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  • 121 economizar

    v.
    1 to save.
    2 to economize, to lay by, to spare, to hold back on.
    * * *
    1 (ahorrar) to economize, save
    2 (usar con cuidado) to use sparingly
    1 to economize, save
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    2.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo < tiempo> to save; <combustible/recursos> to economize on, save
    2.
    economizar vi to economize, save money
    * * *
    = retrench, economise [economize, -USA].
    Ex. In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex. Libraries with strained budgets need to make every effort to economise wherever possible.
    ----
    * Algo que ayuda a economizar = budget stretcher.
    * economizar en cosas importantes y derrochar en nimiedades = penny wise, pound foolish.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo < tiempo> to save; <combustible/recursos> to economize on, save
    2.
    economizar vi to economize, save money
    * * *
    = retrench, economise [economize, -USA].

    Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.

    Ex: Libraries with strained budgets need to make every effort to economise wherever possible.
    * Algo que ayuda a economizar = budget stretcher.
    * economizar en cosas importantes y derrochar en nimiedades = penny wise, pound foolish.

    * * *
    economizar [A4 ]
    vt
    ‹tiempo› to save; ‹combustible/recursos› to economize on, save
    economiza sus palabras he is very sparing with words
    ■ economizar
    vi
    to economize, make economies o savings, save money
    * * *

    economizar ( conjugate economizar) verbo transitivo ‹ tiempo› to save;
    ‹combustible/recursos› to economize on, save
    verbo intransitivo
    to economize, save money
    economizar
    I verbo transitivo to save, economize on, skimp on: este invierno debemos economizar combustible, we'll have to go easy on the petrol this winter
    II verbo intransitivo to economize: usamos papel reciclado para economizar, we use recycled paper to save money
    ' economizar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    cut down
    - economize
    - outsourcing
    - economy
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to save
    ♦ vi
    [ahorrar dinero] to save, to economize
    * * *
    v/t economize on, save;
    economizar esfuerzos save one’s energy;
    no debemos economizar esfuerzos we must spare no effort
    * * *
    economizar {21} vt
    : to save, to economize on
    : to save up, to be frugal

    Spanish-English dictionary > economizar

  • 122 moderado

    adj.
    1 moderate, abstinent, abstemious, even-tempered.
    Es un hombre muy medido He is a very frugal [measured] man.
    2 moderate, gentle.
    3 discrete.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: moderar.
    * * *
    1 moderate
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 moderate
    * * *
    (f. - moderada)
    noun adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < temperatura> moderate; < precio> reasonable; <ideología/facción> moderate
    II
    - da masculino, femenino moderate
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], mild, moderate, middle-ground, restrained, low-key [low key], temperate, moderate, moderated, sparing, low-keyed, guarded, measured.
    Ex. Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.
    Ex. If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.
    Ex. In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex. Beginning with a middle-ground strategy may offer the best balance between Recall and Precision.
    Ex. The stereotype of the governess as exemplified in Jane Eyre -- intelligent, restrained, soberly clad -- was the predecessor of the librarian as an occupation in which the women of the period, the 'guardians of morality' could find genteel employment.
    Ex. Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex. Being on the ocean means that Boston's climate is temperate in the summer.
    Ex. This paper examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
    Ex. this paper discusses some of the issues involved in using electronic mailing lists and listservs and describes 2 basic types of listservs: open lists; controlled lists and moderated lists.
    Ex. The committee was very sparing in its recommendations of proposals for debate.
    Ex. Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex. Britain has given a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum will be held on a new constitution in May.
    Ex. This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    ----
    * optimismo moderado = guarded optimism.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo < temperatura> moderate; < precio> reasonable; <ideología/facción> moderate
    II
    - da masculino, femenino moderate
    * * *
    = gentle [gentler -comp., gentlest -sup.], mild, moderate, middle-ground, restrained, low-key [low key], temperate, moderate, moderated, sparing, low-keyed, guarded, measured.

    Ex: Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.

    Ex: If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour (green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.
    Ex: In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex: Beginning with a middle-ground strategy may offer the best balance between Recall and Precision.
    Ex: The stereotype of the governess as exemplified in Jane Eyre -- intelligent, restrained, soberly clad -- was the predecessor of the librarian as an occupation in which the women of the period, the 'guardians of morality' could find genteel employment.
    Ex: Activity is still low key, but will increase when the British Library puts up data bases on its own computer in 1977.
    Ex: Being on the ocean means that Boston's climate is temperate in the summer.
    Ex: This paper examines the ways in which extremists and moderates in the two communities frame the televised representation of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
    Ex: this paper discusses some of the issues involved in using electronic mailing lists and listservs and describes 2 basic types of listservs: open lists; controlled lists and moderated lists.
    Ex: The committee was very sparing in its recommendations of proposals for debate.
    Ex: Overall, he provides a low-keyed, lucid account that, with its many-leveled approach, does more than justice to the complex themes it studies.
    Ex: Britain has given a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum will be held on a new constitution in May.
    Ex: This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
    * optimismo moderado = guarded optimism.

    * * *
    moderado1 -da
    1 ‹temperatura› moderate; ‹precio› reasonable
    2 ‹ideología/facción› moderate
    3 ‹persona/comportamiento› restrained
    moderado2 -da
    masculine, feminine
    moderate
    * * *

    Del verbo moderar: ( conjugate moderar)

    moderado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    moderado    
    moderar
    moderado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    a) ‹persona/comportamiento› restrained


    ‹ precio› reasonable;
    ‹ideología/facción› moderate
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    moderate
    moderar ( conjugate moderar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹impulsos/aspiraciones› to curb, moderate;


    b) ‹gasto/consumo› to curb;

    ‹ velocidad› to reduce
    2 ‹debate/coloquio› to moderate, chair
    moderarse verbo pronominal:
    ◊ modérate, estás comiendo mucho restrain yourself o (colloq) go easy, you're eating too much;

    moderadose en los gastos to cut down on spending
    moderado,-a adjetivo
    1 (persona, ideas) moderate
    2 (precio) reasonable
    (temperatura, viento) mild
    moderar verbo transitivo
    1 to moderate: tienes que moderar esos hábitos, you have to kick your bad habits
    2 (velocidad) to reduce: al llegar a la curva, modere la velocidad, slow down at the curve
    3 (una discusión) to chair: tengo que moderar un debate en el Ateneo, I have to chair a debate at the Ateneo

    ' moderado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    moderada
    - sobria
    - sobrio
    - comedido
    - fresco
    - parco
    English:
    measured
    - middle-of-the-road
    - moderate
    - restrained
    - wet
    - gentle
    - middle
    - modest
    - reasonable
    * * *
    moderado, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [persona] moderate;
    es una persona moderada he's not given to excesses
    2. [velocidad] moderate;
    [precio] reasonable;
    habrá lluvias moderadas en el norte there will be some rain in the north
    3. [en política] moderate
    ♦ nm,f
    moderate
    * * *
    I adj moderate
    II m, moderada f moderate
    * * *
    moderado, -da adj & n
    : moderate
    * * *
    moderado adj moderate

    Spanish-English dictionary > moderado

  • 123 pobreza

    f.
    poverty.
    pobreza de lack o scarcity of
    pobreza de espíritu weakness of character
    * * *
    2 (falta) lack, scarcity
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) want
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=falta de dinero) poverty
    2) (=escasez)
    3) (Rel)
    * * *
    a) ( económica) poverty
    b) ( mediocridad) poverty, poorness
    c) ( de la tierra) poorness, poor quality
    * * *
    = anaemia [anemia, -USA], poverty, scarcity, penury.
    Ex. His work is criticized for its triviality, quantity, linguistically impoverished style, anemia of characterization, and cliched, stereotyped ideas and plots.
    Ex. The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.
    Ex. The relative scarcity of music automated authority and bibliographic records likewise increases costs.
    Ex. The practice found in some libraries of using the index to the scheme as an index to the catalogue is a makeshift expedient, by penury out of ignorance, and must be condemned.
    ----
    * de la fortuna a la pobreza = riches to rags.
    * de la pobreza a la fortuna = rags to riches.
    * de la pobreza a la riqueza = from rags to riches.
    * feminización de la pobreza = feminisation of poverty.
    * luchar contra la pobreza = fight + poverty.
    * nivel de pobreza = poverty level.
    * pobreza de información = information poverty.
    * trampa de la pobreza = poverty trap.
    * vivir al borde de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.
    * vivir en el umbral de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.
    * vivir en la pobreza = walk + the streets of misery.
    * * *
    a) ( económica) poverty
    b) ( mediocridad) poverty, poorness
    c) ( de la tierra) poorness, poor quality
    * * *
    = anaemia [anemia, -USA], poverty, scarcity, penury.

    Ex: His work is criticized for its triviality, quantity, linguistically impoverished style, anemia of characterization, and cliched, stereotyped ideas and plots.

    Ex: The economically told chronicle of Slake's adventures is an eloquent study of poverty, of fear, and finally of hope as circumstances converge to force Slake from his temporary limbo.
    Ex: The relative scarcity of music automated authority and bibliographic records likewise increases costs.
    Ex: The practice found in some libraries of using the index to the scheme as an index to the catalogue is a makeshift expedient, by penury out of ignorance, and must be condemned.
    * de la fortuna a la pobreza = riches to rags.
    * de la pobreza a la fortuna = rags to riches.
    * de la pobreza a la riqueza = from rags to riches.
    * feminización de la pobreza = feminisation of poverty.
    * luchar contra la pobreza = fight + poverty.
    * nivel de pobreza = poverty level.
    * pobreza de información = information poverty.
    * trampa de la pobreza = poverty trap.
    * vivir al borde de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.
    * vivir en el umbral de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.
    * vivir en la pobreza = walk + the streets of misery.

    * * *
    1 (económica) poverty
    viven en la más extrema pobreza they live in abject poverty
    pobreza franciscana abject poverty
    vivían en una pobreza franciscana they were poverty-stricken, they lived in abject o absolute poverty
    2 (mediocridad) poverty, poorness
    su conversación es de una pobreza deprimente his conversation is depressingly dull
    pobreza cultural y espiritual cultural and spiritual poverty
    3 (de la tierra) poorness, poor quality
    * * *

     

    pobreza sustantivo femenino




    pobreza sustantivo femenino poverty
    ' pobreza' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bolsa
    - demasiada
    - demasiado
    - madre
    - miseria
    - núcleo
    - progresiva
    - progresivo
    - sacar
    - sordidez
    - tiña
    - campesino
    - humildad
    - necesidad
    - penuria
    English:
    close
    - curse
    - deprivation
    - destitution
    - divorce
    - ensue
    - penury
    - pettiness
    - pocket
    - poverty
    - poverty-stricken
    - squalor
    - hand
    - weakness
    * * *
    1. [de bienes] poverty;
    vivir en la pobreza to live in poverty;
    pobreza de espíritu spiritual poverty
    2. [escasez] poverty;
    pobreza de ideas poverty of ideas
    3. [de terreno] barrenness
    * * *
    f poverty
    * * *
    : poverty
    * * *
    pobreza n poverty

    Spanish-English dictionary > pobreza

  • 124 restringido

    adj.
    1 restricted, limited, qualified.
    2 frugally restricted, frugal.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: restringir.
    * * *
    (f. - restringida)
    adj.
    limited, restricted
    * * *
    ADJ restricted, limited
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < libertad> restricted, limited; <posibilidades/cantidad> limited
    * * *
    = reduced, restrictive, restricted, curtailed, unapproved, hampered.
    Ex. The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.
    Ex. These beliefs will determine how restrictive or nonrestrictive the library will be in terms of providing physical and intellectual access to information.
    Ex. Librarians are experiencing dissatisfaction with the restricted opportunities available to them to find expression for, and recognition of, their skills in the present climate of change.
    Ex. Most of their libraries offer 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. opening on weekdays, and a somewhat curtailed opening day on Saturdays.
    Ex. Tenure came into being to protect the academic freedom of scholars who intellectually venture into new or unapproved areas of knowledge.
    Ex. Such effects are often explicable in terms of the inability of the hampered roots to supply the shoot with water or nutrients.
    ----
    * acceso restringido = restricted access.
    * biblioteca de acceso restringido = closed-stack library.
    * cada vez más restringido = tightening.
    * campo restringido = limit field.
    * de acceso restringido = closed access.
    * estar restringido = be constrained.
    * fondos de acceso restringido = closed access collection, closed stacks.
    * no restringido = non-restrictive, unconfined.
    * ser restringido = be constrained.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo < libertad> restricted, limited; <posibilidades/cantidad> limited
    * * *
    = reduced, restrictive, restricted, curtailed, unapproved, hampered.

    Ex: The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.

    Ex: These beliefs will determine how restrictive or nonrestrictive the library will be in terms of providing physical and intellectual access to information.
    Ex: Librarians are experiencing dissatisfaction with the restricted opportunities available to them to find expression for, and recognition of, their skills in the present climate of change.
    Ex: Most of their libraries offer 9.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. opening on weekdays, and a somewhat curtailed opening day on Saturdays.
    Ex: Tenure came into being to protect the academic freedom of scholars who intellectually venture into new or unapproved areas of knowledge.
    Ex: Such effects are often explicable in terms of the inability of the hampered roots to supply the shoot with water or nutrients.
    * acceso restringido = restricted access.
    * biblioteca de acceso restringido = closed-stack library.
    * cada vez más restringido = tightening.
    * campo restringido = limit field.
    * de acceso restringido = closed access.
    * estar restringido = be constrained.
    * fondos de acceso restringido = closed access collection, closed stacks.
    * no restringido = non-restrictive, unconfined.
    * ser restringido = be constrained.

    * * *
    ‹libertad› restricted, limited; ‹posibilidades› limited
    un número restringido de personas a limited number of people
    * * *

    Del verbo restringir: ( conjugate restringir)

    restringido es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    restringido    
    restringir
    restringido
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ libertad› restricted, limited;


    ‹posibilidades/cantidad› limited
    restringir ( conjugate restringir) verbo transitivo
    to restrict
    restringir vtr (el acceso a un lugar, derecho) to restrict, limit
    (el consumo, distribución de algo) to cut back, restrict
    ' restringido' also found in these entries:
    English:
    open
    - clamp
    - narrow
    * * *
    restringido, -a adj
    limited, restricted
    * * *
    restringido, -da adj
    limitado: limited, restricted

    Spanish-English dictionary > restringido

  • 125 sobria

    adj.&f.
    sober (templado), temperate, frugal, abstemious.
    * * *
    f., (m. - sobrio)
    * * *

    sobrio,-a adjetivo sober
    1 (algo o alguien moderado, sencillo y elegante a la vez) es una persona muy sobria vistiendo, he dresses very simply
    la casa tiene una decoración sobria, the house is decorated very plainly
    2 (alguien que no ha bebido alcohol) no he tomado ni una copa, estoy sobrio, I'm completely sober, I haven't touched a drop
    ' sobria' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    sobrio

    Spanish-English dictionary > sobria

  • 126 templada

    adj.
    1 temperate, tempered, moderate (moderado), abstemious (en beber), frugal, lukewarm.
    2 well-tuned.
    3 bold, forthright (franco); courageous (valiente).
    4 able (hábil), competent. (Central America & Mexico)
    5 tipsy (borracho). (Andes & Caribbean)
    past part.
    past participle of TEMPLAR.
    * * *
    f., (m. - templado)
    * * *

    templado,-a adjetivo
    1 (tibio) warm: lávalo en agua templada, wash it in lukewarm water
    2 Meteor mild, temperate
    3 (que tiene templanza) restrained, sober
    (con temple) courageous
    4 Mús tuned
    ' templada' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    templado

    Spanish-English dictionary > templada

  • 127 अमुक्त _amukta

    अमुक्त a.
    1 Not loosened, not let go.
    -2 Not libe- rated from recurring birth and death, not having got final beatitude.
    -क्तम् A weapon (a knife, sword &c.) that is always grasped and not thrown. चतुर्विधमायुधम् । मुक्तममुक्तं मुक्तामुक्तं यन्त्रमुक्तं चेति Dhanur. V.4.
    -Comp. -हस्त a. one whose hand is not open or free (to give), sparing, stingy (in a bad sense); frugal, economical, prudent (in a good sense); सदा प्रहृष्टया भाव्यं व्यये चामुक्तहस्तया Ms.5.15.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > अमुक्त _amukta

  • 128 कपोतः _kapōtḥ

    कपोतः [को वायुः पोत इव यस्य Tv.]
    1 A dove, pigeon.
    -2 A bird in general.
    -3 A particular position of the hands.
    -4 The grey colour of a pigeon.
    -Comp. -अङ्घ्रिः f. a sort of perfume.
    -अञ्जनम् antimony.
    -अरिः a hawk, falcon.
    -आभ a. of the colour of a pigeon. (
    -भः) a pale of dirty white colour.
    -चरणा a sort of perfume.
    -पालिका, -पाली f. an aviary, a pigeon-house, dove-cot.
    -राजः the king of pigeons.
    -वर्णी Small cardamoms.
    -वाणा a kind of perfume.
    -वृत्तिः f. to be very frugal, gathering very little for maintenance; कपोतवृत्त्या पक्षेण व्रीहिद्रोणमुपार्जयत् Mb.3.26.5.
    -सारम् antimony.
    -हस्तः a mode of folding the hands in supplication, fear &c.; कपोतहस्तकं कृत्वा Ś.6.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > कपोतः _kapōtḥ

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  • frugal — [fro͞o′gəl] adj. [L frugalis < frugi, fit for food, hence proper, worthy, frugal, orig. dat. of frux (gen. frugis), fruits, produce: for IE base see FRUIT] 1. not wasteful; not spending freely or unnecessarily; thrifty; economical 2. not… …   English World dictionary

  • frugal — 1590s, from M.Fr. frugal, from L. frugalis, from undeclined adj. frugi useful, proper, worthy, honest; temperate, economical, originally dative of frux (pl. fruges) fruit, produce, figuratively value, result, success, related to fructus (see… …   Etymology dictionary

  • frugal — »einfach (aber gesund und nahrhaft)«: Das Adjektiv wurde im 18./19. Jh. entlehnt aus frz. frugal < lat. frugalis »zu den Früchten gehörig, fruchtig«; zu lat. frux (frugis), vgl. ↑ Frucht. Gemeint ist also eigentlich das ländlich bäuerliche… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

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