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$10 million of debt

  • 1 $10 million of debt

    Финансы: задолженность в размере 10 млн. долл. США (англ. оборот взят из новостного сообщения агентства Bloomberg; употребляется без артикля)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > $10 million of debt

  • 2 external debt service

    межд. эк., фин. обслуживание внешнего долга
    а) (выплата процентов и погашение части основной суммы внешнего долга за определенный период, обычно год, квартал или месяц)
    б) (сумма, которая должна быть направлена на выплату процентов и погашение части внешнего долга за определенный период)

    Egypt's external debt service is equivalent to 17 per cent of its annual exports. — Величина обслуживания внешнего долга Египта составляет 17% его годового экспорта.

    For 1997, the external debt service is projected at US$ 33 million. — В 1997 г. на обслуживание внешнего долга планируется израсходовать 33 млн долл.

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    обслуживание внешнего долга: ежегодные расходы на выплату процентов и амортизацию основной суммы долга.
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > external debt service

  • 3 external debt service

    межд. эк., фин. обслуживание внешнего долга
    а) (выплата процентов и погашение части основной суммы внешнего долга за определенный период (обычно год, квартал или месяц))
    б) (сумма, которая должна быть направлена на выплату процентов и погашение части внешнего долга за определенный период)

    Egypt's external debt service is equivalent to 17 per cent of its annual exports. — Величина обслуживания внешнего долга Египта составляет 17% его годового экспорта.

    For 1997, the external debt service is projected at US$ 33 million. — В 1997 г. на обслуживание внешнего долга планируется израсходовать 33 млн долл.

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    The new English-Russian dictionary of financial markets > external debt service

  • 4 have unpaid mortgage debt

    Финансы: иметь непогашенный ипотечный долг (напр.,... of more than $1 million; англ. цитата заимствована из статьи в газете New York Times)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > have unpaid mortgage debt

  • 5 capitalize

    гл.
    1) эк. капитализировать, превращать в капитал
    в) (переводить арендуемое имущество с забалансовых счетов на балансовые, напр., в случае финансового лизинга)
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    г) (учитывать капитальные затраты не как расходы, а как увеличение капитала или как долгосрочные активы, чтобы было возможно осуществлять амортизацию)
    2) фин. капитализировать (обеспечивать капиталом, предоставлять капитал; выпускать ценные бумаги и/или привлекать кредиты для формирования капитала компании)

    The company will be capitalized with $80 million in cash from the four partners and about $250 million in debt. — Капитал компании будет образован за счет денежного вклада четырех партнеров в размере 80 млн долл. и заимствований в размере около 250 млн долл.

    highly capitalized company — высоко капитализированная компания, компания с большой капитализаций

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    3) фин. капитализировать (рассчитывать условную (капитализированную) сумму дохода путем деления на текущую процентную ставку и умножения на 100)
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    4) общ. использовать (что-л.) для получения выгоды, наживать себе капитал (на чем-л.)
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    капитализировать: 1) превращать регулярный доход в условную сумму капитала (capitalized value) путем деления на текущую процентную ставку и умножения на 100; 2) выпускать ценные бумаги для финансирования фиксированных активов (основного капитала); 3) превратить арендованный актив в собственный; 4) использовать что-либо для получения экономической выгоды; 5) учитывать капитальные затраты (важные для будущих периодов) не как расходы, а как увеличение капитала или как долгосрочные активы; такая учетная практика позволяет осуществлять амортизацию.

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > capitalize

  • 6 задолженность в размере 10 млн. долл. США

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > задолженность в размере 10 млн. долл. США

  • 7 deuda

    f.
    debt.
    contraer una deuda to get into debt
    saldar una deuda to pay off o settle a debt
    está lleno de deudas he's heavily o deep in debt
    deudas de juego gambling debts
    * * *
    1 debt
    2 RELIGIÓN trespass
    \
    contraer una deuda to get into debt
    estar en deuda con alguien (de dinero) to be in debt to somebody 2 (moralmente) to be indebted to somebody
    deuda del Estado public debt
    deuda exterior external debt
    deuda pública national debt
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    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=obligación) debt

    estar en deuda con algn — (=estar agradecido) to be indebted to sb

    2) (Com) debt

    estar en deuda con algn — (=deber dinero) to be in debt to sb

    deuda exterior, deuda externa — foreign debt

    deuda pública — national debt, public borrowing

    3) (Rel)
    * * *
    a) (Com, Fin) debt

    pagar or saldar una deuda — to pay (off) a debt

    contraer una deuda — to run up o (frml) contract a debt

    deuda con alguien: estoy en deuda con usted — I am indebted to you

    c) (Relig)
    * * *
    = debt, indebtedness.
    Ex. Acknowledgements: the author wishes to acknowledge her debt to the authors of the literature that has gone before, and also to the various persons and organisations that have kindly permitted the reproduction of their work.
    Ex. Citation analyses are justifiably criticized for their inability to reveal 'intellectual indebtedness'.
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    * cancelación de una deuda = debt write-off.
    * cobrador de deudas = debt collector.
    * con muchas deudas = heavily indebted.
    * deuda externa = external debt, foreign debt.
    * deuda nacional, la = national debt, the.
    * deuda pendiente = outstanding debt.
    * empresa de cobro de deudas = debt collection agency.
    * estar en deuda = be in debt.
    * estar en deuda con = be beholden to.
    * hacer frente a deudas = meet + debts.
    * liquidación de deudas = debt settlement.
    * liquidar una deuda = pay off + debt.
    * lo prometido es deuda = a promise is a promise.
    * negociación de deudas = debt settlement, debt negotiation.
    * pagar deudas = meet + debts.
    * pagar una deuda = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up.
    * pago de deuda = debt repayment.
    * pago de la deuda exterior = debt repayment.
    * perdonar una deuda = write-off + debt.
    * plagado de deudas = debt-riddled.
    * reducción de la deuda externa = debt relief.
    * saldar una deuda = pay off + debt.
    * sin deudas = debt free.
    * * *
    a) (Com, Fin) debt

    pagar or saldar una deuda — to pay (off) a debt

    contraer una deuda — to run up o (frml) contract a debt

    deuda con alguien: estoy en deuda con usted — I am indebted to you

    c) (Relig)
    * * *
    = debt, indebtedness.

    Ex: Acknowledgements: the author wishes to acknowledge her debt to the authors of the literature that has gone before, and also to the various persons and organisations that have kindly permitted the reproduction of their work.

    Ex: Citation analyses are justifiably criticized for their inability to reveal 'intellectual indebtedness'.
    * cancelación de una deuda = debt write-off.
    * cobrador de deudas = debt collector.
    * con muchas deudas = heavily indebted.
    * deuda externa = external debt, foreign debt.
    * deuda nacional, la = national debt, the.
    * deuda pendiente = outstanding debt.
    * empresa de cobro de deudas = debt collection agency.
    * estar en deuda = be in debt.
    * estar en deuda con = be beholden to.
    * hacer frente a deudas = meet + debts.
    * liquidación de deudas = debt settlement.
    * liquidar una deuda = pay off + debt.
    * lo prometido es deuda = a promise is a promise.
    * negociación de deudas = debt settlement, debt negotiation.
    * pagar deudas = meet + debts.
    * pagar una deuda = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up.
    * pago de deuda = debt repayment.
    * pago de la deuda exterior = debt repayment.
    * perdonar una deuda = write-off + debt.
    * plagado de deudas = debt-riddled.
    * reducción de la deuda externa = debt relief.
    * saldar una deuda = pay off + debt.
    * sin deudas = debt free.

    * * *
    1 ( Com, Fin) debt
    pagar or saldar una deuda to pay (off) a debt
    contraer una deuda to run up o ( frml) contract a debt
    se cargaron or llenaron de deudas para poder comprar la casa they got themselves heavily into debt to buy the house
    tiene deudas de varios millones de pesos he has debts of several million pesos, he is several million pesos in debt
    logré salir de deudas I cleared o paid off all my debts, I got out of debt
    2 (compromiso moral) deuda CON algn:
    estoy en deuda con usted I am indebted to you
    ha pagado su deuda con la sociedad she has paid her debt to society
    3 ( Relig):
    perdónanos nuestras deudas forgive us our trespasses
    Compuestos:
    funded o consolidated debt
    war debt
    (títulos emitidos) government stock; (suma adeudada) public sector borrowing
    foreign debt
    floating debt
    national debt
    corporate o private debt
    national debt
    fpl bad debts (pl)
    fpl doubtful debts (pl)
    sovereign debt
    subordinated debt
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    deuda sustantivo femenino
    a) (Com, Fin) debt;


    contraer una deuda to run up o (frml) contract a debt;
    deuda pública public debt (AmE), national debt (BrE)


    deudo,-a m frml relative: se convocó a los deudos para la lectura del testamento, the relatives were called to hear the reading of the will
    deuda sustantivo femenino debt: tiene conmigo una deuda de dos mil pesetas, she owes me two thousand pesetas
    (moral) estamos en deuda con ellos, we are indebted to them
    deuda pública, public debt
    ' deuda' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amortizar
    - amortización
    - cancelar
    - cobrar
    - cobro
    - condonar
    - deber
    - débito
    - liquidar
    - liquidación
    - perdonar
    - prometida
    - prometido
    - recargar
    - reembolsar
    - saldar
    - saldo
    - satisfacción
    - satisfacer
    - solventar
    - trampa
    - vencida
    - vencido
    - abultado
    - consolidar
    - impago
    - nacional
    - pagar
    - zanjar
    English:
    amortize
    - bad debt
    - chip away
    - clear
    - contract
    - debt
    - discharge
    - due
    - indebted
    - lien
    - oblige
    - outstanding
    - overdue
    - owing
    - paid
    - pay
    - pay off
    - recover
    - redeem
    - repay
    - reschedule
    - restructure
    - satisfy
    - settle
    - settlement
    - unpaid
    - unsettled
    - write off
    - foreign
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    deuda nf
    1. [financiera] debt;
    tiene deudas pendientes con un proveedor he owes money to a supplier;
    contraer una deuda to get into debt;
    contrajo deudas (por valor) de varios millones he ran up debts (to the tune) of several million;
    está lleno de deudas he's heavily o deep in debt;
    pagar o [m5] saldar una deuda to pay off o settle a debt
    Econ deuda amortizable repayable debt; Econ deuda consolidada funded o long-term debt; Econ deuda a corto plazo short-term debt; Econ deuda exterior foreign debt; Econ deuda externa foreign debt; Cont deudas incobrables bad debt; Econ deuda interior internal debt; Econ deuda interna internal debt;
    deudas de juego gambling debts;
    Econ deuda a largo plazo long-term debt; Econ deuda pública Br national debt, US public debt;
    invertir en deuda pública to buy government bonds;
    Econ deuda tributaria tax payable o due
    2. [obligación moral] debt;
    mi deuda con esta gente es enorme I am enormously indebted to these people;
    estar en deuda con alguien to be indebted to sb
    3. [pecado]
    perdónanos nuestras deudas forgive us our trespasses
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    f debt;
    cargado de deudas deep in debt;
    libre de deudas free of debts;
    estar en deuda con alguien fig be in s.o.’s debt, be indebted to s.o.
    m, deuda f relative
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    deuda nf
    1) débito: debt
    2)
    en deuda con : indebted to
    * * *
    deuda n debt

    Spanish-English dictionary > deuda

  • 8 pagar

    v.
    1 to pay (empleado, persona).
    pagó dos millones por la casa she paid two million for the house
    yo pago la cena I'll pay for dinner
    su padre le paga los estudios his father is supporting him through college/university
    no iría aunque me lo pagaras I wouldn't go (even) if you paid me
    ¡que Dios se lo pague! God bless you!
    Ella le paga al jardinero She pays the gardener.
    Ella pagó al fin She paid at last.
    Ella pagó mucho dinero She paid a lot of money.
    Ella pagó la culpa She paid the responsibility.
    2 to be worth it (informal) (compensar). ( Latin American Spanish)
    no paga it's not worth it
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ LLEGAR], like link=llegar llegar
    1 to pay
    1 to pay
    \
    pagar al contado to pay cash
    pagar en metálico to pay cash
    ¡me las pagarás! familiar you'll pay for this!
    pagarlas todas juntas familiar to pay for one's sins
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    verb
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    1. VT
    1) (=abonar) [+ factura, rescate, sueldo] to pay; [+ compra] to pay for; [+ intereses, hipoteca] to pay off, repay

    estamos pagando la hipoteca del piso — we're paying off o repaying the mortgage on the flat

    • cantidad a pagar — amount payable

    a pagar en destino — (Correos) postage due

    • pagar algo con tarjeta de crédito — to pay for sth by credit card

    ¿lo puede pagar con dólares? — can I pay in dollars?

    • pagar algo al contado o en efectivo o en metálico — to pay cash for sth, pay for sth in cash

    • pagar algo a plazos — to pay for sth in instalments o (EEUU) installments

    • pagar algo por — to pay sth for

    ¿cuánto pagasteis por el coche? — how much did you pay for the car?

    hemos pagado un precio muy alto por haberlo traicionado — betraying him cost us dear, we paid a high price for betraying him

    pato, plato, vidrio
    2) (=costar) to cost
    3) (=corresponder) [+ ayuda, favor] to repay; [+ visita] to return

    ¿cómo puedo pagarte lo que has hecho por mis hijos? — how can I repay you for what you've done for my children?

    4) (=sufrir las consecuencias de)

    ¡lo pagarás caro! — you'll pay dearly for this!

    pagarlas —

    ¡las vas a pagar! — you've got it coming to you! *, you'll pay for this!

    ¡me las pagarás todas juntas! — I'll get you for this!

    2. VI
    1) (=satisfacer un pago) to pay

    hoy pago yo — I'm paying today, it's my turn to pay today

    2) Col, Méx (=compensar) to pay
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( abonar) <cuenta/alquiler> to pay; < deuda> to pay (off), repay; <comida/entradas/mercancías> to pay for

    ¿cuánto pagas de alquiler? — how much rent do you pay?

    ni que me/le paguen — not even if you paid me/him

    b) <favor/desvelos> to repay
    c) ( expiar) <delito/atrevimiento> to pay for

    me las vas a pagar! or ya me las pagarás! — you'll pay for this!

    2.
    pagar vi
    a) (Com, Fin) to pay

    pagan bien — they pay well, the pay's good

    b) ( corresponder) to repay

    pagarle a alguien con la misma moneda — to pay somebody back in their own coin o in kind

    c) (Col fam) (rendir, compensar) to pay
    * * *
    = pay, reimburse, make + payment, defray + costs, pony up, pay out, pick up + the tab, pay up.
    Ex. I am also committed, however -- and this is what our taxpayers are paying us for -- to serving our library users, the people who are paying our salaries.
    Ex. LC will supply computer services and staff from the MARC Development and Information Systems Offices, all to be reimbursed by RLG.
    Ex. The order is also indexed by the vendor from whom the document was ordered and the library fund from which the payments will be made.
    Ex. The author offers a framework for law libraries considering introducing fees to defray costs.
    Ex. Getting the good doctor to pony up for network security is likely to be your toughest challenge.
    Ex. Within six months after receipt of the Prize, the winner must submit to IFLA HQ an interim report of the use made of the funds, and the second instalment will be paid out.
    Ex. The article ' Who should pick up the tab' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.
    Ex. Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.
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    * cantidad a pagar = amount payable, amount due.
    * deber pagarse = be payable.
    * el que las hace, las paga = you've made your bed, now you must lie in it!.
    * extar exento de pagar impuestos = write off.
    * hacer pagar tributos = exact + tributes.
    * hacer que se paguen las consecuencias = make + the roof fall in on + Pronombre.
    * importe a pagar = amount payable, amount due.
    * hacer que Alguien page sus culpas = bring + Nombre + to justice.
    * lo que se suele pagar = going rate, the.
    * obligar a pagar = enforce + payment.
    * pagando = for a fee.
    * pagando de + Posesivo + bolsillo = at + Posesivo + own expense.
    * pagando un poco más = at additional cost.
    * pagar al contado = pay in + cash.
    * pagar capital = repay + capital.
    * pagar caro = pay + penalty, pay + dearly.
    * pagar completamente = pay up.
    * pagar con antelación = prepay.
    * pagar contrarreembolso = cash on delivery (COD).
    * pagar demasiado = overbid, pay through + the nose.
    * pagar derechos reales = pay + royalty.
    * pagar deudas = meet + debts.
    * pagar dinero = fork over + money.
    * pagar dos veces = double-pay.
    * pagar el pato = carry + the can, take it on + the chin.
    * pagar el precio = meet + price.
    * pagar en efectivo = pay in + cash.
    * pagar en especie = pay in + kind.
    * pagar en metálico = pay in + cash.
    * pagar honorarios = pay + fee.
    * pagar impuestos = pay + taxes.
    * pagar justos por pecadores = the innocent + suffer + for the guilty, throw + the baby out with the bath water.
    * pagar la factura = pay + the tab.
    * pagar la hora a la mitad más de lo normal = get + time-and-a-half.
    * pagarlas con = take it out on.
    * pagar las consecuencias = pay + penalty, pay + toll, pay + the price, pay + the tab, pay + the penalty, take it on + the chin.
    * pagar las consecuencias de = take + Posesivo + toll (on).
    * pagar las deudas = pay + Posesivo + dues.
    * pagar los gastos = bear + the cost(s).
    * pagar los platos rotos = carry + the can, pick up + the pieces.
    * pagar más de lo que se debería = overpay.
    * pagar menos de lo que se debería = underpay.
    * pagar poquísimo = pay + peanuts.
    * pagar por adelantado = pay + up-front.
    * pagar por completo = pay off.
    * pagar por horas extra = pay + overtime.
    * pagar precio = pay + cost.
    * pagarse sus propios gastos = pay + Posesivo + own way.
    * pagar una deuda = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up.
    * pagar una factura = settle + invoice, pay + a bill.
    * pagar una factura atrasada = pay off + bill.
    * pagar un alto precio = pay + hefty price.
    * pagar una multa = pay + fine.
    * pagar una suma de dinero = pay + sum.
    * pagar un dineral = pay through + the nose, fork out + lots of money.
    * pagar un ojo de la cara = pay through + the nose.
    * pagar un precio = pay + fee, pay + penalty.
    * pagar un precio alto por Algo = pay + a premium price for.
    * pagar un precio elevado = pay + hefty price.
    * pagar un precio exorbitante = pay through + the nose.
    * páguese por el uso hecho = pay-as-you-go.
    * persona que paga impuestos = taxpayer [tax-payer].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( abonar) <cuenta/alquiler> to pay; < deuda> to pay (off), repay; <comida/entradas/mercancías> to pay for

    ¿cuánto pagas de alquiler? — how much rent do you pay?

    ni que me/le paguen — not even if you paid me/him

    b) <favor/desvelos> to repay
    c) ( expiar) <delito/atrevimiento> to pay for

    me las vas a pagar! or ya me las pagarás! — you'll pay for this!

    2.
    pagar vi
    a) (Com, Fin) to pay

    pagan bien — they pay well, the pay's good

    b) ( corresponder) to repay

    pagarle a alguien con la misma moneda — to pay somebody back in their own coin o in kind

    c) (Col fam) (rendir, compensar) to pay
    * * *
    = pay, reimburse, make + payment, defray + costs, pony up, pay out, pick up + the tab, pay up.

    Ex: I am also committed, however -- and this is what our taxpayers are paying us for -- to serving our library users, the people who are paying our salaries.

    Ex: LC will supply computer services and staff from the MARC Development and Information Systems Offices, all to be reimbursed by RLG.
    Ex: The order is also indexed by the vendor from whom the document was ordered and the library fund from which the payments will be made.
    Ex: The author offers a framework for law libraries considering introducing fees to defray costs.
    Ex: Getting the good doctor to pony up for network security is likely to be your toughest challenge.
    Ex: Within six months after receipt of the Prize, the winner must submit to IFLA HQ an interim report of the use made of the funds, and the second instalment will be paid out.
    Ex: The article ' Who should pick up the tab' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.
    Ex: Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.
    * cantidad a pagar = amount payable, amount due.
    * deber pagarse = be payable.
    * el que las hace, las paga = you've made your bed, now you must lie in it!.
    * extar exento de pagar impuestos = write off.
    * hacer pagar tributos = exact + tributes.
    * hacer que se paguen las consecuencias = make + the roof fall in on + Pronombre.
    * importe a pagar = amount payable, amount due.
    * hacer que Alguien page sus culpas = bring + Nombre + to justice.
    * lo que se suele pagar = going rate, the.
    * obligar a pagar = enforce + payment.
    * pagando = for a fee.
    * pagando de + Posesivo + bolsillo = at + Posesivo + own expense.
    * pagando un poco más = at additional cost.
    * pagar al contado = pay in + cash.
    * pagar capital = repay + capital.
    * pagar caro = pay + penalty, pay + dearly.
    * pagar completamente = pay up.
    * pagar con antelación = prepay.
    * pagar contrarreembolso = cash on delivery (COD).
    * pagar demasiado = overbid, pay through + the nose.
    * pagar derechos reales = pay + royalty.
    * pagar deudas = meet + debts.
    * pagar dinero = fork over + money.
    * pagar dos veces = double-pay.
    * pagar el pato = carry + the can, take it on + the chin.
    * pagar el precio = meet + price.
    * pagar en efectivo = pay in + cash.
    * pagar en especie = pay in + kind.
    * pagar en metálico = pay in + cash.
    * pagar honorarios = pay + fee.
    * pagar impuestos = pay + taxes.
    * pagar justos por pecadores = the innocent + suffer + for the guilty, throw + the baby out with the bath water.
    * pagar la factura = pay + the tab.
    * pagar la hora a la mitad más de lo normal = get + time-and-a-half.
    * pagarlas con = take it out on.
    * pagar las consecuencias = pay + penalty, pay + toll, pay + the price, pay + the tab, pay + the penalty, take it on + the chin.
    * pagar las consecuencias de = take + Posesivo + toll (on).
    * pagar las deudas = pay + Posesivo + dues.
    * pagar los gastos = bear + the cost(s).
    * pagar los platos rotos = carry + the can, pick up + the pieces.
    * pagar más de lo que se debería = overpay.
    * pagar menos de lo que se debería = underpay.
    * pagar poquísimo = pay + peanuts.
    * pagar por adelantado = pay + up-front.
    * pagar por completo = pay off.
    * pagar por horas extra = pay + overtime.
    * pagar precio = pay + cost.
    * pagarse sus propios gastos = pay + Posesivo + own way.
    * pagar una deuda = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up.
    * pagar una factura = settle + invoice, pay + a bill.
    * pagar una factura atrasada = pay off + bill.
    * pagar un alto precio = pay + hefty price.
    * pagar una multa = pay + fine.
    * pagar una suma de dinero = pay + sum.
    * pagar un dineral = pay through + the nose, fork out + lots of money.
    * pagar un ojo de la cara = pay through + the nose.
    * pagar un precio = pay + fee, pay + penalty.
    * pagar un precio alto por Algo = pay + a premium price for.
    * pagar un precio elevado = pay + hefty price.
    * pagar un precio exorbitante = pay through + the nose.
    * páguese por el uso hecho = pay-as-you-go.
    * persona que paga impuestos = taxpayer [tax-payer].
    * quien paga manda = he who pays the piper calls the tune.

    * * *
    pagar [A3 ]
    vt
    1 (abonar) ‹cuenta/alquiler› to pay; ‹deuda› to pay, pay off, repay; ‹comida/entradas/mercancías› to pay for
    dijo que ya estaba todo pagado he said everything had already been paid for
    ¿cuánto pagas de alquiler? how much rent do you pay?, how much do you pay in rent?
    los niños pagan sólo medio billete children only pay half fare
    no me ha pagado la última traducción que le hice she hasn't paid me for the last translation I did for her
    nos pagaban $100 la hora they paid us $100 an hour
    sus abuelos le pagan los estudios his grandparents are paying for his education, his grandparents are putting him through college
    no puedo pagar tanto I can't afford (to pay) that much
    pagar algo POR algo to pay sth FOR sth
    ¿y pagaste $500 por esa porquería? you mean you paid $500 for that piece of junk?
    ni que me/le paguen not even if you paid me/him
    no salgo con él ni que me paguen I wouldn't go out with him if you paid me
    2 ‹favor/desvelos› to repay
    nunca podré pagarte lo que has hecho por mí I'll never be able to repay you for what you've done for me
    ¡que Dios se lo pague! God bless you!
    3 (expiar) ‹delito/atrevimiento› to pay for
    pagarás cara tu osadía you'll pay dearly for your audacity
    pagar algo CON algo to pay FOR sth WITH sth
    lo pagó con su vida he paid for it with his life
    pagó su delito con seis años de cárcel her crime cost her six years in prison
    el que la hace la paga you've made your bed and now you'll have to lie in it ¡me las vas a pagar! or ¡ya me las pagarás! you'll pay for this!, I'll get you for this!
    pato1 (↑ pato (1))
    ■ pagar
    vi
    1 ( Com, Fin) to pay
    pagar al contado/a plazos to pay cash/in installments
    pagué por adelantado I paid in advance
    me pagó en efectivo or en metálico she paid me cash
    nos pagaban en especie they used to pay us in kind
    ¿le has pagado a la limpiadora? have you paid the cleaning lady?
    pagan bien they pay well, the pay's good
    2 (corresponder) to repay
    pagarle a algn con la misma moneda to pay sb back in their own coin o in kind
    3 ( Col fam) (rendir, compensar) to pay
    el negocio no paga the business doesn't pay
    no paga pintar estas paredes it's not worth painting these walls
    * * *

     

    pagar ( conjugate pagar) verbo transitivo
    a) ( abonar) ‹cuenta/alquiler› to pay;

    ‹ deuda› to pay (off), repay;
    ‹comida/entradas/mercancías› to pay for;
    ◊ ¿cuánto pagas de alquiler? how much rent do you pay?;

    le pagan los estudios they are paying for his education;
    no puedo pagar tanto I can't afford (to pay) that much;
    pagar algo POR algo to pay sth for sth
    b) ‹favor/desvelos› to repay

    c) ( expiar) ‹delito/atrevimiento› to pay for;

    pagar algo CON algo to pay for sth with sth;
    ◊ ¡me las vas a pagar! you'll pay for this!

    verbo intransitivo (Com, Fin) to pay;

    pagar verbo transitivo
    1 (abonar) to pay: puedes pagarlo a plazos o al contado, you can pay for it in instalments or in cash
    2 (recompensar) to repay: no sé cómo pagarte este favor, I don't know how I can repay you for this favour
    3 (expiar) to pay for: tendrás que pagar tu crimen, you must pay for your crime
    figurado ¡me las pagarás!, you'll pay for this!
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (abonar) ¿puedo pagar con tarjeta?, can I pay by card?
    2 pagarás por tu intransigencia, you'll pay for your intransigence

    ' pagar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abonar
    - adelantada
    - adelantado
    - cantidad
    - cobrarse
    - colarse
    - competidor
    - competidora
    - contada
    - contado
    - ser
    - escote
    - letra
    - matrícula
    - metálica
    - metálico
    - moneda
    - pato
    - perjuicio
    - plato
    - retribuir
    - sufragar
    - teja
    - tributo
    - urgente
    - adelantar
    - amortizar
    - antelación
    - anular
    - barbaridad
    - billete
    - capaz
    - cheque
    - corriente
    - creces
    - cumplir
    - destinar
    - deuda
    - disparar
    - efectivo
    - franquear
    - gilipollez
    - media
    - medio
    - paga
    - plazo
    - poder
    - pretender
    - sin
    - vidrio
    English:
    afford
    - bail out
    - by
    - can
    - check out
    - cheque
    - default setting
    - double
    - Dutch
    - evict
    - fare
    - foot
    - fork out
    - free
    - fund
    - give
    - installment
    - instalment
    - kind
    - nail
    - out
    - overpay
    - pay
    - pay back
    - pay off
    - pay out
    - pay up
    - pick up
    - prepay
    - promptly
    - rap
    - repay
    - repayment
    - satisfy
    - settle
    - shout
    - suffer
    - sufficient
    - tab
    - tax
    - upkeep
    - advance
    - back
    - begrudge
    - check
    - default
    - disconnect
    - dodger
    - due
    - go
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [con dinero] [precio, alquiler, factura] to pay;
    [deuda, hipoteca] to pay off; [gastos, ronda] to pay for; [dividendo, indemnización] to pay out;
    pagó dos millones por la casa she paid two million for the house;
    su padre le paga los estudios his father is supporting him through college/university;
    yo pago la cena I'll pay for dinner;
    aún no hemos pagado el reportaje de la boda we still haven't paid for the wedding photos;
    los jubilados no pagan las medicinas pensioners don't pay for prescriptions;
    no iría aunque me lo pagaras I wouldn't go (even) if you paid me;
    ¿cómo lo va a pagar? how would you like to pay?;
    RP
    pagar derecho de piso to earn one's place in the job o office
    2. [devolver] [ayuda, favor] to repay;
    ¡que Dios se lo pague! God bless you!
    3. [expiar] [delito, consecuencias] to pay for;
    pagarás caro lo que me has hecho I'll make you pay for what you did to me;
    Fam
    me las pagarás (todas juntas) you'll pay for this;
    el que la hace la paga he/she/ etc will pay for it in the end;
    Fam
    pagar el pato/los platos rotos to carry the can;
    Fam
    pagarla con alguien [injustamente] to take it out on sb
    ♦ vi
    1. [con dinero] to pay;
    les pagaron puntualmente they paid them promptly;
    pagar por adelantado to pay in advance;
    pagar al contado to pay (in) cash;
    pagar a plazos to pay in instalments;
    pagar con tarjeta (de crédito) to pay by credit card;
    pagar en especie to pay in kind;
    pagar en pesos/libras to pay in pesos/pounds;
    pagar en efectivo o [m5] en metálico to pay (in) cash;
    esta cantidad queda a pagar this amount is still outstanding o to be paid;
    pagar a alguien con la misma moneda to give sb a taste of their own medicine
    2. Am Fam [compensar] to be worth it;
    ese viaje tan largo no paga such a long journey is not worth it;
    no paga mandar el auto al taller otra vez it's not worth (it) taking the car to the garage again;
    no paga hacer trampa it doesn't pay to cheat
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 pay;
    ¡me las pagarás! you’ll pay for this!
    2 compra, gastos, crimen pay for
    3 favor repay
    II v/i pay;
    pagar a escote fam go Dutch fam ;
    pagar a cuenta pay on account;
    pagar al contado pay in cash
    * * *
    pagar {52} vt
    : to pay, to pay for, to repay
    pagar vi
    : to pay
    * * *
    pagar vb
    1. (factura, recibo, impuestos) to pay [pt. & pp. paid]
    2. (comida, compra, billete) to pay for [pt. & pp. paid]
    3. (favor) to repay [pt. & pp. repaid]
    ¿cómo te lo puedo pagar? how can I repay you?
    ¡me las pagarás! you'll pay for this!

    Spanish-English dictionary > pagar

  • 9 endetté

    endetté, e [ɑ̃dete]
    * * *
    endettée ɑ̃dete adjectif in debt (jamais épith)
    * * *
    ɑ̃dete adj endetté, -e
    in debt, fig
    * * *
    A pp ⇒ endetter.
    B pp adj [association, hôpital, personne] in debt ( jamais épith); [pays, entreprise] in debt ( jamais épith), debtor ( épith); être très endetté to be heavily in debt; être endetté de 10 millions d’euros to be 10 million euros in debt; être endetté auprès d'une banque to owe money to a bank.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > endetté

  • 10 pagar una deuda

    (v.) = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up
    Ex. The company, which was close to bankruptcy in 1988, repaid its debts in 1989.
    Ex. Thomas Jefferson willed his book collection to the University of Virginia of which he was the first rector (these books, in fact, were auctioned by his executors to satisfy his debts).
    Ex. It's tempting to splurge on a new hi-fi system or head out on a shopping spree, but the smart option might be to pay off an existing debt.
    Ex. Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.
    * * *
    (v.) = repay + debt, satisfy + debt, pay off + debt, pay up

    Ex: The company, which was close to bankruptcy in 1988, repaid its debts in 1989.

    Ex: Thomas Jefferson willed his book collection to the University of Virginia of which he was the first rector (these books, in fact, were auctioned by his executors to satisfy his debts).
    Ex: It's tempting to splurge on a new hi-fi system or head out on a shopping spree, but the smart option might be to pay off an existing debt.
    Ex: Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.

    Spanish-English dictionary > pagar una deuda

  • 11 Dank

    Präp. (+ Gen oder Dat) thanks to (auch iro.); dank einem Zufall oder eines Zufalls by chance ( oder coincidence)
    * * *
    der Dank
    gratitude; thanks
    * * *
    Dạnk [daŋk]
    m -(e)s, no pl
    (ausgedrückt) thanks pl; (= Gefühl der Dankbarkeit) gratitude

    besten or herzlichen or schönen or vielen Dank — many thanks, thank you very much, thanks a lot (inf)

    vielen herzlichen/tausend Dank! — many/very many thanks!, thanks a million! (inf)

    haben Sie/hab Dank! (geh) — thank you!; (für Hilfe auch) I'm much obliged to you

    jdm für etw Dank sagen (liter) — to express one's or give (esp Eccl) thanks to sb for sth

    Dank sagen (Aus) — to express one's thanks; (Eccl) to give thanks

    jdm Dank schulden (form) — to owe sb a debt of gratitude

    jdm für etw Dank wissen (form) — to be indebted to sb for sth

    mit bestem Dank zurück! — many thanks for lending it/them to me; (iro

    das ist der ( ganze) Dank dafür — that's all the thanks one gets

    als Dank für seine Dienste — in grateful recognition of his service

    zum Dank (dafür) — as a way of saying thank you

    das ist der Dank des Vaterlandes! (iro) — that's all the thanks one gets!

    * * *
    (expression(s) of gratitude: I really didn't expect any thanks for helping them.) thanks
    * * *
    <-[e]s>
    [ˈdaŋk]
    1. (Anerkennung für Geleistetes)
    ▪ jds \Dank sign of sb's gratitude
    2. (Dankbarkeit) gratitude, thankfulness
    der \Dank des Vaterlandes ist dir gewiss (hum) you'll get a medal for that hum
    mit bestem \Dank zurück! returned with thanks!
    besten/herzlichen/schönen/tausend/vielen \Dank thank you very much, many thanks form, thanks a lot fam
    das war ein schlechter \Dank that is/was poor thanks
    hab/haben Sie \Dank! (geh) thank you!; (für Hilfe a.) I'm much obliged to you form
    etw mit \Dank annehmen to accept sth with thanks
    jdm für etw akk \Dank sagen (geh) to express one's thanks to [or thank] sb for sth; REL to give thanks to sb for sth
    jdm \Dank schulden, jdm zu \Dank verpflichtet sein (geh) to owe sb a debt of gratitude
    jdm \Dank für etw akk wissen (geh) to be indebted to sb for sth
    jdm \Dank dafür wissen, dass... to be indebted to sb that...
    als \Dank für etw akk in grateful recognition of sth
    zum \Dank [dafür] (iron) as a way of saying thank you
    [das ist] der [ganze] \Dank dafür! that is/was all the thanks one gets/got!
    * * *
    der; Dank[e]s
    1) thanks pl.

    jemandem [großen] Dank schulden od. schuldig sein — (geh.)

    jemandem zu [großem] Dank verpflichtet sein — owe somebody a [great] debt of gratitude

    und das ist nun der Dank dafür — (iron.) so that's all the thanks I get!

    mit vielem od. bestem Dank zurück — thanks for the loan; (bes. geschrieben) returned with thanks!

    vielen/besten/herzlichen Dank! — thank you very much; many thanks

    vielen Dank, dass du mir geholfen hast — thank you very much for helping me

    tausend Dank! — (ugs.) very many thanks [indeed]

    * * *
    Dank m; -(e)s, kein pl;
    (
    für for) thanks pl; (Dankbarkeit) gratitude; (Lohn) reward;
    viel Dank ernten für etwas earn a lot of gratitude ( oder receive a lot of thanks) for sth;
    wenig/keinen Dank ernten für etwas get meagre (US -er)/no thanks for sth;
    (
    vielen Dank! many thanks, thank you very much, thanks a million umg;
    mit Dank with thanks;
    mit Dank zurück returned with thanks, thanks for the loan umg;
    vielen Dank für die Blumen! iron thanks a lot ( oder for nothing)!;
    abstatten geh thank sb; KIRCHE give thanks;
    jemandem zu Dank verpflichtet sein be deeply indebted to sb, owe sb a debt of gratitude;
    keinen Dank erwarten not expect any thanks;
    ist das der Dank für meine Mühe? is that all (the thanks) I get for the trouble I went to?;
    das ist nun der Dank dafür! iron that’s gratitude for you;
    zum Dank für seine Dienste in (grateful) recognition of his services;
    als Dank dafür, dass Sie ihm geholfen haben in appreciation of your help, as a way of saying thanks to you for helping him umg;
    dem Herrn! thanks be to God (in Heaven)
    * * *
    der; Dank[e]s
    1) thanks pl.

    jemandem [großen] Dank schulden od. schuldig sein — (geh.)

    jemandem zu [großem] Dank verpflichtet sein — owe somebody a [great] debt of gratitude

    und das ist nun der Dank dafür — (iron.) so that's all the thanks I get!

    mit vielem od. bestem Dank zurück — thanks for the loan; (bes. geschrieben) returned with thanks!

    vielen/besten/herzlichen Dank! — thank you very much; many thanks

    vielen Dank, dass du mir geholfen hast — thank you very much for helping me

    tausend Dank! — (ugs.) very many thanks [indeed]

    * * *
    nur sing. m.
    thank n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Dank

  • 12 débiteur

    débiteur, -trice [debitœʀ, tʀis]
    1. adjective
    [compte, solde] debit
    2. masculine noun, feminine noun
    * * *

    1.
    - trice debitœʀ, tʀis adjectif [compte, solde] debit (épith); [entreprise, pays] which is in debt

    2.
    nom masculin, féminin debtor
    * * *
    debitœʀ, tʀis (-trice)
    1. nm/f
    2. adj
    * * *
    A adj [compte, solde] debit ( épith); [pays] debtor ( épith), which is in debt; [entreprise] which is in debt; il leur est débiteur d'un million he owes them a million.
    B nm,f Compta, Fin debtor.
    ( féminin débitrice) [debitɶr, tris] adjectif
    [colonne, compte, solde] debit (modificateur)
    [personne, société] debtor (modificateur)
    ————————
    , débitrice [debitɶr, tris] nom masculin, nom féminin
    2. (soutenu) [obligé]

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > débiteur

  • 13 cuantía

    f.
    1 quantity, total sum, magnitude.
    2 importance.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: cuantiar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: cuantiar.
    * * *
    1 (cantidad) quantity; (importe) amount
    2 (dimensión) extent
    \
    de menor cuantía insignificant, lesser
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=cantidad)
    a) (=importe) quantity, amount

    ¿cómo se calcula la cuantía de la pensión? — how is the amount o level of pension calculated?

    b) (=alcance) extent
    2) (=importancia) importance

    de mayor cuantía — more important, more significant

    de menor cuantía, de poca cuantía — unimportant, of little account

    * * *
    a) ( importe)

    una cuantía mínima de 20.000 euros — a minimum (amount) of 20,000 euros

    b) ( importancia) significance, importance

    de menor cuantía — unimportant, insignificant

    c) (Der) claim, sum claimed
    * * *
    = magnitude, total, count.
    Ex. Only those who have attempted to edit the proceedings of a conference can appreciate the magnitude and scope of such an enterprise.
    Ex. Someone must read a total on the card, so that the machine can add its computed item to it.
    Ex. Not much data beyond loan counts was available and re-keying and remanipulations were frequently needed to make the information useful.
    * * *
    a) ( importe)

    una cuantía mínima de 20.000 euros — a minimum (amount) of 20,000 euros

    b) ( importancia) significance, importance

    de menor cuantía — unimportant, insignificant

    c) (Der) claim, sum claimed
    * * *
    = magnitude, total, count.

    Ex: Only those who have attempted to edit the proceedings of a conference can appreciate the magnitude and scope of such an enterprise.

    Ex: Someone must read a total on the card, so that the machine can add its computed item to it.
    Ex: Not much data beyond loan counts was available and re-keying and remanipulations were frequently needed to make the information useful.

    * * *
    1
    (importe): la rebaja de las cuantías de las pensiones the reduction in the level of pensions
    se desconoce la cuantía de los daños materiales the extent of the damage is not known
    una cuantía mínima de 50.000 euros mensuales a minimum (amount) of 50,000 euros a month
    la cuantía de la deuda asciende a miles de dólares the total of the debt amounts to thousands of dollars
    un aumento de la cuantía de las becas an increase in the size of grants
    2 (importancia) significance, importance
    un asunto de mayor cuantía a matter of major significance o importance, a highly significant o an extremely important matter
    un funcionario de escasa cuantía an insignificant civil servant
    de menor cuantía unimportant, insignificant
    3 ( Der) claim, sum o amount claimed
    * * *

    cuantía sustantivo femenino amount: se desconoce la cuantía de lo sustraído, the amount stolen is not known
    ' cuantía' also found in these entries:
    English:
    high
    * * *
    1. [suma] amount, quantity;
    todavía no se conoce la cuantía de los daños causados por el terremoto the final cost of the damage caused by the earthquake is not yet known;
    van a conceder una ayuda de una cuantía sin precisar todavía they are going to grant an as yet unspecified amount of aid;
    recibió la cuantía íntegra del premio he received the full amount of the prize money;
    va a subir la cuantía del subsidio de desempleo unemployment benefit is set to rise
    2. [alcance] extent;
    ése es un problema de menor cuantía that is a relatively insignificant o minor problem
    3. Der claim, amount claimed
    * * *
    f amount, quantity; fig
    importance
    * * *
    1) : quantity, extent
    2) : significance, import

    Spanish-English dictionary > cuantía

  • 14 reducción

    f.
    1 reduction, decrease, decline, fall.
    2 curtailment, deescalation, cut, cutback.
    * * *
    1 reduction
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=disminución)
    a) [de cantidad, precios, consumo, tamaño] reduction

    una reducción del gasto público — a cut o reduction in public spending

    b) [de tiempo] reduction
    2) (Mat) (=conversión) [de unidades, medidas] conversion; [de ecuaciones] reduction
    3) [de rebeldes] defeat
    4) (Med) setting, reduction frm
    5) Chile [de indígenas] reservation ( of natives)
    6) LAm ( Hist) settlement of Christianized Indians
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( disminución) reduction

    la reducción del precio del pan — the reduction in o lowering of the price of bread

    reducción de impuestos — tax cuts, reduction in taxes

    b) (Fot) reduction
    2) (Mat, Quím, Med) reduction
    3) (Chi) ( de indígenas) reservation
    * * *
    = compression, curtailment, cutting, reduction, shrinkage, contraction, dilution, diminution, abatement, slashing, ebbing, depletion, narrowing, cut, effacement, drawdown, mark-down.
    Ex. The compression keys are built for all main and added entry combinations appropriate to a record.
    Ex. This paper emphasises the need for booksellers to keep informed of new developments and of the danger of curtailment of present activities, but also to be prepared to experiment.
    Ex. This article concludes that cutting the number of words could lead to undesirable impoverishing of data bases rendering them useless as an independent source of information.
    Ex. A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex. DBMS systems aim to allow data to be re-organised to accommodate growth, shrinkage and so on.
    Ex. The euphoric years of affluence and expansion in the decades immediately following the midpoint of the century have given way to traumatic years of austerity and contraction.
    Ex. The good novelist is therefore an author with a wide appeal but this wide appeal is not attained, or even sought, through a dilution of quality; it is simply that this type of writer has a different sort of skill.
    Ex. Most adults feel the awakening of interest in biography and a diminution at the same time of the fondness for fiction.
    Ex. The asbestos literature is discussed under its industrial, medical, legal, control and abatement aspects.
    Ex. But more to the point, the claim that 2 1/2 million jobs depend on slashing red tape is a misrepresentation of a CBI survey carried out in advance of the UK general election of 1983.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'The ebbing of municipal documents and the flow of public information in New York'.
    Ex. Results indicated that there will be a serious depletion of resources in library schools before the year 2001.
    Ex. The narrowing of the curriculum has implications for the future.
    Ex. Cuts in the 1988 budget have resulted in cuts in opening hours, staff hours, and book budget.
    Ex. Meanwhile a coalition of cells has been effected at intervals through the effacement of their walls.
    Ex. Commanders in Iraq have decided to begin the drawdown of U.S. forces in volatile Diyala province, marking a turning point in the U.S. military mission.
    Ex. Customers will be charged either a mark-up or a mark-down, depending on whether they are buying or selling.
    ----
    * escala de reducción = reduction ratio.
    * mamoplastía de reducción = reduction mammoplasty.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * reducción al mínimo = minimisation [minimization, -USA].
    * reducción de costes = cost saving [cost-saving].
    * reducción de gastos = cost cutting, cost saving [cost-saving], cost reduction.
    * reducción de impuestos = tax cut.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * reducción de la deuda externa = debt relief.
    * reducción de las diferencias entre... y = narrowing gap between... and, narrowing of the gap between... and.
    * reducción de los precios = price cut.
    * reducción de los tipos de interés = rate cut, interest-rate cut.
    * reducción de pecho = breast reduction.
    * reducción de personal = staff cutbacks, downsizing.
    * reducción de plantilla = downsizing.
    * reducción de precios = pricecutting.
    * reducción de tipo impositivo = tax abatement.
    * reducción de una palabra a su raíz = stemming.
    * reducciones presupuestarias = budgetary restrictions.
    * reducción fiscal = tax cut.
    * reducción para piano = piano score.
    * reducción presupuestaria = budget reduction, budgetary constraint.
    * reducción tributaria = tax reduction.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( disminución) reduction

    la reducción del precio del pan — the reduction in o lowering of the price of bread

    reducción de impuestos — tax cuts, reduction in taxes

    b) (Fot) reduction
    2) (Mat, Quím, Med) reduction
    3) (Chi) ( de indígenas) reservation
    * * *
    = compression, curtailment, cutting, reduction, shrinkage, contraction, dilution, diminution, abatement, slashing, ebbing, depletion, narrowing, cut, effacement, drawdown, mark-down.

    Ex: The compression keys are built for all main and added entry combinations appropriate to a record.

    Ex: This paper emphasises the need for booksellers to keep informed of new developments and of the danger of curtailment of present activities, but also to be prepared to experiment.
    Ex: This article concludes that cutting the number of words could lead to undesirable impoverishing of data bases rendering them useless as an independent source of information.
    Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex: DBMS systems aim to allow data to be re-organised to accommodate growth, shrinkage and so on.
    Ex: The euphoric years of affluence and expansion in the decades immediately following the midpoint of the century have given way to traumatic years of austerity and contraction.
    Ex: The good novelist is therefore an author with a wide appeal but this wide appeal is not attained, or even sought, through a dilution of quality; it is simply that this type of writer has a different sort of skill.
    Ex: Most adults feel the awakening of interest in biography and a diminution at the same time of the fondness for fiction.
    Ex: The asbestos literature is discussed under its industrial, medical, legal, control and abatement aspects.
    Ex: But more to the point, the claim that 2 1/2 million jobs depend on slashing red tape is a misrepresentation of a CBI survey carried out in advance of the UK general election of 1983.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'The ebbing of municipal documents and the flow of public information in New York'.
    Ex: Results indicated that there will be a serious depletion of resources in library schools before the year 2001.
    Ex: The narrowing of the curriculum has implications for the future.
    Ex: Cuts in the 1988 budget have resulted in cuts in opening hours, staff hours, and book budget.
    Ex: Meanwhile a coalition of cells has been effected at intervals through the effacement of their walls.
    Ex: Commanders in Iraq have decided to begin the drawdown of U.S. forces in volatile Diyala province, marking a turning point in the U.S. military mission.
    Ex: Customers will be charged either a mark-up or a mark-down, depending on whether they are buying or selling.
    * escala de reducción = reduction ratio.
    * mamoplastía de reducción = reduction mammoplasty.
    * mecanismo de reducción de situaciones difíciles = threat-reduction mechanism.
    * reducción al mínimo = minimisation [minimization, -USA].
    * reducción de costes = cost saving [cost-saving].
    * reducción de gastos = cost cutting, cost saving [cost-saving], cost reduction.
    * reducción de impuestos = tax cut.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * reducción de la deuda externa = debt relief.
    * reducción de las diferencias entre... y = narrowing gap between... and, narrowing of the gap between... and.
    * reducción de los precios = price cut.
    * reducción de los tipos de interés = rate cut, interest-rate cut.
    * reducción de pecho = breast reduction.
    * reducción de personal = staff cutbacks, downsizing.
    * reducción de plantilla = downsizing.
    * reducción de precios = pricecutting.
    * reducción de tipo impositivo = tax abatement.
    * reducción de una palabra a su raíz = stemming.
    * reducciones presupuestarias = budgetary restrictions.
    * reducción fiscal = tax cut.
    * reducción para piano = piano score.
    * reducción presupuestaria = budget reduction, budgetary constraint.
    * reducción tributaria = tax reduction.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (disminución): reducción de gastos reduction in costs
    la reducción del precio del pan the reduction in o lowering of the price of bread
    no habrá reducción de los impuestos there will be no tax cuts o no reduction in taxes
    una reducción del personal a reduction o cutback in the workforce
    se ha producido una reducción en el consumo de tabaco there has been a reduction o drop in tobacco consumption
    una reducción de tres horas semanales a reduction of three hours a week
    se solicitó la reducción de la pena they asked for the sentence to be commuted o reduced
    2 ( Fot) reduction
    B
    1 ( Mat) reduction
    2 ( Quím) reduction
    C (de una ciudad) conquest; (de los rebeldes, enemigos) defeat
    D
    2 ( Chi) (de indígenas) reservation
    E (de una fractura) setting, reduction ( tech)
    * * *

     

    reducción sustantivo femenino
    reduction;
    ◊ reducción de impuestos tax cuts, reduction in taxes;

    una reducción de personal a reduction o cutback in the workforce
    reducción sustantivo femenino reduction
    reducción de plantilla, streamlining

    ' reducción' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    contrapartida
    - polvareda
    - rebaja
    - despedir
    English:
    cut
    - cutback
    - decrease
    - reduction
    - redundant
    - remission
    - retrenchment
    - board
    * * *
    1. [disminución] reduction;
    piden la reducción de la jornada laboral they are asking for working hours to be shortened;
    reducción al absurdo reductio ad absurdum;
    reducción de gastos cost cutting;
    han anunciado una reducción de gastos they have announced that they are going to cut costs;
    reducción de jornada: [m5] estar en reducción de jornada to work part-time;
    reducción de precios [acción] price-cutting;
    [resultado] price cut;
    2. [sometimiento] [de rebelión] suppression;
    [de ejército] defeat
    3. Med [de fractura] reduction
    4. Quím reduction
    5. Hist = settlement of Indians converted to Christianity
    6. RP [de cadáver] exhumation [for reburial of bones in smaller container]
    * * *
    f
    1 reduction;
    reducción de empleo job cuts pl ;
    reducción de la jornada laboral shortening of the working day;
    plantilla cutbacks pl, job cuts pl
    2 MED setting
    * * *
    reducción nf, pl - ciones : reduction, decrease
    * * *
    reducción n reduction

    Spanish-English dictionary > reducción

  • 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.

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  • 16 endettement

    endettement [ɑ̃dεtmɑ̃]
    masculine noun
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    ɑ̃dɛtmɑ̃
    nom masculin debt

    endettement public/extérieur — national/foreign debt

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    ɑ̃dɛtmɑ̃ nm
    debts pl
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    endettement nm debt; endettement public/extérieur/du tiers-monde national/foreign/Third World debt; entraîner l'endettement de qn to put sb in debt; 10 millions d’euros d'endettement debts of 10 million euros; le niveau d'endettement d'une société the level of a company's debts.
    [ɑ̃dɛtmɑ̃] nom masculin

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  • 17 corresponder

    v.
    1 to correspond.
    Estos dos objetos corresponden These two objects correspond.
    2 to be right or fitting (ser adecuado).
    voy a darle las gracias como corresponde I'm going to thank him, as is only right
    3 to repay (sentimiento).
    ella no le correspondía she didn't feel the same way about him
    amor no correspondido unrequited love
    4 to be supposed to, to have to, to correspond to oneself to, to have the obligation to.
    Me corresponde hacer mi tarea I am supposed to do my homework.
    Nos corresponde It corresponds to ourselves.
    5 to reciprocate, to give back.
    Con esto, correspondo su favor With this, I reciprocate his=her favor.
    6 to concern, to correspond to.
    Me corresponde este asunto This issue concerns me.
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    1 (ser adecuado) to become, befit; (color, aspecto) to match, go with
    2 (encajar) to correspond (a, to), tally (a, with); (descripción) to fit
    3 (pertenecer) to belong, pertain
    1 (ser el turno) to be one's turn
    3 (incumbir) to be the job of, be the responsibility of
    4 (devolver) to return; (amabilidad) to repay
    1 (ajustarse) to correspond; (cifras) to tally
    2 (armonizar) to be in harmony, go with
    3 (cartearse) to correspond
    4 (amarse) to love each other
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    verb
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    1. VI
    1) (=tocar)
    a) [en reparto]
    b) [como derecho]

    este hecho no ocupa el lugar que le corresponde en la historia de España — this event does not occupy the place it should in Spanish history, this event is not accorded the importance it deserves in Spanish history

    c) [en sorteo, competición] [honor, victoria] to go to

    la victoria final correspondió a Escartín — the final victory was Escartín's, the final victory went to Escartín

    al primer premio le correspondieron 30.000 euros — the winner of the first prize received 30,000 euros

    2) (=incumbir)

    corresponder a algn — [responsabilidad] to fall to sb

    esta decisión le corresponde al director — this decision is for the director (to take), this decision falls to the director

    a mí no me corresponde criticarlo — it is not for me to criticize him, it is not my place to criticize him

    "a quien corresponda" — "to whom it may concern"

    3) (=deberse)

    corresponder a algo: de los 50 millones de ganancias, 40 corresponden a ventas en el extranjero — out of profits of 50 million, 40 million comes from overseas sales o overseas sales account for 40 million

    la mayor parte de nuestra deuda corresponde a préstamos norteamericanos — most of our debt is a result of American loans, American loans account for most of our debt

    4) frm (=ser adecuado)

    corresponder a: se vistió como correspondía a la ocasión — she dressed suitably for the occasion

    fue recibido como corresponde a una persona de su cargo — he was received in a manner befitting a person of his rank, he was received as befitted a person of his rank

    5) (=concordar)

    corresponder a o con — to match with, match up with

    el presunto delincuente, cuyas iniciales corresponden a las siglas R.C.A. — the alleged perpetrator of the crime, whose initials are R.C.A.

    6) (=retribuir)

    corresponder a — [+ cariño, amor] to return; [+ favor, generosidad] to repay, return

    ella lo amaba, pero él no le correspondía — she loved him but he did not return her love o love her back o love her in return

    pero ella le correspondió con desprecio — but she responded with contempt, but all she gave in return was contempt

    7) (Mat) to correspond
    8) (Ferro)
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ( en un reparto) (+ me/te/le etc)
    b) ( incumbir)

    a quien corresponda — (Corresp) to whom it may concern

    c) (en 3a pers) ( ser adecuado)

    te disculpas, como corresponde — apologize, you know you should o (frml) as is right and proper

    2) (encajar, cuadrar)

    corresponder a algo: su aspecto correspondía a la descripción his appearance fitted o matched the description; la leyenda no corresponde a la fotografía — the caption doesn't belong with o match this photograph

    3) (a favor, atención)

    corresponder a algo: quisiera corresponder a su generosidad I'd like to repay them for their generosity; (+ me/te/le etc) lo quiere, pero él no le corresponde she loves him, but he doesn't feel the same way about her; y tú le correspondes con esta grosería — and you repay him with this kind of rudeness

    2.
    corresponder vt < favor> to return; < atención> to return, repay
    3.

    corresponderse con algo — <con los hechos/con la declaración> to square o tally with something

    * * *
    = fit, behoove [behove, -USA], return + Posesivo + affection, requite.
    Ex. Especially if the new subject is one which upsets the previous structure of relationships, it will be difficult to fit into the existing order.
    Ex. With the vendors ready to listen it behoves the information profession to work out what it wants.
    Ex. The film centers on a non-white secretary who believes that her dusky skin and non-Nordic features prevent her boss from returning her affections.
    Ex. The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.
    ----
    * como corresponde a = as befits.
    * corresponder a = be incumbent on/upon, fall to.
    * corresponder a + Nombre = be up to + Nombre.
    * corresponderse = match, bear + correspondence (to).
    * corresponderse a = befit.
    * corresponderse (a/con) = correspond (to/with).
    * corresponderse con = go with, go + hand in hand (with), go + hand in glove with.
    * el lugar que le corresponde a = the due place of.
    * hacer lo que le corresponde a Uno = do + Posesivo + part.
    * lo que le corresponde = fair share.
    * lugar que le corresponde = Posesivo + rightful place.
    * lugar que nos corresponde = place in the sun.
    * responsabilidad + corresponder a = responsibility + fall to.
    * según corresponda = as appropriate.
    * si corresponde = if applicable.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ( en un reparto) (+ me/te/le etc)
    b) ( incumbir)

    a quien corresponda — (Corresp) to whom it may concern

    c) (en 3a pers) ( ser adecuado)

    te disculpas, como corresponde — apologize, you know you should o (frml) as is right and proper

    2) (encajar, cuadrar)

    corresponder a algo: su aspecto correspondía a la descripción his appearance fitted o matched the description; la leyenda no corresponde a la fotografía — the caption doesn't belong with o match this photograph

    3) (a favor, atención)

    corresponder a algo: quisiera corresponder a su generosidad I'd like to repay them for their generosity; (+ me/te/le etc) lo quiere, pero él no le corresponde she loves him, but he doesn't feel the same way about her; y tú le correspondes con esta grosería — and you repay him with this kind of rudeness

    2.
    corresponder vt < favor> to return; < atención> to return, repay
    3.

    corresponderse con algo — <con los hechos/con la declaración> to square o tally with something

    * * *
    = fit, behoove [behove, -USA], return + Posesivo + affection, requite.

    Ex: Especially if the new subject is one which upsets the previous structure of relationships, it will be difficult to fit into the existing order.

    Ex: With the vendors ready to listen it behoves the information profession to work out what it wants.
    Ex: The film centers on a non-white secretary who believes that her dusky skin and non-Nordic features prevent her boss from returning her affections.
    Ex: The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.
    * como corresponde a = as befits.
    * corresponder a = be incumbent on/upon, fall to.
    * corresponder a + Nombre = be up to + Nombre.
    * corresponderse = match, bear + correspondence (to).
    * corresponderse a = befit.
    * corresponderse (a/con) = correspond (to/with).
    * corresponderse con = go with, go + hand in hand (with), go + hand in glove with.
    * el lugar que le corresponde a = the due place of.
    * hacer lo que le corresponde a Uno = do + Posesivo + part.
    * lo que le corresponde = fair share.
    * lugar que le corresponde = Posesivo + rightful place.
    * lugar que nos corresponde = place in the sun.
    * responsabilidad + corresponder a = responsibility + fall to.
    * según corresponda = as appropriate.
    * si corresponde = if applicable.

    * * *
    vi
    A
    1 (en un reparto) (+ me/te/le etc):
    a él le corresponde la mitad de la herencia half the inheritance goes to him
    ésta es la parte que te corresponde this is your part o share
    2
    (incumbir): te corresponde a ti preparar el informe it's your job to prepare the report
    no me corresponde a mí decírselo it's not my job o it's not for me to tell him
    el lugar que le corresponde his rightful place
    a quien corresponda ( Corresp) to whom it may concern
    fue recibido con los honores que corresponden a su rango he was received with the honors befitting his rank
    (ser adecuado): si no puedes ir, lo que corresponde es que le avises if you can't go you should let him know
    ahora vas y te disculpas, como corresponde now go and apologize, you know you should o ( frml) as is right and proper
    serán juzgados como corresponde they will be tried according to the due process of the law
    ponlos en el cajón o archívalos, según corresponda put them in the drawer or file them, as appropriate
    B
    (cuadrar, encajar): esto aquí no corresponde this doesn't belong o fit o go here
    corresponder A/ CON algo:
    su aspecto correspondía a la descripción que me habían dado his appearance fitted o matched the description I had been given
    su versión no corresponde con la de los demás testigos his version does not square with o tally with o match that of the other witnesses
    la leyenda no corresponde a la fotografía the caption doesn't belong with o match this photograph
    C (a un favor, una atención) corresponder A algo:
    quisiera corresponder a su generosidad I'd like to repay them for their generosity, I'd like to return o repay their generosity
    (+ me/te/le etc): lo quiere, pero él no le corresponde she loves him, but he doesn't return her love o feel the same way about her
    la ama y ella le corresponde con desprecio he loves her but she responds with contempt
    y tú le correspondes con esta grosería and you repay him with this kind of rudeness
    ■ corresponder
    vt
    ‹favor› to return; ‹atención› to return, repay
    la historia de un amor no correspondido a story of unrequited love
    corresponderse CON algo:
    su versión no se corresponde con los hechos reales her version doesn't square o tally with the facts
    eso no se corresponde para nada con su manera de ser that's totally out of keeping with her character
    * * *

     

    corresponder ( conjugate corresponder) verbo intransitivo
    1


    la parte que te corresponde your part o share
    b) ( incumbir):


    el lugar que le corresponde his rightful place
    c) (en 3a pers) ( ser adecuado):

    ◊ debe disculparse, como corresponde he must apologize, as is right and proper (frml);

    según corresponda as appropriate
    2 (encajar, cuadrar):
    ◊ su aspecto corresponde a la descripción his appearance fits o matches the description;

    el texto no corresponde a la foto the text doesn't belong with o match the photograph
    3 corresponder a algo ‹ a un favor› to return sth;
    ‹a amabilidad/generosidad› to repay sth
    verbo transitivo ‹favor/atención› to return;

    corresponder verbo intransitivo
    1 (pertenecer) to belong: sólo pido lo que me corresponde, I only want my share
    2 (ser adecuado) to correspond [a, to] [ con, with]
    3 (incumbir) to concern, be incumbent upon: esa tarea le corresponde, that's his job

    ' corresponder' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    concernir
    - tocar
    - devolver
    - encajar
    - responder
    English:
    belong
    - correspond
    - reciprocate
    - return
    - up to
    - match
    - repay
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [compensar]
    corresponder (con algo) a algo/alguien to repay sth/sb (with sth);
    ella nunca correspondió a mi amor she never returned my love, she never felt the same way about me;
    amor no correspondido unrequited love
    2. [tocar]
    les corresponden 5 millones a cada uno they get o they're due 5 million each;
    a mí me correspondió encargarme de la comida it was my job to take care of o organize the food
    3. [coincidir, encajar] to correspond (a/con to/with);
    esta historia no corresponde con la realidad this story doesn't tally o agree with the facts
    4. [competer]
    corresponderle a alguien hacer algo to be sb's responsibility to do sth;
    no me corresponde a mí enjuiciar su trabajo it's not my place to judge his work
    5. [ser adecuado] to be right o fitting;
    voy a darle las gracias como corresponde I'm going to thank him, as is only right;
    estuvo genial, tal y como corresponde a un cantante de su talla she was brilliant, just as you would expect from a singer of her stature
    ♦ vt
    [sentimiento] to repay;
    ella no le correspondía she didn't feel the same way about him
    * * *
    v/i
    1
    :
    corresponder a alguien de bienes be for s.o., be due to s.o.; de responsabilidad be up to s.o.; de asunto concern s.o.; a un favor repay s.o. ( con with)
    2
    :
    actuar como corresponde do the right thing
    * * *
    1) : to correspond
    2) : to pertain, to belong
    3) : to be appropriate, to fit
    4) : to reciprocate
    * * *
    1. (tocar) to be
    2. (responsibilidad, obligación) to be your job / to be up to
    eso te corresponde a ti that's your job / that's up to you

    Spanish-English dictionary > corresponder

  • 18 interest cover

    Fin
    The amount of earnings available to make interest payments after all operating and nonoperating income and expenses—except interest and income taxes—have been accounted for.
    EXAMPLE
    Interest cover is regarded as a measure of a company’s creditworthiness because it shows how much income there is to cover interest payments on outstanding debt.
         It is expressed as a ratio, comparing the funds available to pay interest—earnings before interest and taxes, or EBIT—with the interest expense. The basic formula is:
    EBIT /interest expense = interest coverage ratio
    If interest expense for a year is $9 million, and the company’s EBIT is $45 million, the interest coverage would be:
    45 million /9 million = 5:1
    The higher the number, the stronger a company is likely to be. A ratio of less than 1 indicates that a company is having problems generating enough cash flow to pay its interest expenses, and that either a modest decline in operating profits or a sudden rise in borrowing costs could eliminate profitability entirely. Ideally, interest coverage should at least exceed 1.5; in some sectors, 2.0 or higher is desirable.
         Variations of this basic formula also exist. For example, there is:
    Operating cash flow + interest + taxes/ interest = Cash-flow interest coverage ratio
    This ratio indicates the firm’s ability to use its cash flow to satisfy its fixed financing obligations. Finally, there is the fixed-charge coverage ratio, which compares EBIT with fixed charges:
    EBIT + lease expenses/interest + lease expense = Fixed-charge coverage ratio “Fixed charges”
         can be interpreted in many ways, however. It could mean, for example, the funds that a company is obliged to set aside to retire debt, or dividends on preferred stock.

    The ultimate business dictionary > interest cover

  • 19 extent

    noun
    1) (space) Ausdehnung, die; (of wings) Spannweite, die
    2) (scope) (of knowledge, power, authority) Umfang, der; (of damage, disaster) Ausmaß, das; (of debt, loss) Höhe, die

    to a great or large extent — in hohem Maße

    to some or a certain extent — in gewissem Maße

    to such an extent that... — in solchem Maße, dass...

    * * *
    [-t]
    1) (the area or length to which something extends: The bird's wings measured 20 centimetres at their fullest extent; The garden is nearly a kilometre in extent; A vast extent of grassland.) die Länge, die Ausdehnung
    2) (amount; degree: What is the extent of the damage?; To what extent can we trust him?) das Ausmaß
    •
    - academic.ru/119089/to_a_certain_extent___to_some_extent">to a certain extent / to some extent
    * * *
    ex·tent
    [ɪkˈstent, ekˈ-]
    n
    1. no pl (size) of an area, a city, a park Größe f, Ausdehnung f; (length) of a river Länge f
    2. no pl (range) Umfang m
    the \extent of knowledge der Wissensumfang
    3. no pl (amount) Ausmaß nt, Umfang m; of a sum Höhe f
    the company is in debt to the \extent of a million pounds die Firma ist mit einer Million Pfund verschuldet
    the \extent of a credit die Höhe eines Kredits
    the \extent of destruction das Ausmaß der Zerstörung
    4. (degree) Grad m kein pl, Maß nt kein pl
    to a certain \extent in gewissem Maße
    to a great [or large] \extent in hohem Maße, weitgehend
    to the same \extent as... in gleichem Maße wie...
    to some \extent bis zu einem gewissen Grad
    to go to the \extent of doing sth so weit gehen, etw zu tun
    to an \extent bis zu einem gewissen Grad, in gewissem Maße
    to such an \extent that... dermaßen [o derart], dass...
    the car was damaged to such an \extent that it could not be repaired der Wagen war so stark beschädigt, dass er nicht repariert werden konnte
    to that \extent in diesem Punkt, insofern
    to what \extent in welchem Maße, inwieweit
    * * *
    [ɪk'stent]
    n
    1) (= length) Länge f; (= size) Ausdehnung f
    2) (= range, scope of knowledge, alterations, power, activities, commitments) Umfang m; (of damage, losses) Ausmaß nt, Umfang m

    debts to the extent of £5,000 — Schulden in Höhe von £ 5.000

    3) (= degree) Grad m, Maß nt

    to a large/lesser extent —

    to such an extent that... — dermaßen or derart, dass...

    he was ruined to the extent that he had to sell everything — er war dermaßen ruiniert, dass er alles verkaufen musste

    such was the extent of the damage — so groß war der Schaden

    * * *
    extent [ıkˈstent] s
    1. Ausdehnung f, Länge f, Weite f, Höhe f, Größe f
    2. MATH und fig Bereich m
    3. fig Umfang m, (Aus)Maß n, Grad m:
    extent of damage Ausmaß des Schadens, Schadenshöhe f;
    the extent of bis zum Betrag oder zur Höhe von;
    a large extent in hohem Grade, weitgehend;
    some ( oder a certain) extent bis zu einem gewissen Grade, einigermaßen;
    the full extent in vollem Umfang, völlig;
    such an extent that … so sehr, dass …
    4. Raum m, Strecke f:
    a vast extent of marsh ein ausgedehntes Sumpfgebiet
    * * *
    noun
    1) (space) Ausdehnung, die; (of wings) Spannweite, die
    2) (scope) (of knowledge, power, authority) Umfang, der; (of damage, disaster) Ausmaß, das; (of debt, loss) Höhe, die

    to a great or large extent — in hohem Maße

    to some or a certain extent — in gewissem Maße

    to such an extent that... — in solchem Maße, dass...

    * * *
    n.
    Ausmaß -e n.
    Größe -n f.
    Umfang -¨e m.

    English-german dictionary > extent

  • 20 dank

    Präp. (+ Gen oder Dat) thanks to (auch iro.); dank einem Zufall oder eines Zufalls by chance ( oder coincidence)
    * * *
    der Dank
    gratitude; thanks
    * * *
    Dạnk [daŋk]
    m -(e)s, no pl
    (ausgedrückt) thanks pl; (= Gefühl der Dankbarkeit) gratitude

    besten or herzlichen or schönen or vielen Dank — many thanks, thank you very much, thanks a lot (inf)

    vielen herzlichen/tausend Dank! — many/very many thanks!, thanks a million! (inf)

    haben Sie/hab Dank! (geh) — thank you!; (für Hilfe auch) I'm much obliged to you

    jdm für etw Dank sagen (liter) — to express one's or give (esp Eccl) thanks to sb for sth

    Dank sagen (Aus) — to express one's thanks; (Eccl) to give thanks

    jdm Dank schulden (form) — to owe sb a debt of gratitude

    jdm für etw Dank wissen (form) — to be indebted to sb for sth

    mit bestem Dank zurück! — many thanks for lending it/them to me; (iro

    das ist der ( ganze) Dank dafür — that's all the thanks one gets

    als Dank für seine Dienste — in grateful recognition of his service

    zum Dank (dafür) — as a way of saying thank you

    das ist der Dank des Vaterlandes! (iro) — that's all the thanks one gets!

    * * *
    (expression(s) of gratitude: I really didn't expect any thanks for helping them.) thanks
    * * *
    <-[e]s>
    [ˈdaŋk]
    1. (Anerkennung für Geleistetes)
    ▪ jds \Dank sign of sb's gratitude
    2. (Dankbarkeit) gratitude, thankfulness
    der \Dank des Vaterlandes ist dir gewiss (hum) you'll get a medal for that hum
    mit bestem \Dank zurück! returned with thanks!
    besten/herzlichen/schönen/tausend/vielen \Dank thank you very much, many thanks form, thanks a lot fam
    das war ein schlechter \Dank that is/was poor thanks
    hab/haben Sie \Dank! (geh) thank you!; (für Hilfe a.) I'm much obliged to you form
    etw mit \Dank annehmen to accept sth with thanks
    jdm für etw akk \Dank sagen (geh) to express one's thanks to [or thank] sb for sth; REL to give thanks to sb for sth
    jdm \Dank schulden, jdm zu \Dank verpflichtet sein (geh) to owe sb a debt of gratitude
    jdm \Dank für etw akk wissen (geh) to be indebted to sb for sth
    jdm \Dank dafür wissen, dass... to be indebted to sb that...
    als \Dank für etw akk in grateful recognition of sth
    zum \Dank [dafür] (iron) as a way of saying thank you
    [das ist] der [ganze] \Dank dafür! that is/was all the thanks one gets/got!
    * * *
    der; Dank[e]s
    1) thanks pl.

    jemandem [großen] Dank schulden od. schuldig sein — (geh.)

    jemandem zu [großem] Dank verpflichtet sein — owe somebody a [great] debt of gratitude

    und das ist nun der Dank dafür — (iron.) so that's all the thanks I get!

    mit vielem od. bestem Dank zurück — thanks for the loan; (bes. geschrieben) returned with thanks!

    vielen/besten/herzlichen Dank! — thank you very much; many thanks

    vielen Dank, dass du mir geholfen hast — thank you very much for helping me

    tausend Dank! — (ugs.) very many thanks [indeed]

    * * *
    dank präp (+gen oder dat) thanks to (auch iron);
    eines Zufalls by chance ( oder coincidence)
    * * *
    der; Dank[e]s
    1) thanks pl.

    jemandem [großen] Dank schulden od. schuldig sein — (geh.)

    jemandem zu [großem] Dank verpflichtet sein — owe somebody a [great] debt of gratitude

    und das ist nun der Dank dafür — (iron.) so that's all the thanks I get!

    mit vielem od. bestem Dank zurück — thanks for the loan; (bes. geschrieben) returned with thanks!

    vielen/besten/herzlichen Dank! — thank you very much; many thanks

    vielen Dank, dass du mir geholfen hast — thank you very much for helping me

    tausend Dank! — (ugs.) very many thanks [indeed]

    * * *
    nur sing. m.
    thank n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > dank

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