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the labor movement

  • 1 labor


    labor sustantivo femenino
    a) ( trabajo) work;
    labores domésticas housework; labores agrícolas or del campo farm work
    b) (de coser, bordar) needlework;
    ( de punto) knitting
    labor sustantivo femenino
    1 job, task
    2 Agr farmwork
    3 (de costura) needlework, sewing Locuciones: no estoy por la labor, I can't be bothered ' labor' also found in these entries: Spanish: calceta - finura - obrera - obrero - parto - revigorizar - sindical - sindicalista - sindicato - tarea - zapa - cabo - cadeneta - desarrollar - empresa - excepcional - fecundo - ganchillo - laboral - mano - realizar - sindicalismo - trabajo English: knitting - labor - needlework - patchwork - casual - forced - hard - induce - induction - labor union - labour - patch - skilled - slave - strike - team - withdraw - work
    tr['leɪbəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL→ link=labour labour{
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    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    labor union sindicato
    labor ['leɪbər] vi
    1) work: trabajar
    2) struggle: avanzar penosamente (dícese de una persona), funcionar con dificultad (dícese de un motor)
    3)
    to labor under a delusion : hacerse ilusiones, tener una falsa impresión
    labor vt
    belabor: insistir en, extenderse sobre
    1) effort, work: trabajo m, esfuerzos mpl
    2) : parto m
    to be in labor: estar de parto
    3) task: tarea f, labor m
    4) workers: mano f de obra
    adj.
    • de trabajo adj.
    • laboral adj.
    • laborista adj.
    • obrero, -a adj.
    n.
    • faena s.f.
    • labor s.f.
    • mano de obra s.f.
    • obra s.f.
    • parto s.m.
    • tarea s.f.
    • trabajo s.m.
    v.
    • afanar v.
    • arar v.
    • forcejear v.
    • trabajar v.

    I
    BrE labour 'leɪbər, 'leɪbə(r) noun
    1) u (Econ, Lab Rel)
    a) ( productive work) trabajo m

    Department of Labor — ( in US) Ministerio m de Trabajo, Secretaría f de Trabajo (Méx); (before n) <dispute, laws> laboral

    labor costs — costo m or (Esp tb) coste m de la mano de obra

    labor force — trabajadores mpl, mano f de obra

    labor leader — ( in US) líder mf or dirigente mf sindical

    b) ( workers) mano f de obra
    2) Labour ( in UK) ( Pol) (no art, + sing or pl vb) los laboristas, el Partido Laborista; (before n) <candidate, policy> laborista
    3)
    a) u c ( effort) esfuerzos mpl, trabajo m
    b) c ( task) labor f, tarea f
    4) u ( Med) parto m

    to be in labor — estar* de parto or en trabajo de parto

    to go into labor — entrar en trabajo de parto; (before n)

    labor pains — dolores mpl or contracciones fpl del parto


    II
    1.
    BrE labour transitive verb

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( toil) trabajar
    b) ( work as laborer) (only in -ing form)

    he got a job laboring/a laboring job — consiguió un trabajo de peón

    2) ( struggle) \<\<engine\>\> ahogarse*

    he labored up the hill — subió trabajosamente or penosamente la cuesta

    he was laboring under the misapprehension o delusion that... — se engañaba pensando que...

    ['leɪbǝ(r)] (US)
    1.
    N, VT, VI = labour
    2.
    CPD

    Labor Day N — Día m del Trabajo or de los Trabajadores

    LABOR DAY El Labor Day (Día del Trabajo {or} de los Trabajadores) es una festividad nacional en honor al trabajo, que se celebra en Estados Unidos y en Canadá el primer lunes de septiembre. Fue instaurada en 1894 por el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, después de que los trabajadores la solicitaran durante más de doce años. En la actualidad, ya sin las connotaciones políticas de sus orígenes y coincidiendo con el final del verano y con el principio del curso escolar, se celebran desfiles, mítines y comidas campestres.
    * * *

    I
    BrE labour ['leɪbər, 'leɪbə(r)] noun
    1) u (Econ, Lab Rel)
    a) ( productive work) trabajo m

    Department of Labor — ( in US) Ministerio m de Trabajo, Secretaría f de Trabajo (Méx); (before n) <dispute, laws> laboral

    labor costs — costo m or (Esp tb) coste m de la mano de obra

    labor force — trabajadores mpl, mano f de obra

    labor leader — ( in US) líder mf or dirigente mf sindical

    b) ( workers) mano f de obra
    2) Labour ( in UK) ( Pol) (no art, + sing or pl vb) los laboristas, el Partido Laborista; (before n) <candidate, policy> laborista
    3)
    a) u c ( effort) esfuerzos mpl, trabajo m
    b) c ( task) labor f, tarea f
    4) u ( Med) parto m

    to be in labor — estar* de parto or en trabajo de parto

    to go into labor — entrar en trabajo de parto; (before n)

    labor pains — dolores mpl or contracciones fpl del parto


    II
    1.
    BrE labour transitive verb

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( toil) trabajar
    b) ( work as laborer) (only in -ing form)

    he got a job laboring/a laboring job — consiguió un trabajo de peón

    2) ( struggle) \<\<engine\>\> ahogarse*

    he labored up the hill — subió trabajosamente or penosamente la cuesta

    he was laboring under the misapprehension o delusion that... — se engañaba pensando que...

    English-spanish dictionary > labor

  • 2 labor

    (Amer.) see academic.ru/41300/labour">labour
    * * *
    La·bor
    [ˈleɪbəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    n POL
    1. AM see Labour
    2. AUS (Australian political party) Labour Party f (in Australien)
    * * *
    (US) ['leɪbə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= work in general) Arbeit f; (= toil) Anstrengung f, Mühe f
    2) (= task) Aufgabe f

    it was a labour of love — ich/er etc tat es aus Liebe zur Sache

    this biography is clearly a labour of love —

    3)
    See:
    → hard labour
    4) (= persons) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl
    5) (Brit POL)

    Labour — die Labour Party

    this district is Labour — dies ist ein Labourbezirk

    6) (MED) Wehen pl

    to be in labour — in den Wehen liegen, die Wehen haben

    2. vt
    point, subject auswalzen, breittreten (inf)

    I won't labour the point — ich will nicht darauf herumreiten

    3. vi
    1) (in fields etc) arbeiten; (= work hard) sich abmühen (at, with mit)

    they laboured hard to get the house finished on time — sie gaben sich die größte Mühe, das Haus rechtzeitig fertigzustellen

    2) (= move etc with effort or difficulty) sich quälen

    the engine is labouring — der Motor hört sich gequält an; (in wrong gear) der Motor läuft untertourig

    to labour up a hill — sich einen Hügel hinaufquälen, mühsam den Berg hochkriechen

    his breathing became laboured — er begann, schwer zu atmen

    * * *
    labor, besonders Br labour [ˈleıbə(r)]
    A s
    1. (schwere) Arbeit:
    a labor of love eine gern oder unentgeltlich getane Arbeit, ein Liebesdienst; → hard labo(u)r, Herculean 1, Hercules
    2. Mühe f, Plage f, Anstrengung f:
    lost labor vergebliche Mühe
    3. WIRTSCH
    a) Arbeiter(klasse) pl(f), Arbeiterschaft f
    b) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl:
    labor and management Arbeitnehmer pl und Arbeitgeber pl;
    cheap labor billige Arbeitskräfte;
    shortage of labor Mangel m an Arbeitskräften; → skilled 2, unskilled 2
    4. Labour (ohne art) POL die Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)
    5. MED Wehen pl:
    be in labor in den Wehen liegen
    6. Schlingern n, Stampfen n (eines Schiffs)
    B v/i
    1. (schwer) arbeiten (at an dat), sich bemühen ( for sth um etwas), sich anstrengen oder abmühen ( to do zu tun)
    2. auch labor along sich mühsam fortbewegen oder fortschleppen, nur schwer vorankommen:
    labor through sich durch Schlamm etc, a. ein Buch etc kämpfen;
    labor up the hill sich den Berg hinaufquälen
    3. stampfen, schlingern (Schiff)
    a) zu leiden haben (unter dat), zu kämpfen haben (mit), kranken (an dat):
    labor under difficulties mit Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen haben
    b) befangen sein (in dat): → delusion 2, misapprehension
    5. MED in den Wehen liegen
    C v/t
    1. ausführlich oder umständlich behandeln, bis ins Einzelne ausarbeiten oder ausführen, breitwalzen:
    labor a point auf einer Sache herumreiten umg
    2. obs oder poet den Boden bestellen, bebauen
    D adj
    1. Arbeits…:
    labor camp (conditions, court, etc);
    a) Arbeitskosten,
    b) Lohnkosten
    2. Arbeiter…:
    labor leader Arbeiterführer(in) ( → D 3, D 4);
    labor movement Arbeiterbewegung f ( → D 4);
    labor demand Nachfrage f nach Arbeitskräften
    3. Labour POL Labour…:
    labor leader führende Person in der Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)( → D 2, D 4)
    4. labor US Gewerkschafts…:
    labor leader Gewerkschaftsführer(in) ( → D 2, D 3);
    labor movement Gewerkschaftsbewegung f ( → D 2)
    * * *
    (Amer.) see labour
    * * *
    (US) n.
    Arbeit -en f.

    English-german dictionary > labor

  • 3 movement

    ˈmu:vmənt сущ.
    1) а) движение (вообще или какой-л. вид) ;
    передвижение, перемещение;
    воен. передислокация downward movement ≈ движение вниз upward movement ≈ движение вверх jerky movements ≈ тряские движения rhythmic movements ≈ ритмические движения uncoordinated movements ≈ некоординируемые движения б) жест, телодвижение в) ход( механизма) г) мед. перистальтика д) переезд, переселение е) взлет или посадка самолета 130 aircraft movements on a peak Summer day. ≈ 130 взлетов и посадок самолетов по воскресеньям, в пиковый день.
    2) а) шаг, ход ( в достижении какой-л. цели) б) развитие действия, динамика( в литературном произведении) в) коммерч. изменение, движение какого-л. показателя в каком-л. направлении, динамика;
    спрос на что-л.
    3) а) муз. темп, ритм б) муз. часть( музыкального произведения) A symphony in four movements. ≈ Симфония в четырех частях.
    4) движение (общественно-политическое) to launch a movement ≈ открывать/инициировать движение to support a movement ≈ поддерживать движение to oppose a movement ≈ противодействовать движению to suppress a movement ≈ подавлять движение civil-rights movement consumer movement feminist movement women's movement labor movement peace movement political movement radical movement revolutionary movement social movement in the movement движение;
    перемещение, передвижение - there was a general * toward the door все направились /двинулись/ к двери (военное) передвижение;
    переброска;
    марш - * away from the enemy отход назад, отступление - * to contact сближение с противником, подход к противнику - stealth of * скрытность передвижения ход механизма (часов) жест, телодвижение - a * of impatience нетерпеливый жест /-ое движение/ - to lie without * лежать без движения /неподвижно/ - to study smb.'s *s изучать чьи-л. жесты /движения, чью-л. походку/ pl осанка;
    выправка;
    манера держаться - her *s were easy and dignified она держалась свободно и с достоинством( военное) прием, маневр (в строевой подготовке) переезд, переселение pl действия;
    поведение - to study smb.'s *s следить за кем-л. (обыкн. за преступником) движение, (общественная) деятельность - popular * народное движение - youth * молодежное движение - peace * движение за мир, движение сторонников мира - the * to abolish child labour движение за отмену детского труда - to be in the * быть в центре событий, принимать участие в общественной жизни течение, направление( литературное и т. п.) - a * for realism in art движение за реализм в искусстве (литературоведение) развитие действия, сюжета;
    динамика - the novel lacks * в этом романе мало действия, этот роман статичен (искусство) динамика, динамичность - * in painting динамика в живописи (музыкальное) темп;
    ритм - dance * танцевальный ритм (стихосложение) ритм;
    ритмичность часть (музыкального произведения) - symphony in three *s симфония в трех частях (коммерческое) оживление;
    изменение в ценах - upward * повышение цен( физиологическое) акт дефекации (редкое) побуждение, внутренний импульс bear ~ бирж. снижение курса capital ~ движение капитала cooperative ~ кооперативное движение currency ~ колебания курсов валюты cursor ~ вчт. перемещение курсора data ~ вчт. перемещение данных external capital ~ вывоз капитала foreign exchange ~ динамика валютных курсов foreign exchange ~ колебания валютных курсов free ~ свободное движение free ~ свободное перемещение grass-root ~ массовое движение identified capital ~ движение идентифицированного капитала insurrectionary ~ повстанческое движение labour ~ движение рабочей силы labour ~ динамика рабочей силы liberalized capital ~ свободное движение капитала market ~ оживление на рынке mass ~ массовое движение movement движение (общественное) ~ движение, перемещение, передвижение ~ движение ~ мед. действие кишечника ~ динамика ~ жест, телодвижение ~ ком. изменение;
    оживление;
    upward (downward) movement повышение (понижение) цен ~ изменение цен ~ общественная деятельность ~ оживление ~ передвижение ~ переезд, переселение ~ переезд ~ перемещение ~ переселение ~ развитие действия, динамика (литературного произведения) ~ муз. темп;
    ритм ~ трудовое движение ~ ход (механизма) ~ часть музыкального произведения ~ of carriage вчт. движение каретки ~ of funds движение фондов ~ of goods движение товаров ~ on an account движение денежных средств на счете ~ over time вчт. движение во времени price ~ динамика цен random ~s случайные отклонения resistance ~ полит. движение Сопротивления resistance ~ движение сопротивления secession ~ сепаратистское движение single-tax ~ движение за единый налог trade union ~ профсоюзное движение underground ~ подпольное движение ~ ком. изменение;
    оживление;
    upward (downward) movement повышение (понижение) цен upward ~ повышение upward ~ подъем worldwide ~ всемирное движение youth ~ молодежное движение

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > movement

  • 4 labor

    1. n
    1) труд м; рабо́та ж

    labor is charged at 5 an hour — опла́та за (неквалифици́рованную) рабо́ту составля́ет 5 до́лларов в час

    2) мед (родовы́е) схва́тки мн

    labor pains — родовы́е му́ки

    3) рабо́чие мн; рабо́чий класс

    Labor Day — День труда́ (первый понедельник сентября, последний день каникул и отпускного периода)

    labor movement — рабо́чее движе́ние

    skilled labor — квалифици́рованные рабо́чие

    - labor union 2. v
    1) труди́ться, рабо́тать
    2) изнемога́ть, му́читься

    the car labored up the hill — маши́на с трудо́м продвига́лась в го́ру

    3) обсужда́ть кропотли́во ( с излишними подробностями)

    I will not labor the point — я не бу́ду вдава́ться во все дета́ли э́того вопро́са

    The Americanisms. English-Russian dictionary. > labor

  • 5 Granger movement

    ист
    Крупное фермерское политическое движение в штатах Среднего Запада [ Midwest] в 60-70-х гг. XIX в. против "тирании монополий" (слова из фермерской "декларации независимости"). Объединяло до 1,5 млн. человек. Центральная организация этого периода - Национальная ложа покровителей сельского хозяйства [ National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry]. В конце 70-х гг. многие сторонники движения присоединились к гринбекерам [ Greenback-Labor Party] и популистской партии [ Populist Party]

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Granger movement

  • 6 obrero

    adj.
    worker-related.
    m.
    worker, laborer, workingman, workman.
    * * *
    1 working
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 worker, labourer
    * * *
    1. (f. - obrera)
    noun
    worker, laborer
    2. (f. - obrera)
    adj.
    * * *
    obrero, -a
    1.
    ADJ [clase] working; [movimiento] labour antes de s, labor antes de s (EEUU)
    2.
    SM / F (=empleado) worker; (=peón) labourer, laborer (EEUU)

    obrero/a autónomo/a — self-employed worker

    obrero/a cualificado/a — skilled worker

    obrero/a escenógrafo/a — stagehand

    obrero/a especializado/a — skilled worker

    obrero/a portuario/a — dock worker

    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo < barrio> working-class
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino

    obrero de fábrica/de la construcción — factory/construction worker

    * * *
    = factory worker, worker, workman [workmen, -pl.], factory hand, proletarian, working person, industrial worker.
    Ex. To overcome these, libraries should remember that aesthetic education is an essential part of the education of workers; particular attention should be paid to work with youth, factory and agricultural workers.
    Ex. At our library in Minnesota we have clearly identified material that deals with mudpies, leprechauns, senior power, red power, the Chinese New Year, prisoners' rights, and workers' control.
    Ex. Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
    Ex. Until the mid nineteen hundreds, this community presented an almost feudal pattern of wealthy merchants and factory hands, with several gradations between these extremes.
    Ex. Factory libraries were important in the development of a proletarian readership.
    Ex. What can one, middle class, working person do to help (in some small way) work towards a more peaceful world?.
    Ex. However, even as late as 1939, male industrial workers, skilled and unskilled, made up only 5% of the library cardholders in an ordinary sized town.
    ----
    * abeja obrera = worker bee.
    * despedir obreros = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * obrero agrícola = agricultural labourer.
    * obrero de la casa = stab hand.
    * obrero de la construcción = construction worker.
    * obrero del cobre = coppersmith.
    * obrero manual = blue collar worker.
    * obrero metalúrgico = metalworker.
    * obrero no manual = white collar worker.
    * obrero portuario = longshoreman [longshoremen, -pl.].
    * obreros = shop floor, working people.
    * obrero sacador = vatman [vatmen, -pl.].
    * relativo a los obreros no manuales = white collar.
    * * *
    I
    - ra adjetivo < barrio> working-class
    II
    - ra masculino, femenino

    obrero de fábrica/de la construcción — factory/construction worker

    * * *
    = factory worker, worker, workman [workmen, -pl.], factory hand, proletarian, working person, industrial worker.

    Ex: To overcome these, libraries should remember that aesthetic education is an essential part of the education of workers; particular attention should be paid to work with youth, factory and agricultural workers.

    Ex: At our library in Minnesota we have clearly identified material that deals with mudpies, leprechauns, senior power, red power, the Chinese New Year, prisoners' rights, and workers' control.
    Ex: Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
    Ex: Until the mid nineteen hundreds, this community presented an almost feudal pattern of wealthy merchants and factory hands, with several gradations between these extremes.
    Ex: Factory libraries were important in the development of a proletarian readership.
    Ex: What can one, middle class, working person do to help (in some small way) work towards a more peaceful world?.
    Ex: However, even as late as 1939, male industrial workers, skilled and unskilled, made up only 5% of the library cardholders in an ordinary sized town.
    * abeja obrera = worker bee.
    * despedir obreros = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * obrero agrícola = agricultural labourer.
    * obrero de la casa = stab hand.
    * obrero de la construcción = construction worker.
    * obrero del cobre = coppersmith.
    * obrero manual = blue collar worker.
    * obrero metalúrgico = metalworker.
    * obrero no manual = white collar worker.
    * obrero portuario = longshoreman [longshoremen, -pl.].
    * obreros = shop floor, working people.
    * obrero sacador = vatman [vatmen, -pl.].
    * relativo a los obreros no manuales = white collar.

    * * *
    obrero1 -ra
    ‹barrio› working-class
    el movimiento obrero the labor movement
    la clase obrera the working class
    obrero2 -ra
    masculine, feminine
    un obrero de la fábrica one of the workers from the factory
    los obreros dejaron la arena en el jardín the workmen left the sand in the garden
    obrero de la construcción construction o building worker
    Compuestos:
    self-employed worker
    ( AmL) skilled worker
    ( Esp) skilled worker
    skilled worker
    * * *

     

    obrero
    ◊ -ra adjetivo ‹ barrio› working-class;

    el movimiento obrero the workers' movement;
    la clase obrera the working class
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (de fábrica, industria) worker;
    los obreros dejaron la arena en el jardín the workmen left the sand in the garden
    obrero,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino worker
    obrero cualificado, skilled worker
    II adjetivo working
    el movimiento obrero, the labour, US labor movement

    ' obrero' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    obrera
    - oficial
    - oficiala
    - operaria
    - operario
    - casco
    - construcción
    - contratar
    - especializado
    - maestro
    - operador
    - rendir
    - sanción
    - sancionar
    - sueldo
    English:
    builder
    - cowboy
    - eventual
    - hand
    - worker
    - working
    - workman
    - blue
    - work
    - wrecker
    * * *
    obrero, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [trabajador]
    clase obrera working class;
    movimiento obrero labour movement
    2. Zool worker;
    las abejas obreras worker bees
    ♦ nm,f
    [en fábrica] worker; [en obra] workman, labourer obrero Esp cualificado o Am calificado skilled worker
    * * *
    I adj working
    II m, obrera f worker
    * * *
    obrero, -ra adj
    : working
    la clase obrera: the working class
    obrero, -ra n
    : worker, laborer
    * * *
    obrero1 adj working
    obrero2 n worker

    Spanish-English dictionary > obrero

  • 7 McNeill, George Edwin

    (1837-1906) Макнил, Джордж Эдвин
    Ткач, обувщик, деятель рабочего движения. В 1863 - секретарь Лиги за восьмичасовой рабочий день [Grand Eight-Hour League] в г. Бостоне, ее президент в 1869-74. Был назван газетой "Нью-Йорк таймс" [ New York Times] "отцом движения за восьмичасовой рабочий день" ["father of the eight-hour movement"]. Способствовал принятию соответствующих законов на уровне штатов, которые, правда, не исполнялись работодателями. В 1869 вместе с У. Филлипсом [ Phillips, Wendell] создал Новоанглийскую лигу реформы законов о труде [New England Labor Reform League], благодаря усилиям которой была создана первая в стране организация - прообраз Бюро трудовой статистики [ Bureau of Labor Statistics]. Макнил был уволен из бюро из-за открытых связей с профсоюзами. С 1878 сотрудничал с марксистами в создании I интернационала [International Labor Union (ILU)], позднее - с Орденом Рыцарей труда [ Knights of Labor], который в 1874 принял сформулированную Макнилом декларацию принципов деятельности. В 1886 после ряда конфликтов с "Рыцарями" перешел в АФТ [ AFL], стал редактором ее бостонской газеты "Лейбор лидер" [Labor Leader], выдвигался на пост мэра Бостона; член нескольких комиссий штата Массачусетс. В 1898 - вице-президент Американской антиимпериалистической лиги [ American Anti-Imperialist League]. Автор и редактор ряда книг о рабочем движении, среди которых наиболее известна "Рабочее движение: проблемы сегодняшнего дня" ["The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today"] (1887), которая считается первым историческим трудом о рабочем движении в США.

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > McNeill, George Edwin

  • 8 Portuguese Communist Party

    (PCP)
       The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has evolved from its early anarcho-syndicalist roots at its formation in 1921. This evolution included the undisciplined years of the 1920s, during which bolshevization began and continued into the 1930s, then through the years of clandestine existence during the Estado Novo, the Stalinization of the 1940s, the "anarcho-liberal shift" of the 1950s, the emergence of Maoist and Trotskyist splinter groups of the 1960s, to legalization after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 as the strongest and oldest political party in Portugal. Documents from the Russian archives have shown that the PCP's history is not a purely "domestic" one. While the PCP was born on its own without Soviet assistance, once it joined the Communist International (CI), it lost a significant amount of autonomy as CI officials increasingly meddled in PCP internal politics by dictating policy, manipulating leadership elections, and often financing party activities.
       Early Portuguese communism was a mix of communist ideological strands accustomed to a spirited internal debate, a lively external debate with its rivals, and a loose organizational structure. The PCP, during its early years, was weak in grassroots membership and was basically a party of "notables." It was predominantly a male organization, with minuscule female participation. It was also primarily an urban party concentrated in Lisbon. The PCP membership declined from 3,000 in 1923 to only 40 in 1928.
       In 1929, the party was reorganized so that it could survive clandestinely. As its activity progressed in the 1930s, a long period of instability dominated its leadership organs as a result of repression, imprisonments, and disorganization. The CI continued to intervene in party affairs through the 1930s, until the PCP was expelled from the CI in 1938-39, apparently because of its conduct during police arrests.
       The years of 1939-41 were difficult ones for the party, not only because of increased domestic repression but also because of internal party splits provoked by the Nazi-Soviet pact and other foreign actions. From 1940 to 1941, two Communist parties struggled to attract the support of the CI and accused each other of "revisionism." The CI was disbanded in 1943, and the PCP was not accepted back into the international communist family until its recognition by the Cominform in 1947.
       The reorganization of 1940-41 finally put the PCP under the firm control of orthodox communists who viewed socialism from a Soviet perspective. Although Soviet support was denied the newly reorganized party at first, the new leaders continued its Stalinization. The enforcement of "democratic centralism" and insistence upon the "dictatorship of the proletariat" became entrenched. The 1940s brought increased growth, as the party reached its membership apex of the clandestine era with 1,200 members in 1943, approximately 4,800 in 1946, and 7,000 in 1947.
       The party fell on hard times in the 1950s. It developed a bad case of paranoia, which led to a witch hunt for infiltrators, informers, and spies in all ranks of the party. The lower membership figures who followed the united antifascist period were reduced further through expulsions of the "traitors." By 1951, the party had been reduced to only 1,000 members. It became a closed, sectarian, suspicious, and paranoiac organization, with diminished strength in almost every region, except in the Alentejo, where the party, through propaganda and ideology more than organizational strength, was able to mobilize strikes of landless peasants in the early 1950s.
       On 3 January 1960, Álvaro Cunhal and nine other political prisoners made a spectacular escape from the Peniche prison and fled the country. Soon after this escape, Cunhal was elected secretary-general and, with other top leaders, directed the PCP from exile. Trotskyite and Maoist fractions emerged within the party in the 1960s, strengthened by the ideological developments in the international communist movement, such as in China and Cuba. The PCP would not tolerate dissent or leftism and began purging the extreme left fractions.
       The PCP intensified its control of the labor movement after the more liberal syndical election regulations under Prime Minister Mar- cello Caetano allowed communists to run for leadership positions in the corporative unions. By 1973, there was general unrest in the labor movement due to deteriorating economic conditions brought on by the colonial wars, as well as by world economic pressures including the Arab oil boycott.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the PCP enjoyed a unique position: it was the only party to have survived the Estado Novo. It emerged from clandestinity as the best organized political party in Portugal with a leadership hardened by years in jail. Since then, despite the party's stubborn orthodoxy, it has consistently played an important role as a moderating force. As even the Socialist Party (PS) was swept up by the neoliberal tidal wave, albeit a more compassionate variant, increasingly the PCP has played a crucial role in ensuring that interests and perspectives of the traditional Left are aired.
       One of the most consistent planks of the PCP electoral platform has been opposition to every stage of European integration. The party has regularly resisted Portuguese membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and, following membership beginning in 1986, the party has regularly resisted further integration through the European Union (EU). A major argument has been that EU membership would not resolve Portugal's chronic economic problems but would only increase its dependence on the world. Ever since, the PCP has argued that its opposition to membership was correct and that further involvement with the EU would only result in further economic dependence and a consequent loss of Portuguese national sovereignty. Further, the party maintained that as Portugal's ties with the EU increased, the vulnerable agrarian sector in Portugal would risk further losses.
       Changes in PCP leadership may or may not alter the party's electoral position and role in the political system. As younger generations forget the uniqueness of the party's resistance to the Estado Novo, public images of PCP leadership will change. As the image of Álvaro Cunhal and other historical communist leaders slowly recedes, and the stature of Carlos Carvalhas (general secretary since 1992) and other moderate leaders is enhanced, the party's survival and legitimacy have strengthened. On 6 March 2001, the PCP celebrated its 80th anniversary.
        See also Left Bloc.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Portuguese Communist Party

  • 9 make war against

    (make war against (или on; тж. wage war against, on или with))
    вести войну, воевать с...

    ...lady's mother... resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel. (Ch. Dickens, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’, ch. IV) —...ее матушка... жила совместно с супружеской четой и находилась в состоянии непрекращающейся войны с Дэниелом.

    These grafters fill their papers with violent attacks on everything progressive in the labor movement. They make war against the honest leadership. (W. Foster, ‘Misleaders of Labor’, ch. VIII) — Эти грязные политиканы заполняют свои газеты неистовыми нападками на все, что есть прогрессивного в рабочем движении. Они ведут настоящую войну против честных партийных руководителей.

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > make war against

  • 10 come into effect

    вступить в силу, в действие (о законе, постановлении)

    Since the Act went into effect the labor movement has virtually ceased to grow. (G. Green, ‘The Enemy Forgotten’, ch. IX) — С того момента, как этот закон вступил в силу, профсоюзное движение практически перестало развиваться.

    The last British soldiers were leaving Egypt for ever: the evacuation treaty was finally coming into effect. (J. Aldridge, ‘The Last Exile’, ch. XXXVI) — Последние английские солдаты навсегда покидали Египет: договор об эвакуации наконец-то начал претворяться в жизнь.

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  • 11 up to one's ears

    по уши; ≈ по горло, с головой; см. тж. up to one's elbows, up to one's eyes и up to one's eyebrows

    He went to see Mr. Irving, and found the young instructor up to his ears in the growing pains and disputes of the labor movement. (U. Sinclair, ‘Oil!’, ch. 14) — Банни пошел к мистеру Ирвингу и увидел, что тот ушел по горло во всевозможные дела и хлопоты, связанные с рабочим движением.

    ‘Do you want to quit?’ Trasker asked flatly. ‘How can I quit? There won't be a job open anywhere else for a good six months, if there ever is a job. And I'm up to my ears in debt for the furniture as it is.’ (M. Wilson, ‘Live with Lightning’, book II, ch. IV) — - Вы хотите бежать отсюда? - в упор спросил Траскер. - Куда мне бежать? Сейчас не меньше чем полгода придется ждать какого-нибудь места, да и неизвестно, дождешься ли вообще. А я без того по уши влез в долги из-за мебели.

    What with difficulties about money, no work and terribly bad health, the poor fellow is up to the ears in trouble. (SPI) — Бедняга без работы, без денег, да к тому же и здоровье никуда не годится. Неприятностей хоть отбавляй.

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  • 12 יוסף שפרינצק

    Yosef Sprinzak, one of the heads of the Labor Movement in Israel, first chairman of the Israeli parliament, former secretary general of the Histadrut

    Hebrew-English dictionary > יוסף שפרינצק

  • 13 come into effect

       вcтупить в cилу, в дeйcтвиe (o зaкoнe, пocтaнoвлeнии)
        Since the Act went into effect the labor movement has virtually ceased to grow (C. Green). The last British soldiers were leaving Egypt for ever; the evacuation treaty was finally coming into effect (J. Aldridge)

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > come into effect

  • 14 labour

    1.
    ['leɪbə(r)] (Brit.)noun
    1) (task) Arbeit, die

    something is/they did it as a labour of love — etwas geschieht/sie taten es aus Liebe zur Sache

    2) (exertion) Mühe, die
    3) (work) Arbeit, die
    4) (body of workers) Arbeiterschaft, die
    5)

    Labour — (Polit.) die Labour Party

    6) (childbirth) Wehen Pl.

    be in labour — in den Wehen liegen

    go into labour — die Wehen bekommen. See also academic.ru/38655/intensive">intensive 5)

    2. intransitive verb
    1) (work hard) hart arbeiten (at, on an + Dat.); (slave away) sich abmühen (at, over mit)
    2) (strive) sich einsetzen ( for für)
    3)
    3. transitive verb
    (elaborate needlessly)

    there's no need to labour the point — du brauchst dich nicht lange darüber zu verbreiten

    * * *
    ['leibə] 1. noun
    1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) die Arbeit
    2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) die Arbeiter (pl.)
    3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) die Wehen (pl.)
    4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) die Labour Party
    2. verb
    1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) arbeiten
    2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) sich (ab)mühen
    •
    - laborious
    - laboriously
    - laboriousness
    - labourer
    - labour court
    - labour dispute
    - labour-saving
    * * *
    La·bour
    [ˈleɪbəʳ]
    I. n no pl POL Labour Party f
    to vote \Labour Labour wählen
    II. n modifier POL (Labour-)
    \Labour candidate Labourkandidat(in) m(f)
    * * *
    (US) ['leɪbə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= work in general) Arbeit f; (= toil) Anstrengung f, Mühe f
    2) (= task) Aufgabe f

    it was a labour of love — ich/er etc tat es aus Liebe zur Sache

    this biography is clearly a labour of love —

    3)
    See:
    → hard labour
    4) (= persons) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl
    5) (Brit POL)

    this district is Labour — dies ist ein Labourbezirk

    6) (MED) Wehen pl

    to be in labour — in den Wehen liegen, die Wehen haben

    2. vt
    point, subject auswalzen, breittreten (inf)

    I won't labour the point — ich will nicht darauf herumreiten

    3. vi
    1) (in fields etc) arbeiten; (= work hard) sich abmühen (at, with mit)

    they laboured hard to get the house finished on time — sie gaben sich die größte Mühe, das Haus rechtzeitig fertigzustellen

    2) (= move etc with effort or difficulty) sich quälen

    the engine is labouring — der Motor hört sich gequält an; (in wrong gear) der Motor läuft untertourig

    to labour up a hill — sich einen Hügel hinaufquälen, mühsam den Berg hochkriechen

    his breathing became laboured — er begann, schwer zu atmen

    * * *
    labour, laboured, labourer etc besonders Br für labor, labored, laborer etc
    labor, besonders Br labour [ˈleıbə(r)]
    A s
    1. (schwere) Arbeit:
    a labor of love eine gern oder unentgeltlich getane Arbeit, ein Liebesdienst; → hard labo(u)r, Herculean 1, Hercules
    2. Mühe f, Plage f, Anstrengung f:
    lost labor vergebliche Mühe
    3. WIRTSCH
    a) Arbeiter(klasse) pl(f), Arbeiterschaft f
    b) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl:
    labor and management Arbeitnehmer pl und Arbeitgeber pl;
    cheap labor billige Arbeitskräfte;
    shortage of labor Mangel m an Arbeitskräften; → skilled 2, unskilled 2
    4. Labour (ohne art) POL die Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)
    5. MED Wehen pl:
    be in labor in den Wehen liegen
    6. Schlingern n, Stampfen n (eines Schiffs)
    B v/i
    1. (schwer) arbeiten (at an dat), sich bemühen ( for sth um etwas), sich anstrengen oder abmühen ( to do zu tun)
    2. auch labor along sich mühsam fortbewegen oder fortschleppen, nur schwer vorankommen:
    labor through sich durch Schlamm etc, a. ein Buch etc kämpfen;
    labor up the hill sich den Berg hinaufquälen
    3. stampfen, schlingern (Schiff)
    a) zu leiden haben (unter dat), zu kämpfen haben (mit), kranken (an dat):
    labor under difficulties mit Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen haben
    b) befangen sein (in dat): → delusion 2, misapprehension
    5. MED in den Wehen liegen
    C v/t
    1. ausführlich oder umständlich behandeln, bis ins Einzelne ausarbeiten oder ausführen, breitwalzen:
    labor a point auf einer Sache herumreiten umg
    2. obs oder poet den Boden bestellen, bebauen
    D adj
    1. Arbeits…:
    labor camp (conditions, court, etc);
    a) Arbeitskosten,
    b) Lohnkosten
    2. Arbeiter…:
    labor leader Arbeiterführer(in) ( → D 3, D 4);
    labor movement Arbeiterbewegung f ( → D 4);
    labor demand Nachfrage f nach Arbeitskräften
    3. Labour POL Labour…:
    labor leader führende Person in der Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)( → D 2, D 4)
    4. labor US Gewerkschafts…:
    labor leader Gewerkschaftsführer(in) ( → D 2, D 3);
    labor movement Gewerkschaftsbewegung f ( → D 2)
    * * *
    1.
    ['leɪbə(r)] (Brit.)noun
    1) (task) Arbeit, die

    something is/they did it as a labour of love — etwas geschieht/sie taten es aus Liebe zur Sache

    2) (exertion) Mühe, die
    3) (work) Arbeit, die
    4) (body of workers) Arbeiterschaft, die
    5)

    Labour — (Polit.) die Labour Party

    6) (childbirth) Wehen Pl.

    go into labour — die Wehen bekommen. See also intensive 5)

    2. intransitive verb
    1) (work hard) hart arbeiten (at, on an + Dat.); (slave away) sich abmühen (at, over mit)
    2) (strive) sich einsetzen ( for für)
    3)
    3. transitive verb
    * * *
    (UK) n.
    Arbeit -en f.

    English-german dictionary > labour

  • 15 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 16 movimiento

    m.
    1 movement (desplazamiento, corriente).
    movimiento obrero working-class movement
    2 motion (physics & mechanics).
    en movimiento moving, in motion
    ponerse en movimiento to start moving
    movimiento continuo/de rotación perpetual/rotational motion
    movimiento sísmico earth tremor
    3 activity.
    4 turnover.
    6 move, forward movement, step in a process.
    * * *
    1 (gen) movement; (técnicamente) motion
    2 (de gente, ideas) activity; (de vehículos) traffic
    3 (artístico, político) movement
    4 (financiero) operations plural
    6 el Movimiento the Falangist Movement
    \
    en movimiento in motion
    movimiento sísmico earth tremor
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Mec, Fís) movement

    • movimiento hacia abajo/arriba — downward/upward movement

    movimiento continuo — continuous movement, continuous motion

    movimiento ondulatorio — wave movement, wave motion

    2) (=desplazamiento) [de persona, animal] movement

    no hagas ningún movimiento — don't move a muscle, don't make a move

    • movimiento de cabeza — [para negar] shake; [para asentir] nod

    ¡un movimiento en falso y disparo! — one false move and I'll shoot!

    3)

    • en movimiento — [figura, persona] moving; [vehículo] in motion

    está siempre en movimiento — (fig) she's always on the move o go *

    • poner en movimiento — [+ máquina, motor] to set in motion; [+ vehículo] to get going; [+ actividad, negocio] to start, start up

    4) (Econ, Com) [de cuenta] transaction; [de dinero] movement

    ¿puedo consultar los movimientos de mi cuenta? — can I have a statement of my account?

    "últimos movimientos" — "latest transactions"

    movimiento de mercancías — turnover, volume of business

    5) (=actividad) [en oficina, tribunal] activity; [en aeropuerto, carretera] traffic

    movimiento máximo — (Aut) peak traffic

    6) (=tendencia) movement

    el Movimiento (Nacional) — Esp ( Hist) the Falangist Movement

    7) (Mús) [de compás] tempo; [de sinfonía] movement
    8) (Inform)
    9) (=jugada) move
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Fís, Tec) motion, movement
    b) ( desplazamiento) movement
    c) (cambio de postura, posición) movement
    2)
    a) (traslado - de dinero, bienes) movement; (- de la población) shift
    b) (variación, cambio) movement, change
    c) (agitación, actividad) activity
    3)
    a) (corriente, tendencia) movement
    b) ( organización) movement
    4) ( alzamiento) uprising, rebellion
    5) (Mús) ( parte de obra) movement; ( compás) tempo
    6) (Jueg) move
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Fís, Tec) motion, movement
    b) ( desplazamiento) movement
    c) (cambio de postura, posición) movement
    2)
    a) (traslado - de dinero, bienes) movement; (- de la población) shift
    b) (variación, cambio) movement, change
    c) (agitación, actividad) activity
    3)
    a) (corriente, tendencia) movement
    b) ( organización) movement
    4) ( alzamiento) uprising, rebellion
    5) (Mús) ( parte de obra) movement; ( compás) tempo
    6) (Jueg) move
    * * *
    movimiento1
    1 = flow, motion, move, navigation, shift, stream of traffic, mechanical stress, movement.

    Ex: The vocabulary used in conjunction with PRECIS is split in two sections, one part for Entities (or things) and the other for Attributes (properties of things, for example colour, weight; activities of things, for example flow, and properties of activities, for example, slow, turbulent).

    Ex: For instance 'Sculpture-Technique' precedes 'Sculpture in motion'.
    Ex: Better flexibility is achieved if the heating, ventilation and lighting can accommodate this move without the need for any alterations.
    Ex: The function of the index is examined both technically and philosophically as a tool for navigation and spatial orientation in large textual data bases.
    Ex: Transitory circumstances of daily life are what cause these shifts.
    Ex: Laura Carpozzi head of the circulation department, who was on the far side of the desk, heard the checker's outburst and espied the bottleneck in the stream of traffic.
    Ex: This type of non-skid polyurethane flooring is hygienic and resistant to chemical substances and mechanical stress.
    Ex: She is a dynamic dancer and expresses her movements with ultimate power.
    * blanco en movimiento = moving target.
    * con figuras en movimiento = animated.
    * con imágenes en movimiento = animated.
    * de movimientos rápidos = quick-moving.
    * de movimiento total = full-motion.
    * detectar el movimiento = detect + motion.
    * dispositivo de control del movimiento del cursor = cursor-control device.
    * documento de imagen en movimiento = moving image document.
    * el movimiento se demuestra andando = actions speak louder than words.
    * en constante movimiento = on the move, on the go.
    * en movimiento = in transit, on the go, moving.
    * gráfico en movimiento = animated graphic.
    * graficos en movimiento = animated media.
    * hacer un movimiento en falso = make + a false move.
    * horas de poco movimiento = slack hours.
    * imagen en movimiento = moving image, animated image.
    * imágenes en movimiento = animation.
    * libertad de movimiento = freedom of movement.
    * mantener las cosas en movimiento = keep + the ball rolling, keep + it rolling.
    * movimiento de fondo = groundswell.
    * movimiento de la población = population turnover, population transfer.
    * movimiento de libros = bookshift.
    * movimiento de personal = staff turnover, turnover, labour turnover.
    * movimiento de tierra = earthwork.
    * movimiento en falso = false move.
    * movimiento oscilante = rocking motion.
    * movimiento peatonal = foot traffic.
    * movimientos de efectivos = cash flow.
    * poner las cosas en movimiento = get + the ball rolling, set + the ball rolling, start + the ball rolling, get + things rolling, get + things going, set + the wheels in motion.
    * razones del movimiento de personal = turnover behaviour.
    * reconocedor del movimiento de los ojos = eye tracker.
    * ritmo de movimiento de mercancías = turnover rate.
    * ritmo de movimiento de personal = turnover rate.
    * sin movimiento = unmoving, motionless.
    * tasa de movimiento de mercancías = turnover rate.
    * tasa de movimiento de personal = turnover rate.
    * tecla de control del movimiento horizontal = horizontal positioning key.
    * tecla de control del movimiento vertical = vertical positioning key.

    movimiento2
    2 = drive, tide, push, movement.

    Ex: Hierarchical bibliometry would act as a positive drive to support the authorship requirements now stipulated by some international editorial committees.

    Ex: What has happened is that yet another institution has so overlapped with our own that we are being swept along on the tide of the technological revolution.
    Ex: The key issue to note here is that the global push to describe and document Indigenous knowledge is gaining momentum.
    Ex: The cathedral-like hush contrasted strangely with the clamor and movement outside.
    * movimiento artístico = art movement.
    * movimiento bibliotecario = library movement.
    * movimiento cultural = cultural movement.
    * movimiento de liberación nacional = national liberation movement.
    * movimiento de resistencia = resistance movement.
    * movimiento en defensa de los derechos de los animales = animal rights movement.
    * movimiento en defensa de los derechos de la mujer = women's rights movement.
    * movimiento feminista, el = women's movement, the.
    * movimiento político = political movement.
    * movimiento por los derechos civiles = civil rights movement.
    * movimiento scout, el = Scouts Movement, the.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Fís, Tec) motion, movement
    un cuerpo en movimiento a body in motion
    esto pone el mecanismo en movimiento this sets the mechanism in motion
    ¿cómo se mantiene en movimiento? how is it kept moving o in motion?
    cuando el vehículo está en movimiento when the vehicle is in motion o is moving
    se puso en movimiento it started moving
    el movimiento de las olas the movement o motion of the waves
    2 (desplazamiento) movement
    el número de movimientos que se registraron en el puerto the number of vessel movements in the port, the number of ships that entered or left the port
    el movimiento migratorio de las aves the migratory movement of birds
    ella está siempre en movimiento she's always on the go ( colloq)
    tenemos que ponernos en movimiento cuanto antes we have to get moving as soon as possible
    el movimiento se demuestra andando actions speak louder than words
    3 (cambio de postura, posición) movement
    hizo un mal movimiento he turned ( o twisted etc) awkwardly
    asintió con un vehemente movimiento de cabeza he nodded (his head) vigorously
    un movimiento en falso one false move
    el menor movimiento de la mano the slightest movement of the hand
    andaba con un ligero movimiento de caderas her hips swayed slightly as she walked
    Compuestos:
    acceleration
    perpetual motion
    rotation
    orbital movement
    wave movement o motion
    perpetual motion
    deceleration
    earth tremor
    earth tremor
    wave movement o motion
    B
    1 (traslado — de dinero, bienes) movement; (— de la población) shift
    el libre movimiento de capitales/mercancías free movement of capital/goods
    2 (variación, cambio) movement, change
    habrá poco movimiento en las temperaturas there will be little change in temperatures
    los movimientos anómalos en los precios the unusual movements o changes in prices
    3 (agitación, actividad) activity
    siempre hay mucho movimiento en el puerto there is always a great deal of activity in the port
    es una zona de mucho movimiento it's a bustling o a very busy area
    hubo poco movimiento ayer en la Bolsa there was little activity on the Stock Market yesterday, the Stock Market was quiet yesterday
    C
    1 (corriente, tendencia) movement
    el movimiento surrealista/revolucionario the surrealist/revolutionary movement
    movimiento literario literary movement
    movimiento pictórico school of painting
    movimiento separatista/pacifista separatist/pacifist movement
    el movimiento de liberación femenina the women's liberation movement
    2 (organización) movement
    el movimiento pro amnistía the pro-amnesty movement
    3
    D (alzamiento) uprising, rebellion
    el día que saltó el movimiento the day the uprising o rebellion began
    E ( Mús)
    2 (compás) tempo
    F ( Jueg) move
    * * *

     

    movimiento sustantivo masculino
    1


    el movimiento surrealista the surrealist movement;
    movimiento pictórico school of painting;
    movimiento sísmico earth tremor
    b) (Fís, Tec) motion, movement;


    se puso en movimiento it started moving
    c) (agitación, actividad) activity;


    2 (Mús) ( parte de obra) movement;
    ( compás) tempo
    3 (Jueg) move
    movimiento sustantivo masculino
    1 movement
    Fís Téc motion
    2 (actividad) activity
    3 Com Fin (de una cuenta) operations
    4 (alzamiento, manifestación social) movement
    el movimiento feminista, the feminist movement
    5 Mús (de una composición) movement
    ' movimiento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abajo
    - ademán
    - animación
    - bloquear
    - delante
    - desplazamiento
    - detenida
    - detenido
    - ejercicio
    - en
    - entre
    - febril
    - gestarse
    - gravitatoria
    - gravitatorio
    - inerte
    - inmovilizar
    - intranquila
    - intranquilo
    - obrera
    - obrero
    - oscilación
    - pendular
    - quieta
    - quieto
    - refleja
    - reflejo
    - retroceso
    - revigorizar
    - sacudida
    - sandinista
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - tic
    - trabar
    - traslación
    - vaivén
    - vanguardista
    - ver
    - veloz
    - viaje
    - adelante
    - adentro
    - adherir
    - afuera
    - ágil
    - arriba
    - ascendente
    - avance
    - brusco
    English:
    along
    - anywhere
    - approach
    - astir
    - away
    - backward
    - bandwagon
    - bob
    - bump
    - by
    - check
    - dive
    - dodge
    - double-jointed
    - down
    - flap
    - flick
    - flow
    - forward
    - gesture
    - in
    - indoors
    - into
    - jerk
    - laboured
    - liberation
    - measured
    - motion
    - move
    - movement
    - off
    - on
    - over
    - past
    - perpetual
    - perpetual motion
    - poof
    - pro-life
    - set
    - sharp
    - sideways
    - smooth
    - speed
    - stamp
    - sudden
    - turnover
    - uncontrollable
    - underground
    - way
    - women's lib
    * * *
    1. [desplazamiento, traslado] movement;
    hizo un movimiento con la mano she made a movement with her hand;
    seguía con la mirada todos mis movimientos he was watching my every move;
    ¡no hagas ningún movimiento! don't move!;
    si haces un movimiento en falso, disparo if you move, I'll shoot, one false move and I'll shoot;
    la escayola entorpecía sus movimientos the plaster cast meant she couldn't move freely;
    hay pocos movimientos en la clasificación general there have been few changes in the overall standings
    movimiento migratorio migratory movement; Med movimientos oculares rápidos rapid eye movement;
    movimientos de población population shifts;
    movimiento sísmico earth tremor
    2. [en física y mecánica] motion;
    en movimiento moving, in motion;
    se bajó del tren cuando todavía estaba en movimiento she got off the train while it was still moving;
    poner algo en movimiento to set sth in motion;
    ponerse en movimiento to start moving
    Fís movimiento acelerado accelerated motion; Fís movimiento continuo perpetual motion; Fís movimiento ondulatorio wave motion; Fís movimiento oscilatorio oscillatory motion; Fís movimiento de rotación rotational motion; Fís movimiento de traslación orbital motion; Fís movimiento uniforme motion at a constant velocity
    3. [corriente ideológica, artística] movement;
    el movimiento dadaísta the Dadaist movement;
    el movimiento obrero the working-class movement;
    el movimiento pacifista the peace movement
    4. Hist
    el Movimiento (Nacional) [en España] = organisation uniting all Fascist groups supporting Franco, founded on 19th April 1937, and which served as the official party of his regime until 1975
    5.
    movimiento (militar) [sublevación] (military) uprising
    6. [actividad] activity;
    [de vehículos] traffic; [de personal, mercancías] turnover; [en cuenta bancaria] transaction; [en contabilidad] operation;
    últimos movimientos [opción en cajero automático] print mini-statement
    movimiento de capitales capital movements
    7. Mús [parte de la obra] movement
    8. Mús [velocidad del compás] tempo
    9. [en ajedrez, damas, juego de mesa] move
    10. [alzamiento] uprising
    * * *
    m
    1 movement
    2 COM, fig
    activity
    * * *
    : movement, motion
    movimiento del cuerpo: bodily movement
    movimiento sindicalista: labor movement
    * * *
    1. (en general) movement
    2. (marcha) motion
    3. (actividad) activity [pl. activities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > movimiento

  • 17 mouvement

    mouvement [muvmɑ̃]
    masculine noun
       a. movement
       b. ( = impulsion, réaction) dans un mouvement de colère in a fit of anger
    • allons, un bon mouvement ! come on, just a small gesture!
    * * *
    muvmɑ̃
    nom masculin
    1) ( geste) movement

    faire un mouvement — to move, to make a move

    tu es libre de tes mouvements — you can come and go as you please; faux I

    2) ( déplacement) movement, motion

    se mettre en mouvement — [troupe] to start moving; [machine] to start up

    mettre quelque chose en mouvement, imprimer un mouvement à quelque chose — to set something in motion

    3) ( animation) bustle

    suivre le mouvement — fig to follow the crowd

    4) ( élan) impulse, reaction

    un mouvement de colère/pitié — a surge of anger/pity

    un bon mouvement — a kind ou nice gesture

    5) ( action collective) movement
    7) Économie, Finance ( fluctuation) fluctuation; ( échange) transaction; ( tendance) trend
    8) (de poème, d'œuvre musicale) movement
    9) ( d'horloge) movement
    * * *
    muvmɑ̃ nm
    1) (= déplacement) [corps] movement
    2) [panique, recul] reaction
    3) (syndical, politique, artistique) movement

    mouvement de grève — industrial action, strike

    4) (= tumulte, agitation) activity, bustle
    6) MUSIQUE (= rythme) tempo, (partie de morceau) movement
    7) (= mécanisme d'horloge) movement
    * * *
    1 ( geste) movement; faire un mouvement to move, to make a move; il fit un mouvement pour se dégager he made a move to break away; je ne peux pas faire un seul mouvement I can't move at all; tu es libre de tes mouvements you can come and go as you please; mouvement de danse dance movement; mouvement de gymnastique gymnastic exercise; apprendre les mouvements du crawl to learn stroke for the front crawl; avoir un mouvement d'humeur to show a flash of annoyance; ⇒ faux;
    2 ( déplacement) gén movement; Phys movement, motion; le mouvement des vagues the movement of the waves; mouvements sismiques seismic movements; mouvement de reflux backward movement; le mouvement des bateaux à l'entrée du port the movement of ships at the entrance to a port; le mouvement de personnel dans une entreprise staff changes in a company; mouvement de retraite withdrawal; accélérer le mouvement to speed up; ralentir le mouvement to slow down; se mettre en mouvement to get moving; mouvement ondulatoire or périodique wave motion; mouvement hélicoïdal/ascendant/absolu/fixe helical/upward/absolute/relative motion; mouvement perpétuel perpetual motion; le mouvement d'un pendule the movement ou swing of a pendulum; la toupie décrit un mouvement de rotation the top describes a rotary motion; mettre qch en mouvement, imprimer un mouvement à qch to set sth in motion;
    3 ( animation) bustle; il y a du mouvement dans la rue there's a lot of bustle in the street; toute la maison était en mouvement the whole household was bustling about ou bustling with activity; une rue pleine de mouvement a busy street; suivre le mouvement fig to follow the crowd;
    4 ( élan) impulse, reaction; mon premier mouvement a été de me mettre en colère my initial reaction ou my first impulse was to get angry; dans un mouvement de générosité on a generous impulse; un mouvement de colère/pitié a surge of anger/pity; un mouvement de panique a panic reaction; un bon mouvement a kind ou nice gesture; fais un bon mouvement, donne-moi 10 euros do me a good turn and give me 10 euros; agir de son propre mouvement to act of one's own accord; un mouvement général de rejet a generally hostile reaction; un mouvement de masse a mass movement;
    5 (pour contester, revendiquer) action; le mouvement étudiant the student protest movement; mouvement de contestation protest action; mouvement de grève strike, industrial action ¢; mouvement de rébellion rebel movement;
    6 ( groupe) movement, group; mouvement de jeunesse youth movement; mouvement de protection/défense de movement for the protection/defenceGB of;
    7 ( évolution) le mouvement des idées the evolution of ideas; être dans le mouvement to move with the times; vivre dans un milieu en mouvement to live in a changing environment; mouvement de décentralisation/démocratisation trend toward(s) decentralization/democratization; mouvement de création d'emploi trend toward(s) job creation;
    8 Écon, Fin ( fluctuation) fluctuation; ( échange) transaction; ( tendance) trend; le mouvement du marché market fluctuations (pl); mouvement de hausse/de baisse upward/downward trend (de in); un mouvement de reprise a movement toward(s) recovery; mouvements financiers financial transactions; mouvement de capitaux movement ou flow of capital; mouvement d'un compte turnover on an account; mouvement de fonds movement of funds;
    9 Littérat (de récit, poème) movement;
    10 Mus ( partie d'une œuvre) movement;
    11 Mécan (de montre, d'horloge) movement; mouvement d'horlogerie commandant un contact électrique clockwork mechanism controlling an electrical contact.
    [muvmɑ̃] nom masculin
    1. [geste] movement
    a. [affirmatif] a nod
    b. [négatif] a shake of the head
    2. [impulsion]
    mouvement de colère fit ou burst of anger
    les mouvements du cœur/de l'âme (littéraire) the impulses of the heart/of the soul
    3. [déplacement - d'un astre, d'un pendule] movement ; [ - de personnes] movement
    4. [évolution - des prix, des taux] trend, movement ; [ - du marché] fluctuation
    mouvement en baisse/en hausse downward/upward trend
    5. POLITIQUE [action collective] movement
    6. [animation - d'un quartier] bustle, liveliness ; [ - dans un aéroport, un port] movement
    eh bien, il y a du mouvement chez vous! it's all go at your place!
    8. [impression de vie - d'une peinture, d'une sculpture] movement ; [ - d'un vers] flow, movement ; [ - d'une robe] drape ; [ - d'un paysage] undulations
    9. MUSIQUE [rythme] tempo
    mouvement perpétuel moto perpetuo, perpetuum mobile
    [section d'un morceau] movement
    10. [mécanisme] movement
    ————————
    en mouvement locution adjectivale
    [athlète] moving, in motion
    [population, troupes] on the move
    ————————
    en mouvement locution adverbiale
    ————————
    sans mouvement locution adjectivale
    [personne] inert

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > mouvement

  • 18 recoger

    v.
    1 to pick up.
    recogí los papeles del suelo I picked the papers up off the ground
    Ella recoge la ropa She picks up the clothes.
    María recoge a su hijo Mary picks up her son.
    2 to collect, to gather.
    Ellos recogen manzanas They gather apples.
    3 to clear (ordenar, limpiar) (mesa).
    4 to pick up, to fetch.
    iré a recoger a los niños a la escuela I'll pick the children up from school
    5 to take in (acoger) (mendigo, huérfano, animal).
    6 to gather, to harvest.
    7 to take up, to shorten (acortar) (item of clothing).
    8 to show (mostrar) (sujeto: foto, película).
    la exposición recoge su obra más reciente the exhibition brings together his latest works
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ PROTEGER], like link=proteger proteger
    1 (volver a coger) to take again, take back
    2 (coger) to pick up, take back
    3 (ir a buscar) to pick up, collect
    4 (cosecha) to harvest, gather; (fruta) to pick
    5 (guardar) to put away
    6 (poner al abrigo) to bring in
    ■ recoge las toallas, va a llover bring those towels in, it's going to rain
    7 (suspender) to seize
    8 (juntar) to gather, collect
    9 (velas) to take in; (cortinas) to draw
    10 (dar asilo) to take in, shelter
    11 (ordenar) to clear up, tidy up
    12 (limpiar) to clean; (el polvo) to wipe off; (líquido) to wipe up
    13 (remangar - prendas) to pick up, lift up; (- mangas) to roll up
    14 COSTURA to shorten, take up
    1 (irse a casa) to go home
    2 (irse a dormir) to go to bed
    3 (para meditar) to retire, withdraw
    \
    recoger la mesa to clear the table
    recogerse el pelo to put one's hair up, tie one's hair back
    * * *
    verb
    to collect, gather
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=levantar) [+ objeto caído] to pick up; [+ objetos dispersos] to gather (up), gather together
    2) (=recolectar) [+ datos, información] to gather, collect; [+ dinero, firmas] to collect; [+ correo, basura] to collect, pick up

    ¿a qué hora recogen el correo? — what time is the mail o post collected?, what time do they collect the mail o post?

    3) (=ordenar) [+ objetos] to clear up, clear away; [+ casa, habitación] to tidy up, straighten up

    recoge tus cosas — get your things together, gather up your things

    4) (=guardar) [+ ropa lavada] to take in, get in; [+ herramientas] to put away
    5) (Agr) to harvest, gather in, take in; [+ fruta, guisantes] to pick; [+ flores] to pick, gather
    6) (=reducir, ajustar) [+ cuerda, vela] to take in; [+ alas] to fold; [+ cuernos] to draw in; [+ falda] to gather up, lift up; [+ mangas] to roll up; (Cos) to take in, reduce, shorten
    7) (=almacenar) [+ polvo] to gather; [+ líquido] to absorb, take up; [en recipiente] to collect
    8) (=ir a buscar) [+ persona] to pick up, fetch, collect; [+ billetes, paquete] to collect, pick up

    te vendremos a recoger a las ocho — we'll come and pick you up o fetch you o collect you at eight o'clock, we'll come for you at eight o'clock

    9) (=mostrar) to show

    la imagen recoge uno de los momentos más dramáticos — the picture shows o captures one of the most dramatic moments

    10) (=incluir) to include

    el informe recoge diversas sugerencias — various suggestions are included in the report, the report includes various suggestions

    11) [+ demandas, reivindicaciones] to take into account
    12) (=recibir)

    de todo esto van a recoger muy poco — they won't get much back out of all this, they will get very little return from all this

    13) (=retirar) [+ periódico, libro] to seize; [+ moneda] to call in
    14) (=dar asilo) to take in, shelter
    2.
    VI (=ordenar) to tidy up, straighten up; [al cerrar, terminar] to clear up
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( levantar) to pick up
    b) <casa/habitación> to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE)
    2)
    a) <dinero/firmas> to collect
    b) <deberes/cuadernos> to collect, take in
    c) <trigo/maíz> to harvest, gather in; < fruta> to pick; <flores/hongos> to pick, gather
    d) <tienda de campaña/vela> to take down
    e) < pelo>
    3) ( recibir y retener) <agua/polvo> to collect
    4) ( ir a buscar) < persona> to pick up, fetch, collect; < paquete> to collect, pick up; < basura> to collect

    ¿puedes recoger el traje de la tintorería? — can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners?

    fui a recoger mis cosas — I went to get o to pick up my things

    5) <huérfano/gatito> to take in
    6) foto <instantánea/momento> to capture; novela <ambiente/contexto social> to depict
    2.
    recoger vi ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    3.
    recogersev pron
    1) ( volver a casa) to go home; ( ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire; (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    2) < pelo> to tie up
    * * *
    = capture, collect, cull, gather, pick up, record, reap, harvest, garner, shuffle together, scoop (out), sweep up, wind, stow, pack + Posesivo + bags, clear up, pack up.
    Ex. In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.
    Ex. Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex. The contents of an extract will often be culled from the results, conclusions or recommendations, i.e. the concluding segments, of the document.
    Ex. A bibliography is a list of materials or items which is restricted in its coverage by some feature other than the materials being gathered in one library collection.
    Ex. Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.
    Ex. Editors and compilers of editions of works are recorded together with the edition statement in the edition area = En en área de edición se incluyen los editores y compiladores de las ediciones de trabajos junto con la mención de edición.
    Ex. Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex. Entire families or groups of families cooperate in growing and harvesting food.
    Ex. The serials file contains a large number of titles, not only contributed by members, but also garnered from other sources.
    Ex. This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    Ex. This service will be useful for end users and for scooping out the availability of information on STN for a variety of search topics.
    Ex. Who else is going to flip the burgers, clean the resistant bomb-proof windows of the glitzy mile-high skyscrapers -- also take out the garbage, wash the dishes, park the cars, sweep up the papers in the parks?.
    Ex. Bring the kite down by slowly winding the kite string around a kite spool.
    Ex. It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex. The next day we shook off our hangovers with another refreshing dip under the waterfall, packed our bags and headed off.
    Ex. What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex. The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
    ----
    * encargado de recoger = gatherer.
    * frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.
    * persona que recoge algo = picker.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * recoger con un rastrillo = rake.
    * recoger datos = collect + data.
    * recoger datos para hacer estadísticas = collect + statistics.
    * recoger evidencia = collect + evidence.
    * recoger experiencia = garner + experience.
    * recoger información = collect + data, collect + information, gather + information, summon + knowledge, harvest + information.
    * recoger la mesa = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas de Uno antes de irse = pack + Posesivo + things.
    * recoger los platos rotos = pick up + the pieces, sort out + the mess.
    * recoger material = gather + material.
    * recoger pruebas = collect + evidence, gather + evidence, accumulate + evidence.
    * recoger y enviar datos = telemeter.
    * sin recoger = uncollected.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( levantar) to pick up
    b) <casa/habitación> to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE)
    2)
    a) <dinero/firmas> to collect
    b) <deberes/cuadernos> to collect, take in
    c) <trigo/maíz> to harvest, gather in; < fruta> to pick; <flores/hongos> to pick, gather
    d) <tienda de campaña/vela> to take down
    e) < pelo>
    3) ( recibir y retener) <agua/polvo> to collect
    4) ( ir a buscar) < persona> to pick up, fetch, collect; < paquete> to collect, pick up; < basura> to collect

    ¿puedes recoger el traje de la tintorería? — can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners?

    fui a recoger mis cosas — I went to get o to pick up my things

    5) <huérfano/gatito> to take in
    6) foto <instantánea/momento> to capture; novela <ambiente/contexto social> to depict
    2.
    recoger vi ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    3.
    recogersev pron
    1) ( volver a casa) to go home; ( ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire; (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    2) < pelo> to tie up
    * * *
    = capture, collect, cull, gather, pick up, record, reap, harvest, garner, shuffle together, scoop (out), sweep up, wind, stow, pack + Posesivo + bags, clear up, pack up.

    Ex: In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.

    Ex: Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex: The contents of an extract will often be culled from the results, conclusions or recommendations, i.e. the concluding segments, of the document.
    Ex: A bibliography is a list of materials or items which is restricted in its coverage by some feature other than the materials being gathered in one library collection.
    Ex: Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.
    Ex: Editors and compilers of editions of works are recorded together with the edition statement in the edition area = En en área de edición se incluyen los editores y compiladores de las ediciones de trabajos junto con la mención de edición.
    Ex: Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex: Entire families or groups of families cooperate in growing and harvesting food.
    Ex: The serials file contains a large number of titles, not only contributed by members, but also garnered from other sources.
    Ex: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    Ex: This service will be useful for end users and for scooping out the availability of information on STN for a variety of search topics.
    Ex: Who else is going to flip the burgers, clean the resistant bomb-proof windows of the glitzy mile-high skyscrapers -- also take out the garbage, wash the dishes, park the cars, sweep up the papers in the parks?.
    Ex: Bring the kite down by slowly winding the kite string around a kite spool.
    Ex: It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex: The next day we shook off our hangovers with another refreshing dip under the waterfall, packed our bags and headed off.
    Ex: What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex: The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
    * encargado de recoger = gatherer.
    * frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.
    * persona que recoge algo = picker.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * recoger con un rastrillo = rake.
    * recoger datos = collect + data.
    * recoger datos para hacer estadísticas = collect + statistics.
    * recoger evidencia = collect + evidence.
    * recoger experiencia = garner + experience.
    * recoger información = collect + data, collect + information, gather + information, summon + knowledge, harvest + information.
    * recoger la mesa = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas de Uno antes de irse = pack + Posesivo + things.
    * recoger los platos rotos = pick up + the pieces, sort out + the mess.
    * recoger material = gather + material.
    * recoger pruebas = collect + evidence, gather + evidence, accumulate + evidence.
    * recoger y enviar datos = telemeter.
    * sin recoger = uncollected.

    * * *
    recoger [E6 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (levantar) to pick up
    recoge la servilleta pick up the napkin
    lo recogió del suelo she picked it up off the floor
    no pienso recoger vuestros trastos I don't intend to pick up your junk o to clear up after you
    recogía el agua que se salía de la lavadora I was mopping up the water that was coming out of the washing machine
    recoge estos cristales clear up this broken glass
    2 ‹casa/habitación› to straighten (up) ( AmE), to tidy (up) ( BrE)
    recoger la mesa to clear the table
    B
    1 ‹dinero/firmas› to collect
    2 ‹deberes/cuadernos› to collect, take in
    recoger la ropa del tendedero to bring the washing in
    3 ‹trigo/maíz› to gather in, take in, harvest; ‹fruta› to pick, harvest; ‹flores/hongos› to pick, gather
    no llegó a recoger el fruto de su trabajo he was unable to reap the fruits of his labor
    4 ‹tienda de campaña› to take down; ‹alfombra› to take up; ‹vela› to take down
    5 ‹pelo›
    le recogió el pelo en una cola he gathered her hair into a ponytail
    C (retener) ‹agua› to collect
    esta alfombra recoge mucho polvo this carpet collects o gathers a lot of dust
    D (retirar de circulación) ‹periódico› to seize; ‹monedas› to withdraw, take … out of circulation
    E (ir a buscar) ‹persona› to pick up, fetch, collect; ‹paquete› to collect, pick up ‹equipaje› ( Aviac) to reclaim
    ¿a qué hora pasan a recoger la basura? what time do they come to take away o collect the garbage ( AmE) o ( BrE) rubbish?
    el autobús pasará a recogernos a las ocho the bus will come by to collect us o pick us up at eight
    ¿puedes recoger el traje del tinte? can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners
    voy adentro a recoger las maletas I'll go inside and get the suitcases
    fui a recoger mis cosas I went to get o to pick up my things
    F (dar asilo) to take in
    recogieron a un gatito abandonado they took in an abandoned kitten
    un asilo para recoger a los vagabundos a hostel to provide shelter for vagrants
    G
    (incluir, registrar): la obra recoge el trasfondo social de aquel momento the work depicts the social context of that time
    la imagen recoge el momento en que … the picture shows o captures the moment in which …
    el informe recoge estas últimas estadísticas these latest statistics figure o appear in the report
    esta acepción no la recoge ningún diccionario this meaning isn't included in o isn't in any dictionary
    su obra está siendo recogida en cuatro volúmenes his works are being collected for publication in four volumes
    un espectáculo que recoge tres de sus obras breves a show which brings together three of his short works
    ■ recoger
    vi
    to clear up, to straighten up ( AmE), to tidy up ( BrE)
    venga, recoger ya, que vamos a comer come on, clear up (your things), it's time to eat
    A
    1 (volver a casa) to go home; (ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire
    2 (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    B
    1 ‹mangas/pantalones› to roll up; ‹falda› to lift up
    2 ‹pelo› to tie up
    recogerse el pelo en un moño to put one's hair up in a bun
    * * *

     

    recoger ( conjugate recoger) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ( levantar) ‹objeto/papeles› to pick up;


    b) ‹casa/habitación› to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE);

    ‹ platos› to clear away;

    2
    a) ‹dinero/firmas› to collect

    b) ‹deberes/cuadernos› to collect, take in

    c) ‹trigo/maíz› to harvest, gather in;

    ‹ fruta› to pick;
    ‹flores/hongos› to pick, gather
    d) ‹tienda de campaña/vela› to take down

    e) ‹ pelo› to tie … back;


    3 ( ir a buscar) ‹ persona› to pick up, fetch, collect;
    ‹ paquete› to collect, pick up;
    ‹ basura› to collect;
    ‹ equipaje› to reclaim
    verbo intransitivo ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    recogerse verbo pronominal ‹ pelo› to tie up;
    ‹ falda› to gather up
    recoger
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (un objeto caído) to pick up
    2 (información, dinero, basura, etc) to gather, collect
    3 (una casa) to tidy up
    recoger la mesa, to clear the table
    4 (en un sitio a alguien o algo) to pick up, fetch, collect: vino a recogernos a las tres, she came to pick us up at three o'clock
    5 (ordenar, guardar) to tidy (up), clear up: recoge tus juguetes inmediatamente, pick up your toys this instant
    6 (a una persona o animal necesitados) to take in
    7 (cosecha) to harvest, gather in
    8 (fruta) to pick
    II vi (poner orden, colocar, guardar) to tidy up: antes de irnos tenemos que recoger, we'll have to tidy up before we go
    ' recoger' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    buscar
    - coger
    - inclinarse
    - vendimiar
    - cosechar
    - mesa
    - pala
    - pinchar
    - pretexto
    English:
    call
    - call for
    - clear away
    - clear up
    - collect
    - gather
    - gather in
    - gather up
    - harvest
    - nuisance
    - pack up
    - pick
    - pick off
    - pick up
    - pull in
    - put away
    - rake up
    - reclaim
    - scoop up
    - sweep up
    - tidy away
    - tidy up
    - up
    - clear
    - collection
    - get
    - glean
    - overflow
    - pack
    - pull
    - reap
    - scoop
    - sweep
    - take
    - tidy
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [coger, levantar] to pick up;
    recogí los papeles del suelo I picked the papers up off the ground;
    recogieron el agua con una fregona they mopped up the water
    2. [reunir, retener] to collect, to gather;
    están recogiendo firmas/dinero para… they are collecting signatures/money for…;
    este trasto no hace más que recoger polvo this piece of junk is just gathering dust
    3. [ordenar, limpiar] [mesa] to clear;
    [casa, habitación, cosas] to tidy o clear up
    4. [ir a buscar] to pick up, to fetch;
    iré a recoger a los niños a la escuela I'll pick the children up from school;
    ¿a qué hora paso a recogerte? what time shall I pick you up?;
    ¿a qué hora recogen la basura? what time do they collect the rubbish?
    5. [recolectar] [mies, cosecha] to harvest;
    [fruta, aceitunas] to pick; [setas, flores] to pick, to gather; [beneficios] to reap;
    ahora empieza a recoger los frutos de su trabajo now she's starting to reap the rewards of her work
    6. [mostrar] [sujeto: foto, película] to show;
    [sujeto: novela] to depict;
    su ensayo recoge una idea ya esbozada por Spinoza her essay contains an idea already hinted at by Spinoza;
    una comedia que recoge el ambiente de los ochenta a comedy which captures the atmosphere of the eighties;
    la exposición recoge su obra más reciente the exhibition brings together his latest works
    7. [sujeto: ley] to include;
    un derecho recogido por la ley a right enshrined in law
    8. [acoger] [mendigo, huérfano, animal] to take in;
    en el albergue recogen a los sin techo the hostel takes in homeless people
    9. [plegar] [velas, sombrillas] to take down;
    [cortinas] to tie back
    10. [prenda] [acortar] to take up, to shorten;
    [estrechar] to take in
    ♦ vi
    [ordenar, limpiar] to tidy o clear up;
    cuando acabes de recoger… when you've finished tidying o clearing up…
    * * *
    v/t
    1 pick up, collect;
    recoger firmas collect signatures;
    recoger las cartas collect one’s mail
    2 habitación tidy up;
    recoger la mesa clear the table
    3 AGR harvest
    4 ( mostrar) show
    5
    :
    recoger las piernas lift up one’s legs
    * * *
    recoger {15} vt
    1) : to collect, to gather
    2) : to get, to retrieve, to pick up
    3) : to clean up, to tidy (up)
    * * *
    1. (coger, ir a buscar) to pick up
    2. (ordenar) to tidy [pt. & pp. tidied]
    3. (reunir) to collect

    Spanish-English dictionary > recoger

  • 19 laborismo

    m.
    worker's movement, labor movement, Labor Party, labour movement.
    * * *
    1 Labour Movement
    * * *
    * * *
    Labour Movement
    * * *
    el laborismo [ideología] Labourism;
    [movimiento] the Labour Movement

    Spanish-English dictionary > laborismo

  • 20 Partido Laborista

    m.
    Labor Party, Labour Party, labor movement, labour movement.
    * * *
    el Partido Laborista
    = Labour Party, the

    Ex: Irish former minister Proinsias de Rossa was knocked to the ground after a public meeting in Dublin on Monday night, according to the Labour Party.

    * * *
    Labor o Br
    Labour party

    Spanish-English dictionary > Partido Laborista

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