost put my eye out! tu as failli m'éborgner!
    (c) (issue → apology, announcement) publier; (→ story, rumour) faire circuler; (→ new record, edition, model etc) sortir; (→ appeal, request) faire; (broadcast) émettre;
    ∎ police have put out a description of the wanted man la police a publié une description de l'homme qu'elle recherche;
    ∎ to put out an SOS lancer un SOS
    (d) (extinguish → fire, light, candle) éteindre; (→ cigarette) éteindre, écraser; (→ gas) fermer;
    ∎ don't forget to put the light out when you leave n'oubliez pas d'éteindre (la lumière) en partant
    (e) (lay out, arrange) sortir;
    ∎ the valet had put out a suit for me le valet de chambre m'avait sorti un costume
    (f) (stick out, stretch out → arm, leg) étendre, allonger; (→ hand) tendre; (→ tongue) tirer;
    ∎ she walked up to me and put out her hand elle s'approcha de moi et me tendit la main;
    ∎ she put out a foot to trip him up elle a mis un pied en avant pour le faire trébucher
    ∎ to put one's back/shoulder out se démettre le dos/l'épaule;
    ∎ I've put my back out je me suis déplacé une vertèbre
    (h) (annoy, upset)
    ∎ to be put out about sth être fâché à cause de qch;
    ∎ he seems quite put out about it on dirait que ça l'a vraiment contrarié
    (i) (inconvenience) déranger;
    ∎ I hope I haven't put you out j'espère que je ne vous ai pas dérangé;
    ∎ she's always ready to put herself out for other people elle est toujours prête à rendre service
    (j) (sprout → shoots, leaves) produire
    (k) (make unconscious → with drug, injection) endormir
    (l) (subcontract) sous-traiter;
    ∎ we put most of our work out nous confions la plus grande partie de notre travail à des sous-traitants
    (a) Nautical prendre le large;
    ∎ to put out to sea faire appareiller
    (b) American familiar (woman) accepter de coucher ( for avec);
    ∎ everyone knows she puts out tout le monde sait qu'elle est prête à coucher;
    ∎ did she put out? est-ce qu'elle a bien voulu coucher?;
    ∎ she'd put out for anybody elle coucherait avec le premier venu
    (spread → gossip, story) faire courir
    (a) Telecommunications (connect) passer la communication à;
    ∎ hold on, I'll try to put you through ne quittez pas, je vais essayer de vous le/la passer;
    ∎ put the call through to my office passez-moi la communication dans mon bureau;
    ∎ I'll put you through to Mrs Powell je vous passe Mme Powell
    (b) (carry through, conclude) conclure;
    ∎ we finally put through the necessary reforms nous avons fini par faire passer les réformes nécessaires
    (c) (subject to) soumettre à;
    ∎ he was put through a whole battery of tests on l'a soumis à toute une série d'examens;
    ∎ I'm sorry to put you through this je suis désolé de vous imposer ça;
    ∎ have you any idea what you're putting him through? as-tu la moindre idée de ce que tu lui fais subir?;
    ∎ familiar to put sb through it en faire voir de toutes les couleurs à qn; (at interview) faire passer un mauvais quart d'heure à qn;
    ∎ he really put me through it il m'en a vraiment fait voir (de toutes les couleurs)
    ∎ he put himself through college il a payé ses études
    (a) (place side by side → two objects) mettre côte à côte; (→ facts) rapprocher, comparer;
    ∎ he's more trouble than the rest of them put together il nous crée plus de problèmes à lui seul que tous les autres réunis
    (b) (kit, furniture, engine) monter, assembler; (meal) préparer, confectionner; (menu) élaborer; (dossier) réunir; (proposal, report) préparer; (story, facts) reconstituer; (show, campaign) organiser, monter;
    ∎ we're trying to put together enough evidence to convict him nous essayons de réunir assez de preuves pour le faire condamner;
    ∎ to put together a convincing picture of what happened reconstituer une idée convaincante de ce qui s'est passé;
    ∎ the programme is nicely put together ce programme est bien fait;
    ∎ I'll just put a few things together (in my bag) je vais faire rapidement ma valise
    (with drug, injection) endormir
    ➲ put up
    (a) (raise → hand) lever; (→ flag) hisser; (→ hood) relever; (→ umbrella) ouvrir; (→ one's hair, coat collar) relever;
    ∎ could all those going put up their hands? que tous ceux qui y vont lèvent la main;
    ∎ put your hands up! haut les mains!;
    ∎ familiar put 'em up! (in surrender) haut les mains!; (to fight) défends-toi!;
    ∎ I'm going to put my feet up for a few minutes je vais me reposer un peu
    (b) (erect → tent) dresser, monter; (→ house, factory) construire; (→ monument, statue) ériger; (→ scaffolding) installer, monter; (→ ladder) dresser;
    ∎ they put up a statue to her ils érigèrent une statue en son honneur
    (c) (install, put in place) mettre; (curtains) poser, accrocher; (wallpaper) poser;
    ∎ they've already put up the Christmas decorations ils ont déjà installé les décorations de Noël;
    ∎ the shopkeeper put up the shutters le commerçant a baissé le rideau de fer
    (d) (send up → rocket, satellite) lancer
    (e) (display → sign) mettre; (→ poster) afficher;
    ∎ the results will be put up tomorrow les résultats seront affichés demain
    (f) (show → resistance) offrir, opposer;
    ∎ to put up a good show bien se défendre;
    ∎ to put up a struggle se défendre, se débattre
    (g) (present → argument, proposal) présenter;
    ∎ he puts up a good case for abstention il a des arguments convaincants en faveur de l'abstention
    ∎ to put sth up for sale/auction mettre qch en vente/aux enchères
    (i) (put forward → candidate) présenter; (→ person, name) proposer (comme candidat);
    ∎ we are not putting up any candidates nous ne présentons aucun candidat
    (j) familiar (provide → capital) fournir;
    ∎ who's putting the money up for the new business? qui finance la nouvelle entreprise?;
    ∎ we put up our own money nous sommes auto-financés
    (k) (increase) faire monter, augmenter;
    ∎ this will put up the price of meat ça va faire augmenter ou monter le prix de la viande
    (l) (give hospitality to) loger, héberger;
    (m) (urge, incite)
    ∎ to put sb up to (doing) sth pousser qn à (faire) qch
    (n) archaic (put away → sword, pistol) rengainer
    ∎ to put up at a hotel descendre dans un hôtel;
    ∎ where are you putting up? où est-ce que tu loges?; (in hotel) où es-tu descendu?;
    ∎ I'm putting up at Gary's for the moment je loge chez Gary pour le moment
    (b) (stand → in election) se présenter, se porter candidat;
    ∎ she put up as a Labour candidate elle s'est présentée comme candidate du parti travailliste
    ∎ put up or shut up! assez parlé, agissez!
    (usu passive) to put upon sb (abuse) abuser de qn; (exploit) exploiter qn;
    ∎ you shouldn't let yourself be put upon like that! tu ne devrais pas te laisser marcher sur les pieds comme ça!
    supporter, tolérer;
    ∎ I refuse to put up with this noise any longer! je ne supporterai pas ce bruit une minute de plus!;
    ∎ we'll have to put up with it il faut l'accepter ou nous y résigner
    ✾ Book 'Put Out More Flags' Waugh 'Hissez le grand pavois'

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  • 18 commission

    kəˈmɪʃən
    1. сущ.
    1) а) доверенность;
    полномочие in commission to do smth б) указание, приказание действовать каким-л. образом Syn: order, command, instruction
    2) должность а) звание офицера, офицерский чин;
    обязанности, связанные с офицерским чином;
    исходно документ, дающий такие полномочия get a commission resign one's commission б) звание, должность, обязанности мирового судьи;
    исходно документ, дающий такие полномочия be on the commission Syn: commission of peace
    3) комиссия( как группа уполномоченных лиц) accrediting commission standing commission interim commission
    4) о действии от чьего-л. имени или по чьему-л. поручению а) комиссионная продажа Sold by commission from the makers. ≈ Продается от имени и по поручению создателей. б) комиссионное вознаграждение He must also pay a commission, usually five percent, to his London agent. ≈ Он также должен платить комиссию, обычно пять процентов, своему агенту в Лондоне. в) поручение;
    заказ He received a commission to paint a landscape. ≈ Он получил заказ на пейзаж.
    5) совершение какого-л. действия, обычно нарушение закона There are very few men who delight in the commission of cruelty ≈ Существует лишь немного людей, получающих удовольствие от совершения насилия. - sin of commission
    6) ряд морских терминов а) вооружение б) введение в строй судна come into commission in commission out of commission ship in commission в) срок службы судна
    2. гл.
    1) назначать на должность см. commission
    1.
    2) The King commissioned new judges to administer justice. ≈ Король назначил новых судей вершить правосудие.
    2) а) уполномочивать( в юридическом и общеязыковом смысле) Any sergeant commissioned to ride the circuit. ≈ Любой сержант, уполномоченный объезжать округ. I am commissioned to make you an offer which I have told him you would not accept. ≈ Я выполняю его просьбу и делаю вам предложение, которое, как я ему сказал, вы вряд ли примете. Syn: authorize, empower б) посылать куда-л. с заданием Syn: send, dispatch
    3) поручать, давать, делать заказ;
    выписывать I have commissioned him to do a sketch of the park for me. ≈ Я заказал ему набросок парка. I've commissioned a walking-stick for my lord from Paris. ≈ Я выписал для своего господина трость из Парижа. Syn: order
    4) а) мор. воен. подготавливать корабль к плаванию (укомплектовывать личным составом, боеприпасами и т.п., см. commission
    1.
    5)) б) мор. назначать капитаном корабля;
    получать назначение на капитанскую должность There's a super-Dreadnought commissioning soon. ≈ Скоро на супер-дредноут назначат капитана. доверенность, полномочие;
    - to hold a * from the government иметь правительственные полномочия;
    - to act within one's * действовать в пределах полномочий;
    - to go beyond one's * превысить полномочия;
    - in * имеющий полномочия, уполномоченный поручение;
    - to carry out a * successfully успешно выполнить поручение заказ (особ художнику) ;
    - the * for the new theatre was given to a well-known architect проект нового театра был заказан известному архитектору (коммерческое) поручение комиссионное вознаграждение, комиссионные;
    - bank * комиссионные банку;
    - buying * комиссионное вознаграждение за закупку;
    - * sale комиссионная продажа;
    - to charge 5 % * взимать 5 % комиссионных комиссия, комитет;
    - * of conciliation согласительная комиссия;
    - * of inquiry комиссия по расследованию, следственная комиссия;
    - permanent * постоянная комиссия, постоянный комитет;
    - to appoint a * under Mr. Smith создать комиссию под председательством г-на Смита;
    - to sit on the government * заседать в правительственной комиссии офицерское звание присвоение офицерского звания документ, патент офицера патент, выдаваемый мировому судье при назначении его на должность совершение проступка;
    - * of murder совершение убийства > in * в исправности;
    > to put one's car in * отремонтировать свой автомобиль;
    > a ship in * судно, готовое к плаванию;
    > to come into * вступить в строй( о судне) ;
    > out of * в неисправности;
    > out TV set is out of * наш телевизор вышел из строя уполномочивать;
    поручать назначать на должность присвоить офицерское звание;
    - he was *ed a general in 1939 он был произведен в генералы в 1939 году заказывать;
    - to * an artist to paint a picture заказать художнику картину (морское) подготавливать к плаванию (морское) укомплектовывать( корабль) личным составом (морское) передавать под командование acquisition ~ комиссионные за заключение новых договоров страхования agency ~ комиссионное вознаграждение посреднику agency ~ комиссионное вознаграждение рекламному агентству agent's ~ агентская доверенность agent's ~ агентские комиссионные agent's ~ агентские полномочия agricultural ~ комиссия по сельскому хозяйству arbitration ~ арбитражная комиссия article sold on ~ товар, проданный на комиссионных товарах auctioneer's ~ комиссионное вознаграждение аукциониста banking ~ комиссионные платежи за услуги банка broker ~ комиссионное вознаграждение брокера broker's ~ брокерские комиссионные brokerage ~ комиссионное вознаграждение брокеру brokerage ~ комиссионные биржевого брокера за выполнение поручения клиента brokerage ~ куртаж брокера chartering ~ комиссионные за фрахтование collecting ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за сбор страховых взносов collection ~ комиссионные за инкассирование ~ мор. вооружение;
    введение в строй судна;
    to come into commission вступать в строй после постройки или ремонта (о корабле) commission вводить в эксплуатацию ~ включение судна в списки действующих судов военно-морского флота ~ мор. вооружение;
    введение в строй судна;
    to come into commission вступать в строй после постройки или ремонта (о корабле) ~ доверенность;
    полномочие;
    in commission имеющий полномочия;
    I cannot go beyond my commission я не могу превысить свои полномочия ~ доверенность ~ заказ ~ заказывать ~ каперское свидетельство ~ комиссионная продажа;
    to have goods on commission иметь товары на комиссии ~ комиссионное вознаграждение ~ комиссионное вознаграждение ~ комиссионный договор ~ комиссионный сбор ~ комиссия;
    standing commission постоянная комиссия;
    interim commission временная комиссия ~ комиссия ~ комитет ~ назначать на должность;
    to commission an officer присвоить первое офицерское звание ~ назначать на должность ~ назначение на должность ~ офицерское звание ~ патент на офицерский чин или на звание мирового судьи;
    to get a commission получить офицерский чин;
    to resign one's commission подать в отставку с военной службы ~ передавать корабль под командование ~ подготавливать корабль к плаванию ~ мор. подготавливать корабль к плаванию;
    укомплектовывать личным составом;
    назначать командира корабля ~ полномочие ~ поручать;
    давать заказ( особ. художнику) ~ поручать ~ поручение;
    заказ (особ. художнику) ~ поручение ~ приказ о назначении ~ присвоение офицерского звания ~ совершение (преступления и т. п.) ;
    the commission of murder совершение убийства ~ совершение (действия) ~ совершение проступка ~ судебное поручение ~ укомплектовывать корабль личным составом ~ уполномочивать Commission: Commission: EC ~ комиссия Европейского экономического сообщества commission: commission: electoral ~ избирательная комиссия ~ назначать на должность;
    to commission an officer присвоить первое офицерское звание ~ for administration of securities комиссионное вознаграждение за управление ценными бумагами ~ for brokerage services комиссионное вознаграждение за брокерские услуги ~ of inquiry комиссия по расследованию ~ of inquiry следственная комиссия ~ совершение (преступления и т. п.) ;
    the commission of murder совершение убийства ~ on account комиссионный платеж на счет ~ on bought deal комиссионные за покупку ~ on guarantees комиссионный платеж за гарантии ~ on profit тантьема ~ on sales комиссионные за продажу commitment ~ комиссионные за учреждение complaints ~ комиссия по жалобам conciliation ~ согласительная комиссия consignment ~ комиссионные за поставку партии груза coordinating ~ координационная комиссия del credere ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за делькредере del credere ~ комиссия за делькредере documentary credit ~ комиссионные за документарный аккредитив earned ~ комиссионное вознаграждение commission: electoral ~ избирательная комиссия factor's ~ комиссионное вознаграждение посредника firm underwriting ~ твердое комиссионное вознаграждение при продаже ценных бумаг дилерам freight ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за перевозку груза ~ патент на офицерский чин или на звание мирового судьи;
    to get a commission получить офицерский чин;
    to resign one's commission подать в отставку с военной службы guarantee ~ комиссия при авале ~ комиссионная продажа;
    to have goods on commission иметь товары на комиссии ~ доверенность;
    полномочие;
    in commission имеющий полномочия;
    I cannot go beyond my commission я не могу превысить свои полномочия ~ доверенность;
    полномочие;
    in commission имеющий полномочия;
    I cannot go beyond my commission я не могу превысить свои полномочия commission: in ~ в исправности;
    в полной готовности;
    out of commission в неисправности;
    a ship in commission судно, готовое к плаванию ~ комиссия;
    standing commission постоянная комиссия;
    interim commission временная комиссия joint ~ объединенная комиссия lead ~ первый комиссионный платеж management ~ административная комиссия management ~ группа управления maritime law ~ комиссия по морскому праву new business ~ комиссионные за новую фирму in ~ в исправности;
    в полной готовности;
    out of commission в неисправности;
    a ship in commission судно, готовое к плаванию overriding ~ главная комиссия periodical ~ периодическое комиссионное вознаграждение placing ~ комиссионные за размещение ценных бумаг police complaints ~ комиссия по расследованию жалоб на злоупотребления полиции reinsurance ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за перестрахование ~ патент на офицерский чин или на звание мирового судьи;
    to get a commission получить офицерский чин;
    to resign one's commission подать в отставку с военной службы return ~ возвращенное комиссионное вознаграждение safe-custody ~ комиссионный сбор за ответственное хранение sales ~ комиссионный платеж за продажу sales ~ комиссионный сбор за продажу secret ~ секретная комиссия selling agent's ~ комиссионное вознаграждение торговому агенту selling ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за продажу selling ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за размещение новых ценных бумаг in ~ в исправности;
    в полной готовности;
    out of commission в неисправности;
    a ship in commission судно, готовое к плаванию sins of ~ and omission сделаешь - плохо, а не сделаешь - тоже плохо split ~ комиссионное вознаграждение, поделенное между двумя брокерами ~ комиссия;
    standing commission постоянная комиссия;
    interim commission временная комиссия switch ~ комиссионное вознаграждение за переброску инвестиций trade ~ комиссия по торговле trade ~ торговая комиссия underwriting ~ комиссионное вознаграждение при продаже ценных бумаг дилерам valuation ~ таксационная комиссия

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > commission

  • 19 interest

    сущ.
    сокр. Int
    1)
    а) общ. интерес, заинтересованность

    to be of interest to smb. — представлять интерес для кого-л.

    to hold interest — поддерживать [удерживать\] интерес

    Syn:
    concern, curiosity
    See:
    б) общ. увлечение, интересы

    community of interest — сообщество [группа\] по интересам, сообщество интересов

    2) общ. выгода, польза, преимущество, интерес

    to protect [defend, safeguard, guard\] smb.'s interests — защищать [отстаивать\] чьи-л. интересы

    in smb's interests — в чьих-л. интересах

    in (the) interest(s) of smb./smth. — в интересах кого-л./чего-л.

    We are acting in the best interest of our customers. — Мы действуем в наилучших интересах наших клиентов.

    Syn:
    advantage, benefit, good, profit
    See:
    3) общ., мн. круги (лица, объединенные общими деловыми или профессиональными интересами)

    moneyed interests — денежные [богатые, финансовые\] круги

    wealthy interests — состоятельные [богатые\] круги

    See:
    4)
    а) эк. доля, участие в собственности [прибыли\] (об участии во владении каким-л. имуществом или каким-л. предприятием; права собственности на какое-л. имущество или на часть в чем-л.)

    to buy [purchase, acquire\] a controlling interest — покупать [приобретать\] контрольный пакет акций [контрольную долю\]

    to sell a controlling interest — продавать контрольный пакет акций [контрольную долю\]

    to own an interest — иметь долю, владеть долей (напр. в бизнесе)

    half interest — половинная доля, половина

    She owned a half interest in the home. — Ей принадлежало право собственности на половину дома.

    30% interest — 30-процентная доля

    He holds a 30% interest in the gold mine. — Он владеет 30-процентной долей в золотой шахте.

    Syn:
    See:
    б) эк., юр. имущественное право (право лица владеть, пользоваться и распоряжаться каким-л. имуществом в пределах, установленных законом)

    to disclaim [renounce\] interest — отказаться от права (собственности)

    Interest may be a property right to land, but it's not a right to absolute ownership of land. — Имущественное право может быть правом собственности на землю, но оно не является абсолютным правом собственности на землю.

    See:
    5)
    а) фин., банк. процент, процентный доход (доход, получаемый с вложенного капитала и измеряемый как доля от его величины)

    interest on deposits — процент по депозитам [вкладам\]

    to bear [to yield, to carry, to produce\] interest — приносить процент [процентный доход\] ( о финансовом активе)

    The loan will carry interest of LIBOR plus 3.8 percent. — Заем принесет процент по ставке ЛИБОР плюс 3,8%.

    to invest at interest — вкладывать деньги [инвестировать\] под проценты

    The interest accrued to our account. — На нашем счету накопились проценты.

    This is a flexible account that allows you to accrue interest on your balance with limited check writing. — Это гибкий счет, который позволяет вам получать проценты на остаток средств при ограниченной выписке чеков.

    See:
    after-tax interest, daily interest, and interest, interest coupon, interest in possession trust, interest income, interest period, interest return, interest yield, interest spread, interest warrant, interest-bearing, interest-free, interest-only strip, interest-paying, accreted interest, accrued interest, accumulated interest, added interest, annual interest, any-interest-date call, area of interest fund, bearing interest, bearing no interest, bond interest, broken period interest, carried interest, cash flow interest coverage ratio, cash interest coverage ratio, deferred interest bond, draw interest, earn interest, field of interest fund, foreign interest payment security, income from interest, liquidity preference theory of interest, separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities
    б) фин., банк. (ссудный) процент (стоимость использования заемных денег; выражается в виде процентной доли от величины займа за определенный период)

    Banks create money and lend it at interest. — Банки создают деньги и ссужают их под процент.

    to pay [to pay out\] interests — платить [выплачивать\] проценты

    to calculate [to compute\] interest — вычислять [рассчитывать, подсчитывать\] проценты

    computation of interest, calculation of interest, interest calculation, interest computation — расчет процентов

    date from which interest is computed — дата, с которой начисляются [рассчитываются\] проценты

    interest payment, payment of interest — процентный платеж, процентная выплата, выплата процентов

    And, until you attain age 59½, sever employment, die or become disabled, the loans will continue to accrue interest. — И, до тех пор, пока вы не достигнете возраста 59,5 лет, прекратите работать, умрете или станете нетрудоспособным, по кредитам будут продолжать начисляться проценты.

    Under Late Payment Legislation, for business-to-business debts, you can recover interest at 4% above the base rate. — В соответствии с законодательством о просроченных платежах, для долговых операций между предприятиями вы можете взыскивать процент в размере базовой процентной ставки плюс 4%.

    See:
    в) фин., банк. = interest rate
    See:
    г) общ. избыток, излишек; навар ( о щедрой благодарности)

    to repay smb. with interest — отплатить кому-л. с лихвой

    She returned our favour with interest. — Она щедро отблагодарила нас за оказанную ей любезность.


    * * *
    interest; Int 1) процент: сумма, уплачиваемая должником кредитору за пользование деньгами последнего; стоимость использования денег; выражается в виде процентной ставки за определенный период, обычно год; 2) участие в капитале; капиталовложение; акция; титул собственности.
    * * *
    Проценты/участие (в капитале)
    . Цена, выплачиваемая за получение денежного кредита. Выражается в виде процентной ставки на определенный период времени и отражает курс обмена текущего потребления на будущее потребление. Также: доля в собственности/право собственности . интерес; вещные права; имущественные права; пай Инвестиционная деятельность .
    * * *
    выражение главного содержания отношения данного лица к имуществу, которое является объектом страхования, права на него или обязательству к нему
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    Банки/Банковские операции
    процент, процентный доход
    см. - per cent

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > interest

  • 20 repeat audience

    *повторная аудитория*
    а) марк. (люди, регулярно покупающие определенные товары или услуги)
    See:
    б) СМИ (процент зрителей, которые после первого просмотра фильма, выпуска передачи и т. п., смотрят его во второй раз)

    Normally the films draw a 2 percent repeat audience; "Titanic" got 20%. — Обычно фильмы собирают повторную аудиторию в два процента; "Титаник" собрал двадцать.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > repeat audience

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