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1 office

n

1) контора, канцелярия, офис; ведомство, бюро, учреждение

2) pl службы ( помещения)

3) служба

4) услуга

5) должность

6) властные полномочия, власть

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to abuse one's office — злоупотреблять служебным положением

to accept the renewal of one's term of office — соглашаться на возобновление мандата

to approach the end of one's term of office — приближаться к концу своего пребывания у власти

to assume office — вступать в должность

to be halfway through one's term of office — отработать половину срока пребывания на посту

to be in office — занимать пост; быть у власти

to bug an office — устанавливать подслушивающие устройства в канцелярии / офисе

to call smb to the Foreign Office — вызывать кого-л. в Министерство иностранных дел ( Великобритания)

to come to office — вступать в должность

to complete one's term of office — завершить пребывание на посту

to confirm smb in office for life — утверждать кого-л. на посту пожизненно

to continue in office — продолжать исполнять свои обязанности; оставаться у власти

to direct offices — руководить учреждениями

to dismiss smb from one's office — освобождать кого-л. от занимаемого поста

to drive smb from office — вынуждать / заставлять кого-л. уйти в отставку; смещать кого-л.

to ease smb into office — устраивать кого-л. на должность

to elect smb to / into office — избирать кого-л. на должность / на пост

to end one's term in office — закончить срок своего пребывания у власти

to enter (upon) / to get into / to step into / to take office — вступать в должность; приходить к власти

to extend the term of office — продлевать полномочия / мандат

to force smb from office — вынуждать / заставлять кого-л. уйти в отставку; смещать кого-л.

to hand over one's office to smb — передавать кому-л. свою должность

to hold a presidential office for two consecutive terms — занимать пост президента два срока подряд

to hound smb out of office — посредством травли вынуждать кого-л. уйти в отставку

to install / to put smb in office — ставить кого-л. у власти

to institute smb in(to) an office — назначать кого-л. на должность

to leave office — уходить со службы / с должности / в отставку, покидать свой пост

to limit smb's term of office — ограничивать срок пребывания кого-л. на посту

to lose office — лишаться власти

to misuse one's office — злоупотреблять служебным положением

to occupy office — занимать пост

to open one's own offices in a country — открывать свои бюро в какой-л. стране

to pass one's office to smb — передавать власть кому-л.

to permit no more than two terms in any elected office — разрешать занимать любую выборную должность не более двух сроков

to raid an office — производить рейд в офисе ( компании)

to reach the highest office — добиваться высшего поста

to reinstate smb in his / her former office — восстанавливать кого-л. в прежней должности

to reject smb's bid to stay in office — отвергать чью-л. попытку остаться у власти

to release smb from office — отстранять кого-л. от власти

to relieve smb of one's office — снимать кого-л. с работы

to relinquish office — уходить со службы / с должности / в отставку, покидать свой пост

to remain in office — оставаться у власти

to remove smb from office on a bloodless coup — отстранять кого-л. от власти в результате бескровного переворота

to renew the term of office — возобновлять мандат

to resign in office — выходить в отставку до истечения срока полномочий

to restore smb to office — восстанавливать кого-л. в должности

to return to office — возвращаться к власти

to run for an office — баллотироваться, быть выдвинутым (куда-л.), выставлять свою кандидатуру

to serve out one's full term of office — проработать полный срок пребывания на посту

to settle into office — занимать руководящий пост

to soldier on in office — продолжать выполнять свои нелегкие обязанности в правительстве

to stand for office — баллотироваться на какой-л. пост

to stay (on) in office — продолжать оставаться у власти

to step down from office — уходить в отставку

to step out of office — подавать в отставку

to swear smb in / into office — приводить кого-л. к присяге ( обычно президента при вступлении в должность)

to sweep smb from office — смещать кого-л. значительным числом голосов

to sweep smb into office — избирать кого-л. значительным числом голосов

to try to negotiate the removal from office of smb — пытаться договориться об отстранении кого-л. от власти

to use one's good offices — посредничать

to vote smb out of office — отстранять кого-л. от власти в результате выборов

to win office — побеждать на выборах, приходить к власти

- a new cabinet will take office

- abuse of office

- accountant's office
- administrator's office
- arms procurement office
- assumption of office
- brief period in office
- briefing office
- Colonial Office
- Commonwealth Office
- Congressional Budget Office
- Conservative Party's central office
- curtailment of one's term of office
- departure from office
- editorial office
- elected office
- elective office
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive Office of the Secretary-General
- fall from office
- field office
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- foreign office
- Foreign Office
- good offices
- government offices
- he was continued in office
- head principal office
- highest judicial offices
- holder of an office
- Home Office
- House of Lords Record Office
- impropriety in office
- in office
- inquiry office
- judicial offices
- Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility
- legal advice office
- limit of 10 years on the term in office
- main offices of state
- Major's office
- military procurator's office
- misdemeanor in office
- newspaper office
- office accommodation
- office facilities
- office hours
- office man
- office number
- Office of Counter-terrorism of the State Department
- Office of General Services
- Office of Legal Affairs
- Office of Management and Budget
- Oval Office
- Parliament Office
- political office
- post-and-telegraph office
- prime minister's office
- printing office
- public office
- public procurator's office
- purchasing office
- Record Office
- rector's office
- Regional office
- renewal of term of office
- rotation of office
- Russian Visa and Registration for Foreigners Office
- statistics office
- tenure of office
- term of office
- time in office
- trade office
- trade promotion office
- treasurer's office
- UBO
- Unemployment Benefit Office
- unfit to hold office
- vice-chancellor's office
- War Office
- White House Office

Politics english-russian dictionary > office
2 office

ˈɔfɪs сущ.
1) а) пост, должность, служба assume an office be in office come into office enter upon office get into office hold office leave office resign office seek office an office under Government take office win office honorary office appointive office elective office high office б) долг, обязанность, функция It is my office to open the mail. ≈ В мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту. Syn: obligation, duty, business, function
2) а) контора, канцелярия, офис to be in the office ≈ служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
быть на месте at/in an office ≈ в офисе She works at our office. ≈ Она работает в нашем офисе. - branch office head office home office main office booking office box office ticket office dead-letter office doctor's office lawyer's office left-luggage office lost-and-found office lost property office met office meteorological office patent office post office printing office dentist's office recruiting office inquiry office office block public office б) ведомство, министерство;
управление Foreign Office Foreign and Commonwealth Office Home Office Office of Education в) кабинет, комната( занимаемая каким-л. должностным лицом) ;
авиац. сл. кабина пилота
3) а) услуга, помощь good offices Syn: service, kindness, attention б) мн. службы( коммунальные - сарай, гараж и т.п.) в) отхожее место
4) церковная служба;
обряд Office for the Dead Office of the Mass last offices
5) разг. знак, намек give the office take the office Syn: hint, signal служба, место, должность, пост - * under Government место на государственной службе - judicial * cудебная должность - holder of an * должностное лицо - to be in * занимать пост - to come into * принять дела;
приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей - to take * вступить в должность;
приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей - to leave * уйти со службы - he hasn't run for * for years он уже много лет не выставлял своей кандидатуры (на должность, пост и т. п.) - he was elected twice to the * of president он дважды избирался на пост президента нахождение у власти, на посту - term of * cрок полномочий - to renew the term of * возобновить мандат - to be in * быть у власти( о правительстве) входить в состав правительства, иметь министерский портфель - to take * прийти к власти - to put smb. in * поставить кого-л. у власти - to be corrupted by * поддаться разлагающему влиянию власти контора, офис, канцелярия - lawyer's * адвокатская контора - editorial * редакция - post * почтовое отделение;
почта - publishing * издательство - inquiry * справочное бюро - doctor's * (американизм) кабинет врача - recruiting * призывной пункт - * expenses расходы на оргтехнику - * appliances оргтехника - * hours часы работы учреждения;
приемные часы - his * hours are from 12 to 14 он бывает в конторе с 12 до 14 часов - * number исходящий номер - * furniture конторская мебель, конторское оборудование - * staff конторские служащие - * work канцелярская работа - our London * наше лондонское отделение;
наша контора в Лондоне - to work at an * служить в учреждении - to be in an * быть служащим, клерком и т. п. служебное помещение, кабинет, офис - private * личный кабинет - the chairman's * is to the left кабинет председателя налево фирма, компания, особ. страховая компания( собирательнле) конторские служающие;
служащие учреждений;
клерки;
сотрудники предприятия - the whole * was at her wedding на ее свадьбе присутствовали все сотрудники отдела ведомство, министерство;
управление;
комитет - War O. военное министерство - (the) Foreign O. министерство иностранных дел - Сolonial O. министерство по делам заморских территорий управление, отдел, бюро - International Labour O. международное бюро труда - Record O. Государственный архив - Patent O. патентное бюро - O. of Education упрвление по вопросам образования подсобные помещения;
службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.) конюшни, амбары. коровники и т. п. на ферме обязанность, долг;
функция;
задача;
роль;
предназначение - little domestic *s несложные домашние обязанности - the * of host обязанности хозяина - consular * функции консула, консульские обязанности - he performs the * of treasurer он выполняет фунции казначея услуга;
помощь - good *s добные услуги - ill * плохая услуга религиозный обря;
церковная служба, ежедневное чтение молитв и псалмов;
заупокойная месса - O. of Baptism обряд крещения - O. for the Dead заупокойная служба - O. of the Mass обедня - to say one's * читать вечерюю или утреннюю молитву - to perform the last *s for smb. совершать погребальный обряд над кем-л. (сленг) намек, сведения, знак;
тайный сигнал - to give the * сделать намек;
дать сведения > fat * доходное место > *s of profit оплачиваемый пост (занятие которого членом парламента влечет за собой его отставку) > Holy O. (историческое) Святая палата( официальное название инквизиции) accident ~ бюро по несчастным случаям accountant's ~ бухгалтерия accounting ~ бухгалтерия ~ служба, должность;
an office under Government место на государственной службе;
an honorary office почетная должность under: England ~ the Stuarts Англия в эпоху Стюартов;
an office under Government государственная служба application for ~ просьба о зачислении на должность appointment to ~ назначение на должность appointment to ~ назначение на место appointment to ~ назначение на пост assay ~ пробирная палата assessment ~ налоговое управление audit ~ ревизионное управление automated ~ автоматизированное бюро to take (или to enter upon) ~ вступать в должность;
to be in office быть у власти ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет booking ~ билетная касса branch ~ отделение branch ~ филиал branch post ~ местное почтовое отделение branch post ~ филиал почтового отделения broking firm's ~ представительство брокерской фирмы building ~ строительное управление business ~ торговая контора Cabinet ~ секретариат кабинета министров cargo registration ~ бюро регистрации грузов cash ~ касса cash ~ помещение кассы cashier's ~ касса cashier's ~ помещение кассы central ~ главная контора central ~ главный офис clearance ~ расчетная палата clearance ~ расчетное учреждение clearing ~ расчетная палата clearing ~ расчетное учреждение company registration ~ бюро регистрации компаний complaints ~ бюро рекламаций county revenue ~ налоговая инспекция округа criminal records ~ учреждение, ведущее регистрацию преступлений customs ~ таможня data processing ~ отдел обработки данных delivery post ~ почтовое отделение доставки ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет dismissal from ~ освобождение от должности dispatch ~ экспедиционная контора distraint ~ орган, налагающий арест на имущество в обеспечение выполнения долга district ~ окружная контора district ~ районное отделение district ~ районный офис drawing ~ конструкторский отдел drawing ~ конструкторское бюро eligibility for ~ право на занятие должности eligible for ~ имеющий право на занятие должности employment ~ бюро по найму рабочей силы employment ~ бюро по трудоустройству exchange control ~ центр валютного контроля exchange ~ пункт обмена валюты express parcels ~ отделение срочной доставки посылок foreign exchange ~ пункт обмена иностранной валюты forwarding ~ станция отправления forwarding ~ транспортно-экспедиторская контора forwarding ~ транспортно-экспедиторское учреждение front ~ администрация корпорации front ~ главное управление front ~ дилерская комната front ~ дирекция front ~ правление фирмы front ~ руководство организации front ~ руководящие круги full-time ~ штатная должность general post ~ главный почтамт to get (или to come) into ~ принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей;
to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти ~ разг. намек, знак;
to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга government ~ правительственное учреждение head ~ главная контора head ~ правление head ~ управление head post ~ почт. главный почтамт honorary ~ неоплачиваемая должность honorary ~ почетная должность housing ~ управление по жилищному строительству ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга in ~ в должности in ~ у власти ineligible for ~ лишенный права занятия должности, лишенный права на пребывание в должности information ~ справочно-информационное бюро inquiry ~ справочное бюро inquiry ~ справочный стол recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне issuing ~ отдел исходящих документов ~ обязанность, долг;
функция;
it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту joint sales ~ совместный отдел сбыта judicial ~ судебная должность judicial ~ юридическое бюро (палаты лордов) labour ~ отдел кадров land registry ~ государственная контора, регистрирующая земельные сделки ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд law ~ адвокатская фирма law ~ контора адвокатов law ~ судебное ведомство law ~ юридическая фирма to hold ~ занимать пост;
to leave (или to resign) office уйти с должности licensing ~ отдел лицензий life ~ контора по страхованию жизни local branch ~ контора местного отделения local government ~ муниципальное учреждение local ~ местная контора;
местное бюро local ~ местная контора lost property ~ бюро находок luggage registration ~ отделение регистрации багажа main ~ главная контора main ~ главное управление mining ~ управление горной промышленности ministerial ~ канцелярия министра ministerial ~ министерство misconduct in ~ нарушение служебных обязанностей municipal architect's ~ управление архитектора города municipal ~ муниципальное управление national debt ~ отдел банка по государственному долгу national registration ~ государственное бюро записи актов гражданского состояния non-eligibility for ~ отсутствие права на занятие должности non-eligible for ~ не имеющий права на зянятие должности notary's ~ нотариальная контора office бюро ~ ведомство, министерство, контора, канцелярия ~ ведомство, министерство;
управление;
Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) ~ ведомство ~ должность ~ канцелярия ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет ~ контора ~ министерство ~ разг. намек, знак;
to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек ~ обязанность, долг;
функция;
it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту ~ обязанность ~ офис ~ пост ~ расследование по вопросам, связанным с правом короны на недвижимое или движимое имущество ~ служба, должность;
an office under Government место на государственной службе;
an honorary office почетная должность ~ служба ~ pl службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.) ~ служебное помещение ~ управление ~ услуга ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга ~ учреждение ~ функция ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд ~ block административное здание;
здание, в котором помещаются конторы разных фирм ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд ~ ведомство, министерство;
управление;
Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) ~ of future отдел перспективного планирования ~ of issue эмитент ~ of notary public государственная нотариальная контора ~ of patent agents бюро патентных поверенных ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне paperless ~ вчт. безбумажное учреждение paperless ~ организация с безбумажным делопроизводством parcels ~ грузовая контора parcels ~ ж.-д. посылочное отделение patent ~ патентное бюро patent ~ патентное ведомство patent: ~ office бюро патентов;
patent right амер. патент pay ~ платежная касса pay ~ платежное учреждение pay ~ финансовая часть payment ~ касса period in ~ период нахождения в должности personnel ~ отдел кадров placement ~ бюро трудоустройства post ~ почтовое отделение prefect's ~ префектура Prime Minister's Office канцелярия премьер-министра public employment ~ государственная контора по трудоустройству public ~ государственное учреждение public ~ муниципальное учреждение public: ~ общественный;
государственный;
public man общественный деятель;
public office государственное, муниципальное или общественное учреждение public prosecutor's ~ прокуратура public record ~ государственный архив record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив public relations ~ отдел по связям с общественными организациями purchasing ~ офис компании, где оформляются все ее покупки Record Office государственный архив (Великобритания) record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне regional ~ региональное бюро regional ~ региональное управление register ~ бюро записи актов гражданского состояния register ~ регистратура register: ~ office = registry registered ~ зарегистрированная контора registered ~ официальный адрес правления компании registered ~ юридический адрес компании registrar's ~ регистрационное бюро registry ~ регистратура;
отдел записи актов гражданского состояния removal from ~ смещение с должности representative ~ представительство revenue ~ бюро налогов и сборов salary ~ отдел заработной платы sales ~ отдел сбыта shipping ~ транспортная контора social service ~ бюро социального обслуживания social welfare ~ бюро социального обеспечения sorting ~ сортировочный отдел State Accident Compensation Office Государственное управление (бюро) по выплате компенсаций в связи с несчастным случаем status inquiry ~ орган обследования общественного положения to take (или to enter upon) ~ вступать в должность;
to be in office быть у власти take ~ вступать в должность tax collector's ~ налоговое управление tax ~ налоговое управление ticket ~ билетная касса tourist information ~ туристическое бюро vacant ~ вакансия vacant ~ вакантная должность wage ~ касса wage ~ расчетный отдел to get (или to come) into ~ принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей;
to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > office
3 administration

noun

1) Verwaltung, die

2) (of sacraments) Spenden, das; Geben, das; (of medicine) Verabreichung, die; (of aid, relief) Gewährung, die

administration of justice — Rechtspflege, die

administration of an oath — Eidesabnahme, die

3) (ministry, government) Regierung, die; (Amer.): (President's period of office) Amtszeit, die

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noun

1) (management: He's in charge of administration at the hospital.) die Verwaltung

2) ((the people who carry on) the government of a country etc.) die Regierung

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ad·min·is·tra·tion

[ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃ^ən]

n

1. no pl (management) Verwaltung f; ECON, ADMIN Verwaltungsangelegenheiten pl; LAW of company affairs gerichtlich angeordnete Insolvenzverwaltung; LAW

letters of \administration Nachlassverwaltungszeugnis nt

2. (managers)

▪ the \administration + sing/pl vb die Verwaltung

3. esp AM (term in office) Amtszeit f, Amtsperiode f (des amerikanischen Präsidenten)

4. (government) Regierung f

the Clinton A\administration die Regierung Clinton

5. no pl (dispensing) of a medicine Verabreichung f, Gabe f

\administration of an oath Vereidigung f

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[əd"mInIs'treISən]
n

1) no pl Verwaltung f; (of an election, a project etc) Organisation f

to spend a lot of time on administration — viel Zeit auf Verwaltungsangelegenheiten or -sachen verwenden

2) (= government) Regierung f

the Schmidt administration — die Regierung Schmidt

3) no pl (of remedy) Verabreichung f; (of sacrament) Spenden nt

the administration of an oath — die Vereidigung

the administration of justice — die Rechtsprechung

* * *

administration [ədˌmınıˈstreıʃn] s

1. a) (Betriebs-, Geschäfts-, Vermögens-, Staats- etc) Verwaltung f:

administration costs Verwaltungskosten

b) Verwaltung f ( Betriebsabteilung; Personal auch als pl konstruiert):

administration building Verwaltungsgebäude n

2. JUR (Nachlass)Verwaltung f: → academic.ru/42551/letter">letter¹ A 3

3. Handhabung f, Ausführung f:

administration of justice ( oder the law) Rechtsprechung f;

administration of an oath Eidesabnahme f, Vereidigung f

4. (auch als pl konstruiert) (Verwaltungs)Behörde f

5. Er-, Austeilung f, REL Spendung f (des Sakraments)

6. Verabreichung f (von Medikamenten etc)

7. POL besonders US

a) meist Administration Regierung f:

the Clinton Administration die Clinton-Regierung

b) Amtsperiode f, Regierungszeit f (eines Präsidenten etc):

during the Clinton administration während der Amtszeit Präsident Clintons

adm. abk

1. administration

2. administrative

3. administrator

4. admission

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noun

1) Verwaltung, die

2) (of sacraments) Spenden, das; Geben, das; (of medicine) Verabreichung, die; (of aid, relief) Gewährung, die

administration of justice — Rechtspflege, die

administration of an oath — Eidesabnahme, die

3) (ministry, government) Regierung, die; (Amer.): (President's period of office) Amtszeit, die

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n.

Amtsführung f.

Regie -n (Verwaltung) f.

Verwaltung f.

English-german dictionary > administration
4 mandato

m.

1 order, command (orden, precepto).

mandato judicial (law) warrant

2 mandate.

3 term of office.

4 period of office, premiership, office, period in office.

5 mandatum.

6 terms of reference.

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mandato

► nombre masculino

1 (orden) order, command

2 DERECHO mandate

3 PLÍTICA term of office

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

mandato judicial court order

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SM

1) (=orden) mandate

bajo mandato de la ONU — under UN mandate

según un mandato constitucional — according to the constitution

mandato judicial — court order

2) (=período de mando) term of office, mandate frm

se acerca el final de su mandato — his term of office o his mandate frm is coming to an end

la duración de su mandato fue de cuatro años — he was in office for four years

• bajo o durante el mandato de algn — during sb's term of office o mandate frm

• territorio bajo mandato — mandated territory

3) (Jur) (=estatutos) terms of reference pl ; (=poder) power of attorney

eso no forma parte de mi mandato — that is not in my brief

4) (Inform) command

5) (Com)

mandato internacional — international money order

6) (Rel) maundy

* * *

masculino

1)

a) ( período) term of office

b) ( orden) mandate

2) (Der) mandate

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= commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.

Ex. The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

Ex. A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.

Ex. The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.

Ex. Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.

Ex. During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.

Ex. In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.

Ex. Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.

Ex. The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.

Ex. A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.

Ex. At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.

Ex. This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.

Ex. The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.

Ex. During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.

Ex. Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".

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* al final de su mandato = lame duck.

* en el mandato = in office.

* finalizar un mandato = leave + office.

* mandato judicial = writ.

* periodo de mandato = period of office.

* territorio bajo mandato = mandate.

* * *

masculino

1)

a) ( período) term of office

b) ( orden) mandate

2) (Der) mandate

* * *

= commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.

Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

Ex: A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.

Ex: The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.

Ex: Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.

Ex: During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.

Ex: In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.

Ex: Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.

Ex: The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.

Ex: A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.

Ex: At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.

Ex: This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.

Ex: The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.

Ex: During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.

Ex: Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".

* al final de su mandato = lame duck.

* en el mandato = in office.

* finalizar un mandato = leave + office.

* mandato judicial = writ.

* periodo de mandato = period of office.

* territorio bajo mandato = mandate.

* * *

mandato

masculine

A

1 (período) term of office

2 (orden) mandate

la Regencia se ejercerá por mandato constitucional the Regency will operate according to the constitution

B ( Der) mandate

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mandato sustantivo masculino
1
a) ( período) term of office

b) ( orden) mandate

2 (Der) mandate
mandato sustantivo masculino
1 (orden) order, command
Jur warrant
2 (periodo de gobierno) term of office
' mandato' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
orden
- ordenar
- que
- legislatura
English:
expire
- injunction
- mandate
- order
- term
- writ

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mandato nm

1. [orden, precepto] order, command;

fue detenido por mandato del juez he was arrested on the judge's instructions

Comp
Der mandato judicial warrant
2. [poderes de representación] mandate

Comp
mandato electoral electoral mandate
3. [periodo] term of office;

durante el mandato del alcalde during the mayor's term of office;

el candidato republicano aspira a un tercer mandato consecutivo the Republican candidate is seeking his third consecutive term

* * *

mandato

m

1 ( orden) order

2 POL mandate

* * *

mandato nm

1) : term of office

2) : mandate

Spanish-English dictionary > mandato
5 Chronology

15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.

400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.

202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.

137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.

410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.

714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.

1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.

1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.

1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.

1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.

1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).

1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.

1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.

1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.

1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.

1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.

1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.

1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.

1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.

1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.

1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.

1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.

1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.

1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.

1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.

1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.

1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.

1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).

1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.

1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.

1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.

1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.

   King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.

   King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.

1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.

1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.

1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.

   Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.

   Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.

   Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.

1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.

1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.

1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.

1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.

1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.

1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.

1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.

1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.

1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.

1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.

1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.

1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.

1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.

1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.

1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.

1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.

1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.

1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.

1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.

1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.

1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.

1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.

1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.

1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.

1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.

   Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.

   King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.

1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of

   Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.

   Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.

   King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.

1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.

1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.

1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.

1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.

1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.

1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.

   January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.

   Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.

1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.

1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.

1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.

1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.

1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.

   May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.

   March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.

   Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.

1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.

1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January

1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.

1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."

   28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.

   February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.

   April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.

1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.

1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."

1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.

   6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.

   8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.

1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.

1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.

1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

   January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.

1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.

1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.

1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.

   March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.

   March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.

1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July

1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.

1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).

1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.

1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.

   January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.

   January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.

   November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.

   October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.

   January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.

   May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.

   October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.

   January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).

   United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.

   January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.

   1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

   May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.

   June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.

   February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.

   January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.

   July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.

2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

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6 presidency

'prezidənsi

- plural presidencies - noun

1) (the rank or office of a president: His ambition is the presidency.) presidencia

2) (the period of time for which somebody is president: during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.) presidencia

presidency

tr['prezɪdənsɪ]

noun (pl presidencies)

1 presidencia

presidency ['prɛzədəntsi] n, pl - cies : presidencia f

presidency

n.

• presidencia s.f.

'prezədənsi
noun

a) ( office) presidencia f

b) ( period) presidencia f, mandato m (presidencial)

['prezɪdǝnsɪ]
N
1) (=office) [of country, organization, company] presidencia f

he is to be nominated for the presidency — lo van a nombrar candidato a la presidencia

2) (=period of office) [of country] mandato m presidencial, presidencia f ; [of organization, company] presidencia f, periodo m de gestión en la presidencia

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['prezədənsi]
noun

a) ( office) presidencia f

b) ( period) presidencia f, mandato m (presidencial)

English-spanish dictionary > presidency
7 présidence

présidence [pʀezidɑ̃s]

feminine noun

[de tribunal, État] presidency ; [de comité, réunion] chairmanship ; [d'université] vice-chancellorship (Brit), presidency (US)

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pʀezidɑ̃s
nom féminin

1) ( fonction) (d'État, association, de club, syndicat, tribunal) presidency; (d'entreprise, de parti, commission, jury, cour) chairmanship; ( d'université) vice-chancellorship GB, presidency US

être candidat à la présidence — Politique to stand GB ou run for president

2) ( résidence) presidential palace; ( bureaux) presidential offices (pl)

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pʀezidɑ̃s nf
1) POLITIQUE presidency

2) [assemblée] (aussi) COMMERCE chairmanship

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présidence nf

1 ( fonction) (d'État, association, de club, syndicat) presidency; (d'entreprise, de parti, commission, jury, tribunal, cour) chairmanship; ( d'université) vice-chancellorship GB, presidency US; exercer la présidence Pol to hold the presidency; Entr to hold the chairmanship; votre candidature à la présidence de la République your candidacy for the presidency of the Republic; candidat à la présidence Pol presidential candidate; être candidat à la présidence Pol to stand GB ou run US for presidency;

2 ( résidence) presidential palace; ( bureaux) presidential offices (pl).

Composé

présidence du Parlement Européen presidency of the European Parliament.

[prezidɑ̃s] nom féminin

1. [fonction, POLITIQUE] presidency

UNIVERSITÉ principalship, vice-chancellorship (UK), presidency (US)

COMMERCE [d'un homme] chairmanship, directorship

ADMINISTRATION chairmanship

la présidence du jury UNIVERSITÉ the chief examinership

une femme a été nommée à la présidence

a. POLITIQUE a woman was made President

b. ADMINISTRATION a woman was appointed to the chair ou made chairperson

2. [durée - prévue] term of office ; [ - effectuée] period in office

sa présidence aura duré un an she'll have been in office for a year

3. [lieu] presidential residence ou palace

4. [services] presidential office

à la présidence, on ne dit rien presidential aides are keeping silent

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > présidence
8 permanencia

f.

1 staying, continued stay.

2 continuation.

3 permanence, dwelling, permanency, lingering.

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permanencia

► nombre femenino

1 (estancia) stay

2 (continuidad) continuance

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SF

1) (=continuidad)

su permanencia en el equipo depende de su rendimiento — his presence in the team will depend on his performance

2) (=estancia) stay

escribió la novela durante su permanencia en el sanatorio — he wrote the novel during his stay in the sanatorium

permanencia en filas — (period of) military service

3) pl permanencias [de profesores] obligatory administrative duties

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femenino ( en lugar) stay; (en organización, cargo) continuance (frml)

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= permanence, fixity.

Ex. It should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.

Ex. The attributes of a well-regulated library are well known to us all: organization, retrievability, authenticity, and fixity.

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femenino ( en lugar) stay; (en organización, cargo) continuance (frml)

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= permanence, fixity.

Ex: It should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.

Ex: The attributes of a well-regulated library are well known to us all: organization, retrievability, authenticity, and fixity.

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permanencia

feminine

1 (en un lugar) stay

2 (en una organización) continuance ( frml)

la permanencia de nuestro país en la asociación our country's continuance in o continued membership of the association

su permanencia en el cargo está en duda his continuance in the post is in doubt, whether or not he remains in the post is in doubt

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permanencia sustantivo femenino ( en lugar) stay;
(en organización, cargo) continuance (frml)
permanencia sustantivo femenino
1 (en un cargo) frml continuance
2 (en un lugar) stay
3 (en un estado) permanence
' permanencia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abreviar
- acortar
- estancia
English:
permanence
- residence

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permanencia nf

1. [en un lugar] staying, continued stay;

su larga permanencia en el poder ha sido muy negativa their prolonged period in office has had very damaging consequences;

se está cuestionando su permanencia en el cargo de presidente doubts are being raised as to whether he should continue as president;

su permanencia en primera división depende de una victoria en este partido they need to win this game in order to stay in the first division

2. [en un estado] continuation

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permanencia

f stay

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permanencia nf

1) : permanence, continuance

2) estancia: stay

Spanish-English dictionary > permanencia
9 Historical Portugal

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

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

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

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

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

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

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

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

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

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

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

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

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

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

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

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

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

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

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

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

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

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Contemporary Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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tə:m
1. noun
1) (a (usually limited) period of time: a term of imprisonment; a term of office.) período, etapa

2) (a division of a school or university year: the autumn term.) trimestre (tres meses); cuatrimestre (cuatro meses); semestre (seis meses)

3) (a word or expression: Myopia is a medical term for short-sightedness.) término

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- terms

2. verb
(to name or call: That kind of painting is termed `abstract'.)

- come to terms
- in terms of

term n

1. trimestre

there are exams at the end of each term hay exámenes al final de cada trimestre

2. término

a scientific term un término científico

term

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noun

1 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL trimestre nombre masculino

2 (period of time) período

3 (expression, word) término

■ in general terms en términos generales

transitive verb

1 calificar de, llamar, denominar

plural noun terms

1 (sense) términos nombre masculino plural

■ in political terms desde el punto de vista político

■ in real terms en términos reales

1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL condiciones nombre femenino plural

■ the terms of the agreement las condiciones del acuerdo

1 (relations) relaciones nombre femenino plural

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

in the long/short term a largo/corto plazo

in terms of en cuanto a

on equal terms en igualdad de condiciones

to be a contradiction in terms ser un contrasentido

to be on first name terms ≈ tutearse

to be on good terms with somebody tener buenas relaciones con alguien

to come to terms with something llegar a aceptar algo, adaptarse a algo

to come to terms with somebody llegar a un arreglo con alguien

term of office mandato

term ['tərm] vt

: calificar de, llamar, nombrar

term n

1) period: término m, plazo m, período m

2) : término m (en matemáticas)

3) word: término m, vocablo m

legal terms: términos legales

4) terms npl

conditions: términos mpl, condiciones fpl

5) terms npl

relations: relaciones fpl

to be on good terms with: tener buenas relaciones con

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in terms of : con respecto a, en cuanto a

term (Of a contract, etc.)

n.

• condición s.f.

n.

• ciclo s.m.

• condena s.f.

• mandato s.m.

• período (Jurisprudencia) s.m.

• período escolar s.m.

• plazo s.m.

• semestre s.m.

• trimestre s.m.

• término s.m.

• vocablo s.m.

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• calificar v.

I tɜːrm, tɜːm
1) noun

Sense I

2) ( word) término m

in general/simple terms — en términos generales/lenguaje sencillo

a term of abuse — un insulto

they protested in the strongest possible terms — protestaron en forma sumamente enérgica

3)

a) ( period) período m, periodo m

the President's first term in office — el primer mandato del presidente

in the short/long term — a corto/largo plazo

b) (in school, university) trimestre m

the fall o (BrE) autumn/spring/summer term — el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

c) ( to due date) plazo m

the term of the loan expired — venció el plazo del préstamo

the baby was born at (full) term — fue un embarazo a término

Sense II

4) terms pl

( conditions) condiciones fpl

on equal terms — en igualdad de condiciones, en pie de igualdad

we offer easy terms — ofrecemos facilidades de pago

terms of reference — ( of an inquiry) competencia f, atribuciones fpl y responsabilidades fpl

to come to terms with something — aceptar algo

5) ( relations) relaciones fpl

to be on good/bad terms with somebody — estar* en buenas/malas relaciones con alguien, llevarse bien/mal con alguien

we are not on speaking terms — no nos hablamos

they were on first name terms — se llamaban por el nombre de pila, ≈se tuteaban

6)

a) ( sense)

in financial/social terms — desde el punto de vista financiero/social

in real terms — en términos reales

b)

in terms of: I was thinking more in terms of... yo estaba pensando más bien en...; in terms of efficiency, our system is superior — en cuanto a eficiencia, nuestro sistema es superior

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transitive verb calificar* de

[tɜːm]
1. N

1) (=period) periodo m, período m ; (as President, governor, mayor) mandato m

• in the long term — a largo plazo

• in the longer term — a un plazo más largo

• in the medium term — a medio plazo

• during his term of office — bajo su mandato

we have been elected for a three-year term (of office) — hemos sido elegidos para un periodo legislativo de tres años

he will not seek a third term (of office) as mayor — no irá a por un tercer mandato de alcalde, no renovará por tercera vez su candidatura como alcalde

• he is currently serving a seven-year prison term — actualmente está cumpliendo una condena de siete años

• he served two terms as governor — ocupó el cargo de gobernador durante dos periodos de mandato

• in the short term — a corto plazo

• despite problems, she carried the baby to term — a pesar de los problemas llevó el embarazo a término

2) (Educ) trimestre m

in the autumn or (US) fall/spring/summer term — en el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

they don't like you to take holidays during term — no les gusta que se tomen vacaciones durante el trimestre or en época de clases

3) (Comm, Jur, Econ) (=period of validity) plazo m

the policy is near the end of its term — el plazo de la póliza está a punto de vencer

interest rates change over the term of the loan — los tipos de interés cambian a lo largo del plazo del préstamo

4) (=word) término m

what do you understand by the term "radical"? — ¿qué entiende usted por (el término) "radical"?

explain it in terms a child might understand — explícalo de manera que un niño lo pueda entender

legal/medical terms — términos mpl legales/médicos

• a term of abuse — un término ofensivo, un insulto

• a term of endearment — un apelativo cariñoso

• he spoke of it only in general terms — solo habló de ello en términos generales

• he spoke of her in glowing terms — habló de ella en términos muy elogiosos

• in simple terms — de forma sencilla

• she condemned the attacks in the strongest terms — condenó los ataques de la forma más enérgica

• technical term — tecnicismo m, término m técnico
contradiction, uncertain
5) (Math, Logic) término m

6) terms

a) (=conditions) condiciones fpl, términos mpl

according to the terms of the contract — según las condiciones or los términos del contrato

• to dictate terms (to sb) — poner condiciones (a algn)

• we offer easy terms — ofrecemos facilidades de pago

• terms of employment — condiciones fpl de empleo

• to compete on equal terms — competir en igualdad de condiciones or en pie de igualdad

• they accepted him on his own terms — lo aceptaron con las condiciones que él había puesto

• terms of reference — (=brief) [of committee, inquiry] cometido m, instrucciones fpl ; [of study] ámbito m ; (=area of responsibility) responsabilidades fpl, competencia f ; (=common understanding) puntos mpl de referencia

• terms of sale — condiciones fpl de venta

• terms of trade — condiciones fpl de transacción

- come to terms with sth

b) (=relations)

• to be on bad terms with sb — llevarse mal con algn, no tener buenas relaciones con algn

• we're on first name terms with all the staff — nos tuteamos con todos los empleados

• she is still on friendly terms with him — todavía mantiene una relación amistosa con él

• to be on good terms with sb — llevarse bien con algn, tener buenas relaciones con algn

they have managed to remain on good terms — se las arreglaron para quedar bien

• we're not on speaking terms at the moment — actualmente no nos hablamos

c) (=sense)

in terms of: in terms of production we are doing well — en cuanto a la producción vamos bien, por lo que se refiere or por lo que respecta a la producción vamos bien

he never describes women in terms of their personalities — nunca describe a las mujeres refiriéndose a su personalidad

he was talking in terms of buying it — hablaba como si fuera a comprarlo

• in economic/ political terms — desde el punto de vista económico/político, en términos económicos/políticos

• in practical terms this means that... — en la práctica esto significa que...

• in real terms incomes have fallen — en términos reales los ingresos han bajado

• seen in terms of its environmental impact, the project is a disaster — desde el punto de vista de su impacto en el medio ambiente, el proyecto es un desastre

• we were thinking more in terms of an au pair — nuestra idea era más una au pair, teníamos en mente a una au pair

2.

VT (=designate) calificar de

he was termed a thief — lo calificaron de ladrón

he termed the war a humanitarian nightmare — calificó la guerra de pesadilla humanitaria

I was what you might term a gangster — yo era lo que se podría llamar un gángster

the problems of what is now termed "the mixed economy" — los problemas de lo que ahora se da en llamar "la economía mixta"

3.

CPD

term insurance N — seguro m temporal

term loan N — préstamo m a plazo fijo

term paper N — (US) trabajo m escrito trimestral

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I [tɜːrm, tɜːm]
1) noun

Sense I

2) ( word) término m

in general/simple terms — en términos generales/lenguaje sencillo

a term of abuse — un insulto

they protested in the strongest possible terms — protestaron en forma sumamente enérgica

3)

a) ( period) período m, periodo m

the President's first term in office — el primer mandato del presidente

in the short/long term — a corto/largo plazo

b) (in school, university) trimestre m

the fall o (BrE) autumn/spring/summer term — el primer/segundo/tercer trimestre

c) ( to due date) plazo m

the term of the loan expired — venció el plazo del préstamo

the baby was born at (full) term — fue un embarazo a término

Sense II

4) terms pl

( conditions) condiciones fpl

on equal terms — en igualdad de condiciones, en pie de igualdad

we offer easy terms — ofrecemos facilidades de pago

terms of reference — ( of an inquiry) competencia f, atribuciones fpl y responsabilidades fpl

to come to terms with something — aceptar algo

5) ( relations) relaciones fpl

to be on good/bad terms with somebody — estar* en buenas/malas relaciones con alguien, llevarse bien/mal con alguien

we are not on speaking terms — no nos hablamos

they were on first name terms — se llamaban por el nombre de pila, ≈se tuteaban

6)

a) ( sense)

in financial/social terms — desde el punto de vista financiero/social

in real terms — en términos reales

b)

in terms of: I was thinking more in terms of... yo estaba pensando más bien en...; in terms of efficiency, our system is superior — en cuanto a eficiencia, nuestro sistema es superior

II

transitive verb calificar* de

English-spanish dictionary > term
11 Bundespräsident

m, Bundespräsidentin f

1. German / Austrian ( oder Federal) President

2. Schweiz: President of the Confederation

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The Bundespräsident, elected by the Bundesversammlung, is the head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany. The term of office is five years and the President can be re-elected only once. The Bundespräsident's main task is to represent Germany at home and abroad. Since the office is non-party political, presidents can make use of their status to draw attention to social problems and abuses of power. The Austrian Bundespräsident is also the head of state, but is elected by the people. The term of office is six years, with a possible second term. The President can dissolve the Nationalrat and appoints and dismisses the Bundeskanzler. In Switzerland the Bundespräsident is the chairman of the Bundesrat and is in office for a period of one year only. The President is not head of state, but he represents the country abroad. See: → Bundeskanzler, Bundesrat, Bundesversammlung, Nationalrat
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Bun·des·prä·si·dent(in)

m(f) BRD, ÖSTERR President [or Head of State] of the Federal Republic of Germany/Austria; SCHWEIZ President of the Confederation

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der

1) [Federal] President

2) (schweiz.) President of the Confederation
•• Cultural note:
Bundesminister

The Federal Government consists of the Bundeskanzler and the Bundesminister (Federal Ministers).The Chancellor appoints ministers and determines their number and responsibilities in the Cabinet. Ministers run their ministries independently but within the framework of the guidelines of the Chancellor's policy.

Bundespräsident

The President is the head of state in Germany and Austria. The German president is elected for five years by the MPs and delegates from the Länder. He (so far there have not been any women) acts mainly as a figurehead, representing Germany abroad, and does not get involved in party politics, although he often takes a moral lead in major issues and can exercise personal authority through his neutral mediating function. The Bundespräsident can only be re-elected once

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Bundespräsident m, Bundespräsidentin f

1. German/Austrian ( oder Federal) President

2. Schweiz: President of the Confederation

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der

1) [Federal] President

2) (schweiz.) President of the Confederation
•• Cultural note:
Bundesminister

The Federal Government consists of the Bundeskanzler and the Bundesminister (Federal Ministers).The Chancellor appoints ministers and determines their number and responsibilities in the Cabinet. Ministers run their ministries independently but within the framework of the guidelines of the Chancellor's policy.

Bundespräsident

The President is the head of state in Germany and Austria. The German president is elected for five years by the MPs and delegates from the Länder. He (so far there have not been any women) acts mainly as a figurehead, representing Germany abroad, and does not get involved in party politics, although he often takes a moral lead in major issues and can exercise personal authority through his neutral mediating function. The Bundespräsident can only be re-elected once

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aller [ale]

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1. intransitive verb

2. impersonal verb

3. auxiliary verb

4. reflexive verb

5. masculine noun

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► aller is conjugated with être.

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   a. (déplacement) to go

• où vas-tu ? where are you going?

• vas-y ! go on!

• on y va ? (avant un départ) shall we go? ; (avant d'agir) shall we start?

• allons-y ! let's go!

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► aller se traduit souvent par un verbe plus spécifique en anglais.

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• j'allais par les rues désertes I wandered through the empty streets

• aller quelque part en voiture to drive somewhere

• aller quelque part en avion to fly somewhere

► aller et venir (entre deux endroits) to come and go ; (dans une pièce) to pace up and down

► aller + préposition

• aller à to go to

• il est allé à Caen he went to Caen

• ils sont allés à la campagne they went to the country

• aller à l'école to go to school

• l'argent ira à la restauration du clocher the money will go towards restoring the bell tower

• aller chez le boucher to go to the butcher's

• aller chez un ami to go to a friend's

• aller en France to go to France

• je vais sur or vers Lille (en direction de) I'm going towards Lille ; (but du voyage) I'm going to Lille

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► Lorsque être allé à/en signifie avoir visité, il se traduit par to have been to.

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• je ne suis jamais allé à New York I've never been to New York

• étiez-vous déjà allés en Sicile ? had you been to Sicily before?

   b. (évolution) on va à la catastrophe we're heading for disaster

• aller sur ses 30 ans to be getting on for 30 (Brit) to be going on 30 (US)

► plus ça va

• plus ça va, plus les gens s'inquiètent people are getting more and more worried

• plus ça va, plus je me dis que j'ai eu tort the more I think about it, the more I realize how wrong I was► aller en + participe présent

• aller en empirant to get worse and worse

• aller en augmentant to keep increasing

   c. ( = durer) l'abonnement va jusqu'en juin the subscription lasts till June

• la période qui va du 22 mai au 15 juillet the period from 22 May to 15 July

   d. (état, santé) comment allez-vous ? how are you?

• il va bien he's fine

• il va mal he's in a bad way

• comment ça va ? -- ça va how are you doing? -- fine

• ça va mieux maintenant I'm feeling better now

• non mais ça va pas ! (inf) are you out of your mind? (inf)

• comment vont les affaires ? -- elles vont bien how's business? -- fine

• ça va mal en Russie Russia is in a bad way

• ça va mal aller si tu continues there's going to be trouble if you carry on like that

• l'économie va mieux the economy is doing better

   e. ( = convenir) ça ira comme ça ? is it all right like that?

• aller avec to go well with

• aller bien ensemble [couleurs, styles] to go well together

• ils vont bien ensemble [personnes] they make a nice couple

► aller à qn (forme, mesure) to fit sb ; (style, genre) to suit sb

• cette robe te va très bien (couleur, style) that dress really suits you ; (taille) that dress fits you perfectly

• rendez-vous demain 4 heures ? -- ça me va (inf) tomorrow at 4? -- OK, fine (inf)

• ça lui va mal de critiquer les autres he's got a nerve (inf) criticizing other people

   f. (exclamations) allons !

• allez ! go on!

• allez la France ! come on France!

• allons, allons, il ne faut pas pleurer come on, don't cry

• ce n'est pas grave, allez ! come on, it's not so bad!

• va donc, eh crétin ! you stupid idiot! (inf)

• allez-y, c'est votre tour go on, it's your turn

• allez-y, vous ne risquez rien go on, you've nothing to lose

• non mais vas-y, insulte-moi ! (inf) go on, insult me!

► allons bon !

• allons bon ! qu'est-ce qui t'est encore arrivé ? now what's happened?

• allons bon, j'ai oublié mon sac ! oh dear, I've left my bag behind!► ça va ! (inf) ( = assez) that's enough! ; ( = d'accord) OK, OK! (inf)

• tes remarques désobligeantes, ça va comme ça ! I've had just about enough of your nasty comments!

• alors, tu viens ? -- ça va, j'arrive ! are you coming then? -- OK, OK (inf), I'm coming!

• ça fait dix fois que je te le dis -- ça va, je vais le faire ! I've told you ten times -- look, I'll do it, OK? (inf)► va pour (inf)

va pour 30 € ! OK, 30 euros then!

• j'aimerais aller à Tokyo -- alors va pour Tokyo ! I'd like to go to Tokyo -- Tokyo it is then!

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• il y va de votre vie your life is at stake

• il en va de même pour tous les autres the same goes for all the others

• ça y va le whisky chez eux ! they certainly get through a lot of whisky!

• ça y allait les insultes ! you should have heard the abuse!

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► aller + infinitif

   a. (futur)

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► Lorsque aller + infinitif sert à exprimer le futur, il se traduit par will + infinitif ; will est souvent abrégé en 'll.

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• il va descendre dans une minute he'll come down in a minute

• je vais le faire tout de suite I'll do it right away

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► La forme du futur to be going to s'utilise pour mettre qn en garde.

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• tu vas être en retard you're going to be late

• je vais le dire à ton père I'll tell your father ; ( = menace) I'm going to tell your father

   b. (intention) il est allé se renseigner he's gone to get some information ; (a obtenu les informations) he went and got some information

• aller voir qn à l'hôpital to go and visit sb in hospital

   c. (locutions) n'allez pas vous imaginer que... don't you go imagining that...

• allez savoir ! (inf) who knows?

• va lui expliquer ça, toi ! you try explaining that to him!

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► s'en aller

   a. ( = partir) to go

• bon, je m'en vais right, I'm going

• elle s'en va en vacances demain she is going on holiday tomorrow

• va-t'en ! go away!

   b. ( = disparaître) [tache] to come off ; (sur tissu) to come out

• ça s'en ira au lavage [boue] it'll wash off ; [tache] it'll wash out

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   a. ( = billet) single (ticket) (Brit), one-way ticket (US)

   b. ( = trajet) outward journey

• l'aller s'est bien passé the outward journey went well

• trois allers (simples) pour Tours three singles (Brit) or one-way tickets (US) to Tours

► aller et retour return (ticket) (Brit) round-trip ticket (US)

• l'aller et retour Paris-New York coûte 2 500 € Paris-New York is 2,500 euros return (Brit) or round-trip (US)

• je ne fais que l'aller et retour I'm just going there and back

• j'ai fait plusieurs allers et retours entre chez moi et la pharmacie I made several trips to the chemist's

• le dossier a fait plusieurs allers et retours entre nos services the file has been shuttled between departments

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I
1. ale
verbe auxiliaire

1) ( marque le futur)

je vais rentrer chez moi — I'm going home

j'allais partir — I was just leaving

j'allais partir quand il est arrivé — I was about to leave when he arrived

l'homme qui allait inventer la bombe atomique — the man who was to invent the atomic bomb

il va le regretter — he'll regret it

ça va aller mal — (colloq) there'll be trouble

tu vas me laisser tranquille? — will you please leave me alone!

2) ( marque le futur programmé)

je vais leur dire ce que je pense — I'm going to tell them what I think

3) ( marque le mouvement)

aller rouler de l'autre côté de la rue — to go rolling across the street

aller atterrir (colloq) sur mon bureau — to end up on my desk

4) ( marque l'inclination)

va savoir! — who knows?

qu'es-tu allé te mettre en tête? — where did you pick up that idea?

qui irait le soupçonner? — who would suspect him?

pourquoi es-tu allé faire ça? — why did you have to go and do that?

allez-y comprendre quelque chose! — just try and work that out!

5) ( marque l'évolution)

la situation va (en) se compliquant — the situation is getting more and more complicated

aller (en) s'améliorant — to be improving

la tristesse ira (en) s'atténuant — the grief will diminish

2.

verbe intransitif

1) (se porter, se dérouler, fonctionner)

comment vas-tu, comment ça va? — how are you?

ça va (bien) — I'm fine

les enfants vont bien? — are the children all right?

comment va la santé? — how are you keeping?

aller beaucoup mieux — to be much better

bois ça, ça ira mieux — drink this, you'll feel better

tout va bien? — is everything going all right?

vous êtes sûr que ça va? — are you sure you're all right?

les affaires vont bien — business is good

ça va l'école? — how are things at school?

ça ne va pas très fort — ( ma santé) I'm not feeling very well; ( la vie) things aren't too good; ( le moral) I'm feeling a bit low

ça va mal entre eux — things aren't too good between them

qu'est-ce qui ne va pas? — what's the matter?

la voiture a quelque chose qui ne va pas — there's something wrong with the car

tout est allé si vite! — it all happened so quickly!

ne pas aller sans peine or mal — not to be easy

ça va de soi or sans dire — it goes without saying

l'amour ne va jamais de soi — love is never straightforward

ça va tout seul — ( c'est facile) it's a doddle (colloq) GB, it's easy as pie

les choses vont très vite — things are moving fast

on fait aller — (colloq) struggling on (colloq)

ça peut aller — (colloq)

ça ira — (colloq) could be worse (colloq)

ça va pas, non (colloq) or la tête? — (colloq) are you mad (colloq) GB ou crazy? (colloq)

2) ( se déplacer) to go

allez tout droit — go straight ahead

aller et venir — ( dans une pièce) to pace up and down; ( d'un lieu à l'autre) to run in and out

la liberté d'aller et venir — the freedom to come and go at will

les nouvelles vont vite — news travels fast

où vas-tu? — where are you going?, where are you off (colloq) to?

aller en Pologne/au marché — to go to Poland/to the market

je suis allé de Bruxelles à Anvers — I went from Brussels to Antwerp

allons-y! — let's go!

je l'ai rencontré en allant au marché — I met him on the way to the market

aller sur or vers Paris — to head for Paris

aller vers le nord — to head north

va-t-on vers une nouvelle guerre? — are we heading for another war?

j'y vais — ( je m'en occupe) I'll get it; ( je pars) (colloq) I'm going, I'm off (colloq)

où va-t-il? — where is he off to? (colloq)

où va-t-on? — (colloq)

où allons-nous? — (colloq) fig what are things coming to?, what's the world coming to?

3) ( pour se livrer à une activité)

aller au travail — to go to work

aller à la chasse — to go hunting

aller au pain — (colloq) to go and get the bread

aller aux courses (colloq) or commissions — (colloq) to go shopping

aller aux nouvelles — to go and see if there's any news

4) ( s'étendre dans l'espace)

la route va au village — the road leads to the village

la rue va de la gare à l'église — the street goes from the station to the church

5) ( convenir)

ma robe, ça va? — is my dress all right?

ça va, ça peut aller — (colloq) ( en quantité) that'll do; ( en qualité) it'll do

ça va comme ça — it's all right as it is

ça ne va pas du tout — that's no good at all

la traduction n'allait pas — the translation was no good

une soupe, ça (te) va? — how about some soup?

va pour une soupe — (colloq) soup is okay (colloq)

ça va si je porte un jean? — can I wear jeans?

si le contrat ne te va pas, ne le signe pas — don't sign the contract if you're not happy with it

si ça va pour toi, ça va pour moi — (colloq) if it's okay by you, it's okay by me (colloq)

ma scie ne va pas pour le métal — my saw is no good for metal

ça te va bien de faire la morale — (colloq) iron you're hardly the person to preach

6) (être de la bonne taille, de la bonne forme)

aller à quelqu'un — to fit somebody

7) (flatter, mettre en valeur)

aller à quelqu'un — to suit somebody

ta cravate ne va pas avec ta chemise — your tie doesn't go with your shirt

les meubles vont bien ensemble — the furniture all matches

je trouve que ta sœur et son petit ami vont très bien ensemble — I think your sister and her boyfriend are ideally suited

8) ( se ranger) to go

les assiettes vont dans le placard — the plates go in the cupboard

9) ( faculté)

pouvoir aller dans l'eau — to be waterproof

le plat ne va pas au four — the dish is not ovenproof

10) ( dans une évaluation)

la voiture peut aller jusqu'à 200 km/h — the car can do up to 200 kph

certains modèles peuvent aller jusqu'à 1000 francs — some models can cost up to 1,000 francs

11) ( en arriver à)

aller jusqu'au président — to take it right up to the president

aller jusqu'à tuer — to go as far as to kill

leur amour est allé jusqu'à la folie — their love bordered on madness

12) ( dans le temps)

aller jusqu'en 1914 — to go up to 1914

la période qui va de 1918 à 1939 — the period between 1918 and 1939

le contrat allait jusqu'en 1997 — the contract ran until 1997

aller sur ses 17 ans — to be going on 17

13) (agir, raisonner)

vas-y doucement, le tissu est fragile — careful, the fabric is delicate

tu vas trop vite — you're going too fast

vas-y, demande-leur! — ( incitation) go on, ask them!

vas-y, dis-le! — ( provocation) come on, out with it!

allons, allez! — (pour encourager, inciter) come on!

si tu vas par là, rien n'est entièrement vrai — if you take that line, nothing is entirely true

14) ( contribuer)

y aller de sa petite larme — to shed a little tear

y aller de son petit discours — to do one's party piece

y aller de ses économies — to dip into one's savings

y aller de sa personne — to pitch in

15) (colloq) ( se succéder)

ça y va la vodka avec lui — he certainly gets through the vodka

ça y allait les coups — the fur was flying (colloq)

16) ( servir)

l'argent ira à la réparation de l'église — the money will go toward(s) repairing the church

l'argent est allé dans leurs poches — they pocketed the money

17) ( enfreindre)

aller contre la loi — [personne] to break the law; [acte] to be against the law

je ne peux pas aller contre ce qu'il a décidé — I can't go against his decision

3.

s'en aller verbe pronominal

1) (partir, se rendre)

il faut que je m'en aille — I must go ou leave

va-t'en! — go away!

s'en aller au travail — to go off to work

2) ( disparaître)

les nuages vont s'en aller — the clouds will clear away

la tache ne s'en va pas — the stain won't come out

avec le temps, tout s'en va — everything fades with time

3) fml ( mourir) to pass away

4) (avoir l'intention de, essayer)

je m'en vais leur dire ce que je pense — I'm going to tell them what I think

va-t'en savoir! — who knows?

4.

verbe impersonnel

1) ( être en jeu)

il y va de ta santé — your health is at stake

2) ( se passer)

il en va souvent ainsi — that's often what happens

il en va de même pour toi — that goes for you too

il en va autrement en Corée — things are different in Korea

3) Mathématique

40 divisé par 12 il y va 3 fois et il reste 4 — 12 into 40 goes 3 times with 4 left over

II ale
nom masculin

1) ( trajet)

j'ai fait une escale à l'aller — I made a stopover on the way out

j'ai pris le bus à l'aller — ( en allant là) I took the bus there; ( en venant ici) I took the bus here

l'aller a pris trois heures — the journey there took three hours

il n'arrête pas de faire des allers et retours entre chez lui et son bureau — he keeps running to and fro from his house to the office

billet aller — gén single ticket GB, one-way ticket US; ( d'avion) one-way ticket

billet aller (et) retour — return ticket GB, round trip (ticket) US

match aller — first leg

2) ( ticket)

aller (simple) — single (ticket) GB, one-way ticket ( pour to)

aller (et) retour — return ticket

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Lorsque aller fait partie d'une expression figée comme aller dans le sens de, aller de pair avec etc, l'expression est traitée sous l'entrée sens, pair etc

On notera les différentes traductions de aller verbe de mouvement indiquant: un déplacement unique dans le temps: je vais au théâtre ce soir = I'm going to the theatre [BrE] this evening; ou une habitude: je vais au théâtre tous les lundis = I go to the theatre [BrE] every Monday

aller + infinitif

la traduction dépend du temps: je vais apprendre l'italien = I'm going to learn Italian; il est allé voir l'exposition = he went to see the exhibition; j'allais me marier quand la guerre a éclaté = I was going to get married when the war broke out; va voir = go and see; va leur parler = go and speak to them; j'irai voir l'exposition demain = I'll go and see the exhibition tomorrow; je vais souvent m'asseoir au bord de la rivière = I often go and sit by the river; il ne va jamais voir une exposition = he never goes to see exhibitions

On notera que pour les activités sportives on peut avoir: aller nager/faire du vélo = to go swimming/cycling ou to go for a swim/on a bike ride

On trouvera ci-dessous des exemples et des exceptions illustrant aller dans ses différentes fonctions verbales

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ale
1. nm

1) (= trajet) outward journey

L'aller nous a pris trois heures. — The journey there took us three hours., The outward journey took us three hours.

2) (= billet) single Grande-Bretagne ticket, one-way ticket

Je voudrais un aller pour Angers. — I'd like a single to Angers.

2. vi

1) (déplacement) to go

Je suis allé à Londres. — I went to London.

Elle ira le voir. — She'll go and see him.

La boulangerie? Je dois justement y aller. — The baker's? That's just where I need to go.

aller à la chasse — to go hunting

aller à la pêche — to go fishing

aller voir qn — to go and see sb

aller chercher qn — to go and get sb

pour aller à Conflans? — how do I get to Conflans?

2) (= convenir)

aller à qn [couleur, style] — to suit sb, [forme, pointure] to fit sb, [dispositions, date] to suit sb

cela me va [couleur, vêtement] — it suits me, (pointure, taille) it fits me, [projet, dispositions] it suits me, that's OK by me

Cette robe te va bien. — That dress suits you.

aller avec qch [couleurs, style] — to go with sth

bien aller avec qch — to go well with sth

3) (= se sentir)

"Comment allez-vous? " - - "Je vais bien." — "How are you?" - - "I'm fine."

Il va bien. — He's fine.

Il va mal. — He's not well.

aller mieux — to be better

4) (= marcher, se passer)

comment ça va? — how are you?, how are things?

"ça va?" - - "oui ça va!" — "how are things?" - - "fine!"

ça va bien — things are going well

ça va mal — things aren't going well

tout va bien — everything's fine

cela ne va pas sans difficultés — it's not without difficulties

5) (exhortation)

allez! (encouragement) — go on!, (avec impatience) come on!

Allez! Dépêche-toi! — Come on, hurry up!

allez, au revoir — OK then, bye-bye

6) (autres locutions)

y aller; allons-y! — let's go!

vas-y! — go on!

Je dois y aller. — I've got to go.

y aller un peu fort — to go a bit far

Tu y vas un peu fort. — You're going a bit too far., You're going a bit far.

il y va de leur vie — their lives are at stake

aller jusqu'à — to go as far as

Nous sommes allés jusqu'à Angers. — We went as far as Angers.

J'irais jusqu'à dire qu'il est trop tard. — I would go so far as to say that it's too late.

se laisser aller — to let o.s. go

ça va de soi; ça va sans dire — that goes without saying

ça va comme ça (= c'est suffisant) — that's fine, (impatience) that's enough

3. vb aux

(futur immédiat)

Je vais le faire. — I'm going to do it.

Je vais me fâcher. — I'm going to get angry.

Je vais écrire à mes cousins. — I'm going to write to my cousins.

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I.

aller ⇒ Note d'usage verb table: aller

A v aux

1 ( marque le futur) je vais partir I'm leaving; je vais rentrer chez moi/me coucher I'm going home/to bed; j'allais partir I was just leaving; j'allais partir quand il est arrivé I was about to leave when he arrived; l'homme qui allait inventer la bombe atomique the man who was to invent the atomic bomb; il allait le regretter he was to regret it; il va le regretter he'll regret it; elle va avoir un an she'll soon be one; il va faire nuit it'll soon be dark; ça va aller mal○ there'll be trouble; tu vas me laisser tranquille? will you please leave me alone!;

2 ( marque le futur programmé) je vais leur dire ce que je pense I'm going to tell them what I think; elle va peindre sa cuisine en bleu she's going to paint her kitchen blue; j'allais te le dire I was just going to tell you;

3 ( marque le mouvement) aller rouler de l'autre côté de la rue to go rolling across the street; aller valser○ à l'autre bout de la pièce to go flying across the room; aller atterrir○ en plein champ/sur mon bureau to end up in the middle of a field/on my desk;

4 (marque l'inclination, l'initiative) qu'est-ce que tu vas imaginer là? what a ridiculous idea!; va savoir! who knows?; va or allez (donc) savoir ce qui s'est passé who knows what happened?; qu'es-tu allé te mettre en tête? where did you pick up that idea?; qui irait le soupçonner? who would suspect him?; vous n'iriez pas leur dire ça? you're not going to go and say that, are you?; pourquoi es-tu allé faire ça? why did you have to go and do that?; n'allez pas croire une chose pareille! ( pour réfuter) don't you believe it!; ( pour tempérer l'enthousiasme) don't get carried away!; allez y comprendre quelque chose! just try and work that out!;

5 ( marque l'évolution) la situation va (en) se compliquant the situation is getting more and more complicated; aller (en) s'améliorant/s'aggravant to be improving/getting worse; la tristesse ira (en) s'atténuant the grief will diminish.

B vi

1 (se porter, se dérouler, fonctionner) comment vas-tu, comment ça va? how are you?; ça va (bien) I'm fine; les enfants vont bien? are the children all right?; et ta femme/ton épaule, comment ça va? how's your wife/your shoulder?; comment va la santé? how are you keeping?; ça va la vie○? how's life○?; ça va les amours○? how's the love life going?; aller beaucoup mieux to be much better; bois ça, ça ira mieux drink this, you'll feel better; tout va bien pour toi? is everything going all right?; si tout va bien if everything goes all right; vous êtes sûr que ça va? are you sure you're all right?; les affaires vont bien/mal business is good/bad; ça va l'école? how are things at school?; ça ne va pas très fort or bien ( ma santé) I'm not feeling very well; ( la vie) things aren't too good; ( le moral) I'm feeling a bit low; ça pourrait aller mieux, ça va plus ou moins ( réponse) so-so; ça va mal entre eux things aren't too good between them; qu'est-ce qui ne va pas? what's the matter?; la voiture a quelque chose qui ne va pas there's something wrong with the car; tout va pour le mieux everything's fine; tout est allé si vite! it all happened so quickly!; ne pas aller sans peine or mal not to be easy; ne pas aller sans hésitations to take some thinking about; ça va de soi or sans dire it goes without saying; ça devrait aller de soi it should be obvious; ainsi vont les choses that's the way it goes; ainsi va le monde that's the way of the world; ainsi allait la France this was the state of affairs in France; l'amour ne va jamais de soi love is never straightforward; ça va tout seul ( c'est facile) it's a doddle○ GB, it's as easy as pie; ça ne va pas tout seul it's not that easy, it's no picnic○; les choses vont très vite things are moving fast; on fait aller○ struggling on○; ça peut aller○, ça ira○ could be worse○; ça va pas, non○ or la tête○? are you mad○ GB ou crazy○?; ça va pas, non, de crier or gesticuler comme ça○? what's the matter with you, carrying on like that○?; ⇒ pis;

2 ( se déplacer) to go; tu vas trop vite you're going too fast; allez tout droit go straight ahead; aller et venir ( dans une pièce) to pace up and down; ( d'un lieu à l'autre) to run in and out; la liberté d'aller et venir the freedom to come and go at will; je préfère aller à pied/en avion I'd rather walk/fly; les nouvelles vont vite news travels fast; aller d'un pas rapide to walk quickly; je sais aller à bicyclette/cheval I can ride a bike/horse; où vas-tu? where are you going?, where are you off○ to?; je vais en Pologne I'm going to Poland; aller au marché/en ville to go to the market/into town; aller chez le médecin/dentiste to go to the doctor's/dentist's; va dans ta chambre go to your room; je suis allé de Bruxelles à Anvers I went from Brussels to Antwerp; je suis allé jusqu'en Chine/au marché ( et pas plus loin) I went as far as China/the market; ( et c'était loin) I went all the way to China/the market; je préfère ne pas y aller I'd rather not go; allons-y! let's go!; je l'ai rencontré en allant au marché I met him on the way to the market; aller vers le nord to head north; j'y vais ( je m'en occupe) I'll get it; ( je pars)○ I'm going, I'm off○; où va-t-il encore? where is he off to now○?; aller sur or vers Paris to head for Paris; où va-t-on○?, où allons-nous○? fig what are things coming to?, what's the world coming to?; va donc, eh, abruti○! get lost○, you idiot!; ⇒ cruche;

3 (pour se livrer à une activité, chercher un produit) aller à l'école/au travail to go to school/to work; aller à la chasse/pêche to go hunting/fishing; allez-vous à la piscine? do you go to the swimming pool?; il est allé au golf/tennis he's gone to play golf/tennis; aller aux champignons/framboises to go mushroom-/raspberry-picking; aller au pain○ to go and get the bread; dans quelle boulangerie allez-vous? which bakery do you go to?; aller aux courses○ or commissions○ to go shopping; aller au ravitaillement to go and stock up; aller aux nouvelles or informations to go and see if there's any news;

4 ( s'étendre dans l'espace) la route va au village the road leads to the village; la rue va de la gare à l'église the street goes from the station to the church;

5 ( convenir) ma robe/la traduction, ça va? is my dress/the translation all right?; ça va, ça ira○, ça peut aller○ ( en quantité) that'll do; ( en qualité) it'll do; ça va comme ça it's all right as it is; ça ne va pas du tout that's no good at all; ça ne va pas du tout, tu dois mettre une cravate you can't go like that, you have to wear a tie; la traduction n'allait pas the translation was no good; lundi ça (te) va? would Monday suit you ou be okay○?; une soupe, ça (te) va? how about some soup?; va pour une soupe○ soup is okay○; ça irait si on se voyait demain? would it it be all right if we met tomorrow?; ça va si je porte un jean? can I wear jeans?; si le contrat ne te va pas, ne le signe pas don't sign the contract if you're not happy with it; si ça va pour toi, ça va pour moi○ or ça me va○ if it's okay by you, it's okay by me○; ça n'irait pas du tout ( inacceptable) that would never do; ma scie ne va pas pour le métal my saw is no good for metal; ça te va bien de faire la morale/parler comme ça○ iron you're hardly the person to preach/make that sort of remark;

6 (être de la bonne taille, de la bonne forme) aller à qn to fit sb; tes chaussures sont trop grandes, elles ne me vont pas your shoes are too big, they don't fit me; cette vis/clé ne va pas this screw/key doesn't fit;

7 (flatter, mettre en valeur) aller à qn to suit sb; le rouge ne me va pas or me va mal red doesn't suit me; sa robe lui allait (très) bien her dress really suited her; le rôle t'irait parfaitement the part would suit you perfectly; ta cravate ne va pas avec ta chemise your tie doesn't go with your shirt; les tapis vont bien ensemble the rugs go together well; les meubles vont bien ensemble the furniture all matches; je trouve que ta sœur et son petit ami vont très bien ensemble I think your sister and her boyfriend are ideally suited;

8 ( se ranger) to go; les assiettes vont dans le placard the plates go in the cupboard; la chaise pliante va derrière la porte de la cuisine the folding chair goes behind the kitchen door;

9 ( faculté) pouvoir aller dans l'eau to be waterproof; le plat ne va pas au four the dish is not ovenproof;

10 ( dans une évaluation) la voiture peut aller jusqu'à 200 km/h the car can do up to 200 km/h; certains modèles peuvent aller jusqu'à 1 000 euros some models can cost up to 1,000 euros; une peine allant jusqu'à cinq ans de prison a sentence of up to five years in prison;

11 ( en arriver à) aller jusqu'au président to take it right up to the president; aller jusqu'à mentir/tuer to go as far as to lie/kill; leur amour est allé jusqu'à la folie their love bordered on madness;

12 ( dans le temps) aller jusqu'en 1914 to go up to 1914; pendant la période qui va du 8 février au 13 mars between 8 February and 13 March; la période qui va de 1918 à 1939 the period between 1918 and 1939; l'offre va jusqu'à jeudi the offer lasts until Thursday; le contrat allait jusqu'en 1997 the contract ran until 1997; va-t-on vers une nouvelle guerre? are we heading for another war?; aller sur ses 17 ans to be going on 17;

13 (agir, raisonner) vas-y doucement or gentiment, le tissu est fragile careful, the fabric is delicate; ils n'y sont pas allés doucement avec les meubles○ they were rather rough with the furniture; tu vas trop vite you're going too fast; vas-y, demande-leur! ( incitation) go on, ask them!; vas-y, dis-le! ( provocation) come on, out with it!; allons, allez! (pour encourager, inciter) come on!; j'y vais○ ( je vais agir) here we go!; si tu vas par là or comme ça, rien n'est entièrement vrai if you take that line, nothing is entirely true;

14 ( contribuer) y aller de sa petite larme to shed a little tear; y aller de sa petite chanson to do one's party piece; y aller de ses économies to dip into one's savings; y aller de sa personne to pitch in; y aller de 100 euros Jeux to put in 100 euros;

15 ○( se succéder) ça y va la vodka avec lui he certainly gets through the vodka; ça y allait les coups the fur was flying○;

16 ( servir) où est allé l'argent? where has the money gone?; l'argent ira à la réparation de l'église the money will go toward(s) repairing the church; l'argent est allé dans leurs poches they pocketed the money;

17 ( enfreindre) aller contre la loi [personne] to break the law; [acte] to be against the law; je ne peux pas aller contre ce qu'il a décidé I can't go against his decision.

C s'en aller vpr

1 (partir, se rendre) il faut que je m'en aille I must go ou leave; je m'en vais en Italie cet été I'm going to Italy this summer; je m'en vais du Japon l'année prochaine I'll be leaving Japan next year; va-t'en! go away!; s'en aller faire les courses/en vacances/au travail to go off to do the shopping/on vacation/to work; ils s'en allaient chantant† they went off singing;

2 ( disparaître) les nuages vont s'en aller the clouds will clear away; la tache ne s'en va pas the stain won't come out; avec le temps, tout s'en va everything fades with time; les années s'en vont the years go by;

3 fml ( mourir) to pass away;

4 (avoir l'intention de, essayer) je m'en vais leur dire ce que je pense I'm going to tell them what I think; ne t'en va pas imaginer une chose pareille ( pour réfuter) don't you believe it!; ( pour tempérer l'enthousiasme) don't get carried away!; va-t'en savoir ce qu'il a voulu dire! who knows what he meant?

D v impers

1 ( être en jeu) il y va de ma réputation my reputation is at stake; il y va de ta santé your health is at stake, you're putting your health at risk;

2 ( se passer) il en va souvent ainsi that's often what happens; tout le monde doit aider et il en va de même pour toi everyone must help, and that goes for you too; il en ira de même pour eux the same goes for them; il en va autrement en Corée things are different in Korea; il en ira de lui comme de ses prédécesseurs he'll go the same way as his predecessors;

3 Math 40 divisé par 12 il y va 3 fois et il reste 4 12 into 40 goes 3 times with 4 left over.

II.

aller nm

1 ( trajet) j'ai fait une escale à l'aller I made a stopover on the way out; j'ai pris le bus à l'aller ( en allant là) I took the bus there; ( en venant ici) I took the bus here; l'aller a pris trois heures the journey there took three hours; il n'arrête pas de faire des allers et retours entre chez lui et son bureau he keeps running to and fro from his house to the office; je suis pressé, je ne fais que l'aller et le retour○ I'm in a hurry, I've just popped in○; billet aller gén single ticket GB, one-way ticket US; ( d'avion) one-way ticket; billet aller (et) retour return ticket GB, round trip (ticket) US;

2 ( ticket) aller (simple) single (ticket); deux allers (pour) Lille two singles to Lille; aller (et) retour return ticket;

3 Sport ( match) first leg; à l'aller in the first leg; match or rencontre aller first leg.

I

[ale] nom masculin

1. [voyage] outward journey

je suis passé les voir à l'aller I dropped in to see them on the way (there)

l'avion était en retard à l'aller et au retour the flight was delayed both ways

un aller (et) retour a round trip

faire des allers et retours [personne, document] to go back and forth, to shuttle back and forth

ne faire qu'un ou que l'aller et retour: je vais à la banque mais je ne fais qu'un aller et retour I'm going to the bank, but I'll be right back

2. [billet]

aller (simple) single (ticket) (UK), one-way ticket (US)

aller (et) retour return (UK) ou round-trip (US) (ticket)

3. (familier)

aller et retour [gifle] slap

II

[ale] verbe auxiliaire

1. (suivi de l'infinitif) [exprime le futur proche] to be going ou about to

tu vas tomber! you're going to fall!, you'll fall!

attendez-le, il va arriver wait for him, he'll be here any minute now

j'allais justement te téléphoner I was just going to phone you, I was on the point of phoning you

il va être 5 h it's going on 5

[pour donner un ordre]

tu vas faire ce que je te dis, oui ou non? will you do as I say or won't you?

2. (suivi de l'infinitif) [en intensif] to go

ne va pas croire/penser que... don't go and believe/think that...

tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu ne savais rien! you can't fool me into thinking that you didn't know anything!

que n'iront-ils pas s'imaginer! God knows what they'll think!

où est-elle? — allez savoir! where is she? — God knows!

allez expliquer ça à un enfant de 5 ans! try and explain ou try explaining that to a 5-year-old!

3. [exprime la continuité] (suivi du gérondif)

aller en: aller en s'améliorant to get better and better, to improve

aller en augmentant to keep increasing

aller en diminuant: le bruit allait en diminuant the noise was getting fainter and fainter

(suivi du participe présent)

aller croissant

a. [tension] to be rising

b. [nombre] to be rising ou increasing

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[ale] verbe intransitif

A.[EXPRIME LE MOUVEMENT]

1. [se déplacer] to go

qui va là? who goes there?

va vite!

a. hurry up!

b. [à un enfant] run along (now)!

vous alliez à plus de 90 km/h [en voiture] you were driving at ou doing more than 90 km/h

aller (et) venir

a. [de long en large] to pace up and down

b. [entre deux destinations] to come and go, to go to and fro

je n'ai fait qu'aller et venir toute la matinée I was in and out all morning

2. [se rendre - personne]

aller à to go to

en allant à Limoges on the way to Limoges

aller à la mer/à la montagne to go to the seaside/mountains

aller à l'université

a. [bâtiment] to go to the university

b. [institution] to go to university ou college

aller à la chasse/pêche to go hunting/fishing

où vas-tu? where are you going?

comment y va-t-on? how do you get there?

y aller: il y est allé en courant he ran there

on y va! let's go!

j'irai en avion/voiture I'll fly/drive, I'll go by plane/car

aller chez: aller chez un ami to go to see a friend, to go to a friend's

tu n'iras plus chez eux, tu m'entends? you will not visit them again, do you hear me?

aller dans: il a peur d'aller dans l'eau he's afraid to go into the water

je vais dans les Pyrénées I'm going to the Pyrenees

aller en: aller en Autriche to go ou to travel to Austria

aller en haut/bas to go up/down

aller vers: j'allais vers le nord I was heading ou going north

3. (suivi de l'infinitif) [pour se livrer à une activité]

aller faire quelque chose to go and do something, to go do something (US)

je vais faire mes courses tous les matins I go shopping every morning

va ramasser les poires dans le jardin go and pick the pears in the garden

va voir là-bas si j'y suis! (très familier) push off!, clear off!

va te faire voir (très familier) ou te faire foutre! (vulgaire) get lost! ou (UK) stuffed! (très familier), go to hell!

4. [mener - véhicule, chemin] to go

cette rue va vers le centre this street leads towards the city centre

aller droit au cœur de quelqu'un to go straight to somebody's heart

5. [fonctionner - machine] to go, to run ; [ - moteur] to run ; [ - voiture, train] to go

6. [se ranger - dans un contenant] to go, to belong ; [ - dans un ensemble] to fit

7. [être remis]

aller à to go to

l'argent collecté ira à une œuvre the collection will go ou be given to a charity

B.[S'ÉTENDRE]

1. [dans l'espace]

aller de... à...: leur propriété va de la rivière à la côte their land stretches from the river to the coast

le passage qui va de la page 35 à la page 43 the passage which goes from page 35 to page 43

aller jusqu'à

a. [vers le haut] to go ou to reach up to

b. [vers le bas] to go ou to reach down to

c. [en largeur, en longueur] to go to, to stretch as far as

2. [dans le temps]

aller de... à... to go from... to...

aller jusqu'à [bail, contrat] to run till

3. [dans une série]

aller de... à... to go ou to range from... to...

aller jusqu'à: les prix vont jusqu'à 8.000 euros prices go as high as 8,000 euros

C.[PROGRESSER]

1. [se dérouler]

aller vite/lentement to go fast/slow

plus ça va...: plus ça va, moins je comprends la politique the more I see of politics, the less I understand it

plus ça va, plus je l'aime I love her more each day

2. [personne]

aller jusqu'à: j'irai jusqu'à 1.000 euros pour le fauteuil I'll pay ou go up to 1,000 euros for the armchair

j'irais même jusqu'à dire que... I would even go so far as to say that...

sans aller jusque-là without going that far

aller sur ou vers [approcher de]: il va sur ou vers la cinquantaine he's getting on for ou going on 50

elle va sur ses cinq ans she's nearly ou almost five, she'll be five soon

aller à la faillite/l'échec to be heading for bankruptcy/failure

aller à sa ruine to be on the road to ruin

où va-t-on ou allons-nous s'il faut se barricader chez soi? what's the world coming to if people have to lock themselves in nowadays?

allons (droit) au fait let's get (straight) to the point

aller au plus pressé to do the most urgent thing first

D.[ÊTRE DANS TELLE OU TELLE SITUATION]

1. [en parlant de l'état de santé]

bonjour, comment ça va? — ça va hello, how are you? — all right

comment va la santé?, comment va? (familier) how are you keeping?

ça va? [après un choc] are you all right?

ça ne va pas du tout I'm not at all well

aller bien: je vais bien I'm fine ou well

ça va bien? are you OK?

aller mieux: elle va beaucoup mieux she's (feeling) much better

aller mal: il va mal he's not at all well, he's very poorly

ça va pas (bien) ou la tête!, ça va pas, non? (familier) you're off your head!, you must be mad!

ça va? — on fait aller (familier) ou il faut faire aller (familier) how are you? — mustn't grumble

2. [se passer]

comment vont les affaires? — elles vont bien how's business? — (it's doing) OK ou fine

ça va de moins en moins bien entre eux things have gone from bad to worse between them

les choses vont ou ça va mal things aren't too good ou aren't going too well

obéis-moi ou ça va mal aller (pour toi)! do as I say or you'll be in trouble!

comment ça va dans ton nouveau service? how are you getting on ou how are things in the new department?

quelque chose ne va pas? is there anything wrong ou the matter?

ça ne va pas tout seul ou sans problème it's not an ou it's no easy job

et le travail, ça va comme tu veux? (familier) is work going all right?

E.[EXPRIME L'ADÉQUATION]

1. [être seyant]

aller (bien) à quelqu'un

a. [taille d'un vêtement] to fit somebody

b. [style d'un vêtement] to suit somebody

le bleu lui va blue suits her, she looks good in blue

ça ne te va pas de parler vulgairement coarse language doesn't suit ou become you

ça te va bien de donner des conseils! (ironique) you're a fine one to give advice!

cela te va à ravir ou à merveille that looks wonderful on you, you look wonderful in that

2. [être en harmonie]

aller avec: aller avec quelque chose to go with ou to match something

j'ai acheté un chapeau pour aller avec ma veste I bought a hat to go with ou to match my jacket

aller ensemble

a. [couleurs, styles] to go well together, to match

b. [éléments d'une paire] to belong together

ils vont bien ensemble, ces deux-là! those two make quite a pair!

je trouve qu'ils vont très mal ensemble I think (that) they're an ill-matched couple ou they make a very odd pair

3. [convenir]

la clé de 12 devrait aller spanner number 12 should do (the job)

nos plats vont au four our dishes are oven-proof

tu veux de l'aide? — non, ça ira! do you want a hand? — no, I'll manage ou it's OK!

tu ne rajoutes pas de crème? — ça ira comme ça don't you want to add some cream? — that'll do (as it is) ou it's fine like this

ça ira pour aujourd'hui that'll be all for today, let's call it a day

pour un studio, ça peut aller as far as bedsits (UK) ou studio apartments (US) go, it's not too bad

aller à quelqu'un: on dînera après le spectacle — ça me va we'll go for dinner after the show — that's all right ou fine by me ou that suits me (fine)

F.[LOCUTIONS]

allez, un petit effort come on, put some effort into it

allez, je m'en vais! right, I'm going now!

zut, j'ai cassé un verre! — et allez (donc), le troisième en un mois! damn! I've broken a glass! — well done, that's the third in a month!

allez ou allons donc! [tu exagères] go on ou get away (with you)!,come off it!

allez-y! go on!, off you go!

allons-y! let's go!

allons-y, ne nous gênons pas! (ironique) don't mind me!

allons bon, j'ai perdu ma clef maintenant! oh no, now I've lost my key!

allons bon, voilà qu'il recommence à pleurer! here we go, he's crying again!

c'est mieux comme ça, va! it's better that way, you know!

(espèce de) frimeur, va! (familier) you show-off!

va donc, eh minable! (familier) get lost, you little creep!

ça va (familier) , ça va bien (familier) , ça va comme ça (familier) OK

je t'aurai prévenu! — ça va, ça va! don't say I didn't warn you! — OK, OK!

ça va comme ça hein, j'en ai assez de tes jérémiades! just shut up will you, I'm fed up with your moaning!

y aller (familier) : une fois que tu es sur le plongeoir, il faut y aller! once you're on the diving board, you've got to jump!

quand faut y aller, faut y aller when you've got to go, you've got to go

y aller [le faire]: vas-y doucement, c'est fragile gently ou easy does it, it's fragile

vas-y mollo avec le vin! (familier) go easy on the wine!

comme tu y vas (familier) /vous y allez (familier) : j'en veux 30 euros — comme tu y vas! I want 30 euros for it — isn't that a bit much?

ça y va: (familier) ça y va, les billets de 10 euros! 10 euro notes are going as if there was no tomorrow!

y aller de: aux réunions de famille, il y va toujours d'une ou de sa chansonnette every time there's a family gathering, he sings a little song

elle y est allée de sa petite larme (humoristique) she had a little cry

il ou cela ou ça va de soi (que) it goes without saying (that)

il ou cela ou ça va sans dire (que) it goes without saying (that)

il y va de: il y va de ta vie/carrière/réputation your life/career/reputation is at stake

il en va de... comme de...: il en va de la littérature comme de la peinture it's the same with literature as with painting

il en va de même pour: il n'en va pas de même pour toi the same doesn't apply to you

il en va autrement: il en irait autrement si ta mère était encore là things would be very different if your mother was still here

va pour le Saint-Émilion! (familier) all right ou OK then, we'll have the Saint-Emilion!

tout le monde est égoïste, si tu vas par là! everybody's selfish, if you look at it like that!

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s'en aller verbe pronominal intransitif

1. [partir - personne] to go

je lui donnerai la clé en m'en allant I'll give him the key on my way out

va-t'en! go away!

tous les jeunes s'en vont du village all the young people are leaving the village

va-t'en de là! get away from there!

2. [se défaire, se détacher] to come undone

3. (soutenu) [mourir - personne] to die, to pass away

4. [disparaître - tache] to come off, to go (away) ; [ - son] to fade away ; [ - forces] to fail ; [ - jeunesse] to pass ; [ - lumière, soleil, couleur] to fade (away) ; [ - peinture, vernis] to come off

ça s'en ira au lavage/avec du savon it'll come off in the wash/with soap

leur dernière lueur d'espoir s'en est allée their last glimmer of hope has gone ou vanished

5. (suivi de l'infinitif) [en intensif]

il s'en fut trouver le magicien off he went to find the wizard

je m'en vais lui dire ses quatre vérités! (familier) I'm going to tell her a few home truths!

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > aller

13 term

I 1. [tɜːm]
nome

1) (period of time) periodo m.; scol. univ. trimestre m., semestre m.; dir. (session) sessione f.; (duration of lease) durata f.

the president's first term of office — il primo mandato del presidente

term of imprisonment — periodo di detenzione

to have reached (full) term — (of pregnancy) essere al termine della gravidanza

a term baby, a baby born at term — un bambino (nato) a termine

autumn, spring, summer term — scol. univ. primo, secondo, terzo trimestre

2) (word, phrase) termine m., vocabolo m.

term of abuse — insulto

he condemned his action in the strongest possible terms — ha condannato molto duramente la sua azione

3) (limit) termine m., limite m.
2.
nome plurale terms

1) (conditions) termini m., condizioni f., clausole f.; (of will) disposizioni f.; comm. condizioni m. di pagamento

name your own terms — dettate le vostre condizioni

terms and conditions — dir. modalità

terms of trade — comm. econ. ragioni di scambio

on easy terms — comm. con agevolazioni di pagamento

terms of reference — sfera di competenza

2)

to come to terms with — ammettere, riconoscere [identity, past]; accettare, ammettere [death, failure]; affrontare [ issue]

3) (relations) rapporti m., relazioni f.

to be on good terms with sb. — essere in buoni rapporti con qcn.

they are on first name terms — si danno del tu

4) (point of view)

in his terms — secondo il suo punto di vista

5) in terms of (as expressed by) espresso in, in funzione di; (from the point of view of) dal punto di vista di

he owns very little in terms of real property — possiede ben pochi beni immobili

I was thinking in terms of how much it would cost — stavo cercando di calcolare quanto costerebbe
II [tɜːm]
verbo transitivo chiamare, definire

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[tə:m] 1. noun
1) (a (usually limited) period of time: a term of imprisonment; a term of office.) periodo, durata; mandato

2) (a division of a school or university year: the autumn term.) trimestre

3) (a word or expression: Myopia is a medical term for short-sightedness.) termine

•

- terms
2. verb
(to name or call: That kind of painting is termed `abstract'.)

- come to terms
- in terms of
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I 1. [tɜːm]
nome

1) (period of time) periodo m.; scol. univ. trimestre m., semestre m.; dir. (session) sessione f.; (duration of lease) durata f.

the president's first term of office — il primo mandato del presidente

term of imprisonment — periodo di detenzione

to have reached (full) term — (of pregnancy) essere al termine della gravidanza

a term baby, a baby born at term — un bambino (nato) a termine

autumn, spring, summer term — scol. univ. primo, secondo, terzo trimestre

2) (word, phrase) termine m., vocabolo m.

term of abuse — insulto

he condemned his action in the strongest possible terms — ha condannato molto duramente la sua azione

3) (limit) termine m., limite m.
2.
nome plurale terms

1) (conditions) termini m., condizioni f., clausole f.; (of will) disposizioni f.; comm. condizioni m. di pagamento

name your own terms — dettate le vostre condizioni

terms and conditions — dir. modalità

terms of trade — comm. econ. ragioni di scambio

on easy terms — comm. con agevolazioni di pagamento

terms of reference — sfera di competenza

2)

to come to terms with — ammettere, riconoscere [identity, past]; accettare, ammettere [death, failure]; affrontare [ issue]

3) (relations) rapporti m., relazioni f.

to be on good terms with sb. — essere in buoni rapporti con qcn.

they are on first name terms — si danno del tu

4) (point of view)

in his terms — secondo il suo punto di vista

5) in terms of (as expressed by) espresso in, in funzione di; (from the point of view of) dal punto di vista di

he owns very little in terms of real property — possiede ben pochi beni immobili

I was thinking in terms of how much it would cost — stavo cercando di calcolare quanto costerebbe
II [tɜːm]
verbo transitivo chiamare, definire

English-Italian dictionary > term

14 presidency

['prezidənsi]

- plural presidencies - noun

1) (the rank or office of a president: His ambition is the presidency.) præsidentembede

2) (the period of time for which somebody is president: during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.) præsidenttid

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['prezidənsi]

- plural presidencies - noun

1) (the rank or office of a president: His ambition is the presidency.) præsidentembede

2) (the period of time for which somebody is president: during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.) præsidenttid

English-Danish dictionary > presidency

15 entonces

adv.

then.

si no te gusta, entonces no vayas if you don't like it, then don't go

si no ha llegado, entonces tiene que estar en la oficina if he hasn't arrived yet, then he must still be at the office

el entonces primer ministro the then prime minister

desde entonces since then

en o por aquel entonces at that time

entonces, ¿vienes o no? are you coming or not, then?

intj.

1 so, so then, then, well then.

2 and then, and so.

* * *

entonces

► adverbio

1 (en aquel momento) then

2 (en tal caso) so, then

■ entonces no lo quieres so you don't want it

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FRASEOLOGÍA

de entonces in those days, of that time

■ los coches de entonces cars of that time

desde entonces since then

en aquel entonces at that time

por (aquel) entonces at that time

* * *

adv.

then

* * *

ADV

1) [uso temporal] then, at that time

desde entonces — since then

en aquel entonces — at that time

hasta entonces — up till then

las costumbres de entonces — the customs of the time

el entonces embajador de España — the then Spanish ambassador

fue entonces que... — it was then that..., that was when...

2) [uso concesivo] so, then

entonces, ¿qué hacemos? — so, what shall we do?, what shall we do then?

¿entonces cómo que no viniste? — then o so why didn't you come?

pues entonces — well then

¡y entonces! — Caribe, Cono Sur why of course!

* * *

adverbio

1) ( en aquel momento) then

el entonces presidente — the then president

por or en aquel entonces — in those days

2)

a) ( introduciendo conclusiones) so

¿entonces vienes o te quedas? — so are you coming with us or staying here?

¿él se enteró? - no - ¿entonces? — did he find out? - no - so o well then, what's the problem?

b) ( uso expletivo) well, anyway

entonces, como te iba diciendo... — well o anyway, as I was saying...

* * *

= then, at this, about this time.

Ex. An exposure to ammonia gas destroys the unexposed dye, and the picture can then be taken out into the light and examined.

Ex. At this the Queen wept and wailed; but being a clever woman she thought out a plan whereby to save her son.

Ex. About this time several of the old crones of the tribe offered their ribald advice on how the new couple should conduct themselves off in the forest together.

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* a partir de entonces = from this time on, hereafter, thereafter, whereafter, from then on, thenceforth, henceforth, from that moment on.

* aun entonces = even then.

* de aquel entonces = of that day.

* de entonces = of the day.

* desde aquel entonces = thenceforth.

* desde entonces = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day.

* desde entonces hasta la actualidad = from then to the present day.

* el entonces + Nombre = the then + Nombre.

* en aquel entonces = at the time, the then + Nombre, by this time, at that time, in the course of events, during the course of events, back then, in those days.

* entonces al igual que ahora = then as now.

* hasta aquel entonces = until that time.

* hasta entonces = hitherto, up till then, until that time, until then, till then.

* incluso entonces = even then.

* justo entonces = immediately.

* para aquel entonces = by then.

* para entonces = by then.

* por aquel entonces = at the time, about that time, by this time.

* quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....

* si se parece a un pato, anda como un pato y grazna como un pato, en = If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.

* * *

adverbio

1) ( en aquel momento) then

el entonces presidente — the then president

por or en aquel entonces — in those days

2)

a) ( introduciendo conclusiones) so

¿entonces vienes o te quedas? — so are you coming with us or staying here?

¿él se enteró? - no - ¿entonces? — did he find out? - no - so o well then, what's the problem?

b) ( uso expletivo) well, anyway

entonces, como te iba diciendo... — well o anyway, as I was saying...

* * *

= then, at this, about this time.

Ex: An exposure to ammonia gas destroys the unexposed dye, and the picture can then be taken out into the light and examined.

Ex: At this the Queen wept and wailed; but being a clever woman she thought out a plan whereby to save her son.

Ex: About this time several of the old crones of the tribe offered their ribald advice on how the new couple should conduct themselves off in the forest together.

* a partir de entonces = from this time on, hereafter, thereafter, whereafter, from then on, thenceforth, henceforth, from that moment on.

* aun entonces = even then.

* de aquel entonces = of that day.

* de entonces = of the day.

* desde aquel entonces = thenceforth.

* desde entonces = ever since, henceforth, in the interim, since, since that time, since then, henceforward, thenceforth, in the intervening years, ever after, in the intervening period, since that day.

* desde entonces hasta la actualidad = from then to the present day.

* el entonces + Nombre = the then + Nombre.

* en aquel entonces = at the time, the then + Nombre, by this time, at that time, in the course of events, during the course of events, back then, in those days.

* entonces al igual que ahora = then as now.

* hasta aquel entonces = until that time.

* hasta entonces = hitherto, up till then, until that time, until then, till then.

* incluso entonces = even then.

* justo entonces = immediately.

* para aquel entonces = by then.

* para entonces = by then.

* por aquel entonces = at the time, about that time, by this time.

* quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....

* si se parece a un pato, anda como un pato y grazna como un pato, en = If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck.

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entonces

adverb

A

1 (en aquel momento) then

no los veo desde entonces I haven't seen them since (then)

para entonces ya nadie se acordaba de él by then o by that time nobody remembered him

el entonces presidente the then president, the president at that time

2 (en aquellos tiempos) then, in those days

por or en aquel entonces in those days

3 (a continuación) then

se acercó y entonces me reconoció he came closer and then he recognized me

B

1 (introduciendo conclusiones) then

si no es así, entonces él me mintió if that's not right, then he lied to me

¿entonces vienes o te quedas? are you coming with us or staying here then?, so are you coming with us or staying here?

¿él se enteró? — no — ¿entonces? did he find out? — no — so o well then, what's the problem?

2 (uso expletivo) well, anyway

entonces, como te iba diciendo … well o anyway, as I was saying …

* * *

entonces adverbio
1 ( en aquel momento) then;
por or en aquel entonces in those days
2
a) ( introduciendo conclusiones) so;

◊ ¿entonces vienes o te quedas? so are you coming with us or staying here?

b) ( uso expletivo) well, anyway;

◊ entonces, como te iba diciendo … well o anyway, as I was saying …

entonces
I adverbio then: entonces íbamos mucho a la playa, at that time we very often used to go to the beach
entonces nos vemos mañana, we'll meet tomorrow then
hasta entonces, manténme informado, keep me informed until then
II conj then: si no les queda en blanco, entonces cógelo en azul, if there isn't any white left, then take the blue one
♦ Locuciones: por aquel entonces/en aquel entonces, in those days: por aquel entonces tú aún no habías nacido, you still hadn't been born at that time
' entonces' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
bochinche
- hasta
- hipnótica
- hipnótico
- irse
- llover
- para
- partir
- preferir
- pues
- tarde
- venir
- ya
- desde
- novedad
English:
intro
- now
- since
- so
- then
- thenceforth
- thereafter
- well
- zenith
- any
- ever
- gone
- there
- way
- when
- which

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entonces adv

1. [en ese instante] then;

entonces abrí la puerta y salí corriendo then I opened the door and ran out;

esperaremos a que se apaguen las luces y entonces salimos we'll wait until the lights go out and then (we'll) leave

2. [en esa época] then;

entonces yo vivía en Manchester I was living in Manchester at the time;

el entonces primer ministro the then prime minister;

de entonces of the time, at that time;

los periódicos de entonces the newspapers at that time o in those days;

desde entonces since then;

desde entonces vengo teniendo pesadillas ever since then I've had nightmares;

desde entonces son enemigos they have been enemies ever since;

en aquel entonces at that time;

en aquel entonces nos conocimos we met at that time;

hasta entonces until then;

hasta entonces, devolvemos la conexión until then, it's back to the studio;

para entonces by then;

esperan que para entonces las obras estén finalizadas they hope the roadworks will be finished by then;

por (aquel) entonces at that time;

por (aquel) entonces estaba soltera she was single at the time

3. [después] then;

¿una bici?, primero aprueba el curso y entonces hablamos a bike? first pass the course and then we'll talk

4. [introduciendo conclusión] then;

entonces ella es la culpable so she's to blame, then;

si no ha llegado, entonces tiene que estar en la oficina if he hasn't arrived yet, then he must still be at the office;

si no te gusta, entonces no vayas if you don't like it, then don't go;

entonces, ¿vienes o no? are you coming or not, then?;

pero entonces, ¿quién lo hizo? well, who did it, then?

* * *

entonces

adv then;

desde entonces since, since then;

por entonces, en aquel entonces in those days, at that time;

hasta entonces until then;

¡pues entonces …! then …!;

¿y entonces qué? and then what?; expresando irritación so?, so what!

* * *

entonces adv

1) : then

2)

desde entonces : since then

3)

en aquel entonces : in those days

* * *

entonces adv then

fue entonces cuando lo vi that was when I saw him

me voy, entonces I'll be off, then

por aquel entonces at that time

Spanish-English dictionary > entonces

16 Carmona, António Óscar de Fragoso

(1869-1951)

   Career army officer, one of the founders of the Estado Novo (1926-74), and the longest-serving president of the republic of that regime (1926-51). Born in Lisbon in 1869, the son of a career cavalry officer, Oscar Carmona entered the army in 1888 and became a lieutenant in 1894, in the same cavalry regiment in which his father had served. He rose rapidly, and became a general during the turbulent First Republic, briefly served as minister of war in 1923, and achieved public notoriety as prosecutor for the military in one of the famous trials of military personnel in an abortive 1925 coup. General Carmona was one of the key supporters of the 28 May 1926 military coup that overthrew the unstable republic and established the initially unstable military dictatorship (1926-33), which was the political system that founded the Estado Novo (1933-74).

   Carmona took power as president upon the ousting of the Twenty-eighth of May coup leader, General Gomes da Costa, and guided the military dictatorship through political and economic uncertainty until the regime settled upon empowering Antônio de Oliveira Salazar with extraordinary fiscal authority as minister of finance (April 1928). Elected in a managed election based on limited male suffrage in 1928, President Carmona served as the Dictatorship's president of the republic until his death in office in 1951 at age 81. In political creed a moderate republican not a monarchist, General (and later Marshal) Carmona played an essential role in the Dictatorship, which involved a division of labor between Dr. Salazar, who, as prime minister since July 1932 was responsible for the daily management of the government, and Carmona, who was responsible for managing civil-military relations in the system, maintaining smooth relations with Dr. Salazar, and keeping the armed forces officer corps in line and out of political intervention.

   Carmona's amiable personality and reputation for personal honesty, correctness, and hard work combined well with a friendly relationship with the civilian dictator Salazar. Especially in the period 1928-44, in his more vigorous years in the position, Carmona's role was vital in both the political and ceremonial aspects of his job. Car-mona's ability to balance the relationship with Salazar and the pressures and demands from a sometimes unhappy army officer corps that, following the civilianization of the regime in the early 1930s, could threaten military intervention in politics and government, was central to the operation of the regime.

   After 1944, however, Carmona was less effective in this role. His tiring ceremonial visits around Portugal, to the Atlantic Islands, and to the overseas empire became less frequent; younger generations of officers grew alienated from the regime; and Carmona suffered from the mental and physical ailments of old age. In the meantime, Salazar assumed the lion's share of political power and authority, all the while placing his own appointees in office. This, along with the regime's political police (PVDE or PIDE), Republican National Guard, and civil service, as well as a circle of political institutions that monopolized public office, privilege, and decision making, made Carmona's role as mediator-intermediary between the career military and the largely civilian-managed system significantly less important. Increasingly feeble and less aware of events around him, Carmona died in office in April 1951 and was replaced by Salazar's chosen appointee, General (and later Marshal) Francisco Craveiro Lopes, who was elected president of the republic in a regime-managed election.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Carmona, António Óscar de Fragoso

17 Preece, Sir William Henry

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology, Public utilities, Telecommunications

[br]

b. 15 February 1834 Bryn Helen, Gwynedd, Wales

d. 6 November 1913 Penrhos, Gwynedd, Wales

[br]

Welsh electrical engineer who greatly furthered the development and use of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Britain, dominating British Post Office engineering during the last two decades of the nineteenth century.

[br]

After education at King's College, London, in 1852 Preece entered the office of Edwin Clark with the intention of becoming a civil engineer, but graduate studies at the Royal Institution under Faraday fired his enthusiasm for things electrical. His earliest work, as connected with telegraphy and in particular its application for securing the safe working of railways; in 1853 he obtained an appointment with the Electric and National Telegraph Company. In 1856 he became Superintendent of that company's southern district, but four years later he moved to telegraph work with the London and South West Railway. From 1858 to 1862 he was also Engineer to the Channel Islands Telegraph Company. When the various telegraph companies in Britain were transferred to the State in 1870, Preece became a Divisional Engineer in the General Post Office (GPO). Promotion followed in 1877, when he was appointed Chief Electrician to the Post Office. One of the first specimens of Bell's telephone was brought to England by Preece and exhibited at the British Association meeting in 1877. From 1892 to 1899 he served as Engineer-in-Chief to the Post Office. During this time he made a number of important contributions to telegraphy, including the use of water as part of telegraph circuits across the Solent (1882) and the Bristol Channel (1888). He also discovered the existence of inductive effects between parallel wires, and with Fleming showed that a current (thermionic) flowed between the hot filament and a cold conductor in an incandescent lamp.

Preece was distinguished by his administrative ability, some scientific insight, considerable engineering intuition and immense energy. He held erroneous views about telephone transmission and, not accepting the work of Oliver Heaviside, made many errors when planning trunk circuits. Prior to the successful use of Hertzian waves for wireless communication Preece carried out experiments, often on a large scale, in attempts at wireless communication by inductive methods. These became of historic interest only when the work of Maxwell and Hertz was developed by Guglielmo Marconi. It is to Preece that credit should be given for encouraging Marconi in 1896 and collaborating with him in his early experimental work on radio telegraphy.

While still employed by the Post Office, Preece contributed to the development of numerous early public electricity schemes, acting as Consultant and often supervising their construction. At Worcester he was responsible for Britain's largest nineteenth-century public hydro-electric station. He received a knighthood on his retirement in 1899, after which he continued his consulting practice in association with his two sons and Major Philip Cardew. Preece contributed some 136 papers and printed lectures to scientific journals, ninety-nine during the period 1877 to 1894.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

CB 1894. Knighted (KCB) 1899. FRS 1881. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers, 1880. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1880, 1893. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1898–9. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1901–2.

Bibliography

Preece produced numerous papers on telegraphy and telephony that were presented as Royal Institution Lectures (see Royal Institution Library of Science, 1974) or as British Association reports.

1862–3, "Railway telegraphs and the application of electricity to the signaling and working of trains", Proceedings of the ICE 22:167–93.

Eleven editions of Telegraphy (with J.Sivewright), London, 1870, were published by 1895.

1883, "Molecular radiation in incandescent lamps", Proceedings of the Physical Society 5: 283.

1885. "Molecular shadows in incandescent lamps". Proceedings of the Physical Society 7: 178.

1886. "Electric induction between wires and wires", British Association Report. 1889, with J.Maier, The Telephone.

1894, "Electric signalling without wires", RSA Journal.

1898, "Aetheric telegraphy", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Further Reading

J.J.Fahie, 1899, History of Wireless Telegraphy 1838–1899, Edinburgh: Blackwood. E.Hawkes, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen.

E.C.Baker, 1976, Sir William Preece, F.R.S. Victorian Engineer Extraordinary, London (a detailed biography with an appended list of his patents, principal lectures and publications).

D.G.Tucker, 1981–2, "Sir William Preece (1834–1913)", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 53:119–36 (a critical review with a summary of his consultancies).

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18 EOP

1) Компьютерная техника: End Of Processing, End of Procedure

2) Военный термин: Emergency Operating Procedures, Executive Office of the President, emergency operations plan, engineering operating procedure, equal opportunity program, equipment operating procedure, ПЭО, бортовая оптико-электронная аппаратура (Electro Optical Payload), ОЭА

3) Техника: EITHER-OR problem, electronic overload protection, electrooptical projector, emergency oil pump, end of paper signal, end of period, end of process character

4) Шутливое выражение: Empire Of Pokemon

5) Математика: End Of Plane

6) Финансы: конец периода (end of period)

7) Сокращение: Electro-Optic Processor, Emergency Off-take Point, Engine Oil Pressure, end of part, Executive Office of the President (US)

8) Университет: English For Occupational Purposes

9) Вычислительная техника: end of output, end of procedures, end of program, End Of Procedure (Fax), конец процедур

10) Нефть: порядок эксплуатации оборудования (equipment operating procedure)

11) СМИ: End Of Paragraph

12) Образование: Education Opportunity Program, Educational Opportunity Program

13) Сетевые технологии: конец вывода

14) Программирование: End Of Production

15) Химическое оружие: Emergency operating procedure, emergency operating plan

16) Уровнеметрия: end of probe

17) Правительство: English Only Policy

18) NYSE. Equity Office Properties Trust

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19 eop

1) Компьютерная техника: End Of Processing, End of Procedure

2) Военный термин: Emergency Operating Procedures, Executive Office of the President, emergency operations plan, engineering operating procedure, equal opportunity program, equipment operating procedure, ПЭО, бортовая оптико-электронная аппаратура (Electro Optical Payload), ОЭА

3) Техника: EITHER-OR problem, electronic overload protection, electrooptical projector, emergency oil pump, end of paper signal, end of period, end of process character

4) Шутливое выражение: Empire Of Pokemon

5) Математика: End Of Plane

6) Финансы: конец периода (end of period)

7) Сокращение: Electro-Optic Processor, Emergency Off-take Point, Engine Oil Pressure, end of part, Executive Office of the President (US)

8) Университет: English For Occupational Purposes

9) Вычислительная техника: end of output, end of procedures, end of program, End Of Procedure (Fax), конец процедур

10) Нефть: порядок эксплуатации оборудования (equipment operating procedure)

11) СМИ: End Of Paragraph

12) Образование: Education Opportunity Program, Educational Opportunity Program

13) Сетевые технологии: конец вывода

14) Программирование: End Of Production

15) Химическое оружие: Emergency operating procedure, emergency operating plan

16) Уровнеметрия: end of probe

17) Правительство: English Only Policy

18) NYSE. Equity Office Properties Trust

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > eop

20 exercice

c black exercice [εgzεʀsis]

masculine noun

   a. ( = travail d'entraînement) exercise

• exercices d'assouplissement limbering up exercises

• exercice d'évacuation fire drill

• exercice de style (littéraire) stylistic composition

   b. ( = activité physique) l'exercice (physique) (physical) exercise

• faire de l'exercice to do some exercise

   c. ( = pratique) [de métier] practice

• l'exercice du pouvoir the exercise of power

• condamné pour exercice illégal de la médecine sentenced for practising medicine illegally

• dans l'exercice de ses fonctions in the exercise of his duties

► en exercice

• être en exercice [médecin] to be in practice ; [juge, fonctionnaire] to be in office

• président en exercice serving chairman

• entrer en exercice to take up one's duties

c black   d. ( = période) year

• l'exercice 1996 the 1996 fiscal year

• exercice comptable accounting year

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✎ Le mot anglais se termine par -se.

* * *
ɛgzɛʀsis
nom masculin

1) ( d'entraînement) exercise

faire un exercice — to do an exercise

exercice de prononciation — pronunciation drill

2) ( activité physique) exercise

faire de l'exercice — to get some exercise

3) ( activité professionnelle)

avoir dix ans d'exercice — to have been working for ten years

dans l'exercice de ses fonctions — [soldat, policier] while on duty; [travailleur] while at work

être en exercice — [fonctionnaire] to be in office; [médecin] to be in practice

en exercice — [ministre, président] incumbent

entrer en exercice — to take up one's duties

4) ( usage) exercise (de of)

5) Armée ( instruction) drill

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Phrasal Verbs:

- exercice d'application

- exercice d'évacuation

- exercice de tir

- exercices structuraux

* * *
ɛɡzɛʀsis nm
1) (mise en pratique) practice

2) (= sport) exercise

faire de l'exercice — to exercise, to do exercise

exercices d'assouplissement — exercises to increase suppleness

3) MILITAIRE drill

4) (= tâche, travail) exercise

5) [métier, fonction] exercise

en exercice (juge) — in office, (médecin) practising

dans l'exercice de ses fonctions — in the discharge of his duties

6) COMMERCE, ADMINISTRATION (= période) accounting period

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exercice nm

1 ( d'entraînement) exercise; faire un exercice to do an exercise; exercice de grammaire/pour violon grammar/violin exercise; exercices de rééducation physiotherapy exercises; exercice de prononciation/d'orthographe pronunciation/spelling drill; c'est un exercice de démocratie it's an exercise in democracy; ça ne s'apprend qu'après un long exercice it takes years of practice;

2 ( activité physique) exercise; faire de l'exercice to get some exercise; se donner de l'exercice to take exercise;

3 ( activité professionnelle) avoir dix ans d'exercice [fonctionnaire] to have been working for 10 years; [professeur] to have been teaching for 10 years; [médecin, avocat] to have been practising^GB ou in practice for 10 years; poursuivi pour exercice illégal de la médecine prosecuted for practising^GB medicine illegally GB ou without a license US; dans l'exercice de ses fonctions [soldat, policier] while on duty; [travailleur] while at work; on leur interdit l'exercice de toute activité politique/commerciale they are forbidden to participate in any political/business activity; être en exercice [fonctionnaire] to be in office; [médecin] to be in practice; en exercice [ministre, président] incumbent; entrer en exercice to take up one's duties;

4 ( usage) exercise (de of); renoncer à l'exercice du droit de réponse to give up one's right of reply;

5 Mil ( instruction) drill; être à l'exercice to be at drill; faire faire l'exercice à des recrues to drill recruits;

6 Fin ( période) exercice (financier) financial year; exercice en cours current year;

7 Fisc ( contrôle) tax assessment by an excise officer.

Composés

exercice d'application practical exercise; exercice budgétaire Admin, Compta financial year; exercice comptable Compta financial year; exercice du culte worship; exercice d'évacuation gén emergency evacuation exercise; ( en cas d'incendie) fire drill; exercice de tir shooting practice ¢ GB, target practice ¢; exercices structuraux Ling structure drills.

[ɛgzɛrsis] nom masculin

1. [mouvement] exercise

exercices d'assouplissement/d'échauffement stretching/warm-up exercises

exercices au sol floor exercises

faire des exercices to exercise

2. [activité physique]

l'exercice (physique) (physical) exercise

faire de l'exercice to take exercise, to exercise

je manque d'exercice I don't get enough exercise

3. ÉDUCATION exercise

faire un exercice to do an exercise

exercice de chimie chemistry exercise

sa dernière collection est un exercice de style (figuré) his latest collection is an exercise in style

4. MILITAIRE drill, exercise

exercices de tir shooting drill ou practice

5. [usage]

l'exercice du pouvoir/d'un droit exercising power/a right

l'exercice d'un métier plying a trade

condamné pour exercice illégal de la médecine condemned for illegal practice of medicine

dans l'exercice de ses fonctions in the exercise of her duties

6. FINANCE year

les impôts pour l'exercice 1993 taxes for the 1993 fiscal ou tax year

exercice budgétaire budgetary year

————————

à l'exercice locution adverbiale

MILITAIRE on parade

en exercice locution adjectivale

[député, juge] sitting

[membre de comité] serving

[avocat, médecin] practising

être en exercice [diplomate, magistrat] to be in ou to hold office

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