prime issue

issue ['ɪʃu:]

question ⇒ 1 (a) différend ⇒ 1 (b) numéro ⇒ 1 (c) distribution ⇒ 1 (d) délivrance ⇒ 1 (d) émission ⇒ 1 (d) prêt ⇒ 1 (d) issue ⇒ 1 (e) publier ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c) sortir ⇒ 2 (a) délivrer ⇒ 2 (b) prêter ⇒ 2 (b) émettre ⇒ 2 (d) distribuer ⇒ 2 (e)

1 noun

(a) (matter, topic) question f, problème m;

∎ where do you stand on the abortion issue? quel est votre point de vue sur (la question de) l'avortement?;

∎ the issue was raised at the meeting le problème a été soulevé à la réunion;

∎ your personal feelings are not the issue vos sentiments personnels n'ont rien à voir là-dedans;

∎ that's not the issue ce n'est pas la question;

∎ it's become an international issue le problème a pris une dimension internationale;

∎ the important issues of the day les grands problèmes du moment;

∎ at issue en question;

∎ the point at issue is not the coming election le problème n'est pas l'élection à venir;

∎ her competence is not at issue sa compétence n'est pas en cause;

∎ to join issue with sb (about sth) discuter l'opinion de qn (au sujet de qch);

∎ to cloud or confuse the issue brouiller les cartes;

∎ to avoid or to duck or to evade the issue esquiver la question;

∎ to force the issue forcer la décision;

∎ Law issue (of fact/of law) question f ou point m de fait/de droit

(b) (cause of disagreement) différend m;

∎ the subject has now become a real issue between us ce sujet est maintenant source de désaccord entre nous;

∎ to be at issue with sb over sth être en désaccord avec qn au sujet de qch;

∎ they are at issue with the Japanese over import quotas ils sont en désaccord avec les Japonais au sujet des quotas d'importations;

∎ to make an issue of sth monter qch en épingle;

∎ don't make such an issue of it! inutile d'en faire toute une histoire!;

∎ to take issue with sb/sth être en désaccord avec qn/qch;

∎ I take issue with him on only one point je suis en désaccord avec lui sur un point seulement;

∎ I would take issue with that je ne suis pas d'accord là-dessus

(c) (edition → of newspaper, magazine etc) numéro m;

∎ the latest issue of the magazine le dernier numéro du magazine

(d) (distribution → of supplies, equipment) distribution f; (→ of official document, passport) délivrance f; (→ of shares, money, stamps) émission f; (→ of library book) prêt m;

∎ date of issue date f de délivrance;

∎ standard issue modèle m standard;

∎ army issue modèle m de l'armée

(e) formal (result, outcome) issue f, résultat m;

∎ I hope your request has a favourable issue j'espère que votre demande connaîtra une issue ou recevra une réponse favorable;

∎ Law issue (of fact/law) conclusion f

(f) archaic or Law (progeny) descendance f, progéniture f;

∎ he died without issue il est mort sans héritiers

(g) Medicine (of blood, pus) décharge f

2 transitive verb

(a) (book, newspaper) publier, sortir; (record) sortir;

∎ the magazine is issued on Wednesdays le magazine sort ou paraît le mercredi

(b) (official document, passport) délivrer; Law (warrant, writ, summons) lancer; (library book) prêter;

∎ where was the passport issued? où le passeport a-t-il été délivré?

(c) (statement, proclamation) publier;

∎ the government has issued a denial le gouvernement a publié un démenti

(d) (shares, money, stamps) émettre; (letter of credit) fournir;

∎ the Bank of Scotland issues its own notes la Bank of Scotland émet ses propres billets;

∎ to issue a draft on sb fournir une traite sur qn

(e) (distribute → supplies, tickets etc) distribuer;

∎ the magazine is issued free to every household le magazine est distribué gratuitement à ou dans tous les foyers;

∎ we were all issued with rations on nous a distribué à tous des rations;

∎ each man will be issued with two uniforms chaque homme recevra deux uniformes;

∎ no books will be issued after eight p.m. le service de prêt ferme à vingt heures

3 intransitive verb formal

(a) (come or go out) sortir ( from de); (blood, water) s'écouler ( from de); (smoke) s'échapper ( from de);

∎ delicious smells issued from the kitchen des odeurs délicieuses provenaient de la cuisine

(b) (result, originate)

∎ to issue from provenir de;

∎ all our difficulties issue from that first mistake c'est de cette première erreur que proviennent tous nos ennuis;

∎ formal the children issuing from this marriage les enfants issus de ce mariage

►► Administration issue card carte f (de) sortie de stock;

Finance issue department service m des émissions;

Finance issue premium prime f d'émission;

Finance issue price prix m d'émission, valeur f d'émission

➲ issue forth intransitive verb

literary jaillir

prime f d'émission

1 noun

(a) FINANCE (of banknotes, money orders, shares) émission f

issue premium prime f d'émission;

issue price prix m d'émission;

issue value valeur f d'émission

(b) ADMINISTRATION issue card carte f (de) sortie de stock

2 transitive verb

FINANCE (banknotes, money orders, shares) émettre; (bill) créer; (new edition, prospectus) publier; (letter of credit) fournir;

∎ to issue a draft on sb fournir une traite sur qn

obligation f à prime d'émission

1) General subject: matter of great significance, matter of great weight, question of great import

2) Mass media: high-profile issue, paramount issue, primary issue, prime issue, relevant issue

3) Makarov: a matter of great importance, matter of great importance

1 number, amount, quantity, sum.

2 number, numeral, Arabic numeral, cipher.

3 size, number.

4 issue, copy, number.

5 act, number.

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► nombre masculino

1 (gen) number

2 (de una publicación) number, issue

3 (de zapatos) size

■ ¿qué número calzas? what's your shoe size?, what size shoe do you take?

4 (de un espectáculo) act

5 (de lotería) lottery ticket number

6 (cargo sin graduación) officer

7 LINGÚÍSTICA number

8 familiar scene

9 familiar (persona) case

■ tenemos un profesor que es un número we have a teacher who's a real case

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en números redondos in round figures

en números rojos in the red

hacer números to do the figures

montar un número familiar to make a scene

pedir número to take a numbered ticket

ser el número uno to be the number one

ser miembro de número to be a full member

sin número (edificio) unnumbered 2 (en abundancia) countless

número arábigo Arabic numeral

número atrasado back number

número de matrícula registration number, US license number

número de serie serial number

número entero whole number

número extraordinario (en prensa) special edition, special issue

número fraccionario fraction

número impar odd number

número ordinal ordinal number

número par even number

número primo prime number

número quebrado fraction

número romano Roman numeral

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1) number

2) issue

3) figure

4) size

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1) (Mat) number

2) [de zapatos] size

3) [de periódico, revista] number, issue

4) (=billete de lotería) ticket

5) (Teat) act, number

- montar el o un número

6) (Gram) number

7) (Mil) man; (=soldado raso) private; (=policía) policeman

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1)

a) (Mat) number

b) ( de zapatos) size

c) ( billete de lotería) lottery ticket

- número arábigo/romano

- número cardinal/ordinal

- número decimal

- número de identificación personal

- número de matrícula

- número de serie

- número de teléfono/fax

- número fraccionario

- número par/impar

- número uno

2) (Espec) act

3) ( de publicación) issue

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= extent, incidence, issue, number, numeral, percentage, tally [tallies, pl.], scale.

Ex. The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.

Ex. The number of entries in pre-co-ordinate system will depend upon the incidence of references and multiple entries.

Ex. This is an issue devoted in part to papers presented at the conference arranged and hosted by the State Library of New South Wales.

Ex. The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).

Ex. Records can be retrieved by character strings (that is, sequences of letters and numerals).

Ex. But those institutions, and I am referring particularly to public libraries, serve a very large percentage of the nation's library users.

Ex. As the various parts of the record are entered, the document summary indicates the additions by the tallies opposite the record parts.

Ex. I have a feeling that all our old technologies are getting progressively more expensive and more inefficient, and that all our new technologies are getting progressively cheaper and more efficient because of questions of scale.

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* acción de marcar un número = dialling.

* admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.

* área del número normalizado y de las condiciones de adquisición = International Standard Book Number and terms of availability area, standard number and terms of availability area.

* aumentar en número = grow in + numbers, increase in + numbers.

* base de un número = subscript numeral.

* colorear por números = paint by + numbers.

* con el número = numbered.

* con un gran número de lectores = widely-read.

* cuadrar números = add up + figures.

* el mismo número = as many.

* en el mismo número de años = in as many years.

* enemigo público número uno = public enemy number one.

* en grandes números = in record numbers.

* en gran número = numerously.

* en números redondos = in round figures.

* en números reducidos = in small numbers.

* en un número cada vez mayor = in increasing numbers.

* exceder en número = outnumber.

* exponente de un número = superscript numeral.

* ficha de número de registro = accessions card.

* gran número de = great numbers of.

* integridad de los números = integrity of numbers.

* línea de números = number line.

* marcar un número de teléfono = dial + number.

* montar un número = kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, raise + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, make + a ruckus, kick up + a row.

* nº (número) + Número = # (number) + Número, no. (number) + Número.

* Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.

* número actual = current issue.

* Número + al año = Número + annually.

* Número + al día = Número + a day.

* número anterior = backrun, back issue.

* número aproximado = ballpark number.

* número arábigo = Arabic numeral.

* número atrasado = back issue, back copy.

* número binario = binary digit.

* Número + cada año = Número + annually.

* número cada vez mayor = rising numbers.

* número capicúo = palindrome.

* número consecutivo = running number.

* número de adquisiciones = acquisition rate.

* número de alumnos matriculados = enrolment [enrollment, -USA].

* Número + de ancho = Número + wide.

* número de aprobados = pass rate.

* número de asientos = seating.

* número de bibliografía nacional = national record number.

* número de búsquedas fallidas = failure rate.

* número decimal = decimal number.

* número de citas = number of citations.

* número de clasificación = class mark [classmark], class number, classification number, rank number.

* número de control = control number.

* número de documentos devueltos a los estantes = shelving statistics.

* número de ejemplar = copy number.

* número de emergencia = hotline [hot-line].

* número de exportaciones = export figures.

* número de fascículo = issue number.

* número de identificación = ID number (identification number).

* número de identificación del documento = library registration number.

* número de intentos fallidos = failure rate.

* número de la bibliografía nacional = national bibliographic record number.

* número de la búsqueda = set number.

* Número + de largo = Número + long.

* número de la tarjeta de crédito = credit card number.

* número del documento = document identification number, document number.

* número de lector = borrower number.

* número del editor = publisher's number (música).

* número de matrícula = registration number, car registration number.

* número de modelo = model number.

* número de muertos = death toll.

* número de opus = opus number.

* número de orden = rank number.

* número de páginas = pagination.

* número de palabras = wordage.

* número de participantes = turnout.

* número de pedido = order number.

* número de plancha = plate number.

* número de préstamo = charging number.

* número de préstamos = circulation figures.

* número de publicaciones = publication count.

* número de referencia del documento = document reference number.

* número de referencias = number of citations.

* número de registro = accession number, card number.

* número de relación = linking number.

* número de respuestas recibidas = response rate, rate of response.

* número de serie = serial number.

* número de solicitudes denegadas = failure rate.

* número de suspensos = failure rate.

* número de tarjeta de proceso = transaction card number.

* número de teléfono = phone number, telephone number, dial-up number, dial-up number, dial-up number.

* número de teléfono de llamada gratuita = toll free telephone number, toll-free number.

* número de teléfono que no está incluido en el directorio telefónico = unlisted telephone number.

* número de tema = thematic index number.

* número determinado de = nth.

* número de víctimas = death toll.

* número de volumen = volume number.

* número entero = integer.

* número entero positivo = positive integer.

* Número + en total = Número + in number.

* número equivocado = wrong number.

* número especial = special issue, special number.

* número identificado de un ordenador en una red = network address.

* número impar = odd number.

* número indicador de materia = SIN, Subject Indicator Number.

* Número Internacional Normalizado para Libros (ISBN) = ISBN (International Standard Book Number).

* Número Internacional Normalizado para Publicaciones Seriadas (ISSN) = ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).

* número limitado de alumnos matriculados = limited enrolment.

* número mágico = magic number.

* número matriz = master number.

* número monográfico = thematic issue.

* número nacional de identificación bibliográfica = national bibliography number.

* número normalizado = standard number.

* número ordinal = ordinal, ordinal number.

* número par = even number.

* número pin = PIN (personal identification number), PIN number.

* Número + por ciento = by + factor of + Número, Número + percentage points.

* número reclamado = claimed issue.

* número romano = roman numeral.

* números recientes de las revistas = current journals.

* número total = head count.

* número trascendente = transcendental number.

* número trece = thirteenth.

* número uno = number one.

* Número + vez = Número + time.

* número y distribución de personal = staffing conditions.

* ordenación por número curren = accession order, accession order, arrangement by accession number.

* ordenado por número de clasificación = in class number order.

* ordenar por número curren = arrange by + accession number.

* PIN (número de identificación personal) = PIN (personal identification number).

* poner a + Número = set to + Número.

* procesador de números = number cruncher.

* redondear al número entero más cercano = round up to + the nearest whole number.

* sección de últimos números de publicaciones periódicas = current periodicals area.

* ser de número limitado = be limited in number.

* superar en número = outnumber.

* tarifa por el número de operaciones = volume-based tariff.

* último número, el = latest issue, the.

* una gran número de = a broad variety of.

* un buen número de = a good number of.

* un cierto número de = a number of.

* un gran número de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of.

* un número cada vez mayor = growing numbers.

* un número cada vez mayor de = a growing number of, a growing body of.

* un número de = a series of.

* un número reducido de = a residue of, a small number of.

* un número variado de + Nombre = any number of + Nombre.

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1)

a) (Mat) number

b) ( de zapatos) size

c) ( billete de lotería) lottery ticket

- número arábigo/romano

- número cardinal/ordinal

- número decimal

- número de identificación personal

- número de matrícula

- número de serie

- número de teléfono/fax

- número fraccionario

- número par/impar

- número uno

2) (Espec) act

3) ( de publicación) issue

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1 ( Mat) number

vive en el número 15 she lives at number 15

el número premiado es el 10895 the winning number is (number) 10895

pagó una suma de seis números he paid a six figure sum

un número cada vez mayor de emigrantes more and more emigrants

el gran número de respuestas recibidas the large number of replies received

problemas sin número innumerable o countless problems

en números redondos in round numbers

estar en números rojos ( fam); to be in the red ( colloq)

tengo la cuenta en números rojos my account is o I'm in the red ( colloq)

hacer números to do one's arithmetic o ( BrE) sums

2 (de zapatos) [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] size

¿qué número calzas? what size shoe do you take?

3 (billete de lotería) lottery ticket

random number

Arabic numeral

atomic number

binary number

cardinal number

complex number

decimal

vehicle identification number

account number

fax number

identity number

(de persona) identity number; (de producto) identification number

tax identity number, taxpayer ID ( AmE), Unique Taxpayer Reference ( BrE)

PIN number, Personal Identification Number

(en Esp) national identity card number

mass number

license number ( AmE), registration number ( BrE)

serial number

telephone number

flight number

whole number

fraction

odd number

mixed number

ordinal number

even number

perfect number

prime number

real number

Roman numeral

masculine and feminine (de un equipo) number one; (líder) leader

es el número uno de su clase he's top of o the best in his class

el número uno egipcio the Egyptian leader

B ( Espec) act

un excelente número cómico an excellent comedy act o ( BrE) turn

montar un/el número ( Esp fam); to kick up a fuss ( colloq)

C (de una publicación) issue

el número del mes de mayo the May issue o edition

un número especial or extraordinario a special issue o edition

números atrasados back numbers o issues

D (en gramática) number

E ( Esp frml) (policía) officer, constable ( BrE)

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1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

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

a) (Mat) number;

◊ número de identificación personal PIN number, Personal Identification Number;

b) ( de zapatos) size;

◊ ¿qué número calzas? what size shoe do you take?

c) ( billete de lotería) lottery ticket

a) (Espec) act

b) ( de publicación) issue

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número nm

1. [signo] number;

mi número de la suerte my lucky number;

en números rojos in the red;

hacer números to reckon up;

ser el número uno to be number one;

fue el número uno de su promoción he was the best in his year;

el número dos del partido republicano the number two o second in command of the Republican Party;

sin número [muchos] countless, innumerable;

un sin número de modelos diferentes countless o innumerable different models

número atómico atomic number;

número binario binary number;

número cardinal cardinal number;

número complejo complex number;

número complementario [en lotería] = complementary number, Br ≈ bonus ball;

número de cuenta account number;

número entero whole number, integer;

número de fax fax number;

número fraccionario fraction;

número de identificación personal PIN (number);

número impar odd number;

número irracional irrational number;

número de matrícula [de vehículo] Br registration number, US license number;

número natural natural number;

número ordinal ordinal number;

número par even number;

número primo prime number;

número quebrado fraction;

número racional rational number;

número redondo round number;

número de referencia reference number;

número romano Roman numeral;

número de serie serial number;

número de sucursal [de banco] sort code;

número de teléfono telephone number

2. [tamaño, talla] size;

¿qué número calzas? what size shoe are you?, what size shoe do you take?

3. [de publicación] issue, number

número extraordinario special edition o issue

4. [de lotería] ticket

5. Gram number

6. [de espectáculo] turn, number;

montar el número to make o cause a scene

7. Esp [de policía] officer

8. Rel

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1 number;

un gran número de a large number of;

sin número countless;

ser el número uno be number one, be the best;

en números redondos in round figures;

en números rojos fig in the red;

hacer números fam add up the figures, Br

do one’s sums

2 de publicación issue

3 de zapato size

montar un número fam make a scene

de número socio full; empleado, profesor permanent; catedrático tenured

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número nm

1) : number

número impar: odd number

número ordinal: ordinal number

número arábico: Arabic numeral

número quebrado: fraction

2) : issue (of a publication)

sin número : countless

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número n

1. (en general) number

2. (de calzado) size

3. (publicación) issue

4. (espectáculo) act / number

m number

arabo, romano numeral

di scarpa size

numero di casa home (tele)phone number

numero di targa registration number, AE license number

numero di telefono phone number

numero di volo flight number

telecommunications sbagliare numero dial the wrong number

numero verde 0800 number, AE toll-free number

numero legale quorum

education numero chiuso restricted enrol(l)ment

sono venuti in gran numero lots of them came

colloq dare i numeri talk nonsense

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numero s.m.

1 number; ( cifra) figure: numeri arabi, romani, Arabic, Roman numerals; numeri pari, dispari, even, odd numbers; numero a una cifra, single figure; numero di targa, licence number; numero di conto corrente, current account number; numero di serie, serial number; hai il posto n 27, you have seat No 27; vada allo sportello n 3, go to window No 3 // è il numero uno nella sua azienda, he is number one in his firm // estrarre i numeri ( al lotto), to draw the numbers // dare i numeri, (fig.) to be off one's head // (mat.): numeri cardinali, ordinali, cardinal, ordinal numbers; numero intero, integer; numero naturale, razionale, irrazionale, reale, immaginario, natural, rational, irrational, real, imaginary number; numero primo, prime number; numero periodico, repeater // (stat.) legge dei grandi numeri, law of large numbers // (fis.): numero isotopico, isotopic number; numero di massa, nuclear (o mass) number; numeri magici, magic numbers; numero quantico, quantum number // (inform.): numero casuale, random number; numero d'ordine, sequence number; numero di verifica, clock number; numero ( di registrazione) di blocco, block serial number; numero di bit del microprocessore, bit size; numero di iterazioni, cycle criterion // (mecc.) numero categorico, part number // (econ.): inflazione a un numero, single figure inflation; numero indice dei prezzi, price index number

2 ( di telefono) telephone number: qual è il tuo numero di telefono?, what's your telephone number?; fare, comporre un numero telefonico, to dial a number; scusi, ho sbagliato numero, sorry, I've got the wrong number // numero verde, freephone number; (amer.) toll-free number

3 numero civico, street number: abita in via Roma ma non so a che numero, she lives in via Roma but I don't know the number; abito al n 28, I live at No 28

4 ( taglia, misura) size: un paio di scarpe numero 38, a pair of size 38 shoes; che numero di guanti porti?, what size gloves do you wear?

5 ( quantità) number: un gran numero di, a large number of (o a lot of o a great many); c'era un gran numero di persone, there was (o were) a large number of people; ha un numero incredibile di abiti, she has an amazing number of clothes; al congresso c'era un buon, un discreto numero di partecipanti stranieri, a good, a fair number of foreigners took part in the congress; le richieste oltrepassavano il numero dei biglietti a disposizione, the demand exceeded the number of tickets available; il numero dei partecipanti era superiore ai posti disponibili, the partecipantes outnumbered the places available; siamo sopraffatti dal numero di richieste, we are overwhelmed by the number of requests // erano cinquanta di numero, they were fifty in number; eravamo in due di numero, there were just two of us // (comm.) vendere a numero, to sell by the piece // far numero, to make up the number // numero chiuso, programmato, restricted (o selective) entry; università a numero chiuso, university that applies selective entry // (dir.): numero legale, quorum; raggiungere il numero legale, to form a quorum // (mecc.) numero di giri, number of revolutions

6 ( compagnia, gruppo) number, circle, set: avere un ristretto numero di amici, to have a small circle (o number) of friends; tu non entri nel numero dei fortunati, you are not one of the lucky ones; essere nel numero degli eletti, to be numbered among the elects // uscire dal numero, ( distinguersi) to stand out // andare nel numero dei più, ( morire) to die

7 pl. (banca) ( nel calcolo degli interessi attivi e passivi) products: numeri rossi, ( scoperto di conto corrente) overdraft (o red); interesse sui numeri rossi, red interest

8 ( di giornale, rivista) number, issue: numero arretrato, back number (o back issue); nel numero di domani troverete il supplemento, in tomorrow's issue you will find the supplement // numero unico, one-off issue // numero zero, sample issue

9 ( di uno spettacolo) number, turn, item: un numero comico, a comedy (o comic) turn // che numero quel ragazzo!, (fig.) what a scream that boy is!

10 (spec. pl.) ( qualità) quality: ha molti numeri, he has many good qualities; quello scrittore ha i numeri per avere successo, that writer has what it takes to succeed (o the right recipe for success); quel cavallo ha tutti i numeri per vincere, that horse has got what it takes to win // avere dei numeri, to have the right qualities

11 (gramm.) number: questo sostantivo è di numero plurale, this noun is in the plural (number)

12 (mus.) numbers (pl.)

13 (letter.) ( ritmo) rhythm.

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sostantivo maschile

1) mat. number; (cifra) figure

2) (cifra che distingue persone e cose) number

3) (di scarpe) (shoe) size

4) (di giornale, periodico) issue, number

5) (quantità) (di persone, oggetti) number, amount

6) ling. number

7) (esibizione) act, number

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numero

/'numero/ ⇒ 26, 35

sostantivo m.

 1 mat. number; (cifra) figure; un numero di due cifre a two-digit number; numero positivo, negativo positive, negative number

 2 (cifra che distingue persone e cose) number; numero di telefono (tele)phone number; giocare un numero to bet on a number (in a lottery); sbagliare (il) numero (al telefono) to dial the wrong number; abitare al numero 7 (civico) to live at number 7; il numero due del partito the number two party member; essere il numero uno della hit-parade to be number one in the charts

 3 (di scarpe) (shoe) size; che numero hai o porti? what's your shoe size? what size are you?

 4 (di giornale, periodico) issue, number; il prossimo numero the next issue; numero arretrato back issue

 5 (quantità) (di persone, oggetti) number, amount; il numero degli iscritti sta diminuendo membership is declining; un gran numero di a great deal of; essere pochi di numero to be few in number; in numero uguale in equal numbers

 6 ling. number

 7 (esibizione) act, number; numero di canto e ballo song and dance act o routine; numero principale star turn; numero d'apertura teatr. opener

IDIOMS

dare i -i to go off one's head, to flip one's lid, to lose one's marbles; andare nel numero dei più to cross the great divide; avere dei -i to have what it takes

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COMPOUNDS

numero arabo Arabic numeral; numero atomico chim. atomic number; numero cardinale cardinal number; numero decimale decimal; numero dispari odd number; numero d'immatricolazione aut. registration number; numero interno tel. extension; numero intero integer, whole number; numero legale quorum; numero ordinale ordinal number; numero pari even number; numero primo prime (number); numero romano Roman numeral; numero di serie serial number; numero di targa plate o registration BE number; numero verde Freefone^® BE, toll-free number AE; numero zero (edizione) trial issue; - i di emergenza emergency numbers.

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accrual rate коэффициент накопления (характеризует скорость накопления) accuracy rate показатель точности activity rate степень активности activity rates коэффициент активности (процент экономически активных детей и взрослых соответственно в возрастных группах 10-14 и 15-64 года) actual interest rate реальная процентная ставка actual rate фактическая ставка ad valorem rate фрахтовая ставка со стоимости товара add-on rate дополнительная ставка adjusted rate скорректированный коэффициент adjusted rate стандартизованный коэффициент advertising rate стоимость рекламы advertising rate цена рекламы advised rate ставка, о которой клиент официально уведомлен after tax real rate of return реальная норма прибыли после уплаты налога alternative rate of return альтернативная процентная ставка amortization rate норма амортизационного списания annual percentage rate (APR) годовая процентная ставка annualized rate процентная ставка в годовом исчислении arrival rate вчт. интенсивность входящего потока arrival rate частота поступления at a guaranteed rate по гарантированному курсу average rate of profit полит.-эк. средняя норма прибыли; at an easy rate дешево; легко; to live at a high rate жить на широкую ногу rate тех. расход (воды); at any rate во всяком случае; по меньшей мере; at this (или that) rate в таком случае; при таких условиях rate темп; ход, скорость; rate of increase темп роста, прироста; at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час rate тех. расход (воды); at any rate во всяком случае; по меньшей мере; at this (или that) rate в таком случае; при таких условиях attractive rate привлекательная ставка average exchange rate средний валютный курс average exchange rate средний вексельный курс average exchange rate средний обменный курс average rate средняя ставка average tax rate средняя ставка налога bank deposit rate банковская ставка по депозитам bank discount rate банковская учетная ставка bank rate учетная ставка банка base rate базовая ссудная ставка банков base rate базовая ставка base rate тарифная ставка basic interest rate основная ставка процента basic rate базисная ставка basic rate основная ставка baud rate вчт. скорость передачи информации в бодах benchmark rate исходная ставка bill rate процент по государственным облигациям bill rate ставка по казначейским векселям birth and death rates уровни рождаемости и смертности birth rate полит.эк. коэффициент рождаемости birth rate полит.эк. рождаемость birth rate уровень рождаемости, рождаемость bit rate вчт. скорость передачи данных в битах bit rate вчт. скорость передачи информации в бит/сек bond interest rate процент по облигации bonus rate ставка дополнительного дивиденда broker's loan rate процентная ставка банков по ссудам до востребования фондовым брокерам building interest rate строительная процентная ставка bulk rate фрахтовая ставка для перевозки большой партии груза burden rate отношение накладных расходов к затратам на оплату труда buying rate закупочная расценка buying rate курс покупателя call money rate ставка процента по онкольной ссуде call rate онкольная ставка call rate процентная ставка по ссудам до востребования capitalization rate норма капитализации carload rate повагонная тарифная ставка carload rate тариф для повагонных грузов carrying-over rate бирж. курс репорта ceiling rate предельная норма процента central bank lending rate ставка ссудного процента центрального банка central rate центральный курс central reference rate центральный контрольный курс certificate-of-deposit rate ставка депозитного сертификата check rate чековый курс cheque rate курс покупки чеков church rate церковный налог clock rate вчт. тактовая частота closing rate курс на момент закрытия биржи closing rate of exchange валютный курс на момент закрытия сальдо commission rate ставка комиссионного вознаграждения commodity rate специальный тариф на перевозку массовых грузов common reduced rate единый льготный тариф completion rate процент выполненных работ consensus rate согласованная процентная ставка consolidated rate полная почасовая ставка constant rate постоянный коэффициент constructions rate темпы строительных работ contract rate договорная расценка contribution rate размер взноса conversion rate коэффициент пересчета conversion rate скорость преобразования rate оценивать, исчислять, определять, устанавливать; the copper coinage was then rated above it real value медная монета стоила тогда выше своей реальной стоимости crude rate общий коэффициент cumulative rate суммарный коэффициент current account rate ставка процента на текущем счете current coupon rate текущий уровень процентных ставок купона current exchange rate текущий валютный курс current exchange rate текущий обменный курс current rate курс дня current rate текущий курс cut rate сниженный курс data rate вчт. скорость передачи данных data transfer rate вчт. скорость передачи данных death rate смертность declining rate снижающийся курс dependency rate коэффициент иждивенчества (показывает число детей до 14 лет и лиц старше 65 лет в процентах от потенциально работопособной части населения) deposit rate ставка по депозитам depreciation rate норма амортизации depreciation rate степень обесценивания discount rate ставка дисконта discount rate учетная ставка, учетный процент, учетный курс discount rate учетная ставка discount rate учетный процент discounted cash flow rate оборот дисконтированных поступлений наличности dividend rate норма дивидендов dollar rate курс доллара dollar rate increase повышение курса доллара dollar's exchange rate обменный курс доллара drawdown rate норма использования кредита dropping rate понижающийся курс entrance rate вчт. интенсивность входящего потока error rate вчт. частота ошибок error rate частота появления ошибок eurointerest rate процентная ставка по еврооблигациям exceptional rate исключительный тариф exchange rate валютный курс exchange rate курс обмена валюты exchange rate обменный курс exchange rates валютные курсы, курсы обмена валют excise rate ставка акцизного сбора exorbitant rate чрезмерно высокий курс express freight rate тариф на срочную доставку грузов extortionate rate грабительский курс falling dollar rate понижающийся курс доллара federal discount rate федеральная учетная ставка (США) fertility rate общий коэффициент фертильности fertility rate специальный коэффициент рождаемости fixed exchange rate фиксированный валютный курс fixed interest rate фиксированная процентная ставка fixing rate твердая ставка flexible exchange rate плавающий валютный курс floating interest rate плавающая процентная ставка floor rate нижний предел вмешательства fluctuating rate колеблющийся курс foreign exchange rate валютный курс forgetting rate рекл. забываемость товара forward rate бирж. срочный курс forward rate бирж. форвардный курс freight rate ставка фрахта full-time unemployment rate коэффициент полной безработицы general rate общий коэффициент going rate действующая ставка going rate обычная ставка growth rate относительный прирост growth rate темп прироста growth rate темп роста guaranteed rate гарантированная ставка rate считать; расценивать; рассматривать; he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи; I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной hourly rate рын.тр. почасовая ставка hourly rate рын.тр. почасовой тариф hourly wage rate рын.тр. почасовая ставка заработной платы hurdle rate эк.произ. минимально приемлемая ставка rate считать; расценивать; рассматривать; he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи; I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной import rate импортный тариф import rate тариф для импортных грузов incentive freight rate поощрительная фрахтовая ставка increment rate коэффициент прироста indexed interest rate индексированная ставка процента inflation rate темпы инфляции input rate вчт. интенсивность входящего потока insurance rate ставка страховой премии interbank bid rate межбанковская ставка процента покупателя interbank offered rate межбанковская ставка процента продавца interest rate норма процента interest rate ставка процента international rate международный тариф interruption rate вчт. частота прерывания обслуживания intervention rate интервенционный курс investment rate норма инвестирования investment rate темп роста капиталовложений issue rate эмиссионный курс landing rate плата за перегрузку с судна на сухопутный транспорт legal minimum wage rates установленная законом минимальная ставка заработной платы lending interest rate ставка ссудного процента lending rate кредитная ставка liquidity rate коэффициент ликвидности average rate of profit полит.-эк. средняя норма прибыли; at an easy rate дешево; легко; to live at a high rate жить на широкую ногу loading rate суд. норма погрузки loading rate тариф на погрузочные работы loan rate процентная ставка по ссуде lombard rate ломбардная ставка lombard rate ставка ломбардного кредита long rate курс покупки долгосрочных векселей long rate ставка процента по долгосрочным кредитным обязательствам long-term interest rate долгосрочная процентная ставка long-term prime rate долгосрочная базисная ставка long-term prime rate долгосрочная учетная ставка для первоклассных денежных обязательств (США) long-term rate долгосрочная ставка low mortality rate низкий коэффициент смертности lump sum rate процентная ставка с общей суммы machine hour rate норма издержек на станко-час malfunction rate вчт. частота сбоев marginal tax rate предельная налоговая ставка market exchange rate рыночный валютный курс market exchange rate рыночный обменный курс market interest rate рыночная ставка процента market rate биржевой курс market rate рыночная норма market rate рыночная ставка market rate рыночный курс maximum interest rate максимальная ставка процента medium rate средний курс medium-term rate ставка процента по среднесрочным кредитным обязательствам middle rate средний курс middle rate средняя ставка mileage rate плата за перевозки, исчисляемые в милях minimum interest rate минимальная ставка процента minimum lending rate (MLR) минимальная ставка ссудного процента minimum rate минимальная ставка minimum rate минимальный курс money rate ставка процента по денежным операциям rate соответственная часть; пропорция; коэффициент, степень, процент; доля; mortality rate смертность mortality rate коэффициент смертности mortality rate показатель смертности mortgage rate ставка процента по закладной night rate точной тариф nominal interest rate номинальная процентная ставка nominal rate номинальный курс notional central rate условный центральный курс occupancy rate коэффициент занятости; коэффициент заполнения (рабочих мест, мест в гостинице и т. п.) output rate вчт. интенсивность выходящего потока overflow rate вчт. интенсивность избыточного потока paging rate вчт. интенсивность страничного обмена parcel post rate расценки почтово-посылочной службы parity rate паритетный курс participation rate доля рабочей силы в общей численности данной половозрастной группы peg the rate фиксировать курс национальной валюты относительно иностранных валют pegged exchange rate твердый валютный курс pegged exchange rate фиксированный валютный курс piece rate сдельная ставка piece-work rate цена сдельной работы placement rate коэффициент размещения postal rate почтовый тариф preferential rate льготный таможенный тариф premium rate норма премиальной выплаты premium rate размер премии premium rate ставка страхового взноса prime lending rate прайм-рейт prime lending rate публикуемая банками ставка по кредитам первоклассным заемщикам prime rate базисная ставка prime rate прайм-рейт prime rate публикуемая банками ставка по кредитам первоклассным заемщиком printout rate вчт. скорость вывода на печать projected expenditure rate планируемая скорость расходования ресурсов quotation rate бирж. котировка курса quote a rate назначать ставку quoted exchange rate котировочный валютный курс quoted exchange rate котировочный обменный курс rallying dollar rate повышающийся курс доллара rallying rate растущая ставка rallying rate увеличивающийся курс rate = ret rate бранить; задавать головомойку rate интенсивность rate интенсивнось rate класс rate коммунальный налог rate коэффициент rate курс rate местный налог rate местный налог; коммунальный налог rate местный налог rate мощность rate налог на землю rate норма; ставка, тариф; расценка, цена; the rate of wages per week ставка недельной заработной платы rate норма rate нормировать rate (преим. pass.) облагать (местным) налогом rate облагать налогом rate мор. определять класс, категорию (корабля) rate определять тариф rate оценивать, исчислять, определять, устанавливать; the copper coinage was then rated above it real value медная монета стоила тогда выше своей реальной стоимости rate оценивать; исчислять; таксировать; тарифицировать; устанавливать rate оценивать rate оценка rate паек, порция rate поземельный налог rate показатель rate пропорция rate процент rate размер; норма; ставка; тариф; такса; цена; курс; процент rate размер rate разряд, класс; сорт rate разряд rate тех. расход (воды); at any rate во всяком случае; по меньшей мере; at this (или that) rate в таком случае; при таких условиях rate расход rate расценивать rate скорость rate соответственная часть; пропорция; коэффициент, степень, процент; доля; mortality rate смертность rate сорт rate ставка таможенной пошлины rate степень rate считать; расценивать; рассматривать; he was rated the best poet of his time его считали лучшим поэтом эпохи; I rate his speech very high я считаю его речь очень удачной rate такса rate таксировать rate тариф rate тарифицировать rate темп; ход, скорость; rate of increase темп роста, прироста; at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час rate темп rate учетная ставка rate цена rate частота rate of activity уровень активности rate of change темп изменения rate of company tax ставка налогового обложения компании rate of contango бирж. размер надбавки по репортным операциям rate of conversion вал.-фин. конверсионный курс rate of conversion вал.-фин. коэффициент перевода rate of corporation tax ставка налогового обложения корпорации rate of depreciation норма амортизации rate of depreciation степень обесценивания rate of development темп развития rate of drawdown темп снижения rate of duty ставка таможенной пошлины rate of earnings норма дохода rate of expansion степень расширения rate of expansion темп роста rate of fire воен. скорость стрельбы, режим огня; rate of climb ав. скороподъемность rate of growth темп прироста rate of growth темп роста rate of growth темп увеличения rate темп; ход, скорость; rate of increase темп роста, прироста; at the rate of 40 miles an hour со скоростью 40 миль в час rate of increase темп прироста rate of increase темп роста rate of increase темп увеличения rate of increase in lending темп увеличения объема кредитования rate of inflation темп инфляции rate of inflation уровень инфляции rate of interest норма (ссудного) процента, процентная ставка rate of interest норма процента rate of interest ставка процента rate of interest for overdraft facilities ставка процента по овердрафту rate of interest on deferred payments ставка процента по отсроченным платежам rate of interest paid by bank ставка процента, выплачиваемая банком rate of inventory turnover скорость движения товарных запасов rate of inventory turnover скорость оборачиваемости товарных запасов rate of inventory turnover скорость оборота акций rate of investment норма инвестиций rate of investment норма капиталовложений rate of issue бирж. курс выпуска rate of issue бирж. эмиссионный курс rate of levy ставка налога rate of levy ставка сбора rate of loading норма погрузки rate of loss норма потерь rate of natural increase процент естественного прироста rate of natural increase темп естественного прироста rate of occurence вчт. интенсивность потока rate of occurrence стат. интенсивность потока событий rate of pay increases темп роста ставок заработной платы rate of postage within postal zone размер зональных почтовых сборов rate of price increases темп роста цен rate of profit норма прибыли rate of profitability степень рентабельности rate of return коэффициент окупаемости капиталовложений rate of return норма прибыли rate of return on investment коэффициент окупаемости капиталовложений rate of return on investment норма прибыли на инвестированный капитал rate of return on investment норма прибыли от капиталовложений rate of shrinkage норма усушки rate of stockturn норма оборачиваемости товарных запасов rate of stockturn скорость оборачиваемости товарных запасов rate of exchange валютный курс; 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   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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4 (de una reunión - hombre) chairman; (- mujer) chairwoman

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Ex. The author concludes that few chief executives personally use the company library and online database services.

Ex. Once elected, the chair is responsible for maintaining discipline and ensuring that all students are treated fairly.

Ex. Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.

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* presidente del tribunal = presiding judge.

* presidente del tribunal supremo = chief justice.

* presidente de tribunal = chief justice.

* presidente electo = president-elect [president elect].

* vicepresidente = vice-president.

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- ta masculino, femenino

a) (Gob, Pol) president

b) (de compañía, banco) president (AmE), chairman/-woman (BrE)

c) (de reunión, comité, acto) chairperson, chair

d) (Der) ( de tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate

e) ( de jurado) chairman/-woman

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= chairman [chairmen, pl.], president, chief executive officer (CEO), Director-General, chief executive, chair, chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.].

Nota: Tanto masculino como femenino.

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presidente -ta Presidente del Gobierno (↑ presidente a1)

1 ( Gob, Pol) president

el presidente del gobierno the premier, the prime minister

presidente del Congreso de los Diputados Speaker ( of the lower chamber of Spanish Parliament)

Presidente de la Comisión Europea President of the European Commission

2 (de una compañía, un banco) president ( AmE), chairman ( BrE)

3 (de una reunión, un comité, acto) chair, chairperson

presidente de honor honorary president o chairman

4 ( Der) (de un tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate

5 (de un jurado) chairman

(en elecciones) chief canvasser ( AmE), chief scrutineer ( BrE); ( RPl) ( Educ) chairman ( of a panel of examiners)

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◊ -ta sustantivo masculino, femenino

a) (Gob, Pol) president;

◊ el presidente del gobierno the premier, the prime minister

b) (de compañía, banco) president (AmE), chairman (BrE)

c) (de reunión, comité, acto) chairperson, chair

d) (Der) ( de tribunal) presiding judge/magistrate

e) ( de jurado) chairman/chairwoman

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presidente, -a nm,f

1. [de nación] president;

presidente (del Gobierno) prime minister

2. [de asamblea, jurado] chairman, f chairwoman;

presidente de mesa [en elecciones] Br chief scrutineer, US chief canvasser;

3. [del parlamento] speaker

4. [de tribunal] presiding judge

5. Méx presidente municipal [alcalde] mayor

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m, presidenta f president; de gobierno premier, prime minister; de compañía president, Br

chairman, Br

mujer chairwoman; de comité chair

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presidente, -ta n

1) : president

2) : chair, chairperson

3) : presiding judge

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presidente n

1. (del estado) president

2. (de una empresa, reunión) chairman [pl. chairmen]

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m 1. < Bank> draft (dft) ; 2. < Finanz> promise to pay, bill, bill of exchange (B/E), note, paper infrml ■ einen Wechsel akzeptieren < Recht> accept a bill ■ einen Wechsel honorieren < Finanz> honor a bill (AE), honour a bill (BE) ■ einen Wechsel mit Akzept versehen < Recht> accept a bill ■ einen Wechsel zur Annahme vorlegen < Bank> present a bill for acceptance ■ einen Wechsel zur Diskontierung vorlegen < Bank> present a bill for discount

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