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(position in hierarchy)

  • 1 jerarquía

    f.
    1 hierarchy, ladder of authority, rank, line of authority.
    2 authority.
    * * *
    1 hierarchy
    2 (grado) scale
    4 (persona) high-ranking person
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    noun f.
    * * *
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    a) ( organización) hierarchy
    b) (categoría, rango) rank
    * * *
    = hierarchy, ladder, tree, pecking order, ranking order, ranking.
    Ex. Figure 12.1 shows a small hierarchy of subjects, or a group of ranked subjects which incorporates some statement of the relationships between those subjects.
    Ex. Special attention should be given to Figure 2, which proposes two lattices (or ladders) for career movement in libraries.
    Ex. 'Tree' will show related terms linked by the tree structure; 'explode' will automatically expand the search term to include those terms in the same tree, using OR logic.
    Ex. Libraries have a peculiar pecking order -- public, academic, special.
    Ex. Library applications may require special arrangements in order to overcome certain difficulties posed by a pre-determined ranking order.
    Ex. Those documents with sufficiently high rankings will be deemed relevant and eventually retrieved.
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    * jerarquía "es un tipo de" = is-a hierarchy.
    * jerarquía de poder = scalar chain.
    * jerarquía social = social hierarchy.
    * * *
    a) ( organización) hierarchy
    b) (categoría, rango) rank
    * * *
    = hierarchy, ladder, tree, pecking order, ranking order, ranking.

    Ex: Figure 12.1 shows a small hierarchy of subjects, or a group of ranked subjects which incorporates some statement of the relationships between those subjects.

    Ex: Special attention should be given to Figure 2, which proposes two lattices (or ladders) for career movement in libraries.
    Ex: 'Tree' will show related terms linked by the tree structure; 'explode' will automatically expand the search term to include those terms in the same tree, using OR logic.
    Ex: Libraries have a peculiar pecking order -- public, academic, special.
    Ex: Library applications may require special arrangements in order to overcome certain difficulties posed by a pre-determined ranking order.
    Ex: Those documents with sufficiently high rankings will be deemed relevant and eventually retrieved.
    * jerarquía "es un tipo de" = is-a hierarchy.
    * jerarquía de poder = scalar chain.
    * jerarquía social = social hierarchy.

    * * *
    1 (organización) hierarchy
    la jerarquía eclesiástica/militar the ecclesiastical/military hierarchy
    2 (categoría, rango) rank
    no se aprovechaba de su jerarquía he didn't abuse his position o rank
    * * *

     

    jerarquía sustantivo femenino

    b) (categoría, rango) rank

    jerarquía sustantivo femenino
    1 hierarchy: el papa encabeza la jerarquía de su Iglesia, the Pope is at the top of the Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy
    2 (grado, escalafón) rank
    ' jerarquía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    degradar
    - nivel
    - suma
    - sumo
    - abajo
    - arriba
    - burocrático
    - escalar
    - igual
    - inferior
    - primero
    - sobre
    - subalterno
    - superior
    English:
    deputy
    - grade
    - hierarchy
    - senior
    - seniority
    - tier
    - high
    - pecking order
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    1. [autoridades] hierarchy;
    la jerarquía católica del país the leaders of the Catholic church in the country;
    2. [rango] rank;
    en esta oficina hay varias jerarquías there is a clear hierarchy in this office
    * * *
    f hierarchy
    * * *
    1) : hierarchy
    2) rango: rank

    Spanish-English dictionary > jerarquía

  • 2 alto cargo

    m.
    high-ranking position, senior post, high office.
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    top job, high-ranking position
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    masculino ( puesto) high-ranking position; ( persona) high-ranking official
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    (n.) = senior post, top official, senior position, top person [top people, -pl.], top executive, top position, senior manager, senior executive, high official, top manager, senior official
    Ex. After a brief historical outline of the development of commercial library facilities, the 2 senior posts of Business Information Librarian and Business Information Officer are described.
    Ex. Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex. The future will see more women in senior positions in publishing.
    Ex. If you are interested in learning about meeting the top people in the field please fill out the form below.
    Ex. A survey of 40 organisations was used to identify the problems more frequently encountered by top executives using computers for decision support.
    Ex. In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex. Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager.
    Ex. The unit should be centrally located in the industrial complex and headed by a senior executive directly answerable to top management.
    Ex. At the top of the hierarchy would be the high officials and their families: the vizier, the overseer of the treasury, and the first priest.
    Ex. In comparison with the previous year, the remuneration of top managers grew on average by about 7.5% in 2002.
    Ex. The delay could have been avoided, if senior officials were empowered to requisition aircraft from any operator.
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    masculino ( puesto) high-ranking position; ( persona) high-ranking official
    * * *
    (n.) = senior post, top official, senior position, top person [top people, -pl.], top executive, top position, senior manager, senior executive, high official, top manager, senior official

    Ex: After a brief historical outline of the development of commercial library facilities, the 2 senior posts of Business Information Librarian and Business Information Officer are described.

    Ex: Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex: The future will see more women in senior positions in publishing.
    Ex: If you are interested in learning about meeting the top people in the field please fill out the form below.
    Ex: A survey of 40 organisations was used to identify the problems more frequently encountered by top executives using computers for decision support.
    Ex: In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex: Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager.
    Ex: The unit should be centrally located in the industrial complex and headed by a senior executive directly answerable to top management.
    Ex: At the top of the hierarchy would be the high officials and their families: the vizier, the overseer of the treasury, and the first priest.
    Ex: In comparison with the previous year, the remuneration of top managers grew on average by about 7.5% in 2002.
    Ex: The delay could have been avoided, if senior officials were empowered to requisition aircraft from any operator.

    Spanish-English dictionary > alto cargo

  • 3 Processing Systems

       Determining the Hierarchical Position of a Processing System Involved in a Performance Task
       The position of any processing system within the hierarchy is determined by two major criteria: (1) the generality-specificity of the processing system and (2) the degree of automaticity of the processing system. Relatively general and non-automatic processes appear towards the top of the hierarchy, and specific, automatic processes occur at the bottom. As a rule of thumb, the location in the hierarchy of the processes involved in the performance of a task can be assessed by a series of experiments in which the task is paired with several others: higher-level processes will more consistently produce interference than will low-level processes. (Eysenck, 1982, p. 45)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Processing Systems

  • 4 jerarquizar

    v.
    1 to structure in a hierarchical manner.
    2 to hierarchize, to echelon, to rank, to dispose in hierarchies.
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    1 to organize into hierarchies
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    VT [+ organismo] to give a hierarchical structure to; [+ elementos] to arrange in order (of importance)
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    verbo transitivo
    a) < organización> to organize... into a hierarchy
    b) ( poner por orden) to arrange... in order of importance
    * * *
    = prioritise [prioritize, -USA].
    Ex. The selection, which also takes account of the Corporation's user survey, will prioritise feature, cartoon and puppet films for children.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) < organización> to organize... into a hierarchy
    b) ( poner por orden) to arrange... in order of importance
    * * *
    = prioritise [prioritize, -USA].

    Ex: The selection, which also takes account of the Corporation's user survey, will prioritise feature, cartoon and puppet films for children.

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    vt
    1 ‹organización› to organize … into a hierarchy, make … hierarchical
    2 (poner por orden) to arrange … in order of importance
    * * *
    to structure in a hierarchical manner;
    la empresa está jerarquizada según la antigüedad de sus empleados one's position in the company is dependent on seniority;
    el poder jerarquiza la sociedad power creates a hierarchy within society
    * * *
    v/t organize into a hierarchy

    Spanish-English dictionary > jerarquizar

  • 5 placé

    place [plas]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = esplanade) square
       b. ( = emplacement) place ; (assise) seat
    • laisser sa place à qn to give up one's seat to sb ; (figurative) to hand over to sb
    • prendre la place de qn to take sb's place ; ( = remplacer qn) to take over from sb
    • places assises 20, places debout 40 seating capacity 20, standing passengers 40
       c. ( = espace) room ; ( = emplacement réservé) space
       d. ( = billet) seat ; ( = prix, trajet) fare
       f. ( = emploi) job ; [de domestique] position
    • dans les médias, les places sont chères there's a lot of competition for jobs in the media
       i. (locutions)
    ► à la place ( = en échange) instead
    ► à la place de ( = au lieu de) instead of
    • se mettre à la place de qn to put o.s. in sb's shoes► à sa etc place ( = à l'endroit habituel)
    • à ma place, tu aurais accepté ? if you were me, would you have agreed?
    • mettre en place [+ service d'ordre] to deploy ; [+ mécanisme, dispositif] to install
    • (à consommer) sur place ou à emporter ? sit in or take away?
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    plas
    1) ( espace) room, space
    2) (emplacement, espace défini) gén place; ( pour s'asseoir) seat

    deux places pour ‘Le Lac des Cygnes’ — two tickets for ‘Swan Lake’

    place aux jeunes or à la jeunesse! — lit, fig make way for the young!

    payer sa place — (au cinéma, théâtre) to pay for one's ticket; ( dans un train etc) to pay one's fare

    les places sont chères — fig ( parking difficile) parking spaces are hard to find; ( âpre concurrence dans l'emploi) jobs are hard to come by

    prenez place — ( sur un siège) take a seat; ( chacun à son siège) take your seats; ( chacun à son poste) take your places

    sur place — [aller] to the scene; [arriver] on the scene; [étudier] on the spot; [enquête] on-the-spot

    3) ( dans un classement) place; ( dans un ordre) position

    à la place de — instead of, in place of

    en place — [système, structures] in place (après n); [troupes] in position (après n); [dirigeant, parti] ruling (épith)

    mettre en place — to put [something] in place [programme]; to put [something] in position [équipe]; to establish, to set up [réseau, institution]; to install [ligne téléphonique]

    7) Finance market
    8) ( emploi) job

    être maître de la place — lit to be in control; fig to rule the roost

    avoir un pied dans la place — fig to have a foot in the door

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
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    plas nf
    1) [ville, village] square
    2) [train, cinéma, voiture] seat

    Toutes les places ont été vendues. — All the seats have been sold.

    Il n'a pas payé sa place. — He didn't pay for his ticket.

    Il y a vingt places assises. — There are 20 seats.

    Il y a 20 places debout. — There is standing room for 20.

    3) (= endroit où l'on est assis) seat

    la place d'honneur — the place of honour Grande-Bretagne the place of honor USA the seat of honour Grande-Bretagne the seat of honor USA

    4) (= emplacement) place
    5) (espace libre) room, space

    ça prend de la place — it takes up a lot of room, it takes up a lot of space

    faire de la place à — to make room for, to make space for

    6) (place de stationnement) parking place

    Il ne reste plus de place pour se garer. — There's nowhere left to park.

    Vincent a eu la troisième place au concours. — Vincent got third place in the competition.

    8) (= emploi) job

    à la place de — instead of, in place of

    Il ne reste plus de tarte; désirez-vous quelque chose d'autre à la place? — There's no tart left; would you like something else instead?

    de place en place — here and there, in places

    par places — here and there, in places

    See:
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    place nf
    1 ( espace) room, space; avoir de la place to have room ou space (pour faire to do); il y a encore assez de place pour deux personnes/valises there's enough room ou space left for two people/suitcases; avoir la place de faire to have enough room ou space to do; prendre de la place to take up room ou space; (faire) perdre/gagner de la place to waste/to save space; faire de la place to make room ou space (à qn/qch for sb/sth; pour faire to do); se faire de la place to make room ou space for oneself; laisser de la place (pour une personne, un meuble) to leave enough room ou space; ( pour un écrit) to leave enough space; laisse-moi un peu de place pour leur écrire un mot leave me a bit of space to write them a few lines;
    2 (emplacement, espace défini) gén place; ( pour s'asseoir) seat; chaque chose à sa place everything in its place; il est resté une heure à la même place he stayed in the same place for an hour; remettre qch à sa place to put sth back in its place; les dictionnaires ne sont pas à la bonne/à leur place the dictionaries aren't in the right place/where they should be; j'ai deux places pour ‘Le Lac des Cygnes’ I've got two tickets for ‘Swan Lake’; il reste une place en première there's one seat left in first class; laisse ta place à la dame! give the lady your seat!; est-ce que cette place est libre? is this seat free?; une salle de 200 places a 200 seat auditorium; j'ai eu une place gratuite I got a free seat; garde-moi ma place ( dans une file) keep my place; (dans un train, au cinéma) keep my seat; garde-moi une place (dans le train, au cinéma) keep me a seat; payer sa place (au cinéma, théâtre) to pay for one's ticket; Transp to pay one's fare; payer place entière (au cinéma, théâtre) to pay full price; Transp to pay full fare; les places sont chères fig ( parking difficile) parking spaces are hard to find; ( âpre concurrence dans l'emploi) jobs are hard to come by; prenez place ( sur un siège) take a seat; ( chacun à son siège) take your seats; ( chacun à son poste) take your places; prendre place ( s'asseoir) to take a seat; ( s'installer) [exposant, stand] to set up; [tireur, policier] to position oneself; ( s'intégrer) to take one's place; roman qui a pris place parmi les plus grands novel that has taken its place among the greatest; sur place [aller, envoyer, se rendre] to the scene; [arriver] on the scene; [être, trouver, sautiller, étudier] on the spot; [enquête, recherche, tournage] on-the-spot ( épith); de place en place here and there; voiture de quatre places four-seater car; divan à trois places three-seater sofa; ⇒ chasse;
    3 ( emplacement pour se garer) parking place; appartement avec place de parking apartment with parking space; je n'ai pas trouvé de place pour or où me garer I couldn't find a parking space ou a place to park; un parking de 500 places a car park for 500 cars;
    4 (rang dans un classement, la société) place; ( position dans un ordre) position; prendre la place de qn to take sb's place; prendre or obtenir la deuxième place to take second place (à in); il est dans les premières/dernières places he's up toward(s) the top/down toward(s) the bottom; la place d'un mot dans une phrase the position of a word in a sentence; se faire une place dans le monde de la finance to carve out a place for oneself in the world of finance; être en bonne place pour gagner/réussir to be well-placed ou in a good position to win/succeed; il occupe une place éminente he holds a very high position (à, dans in); chacun (à) sa place everyone should know his place; il faut savoir rester à sa place you must know your place; il n'est pas à sa place dans cette réception he looks out of place at this reception; je ne me sens pas à ma place dans ce milieu I feel out of place in this environment; remettre qn à sa place to put sb in his/her place; quelle place faire à l'art? what place can be afforded to art?; avoir sa place dans to deserve a place in; il n'y a pas de place pour eux dans notre système there is no place for them in our system; avoir une place à part or de choix dans to have a special place in; tenir une grande place/une place très importante dans la vie de qn to play a large part/a very important part in sb's life; donner or consacrer or faire une large place à qch to put a lot of emphasis on sth; la place croissante de l'environnement en politique the growing emphasis on the environment in politics; notre travail laisse peu de place à l'imagination our work leaves little room for the imagination; faire place à to give way to; place aux jeunes or à la jeunesse! lit, fig make way for the young!;
    5 ( substitution) à la place de instead of, in place of; il a mis de la vodka à la place du cognac he's used vodka instead of brandy; il y a maintenant un comité à la place de l'ancien directeur there's now a committee in place of the former manager; ils sont partis/ont été récompensés à notre place they went/were rewarded instead of us; qu'aurais-tu fait à ma place? what would you have done in my place?; (si j'étais) à ta place if I were in your position ou shoes; mets-toi à leur place put yourself in their position ou shoes; téléphone-lui toi-même, je ne peux pas le faire à ta place! phone him yourself, I can't do it for you!; j'ai mis le vase à la place du cendrier I put the vase where the ashtray was; construire une école à la place de la gare ( où était la gare) to build a school where the station used to be; ( où était prévue la gare) to build a school where the station should have been; ( au lieu de) to build a school instead of a station;
    6 ( situation définie) en place [système, structures] in place ( après n); [troupes] in position ( après n); [dirigeant, pouvoir, régime, parti] ruling ( épith); les gens en place the powers that be; nos hommes sont en place our men are in position; ne plus tenir en place to be restless ou fidgety; les enfants ne tiennent plus en place the children keep fidgeting; mettre en place to put [sth] in place [grillage, programme, règlement, stratégie]; to put [sth] in ou into position [satellite, troupes, équipe]; to establish, to set up [réseau, marché, régime, institution]; to install [ligne téléphonique, canalisations]; se mettre en place [plan, politique, système, structure] to be put in place; [forces, troupes, police] ( être mis en position) to be put in ou into position; ( soi-même) to position oneself; [réseau, marché, régime] to be established, to be set up; mise en place (de grillage, système, normes, services) putting in place; (de satellite, forces, d'équipe) positioning; (de réseau, marché, régime, d'institution) establishment, setting up; (de ligne téléphonique, canalisation) installationGB; remettre en place to put [sth] back in place; on se retrouve sur place we'll meet up there; je suis sur place, je peux le faire I'm on the spot, I can do it; dépannage/inscriptions sur place on-the-spot repairs/registration; ouvrage à consulter sur place reference book; laisser qn sur place to leave sb standing;
    7 ( dans une agglomération) square; la place du village the village square; sur la place Tiananmen/Rouge in Tiananmen/Red Square; la place de la Concorde the Place de la Concorde; la place du marché the marketplace;
    8 Fin market; place financière financial market; sur la place parisienne or de Paris on the Paris market;
    9 ( emploi) job; avoir une bonne place chez to have a good job with; perdre sa place to lose one's job; c'est une place très recherchée or demandée it's a highly sought-after job ou position; il y a des places à prendre there are good job opportunities;
    10 ( forteresse) entrer dans la place to get in on the inside; être dans la place to be on the inside; être maître de la place lit to be in control; fig to rule the roost; se rendre maître de la place to take control; avoir un pied dans la place fig to have a foot in the door.
    place d'armes Mil parade ground; place assise seat; place forte Mil fortified town; place d'honneur ( à table) place ou seat of honourGB; la place publique the public; intéresser la place publique to interest the public; sur la place publique [célébrer, apprendre, entendre] in public; mettre or porter or étaler qch sur la place publique to bring sth out in the open [[information, projet].
    je ne lâcherais or donnerais pas ma place pour un empire I wouldn't change places for the world ou for all the tea in China; une place pour chaque chose et chaque chose à sa place Prov a place for everything and everything in its place.
    ( féminin placée) [plase] adjectif
    1. [aux courses]
    2. [situé]
    a. [magasin, appartement] well-situated
    b. [fermeture, bouton, couture] well-positioned
    a. [magasin, appartement] badly-located
    b. [fermeture, bouton, couture] poorly-positioned
    c. [coup] below the belt
    d. [abcès] in an awkward spot
    f. [orgueil] misplaced
    on était très bien/mal placés [au spectacle] we had really good/bad seats
    être bien/mal placé pour (figuré) to be in a/no position to
    3. [socialement]
    haut placé well up ou high up in the hierarchy

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > placé

  • 6 apropiado

    adj.
    1 appropriate, convenient, apt, fit.
    2 appropriate, correct.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: apropiar.
    * * *
    1→ link=apropiar apropiar
    1 suitable, fitting, appropriate
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    (f. - apropiada)
    adj.
    appropriate, suitable
    * * *
    suitable ( para for)
    * * *
    - da adjetivo suitable
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, apt, convenient, felicitous, fit [fitter -comp., fittest -sup.], proper, right, fitting, fertile, commensurate, rightful, seemly, accommodating, timely, beffiting.
    Ex. All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.
    Ex. Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex. By building upon a more apt conceptual framework the transfer of information technology can play a role, albeit limited, in the development process.
    Ex. The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card.
    Ex. This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex. That was considered to be a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
    Ex. With proper authorization, you may request information about the status of the copies displayed.
    Ex. The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex. Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex. There is no doubt that these reforms have produced a fertile climate for the development of better information for patients.
    Ex. For their indifference, they were rewarded with personnel evaluations which reflected an imaginatively fabricated version of the truth, but which did afford the requisite ego boost and commensurate pay increase.
    Ex. Use of a library is a minority event since only a small segment of rightful users of a library really makes use of it.
    Ex. They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex. Monitors tuned to television news may have to be located in areas that are less than accommodating to the large numbers of users who want to know the fast-breaking events which affect us all.
    Ex. I am not very good at fortune telling but I suspect it may be timely for people to communicate briefly on strategy and options with him.
    Ex. Since I write in English I should really refer to the city as Florence, but Firenze is such a phonically beautiful sounding word, far more befitting of the beautiful Italian city.
    ----
    * apropiado para = well suited to/for.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * de forma apropiada = fitly, appropriately.
    * de modo apropiado = appropriately.
    * de un modo apropiado = fitly.
    * lo apropiado = appropriateness.
    * momento apropiado para el aprendizaje, el = teachable moment, the.
    * no muy apropiado = wide of the mark.
    * poco apropiado = unsuited, unsuitable, inapt.
    * ser apropiado = be right.
    * vestimenta apropiada para la lluvia = raingear.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo suitable
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, apt, convenient, felicitous, fit [fitter -comp., fittest -sup.], proper, right, fitting, fertile, commensurate, rightful, seemly, accommodating, timely, beffiting.

    Ex: All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.

    Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex: By building upon a more apt conceptual framework the transfer of information technology can play a role, albeit limited, in the development process.
    Ex: The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card.
    Ex: This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex: That was considered to be a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
    Ex: With proper authorization, you may request information about the status of the copies displayed.
    Ex: The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex: Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex: There is no doubt that these reforms have produced a fertile climate for the development of better information for patients.
    Ex: For their indifference, they were rewarded with personnel evaluations which reflected an imaginatively fabricated version of the truth, but which did afford the requisite ego boost and commensurate pay increase.
    Ex: Use of a library is a minority event since only a small segment of rightful users of a library really makes use of it.
    Ex: They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex: Monitors tuned to television news may have to be located in areas that are less than accommodating to the large numbers of users who want to know the fast-breaking events which affect us all.
    Ex: I am not very good at fortune telling but I suspect it may be timely for people to communicate briefly on strategy and options with him.
    Ex: Since I write in English I should really refer to the city as Florence, but Firenze is such a phonically beautiful sounding word, far more befitting of the beautiful Italian city.
    * apropiado para = well suited to/for.
    * considerar apropiado = consider + appropriate.
    * de forma apropiada = fitly, appropriately.
    * de modo apropiado = appropriately.
    * de un modo apropiado = fitly.
    * lo apropiado = appropriateness.
    * momento apropiado para el aprendizaje, el = teachable moment, the.
    * no muy apropiado = wide of the mark.
    * poco apropiado = unsuited, unsuitable, inapt.
    * ser apropiado = be right.
    * vestimenta apropiada para la lluvia = raingear.

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    suitable
    llevaba un vestido muy poco apropiado para una boda the dress she was wearing was very inappropriate o unsuitable for a wedding
    el discurso fue muy apropiado a la ocasión the speech was very fitting for the occasion
    la persona apropiada para el cargo the right person o a suitable person for the job
    este libro no es apropiado para tu edad this book is unsuitable for someone of your age
    ¡podrías haber elegido un momento más apropiado! you could have chosen a better o ( frml) more appropriate time
    * * *

     

    Del verbo apropiar: ( conjugate apropiar)

    apropiado es:

    el participio

    apropiado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    suitable;
    el discurso fue muy apropiado a la ocasión the speech was very fitting for the occasion;
    no era el momento apropiado it wasn't the right moment
    apropiado,-a adjetivo suitable, appropriate

    ' apropiado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apropiada
    - digna
    - digno
    - vestir
    - adecuado
    - debido
    - recomendado
    English:
    appropriate
    - apt
    - becoming
    - dishwasherproof
    - fitting
    - happy
    - inappropriate
    - right
    - suit
    - suitability
    - suitable
    - suited
    - become
    - proper
    - unsuitable
    - where
    * * *
    apropiado, -a adj
    suitable, appropriate;
    su comportamiento no fue muy apropiado his behaviour was rather inappropriate;
    estos zapatos no son apropiados para la playa these shoes aren't very suitable for the beach;
    no es la persona apropiada para el puesto he's not the right person for the job
    * * *
    adj appropriate, suitable
    * * *
    apropiado, -da adj
    : appropriate, proper, suitable
    * * *
    apropiado adj appropriate / suitable

    Spanish-English dictionary > apropiado

  • 7 desplazar hacia la derecha

    (v.) = inset
    Ex. The degree to which a term is inset in the list indicates its position in the hierarchy.
    * * *
    (v.) = inset

    Ex: The degree to which a term is inset in the list indicates its position in the hierarchy.

    Spanish-English dictionary > desplazar hacia la derecha

  • 8 intermedio

    adj.
    1 intermediate, in-between, middle.
    2 half-way, halfway.
    m.
    intermission, interval.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: intermediar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) intermediate; (tamaño) medium; (calidad) average, medium; (tiempo) transitional, intervening; (espacio) between
    1 (de un espectáculo) interval, intermission
    ————————
    1 (de un espectáculo) interval, intermission
    * * *
    1. (f. - intermedia)
    adj.
    2. noun m.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [etapa, grupo, nivel] intermediate; [periodo] intervening
    2) [tamaño, talla] medium
    2. SM
    1) (Teat) interval; (TV) break; (Cine) intermission
    2)

    por intermedio de — by means of, through the intermediary of

    * * *
    I
    - dia adjetivo
    a) <punto/etapa> intermediate
    b) <calidad/tamaño> medium (before n)
    II
    a) (Espec) intermission, interval
    * * *
    = in-between, interim, intermediate, midway, intervening, interlude, halfway [half-way/half way], middle.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    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. After much subsequent discussion, and the publication of a series of interim reports, a new code was published.
    Ex. Intermediate in size between mainframes and microcomputers, minicomputers offer considerable computing facilities, and are usually comprised of several microprocessors in a parallel group.
    Ex. Nor is the librarian able to take a midway position.
    Ex. Omit intervening elements in the hierarchy that are not essential to clarify the function of the smaller body.
    Ex. Between each story read there should be a brief interlude.
    Ex. This is an acceptable half-way stage to automation for older material.
    Ex. Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.
    ----
    * de posición intermedia = middle-ground.
    * en el nivel intermedio de = in the middle range of.
    * en los años intermedios = in the intervening years.
    * memoria intermedia = buffer.
    * memoria intermedia de datos = data buffer.
    * memoria intermedia del teclado = type-ahead buffer.
    * paso intermedio = half-way house, stepping stone.
    * préstamo de plazo intermedio = intermediate-term loan.
    * programas intermedios = middleware.
    * punto intermedio = middle ground.
    * resultado intermedio = intermediate result.
    * software intermedio = middleware.
    * solución intermedia = happy medium.
    * tamaño de la memoria intermedia = buffer size.
    * * *
    I
    - dia adjetivo
    a) <punto/etapa> intermediate
    b) <calidad/tamaño> medium (before n)
    II
    a) (Espec) intermission, interval
    * * *
    = in-between, interim, intermediate, midway, intervening, interlude, halfway [half-way/half way], middle.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    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: After much subsequent discussion, and the publication of a series of interim reports, a new code was published.
    Ex: Intermediate in size between mainframes and microcomputers, minicomputers offer considerable computing facilities, and are usually comprised of several microprocessors in a parallel group.
    Ex: Nor is the librarian able to take a midway position.
    Ex: Omit intervening elements in the hierarchy that are not essential to clarify the function of the smaller body.
    Ex: Between each story read there should be a brief interlude.
    Ex: This is an acceptable half-way stage to automation for older material.
    Ex: Wilensky has argued that 'the good, the mediocre and the trashy are becoming fused in one massive middle mush' and that 'intellectuals are increasingly tempted to play to mass audiences'.
    * de posición intermedia = middle-ground.
    * en el nivel intermedio de = in the middle range of.
    * en los años intermedios = in the intervening years.
    * memoria intermedia = buffer.
    * memoria intermedia de datos = data buffer.
    * memoria intermedia del teclado = type-ahead buffer.
    * paso intermedio = half-way house, stepping stone.
    * préstamo de plazo intermedio = intermediate-term loan.
    * programas intermedios = middleware.
    * punto intermedio = middle ground.
    * resultado intermedio = intermediate result.
    * software intermedio = middleware.
    * solución intermedia = happy medium.
    * tamaño de la memoria intermedia = buffer size.

    * * *
    1 ‹nivel/etapa› intermediate
    alumnos de nivel intermedio students at intermediate level, intermediate students
    2 ‹calidad/tamaño› medium ( before n)
    un coche de precio intermedio a medium-priced car, a middle-of-the-range car
    un color intermedio entre el gris y el verde a color halfway between gray and green, a gray-green color
    1 ( Espec) intermission, interval
    2
    (mediación): por intermedio de through
    * * *

     

    Del verbo intermediar: ( conjugate intermediar)

    intermedio es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    intermedió es:

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

    intermedio 1
    ◊ - dia adjetivo

    a) ‹punto/etapa› intermediate;


    b) ‹calidad/tamaño› medium ( before n);


    intermedio 2 sustantivo masculino (Espec) intermission, interval
    intermedio,-a
    I adjetivo intermediate
    II m TV (de una película, un programa) break, interval, (teatro) intermission
    ' intermedio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    intermedia
    - intervalo
    English:
    half-way
    - interlude
    - intermediate
    - intermission
    - interval
    - intervene
    - intervening
    - break
    - interim
    - recess
    * * *
    intermedio, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [etapa, nivel] intermediate, halfway;
    [calidad] average; [tamaño] medium
    2. [tiempo] intervening;
    [espacio] in between;
    se halla en un punto intermedio entre la comedia y la tragedia it's somewhere between a comedy and a tragedy;
    Dep
    tiempo intermedio split time
    ♦ nm
    1. [en actividad] interval;
    vamos a hacer un intermedio de diez minutos we'll have o take a ten-minute break
    2. [en teatro] Br interval, US intermission;
    [en cine] intermission; [en televisión] (commercial) break
    ♦ por intermedio de loc prep
    through;
    la enfermedad se transmite por intermedio de animales the disease is transmitted through o by animals;
    se estuvieron insultando por intermedio de la prensa they insulted each other through the press
    * * *
    I adj nivel intermediate; tamaño medium; calidad average, medium
    II m intermission
    * * *
    intermedio, - dia adj
    : intermediate
    1) : intermission
    2)
    por intermedio de : by means of
    * * *
    1. (nivel) intermediate
    2. (tamaño) medium
    1. (en general) interval

    Spanish-English dictionary > intermedio

  • 9 oportuno

    adj.
    1 opportune, heaven-sent, expedient, timely.
    Una oferta oportuna A seasonable offer.
    2 opportune, felicitous.
    * * *
    1 (a tiempo) opportune, timely
    2 (conveniente) appropriate
    3 (ingenioso) witty, sharp
    * * *
    (f. - oportuna)
    adj.
    opportune, timely
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [ocasión] opportune

    en el momento oportuno — at an opportune moment, at the right moment

    su llamada no pudo ser más oportuna — his call could not have come at a better moment, his call could not have been better timed

    2) (=pertinente) appropriate
    3) [persona]

    ¡ella siempre tan oportuna! — iró you can always rely on her!

    * * *
    - na adjetivo
    a) <visita/lluvia> timely, opportune
    b) ( conveniente) appropriate
    c) < respuesta> appropriate

    tú siempre tan oportuno! — (iró) you can always be relied upon to put your foot in it

    * * *
    = adequate, apposite, appropriate, felicitous, timely, salutary, salutary, opportune, expedient.
    Nota: Adjetivo.
    Ex. There must be provision for changes necessary to keep the coverage of subjects adequate for new literature.
    Ex. All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.
    Ex. Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex. This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex. The State, as producer, is deficient in producing sufficient copies to meet demand, ensuring timely distribution, and providing efficient bibliographic control.
    Ex. It came as rather a rebuff, but none the less a salutary one, to learn of the decision not to include libraries.
    Ex. It came as rather a rebuff, but none the less a salutary one, to learn of the decision not to include libraries.
    Ex. At this point it is opportune to attempt to distinguish briefly between the cataloguer's sort of database, in essence a computer-based file of bibliographic records, and the computer professional's, which is a much more general collection of data.
    Ex. It is, therefore, expedient to look into history to lay hands on the root of the problem.
    ----
    * considerar oportuno = consider + appropriate.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en el momento oportuno = at the right time, not a moment too soon, not a minute too soon.
    * estar en el lugar oportuno en el momento oportuno = be in the right place at the right time.
    * lo oportuno = timeliness.
    * * *
    - na adjetivo
    a) <visita/lluvia> timely, opportune
    b) ( conveniente) appropriate
    c) < respuesta> appropriate

    tú siempre tan oportuno! — (iró) you can always be relied upon to put your foot in it

    * * *
    = adequate, apposite, appropriate, felicitous, timely, salutary, salutary, opportune, expedient.
    Nota: Adjetivo.

    Ex: There must be provision for changes necessary to keep the coverage of subjects adequate for new literature.

    Ex: All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.
    Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex: This is hardly a felicitous solution to be followed in other similar cases.
    Ex: The State, as producer, is deficient in producing sufficient copies to meet demand, ensuring timely distribution, and providing efficient bibliographic control.
    Ex: It came as rather a rebuff, but none the less a salutary one, to learn of the decision not to include libraries.
    Ex: It came as rather a rebuff, but none the less a salutary one, to learn of the decision not to include libraries.
    Ex: At this point it is opportune to attempt to distinguish briefly between the cataloguer's sort of database, in essence a computer-based file of bibliographic records, and the computer professional's, which is a much more general collection of data.
    Ex: It is, therefore, expedient to look into history to lay hands on the root of the problem.
    * considerar oportuno = consider + appropriate.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en el momento oportuno = at the right time, not a moment too soon, not a minute too soon.
    * estar en el lugar oportuno en el momento oportuno = be in the right place at the right time.
    * lo oportuno = timeliness.

    * * *
    1 ‹momento/visita/lluvia› timely, opportune
    llegó en el momento oportuno she arrived at just the right moment o at a very opportune moment
    2 (indicado, conveniente) appropriate
    se tomarán las medidas que se estimen or consideren oportunas appropriate measures will be taken
    señaló que se llevarían a cabo las investigaciones oportunas she indicated that the appropriate o necessary investigation would be carried out
    sería oportuno avisarle we ought to inform her
    3 ‹respuesta› appropriate
    estuvo muy oportuno en el debate what he said in the debate was very much to the point
    ¡vaya, hombre, tú siempre tan oportuno! ( iró); you can always be relied upon to show up at the wrong time/to put your foot in it
    * * *

     

    oportuno
    ◊ -na adjetivo

    a) ‹visita/lluvia› timely, opportune;


    b) ‹medida/respuesta› appropriate;


    estuvo muy oportuno what he said was very much to the point
    oportuno,-a adjetivo
    1 (momento, acción) timely
    un gol muy oportuno, a timely goal
    2 (persona, comentario, medidas) appropriate: no creo que sea oportuno llamarle, I don't think it is appropriate to phone him
    irón ¡tú siempre tan oportuno!, trust you to say something tactless!
    ' oportuno' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cielo
    - oportuna
    - pertinente
    - ocasión
    - oportunidad
    - providencial
    - tiempo
    English:
    acceptable
    - appropriate
    - apt
    - convenient
    - expedient
    - good
    - happy
    - inopportune
    - opportune
    - pop up
    - right
    - ripe
    - timely
    - timing
    - well
    - bide
    - wrong
    * * *
    oportuno, -a adj
    1. [pertinente] appropriate;
    me pareció oportuno callarme I thought it best to say nothing
    2. [propicio] timely, opportune;
    el momento oportuno the right time;
    en el momento menos oportuno at the very worst time o moment;
    su llegada fue muy oportuna she arrived at an opportune moment;
    se lo diré cuando sea oportuno I'll tell him in due course o when the time is right;
    Irónico
    ¡ella siempre tan oportuna! she really chooses her moments
    3. [agudo] sharp, acute;
    has estado muy oportuno al contestarle así it was very sharp of you to answer him like that
    * * *
    adj
    1 timely; momento opportune
    2 respuesta, medida suitable, appropriate
    * * *
    oportuno, -na adj
    1) : opportune, timely
    2) : suitable, appropriate
    * * *
    1. (en buena hora) timely
    2. (conveniente) appropriate

    Spanish-English dictionary > oportuno

  • 10 pertinente

    adj.
    1 appropriate (adecuado).
    se tomarán las medidas pertinentes the appropriate measures will be taken
    si lo consideras pertinente, llámale telephone him if you think it's necessary
    2 relevant, pertinent (relativo).
    ya he enviado todos los documentos pertinentes a la beca I have already sent off all the forms relating to the grant
    * * *
    1 (oportuno) appropriate
    2 (relevante) pertinent, relevant
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=relevante) relevant, pertinent; (=adecuado) appropriate
    2)

    en lo pertinente a libros — as regards books, as far as books are concerned

    * * *
    a) (oportuno, adecuado) < medida> appropriate

    es pertinente recordar que... — one should bear in mind that...

    b) ( relevante) <observación/comentario> relevant, pertinent
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, pertinent, relevant, responsive, apropos, need oriented, germane, fit for purpose.
    Ex. All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.
    Ex. Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex. An organisation engaged in the preparation of abstracts for some information tool cannot realistically hope to compile an abstract for every document that is pertinent to the topic that aims to cover.
    Ex. Most such bulletins list titles or abstracts, together with citations of relevant new documents in the subject area.
    Ex. This catalog would then present a much more revealing, helpful, and responsive picture to the actual needs of the library user than the finding catalog.
    Ex. The beauty the low-brow reader finds in an apropos use of a familiar expression may be as satisfying to him as the high-brow's appreciation of Proustian style.
    Ex. Based on findings, some important observations relating to the functioning of the library were made to make its services more need oriented.
    Ex. The bibliography lists documents expressly recommended to the researchers in this area and documents of interest which are not specifically germane.
    Ex. Commercial pressures are placing demands on the designer to provide solutions which are fit for purpose for all user groups.
    ----
    * con datos no pertinentes = dirty [dirtier -comp., dirtiest -sup.].
    * considerar pertinente = consider + appropriate.
    * cuando sea pertinente = where applicable, where appropriate.
    * documento recuperado no pertinente = false drop.
    * hacer que algo sea pertinente a las necesidades de algo o Alguien = make + Nombre + relevant to.
    * muy pertinente para = central to.
    * pertinente a la recuperación = retrieval-related.
    * pertinente a las bibliotecas = library-related.
    * resultar pertinente = prove + relevant.
    * según sea pertinente = as applicable.
    * ser pertinente = apply, be in order, commend + Reflexivo + for + situation, be to the point.
    * si fuera pertinente = if applicable.
    * si fuese pertinente = if applicable.
    * * *
    a) (oportuno, adecuado) < medida> appropriate

    es pertinente recordar que... — one should bear in mind that...

    b) ( relevante) <observación/comentario> relevant, pertinent
    * * *
    = apposite, appropriate, pertinent, relevant, responsive, apropos, need oriented, germane, fit for purpose.

    Ex: All terms may be included, and placed in the most apposite position in the hierarchy of the subject = Pueden incluirse todos los términos y colocarse en la posición más apropiada en la jerarquía de la materia.

    Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work.
    Ex: An organisation engaged in the preparation of abstracts for some information tool cannot realistically hope to compile an abstract for every document that is pertinent to the topic that aims to cover.
    Ex: Most such bulletins list titles or abstracts, together with citations of relevant new documents in the subject area.
    Ex: This catalog would then present a much more revealing, helpful, and responsive picture to the actual needs of the library user than the finding catalog.
    Ex: The beauty the low-brow reader finds in an apropos use of a familiar expression may be as satisfying to him as the high-brow's appreciation of Proustian style.
    Ex: Based on findings, some important observations relating to the functioning of the library were made to make its services more need oriented.
    Ex: The bibliography lists documents expressly recommended to the researchers in this area and documents of interest which are not specifically germane.
    Ex: Commercial pressures are placing demands on the designer to provide solutions which are fit for purpose for all user groups.
    * con datos no pertinentes = dirty [dirtier -comp., dirtiest -sup.].
    * considerar pertinente = consider + appropriate.
    * cuando sea pertinente = where applicable, where appropriate.
    * documento recuperado no pertinente = false drop.
    * hacer que algo sea pertinente a las necesidades de algo o Alguien = make + Nombre + relevant to.
    * muy pertinente para = central to.
    * pertinente a la recuperación = retrieval-related.
    * pertinente a las bibliotecas = library-related.
    * resultar pertinente = prove + relevant.
    * según sea pertinente = as applicable.
    * ser pertinente = apply, be in order, commend + Reflexivo + for + situation, be to the point.
    * si fuera pertinente = if applicable.
    * si fuese pertinente = if applicable.

    * * *
    1 (oportuno, adecuado) appropriate
    considero pertinente señalar que … I consider it pertinent o appropriate to point out that …
    es pertinente recordar que … it is worth remembering that …, one should bear in mind that …
    las medidas pertinentes the appropriate measures
    2 (relevante) relevant, pertinent
    considero que su observación no es pertinente I do not consider his remark to be pertinent o relevant, I consider his remark irrelevant
    * * *

     

    pertinente adjetivo
    a) (oportuno, adecuado) ‹ medida› appropriate

    b) ( relevante) ‹observación/comentario› relevant, pertinent

    pertinente adjetivo
    1 (relevante) pertinent, relevant
    2 (adecuado, oportuno) appropriate
    ' pertinente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    proceder
    - procedente
    - correspondiente
    English:
    applicable
    - apply
    - apt
    - irrelevant
    - pertinent
    - relevant
    - see
    * * *
    1. [adecuado] appropriate;
    se tomarán las medidas pertinentes the appropriate measures will be taken;
    si lo consideras pertinente, llámale telephone him if you think it's necessary
    2. [relativo] relevant, pertinent;
    ya he enviado todos los documentos pertinentes a la beca I have already sent off all the forms relating to the grant
    * * *
    adj relevant, pertinent
    * * *
    1. (oportuno) appropriate
    2. (relevante) relevant

    Spanish-English dictionary > pertinente

  • 11 supervisor

    adj.
    supervisory, overseeing, supervising.
    m.
    supervisor, foreman, inspector, examiner.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 supervisor
    * * *
    (f. - supervisora)
    noun
    * * *
    supervisor, -a
    SM / F supervisor
    * * *
    - sora masculino, femenino supervisor
    * * *
    = superintendent, supervisor, supervisory, housekeeper [house-keeper], floor walker, approver, enforcer, overseer.
    Ex. But why had he said he offered to do the work for the superintendent when in truth she had initiated the request?.
    Ex. Before assuming her present position with Case Western, she worked successively as Serials Cataloger, supervisor of Science Libraries, and Information Systems Specialist at the University of Rochester.
    Ex. The European Economic Community (EEC) Treaty of 25 March 1957 endowed the European Parliament with 'advisory and supervisory powers'.
    Ex. A software agent named SiteHelper is designed to act as a housekeeper for the Web server and as a helper for a Web user to find relevant information at a particular site.
    Ex. Frank Hatt championed the idea of libraries being closely concerned with what the user reads, advocating such things as floor walkers and records of books read.
    Ex. The Kentucky state agency adopted a helping role as advisor, approver, and provider of technical assistance.
    Ex. They merely act as a conduit of state funds rather than an enforcer of the rules meant to guarantee the lawful use of those funds.
    Ex. At the top of the hierarchy would be the high officials and their families: the vizier, the overseer of the treasury, and the first priest.
    ----
    * grupo supervisor = steering group.
    * supervisor de la disciplina = disciplinarian.
    * supervisor de la libertad condicional = probation officer.
    * * *
    - sora masculino, femenino supervisor
    * * *
    = superintendent, supervisor, supervisory, housekeeper [house-keeper], floor walker, approver, enforcer, overseer.

    Ex: But why had he said he offered to do the work for the superintendent when in truth she had initiated the request?.

    Ex: Before assuming her present position with Case Western, she worked successively as Serials Cataloger, supervisor of Science Libraries, and Information Systems Specialist at the University of Rochester.
    Ex: The European Economic Community (EEC) Treaty of 25 March 1957 endowed the European Parliament with 'advisory and supervisory powers'.
    Ex: A software agent named SiteHelper is designed to act as a housekeeper for the Web server and as a helper for a Web user to find relevant information at a particular site.
    Ex: Frank Hatt championed the idea of libraries being closely concerned with what the user reads, advocating such things as floor walkers and records of books read.
    Ex: The Kentucky state agency adopted a helping role as advisor, approver, and provider of technical assistance.
    Ex: They merely act as a conduit of state funds rather than an enforcer of the rules meant to guarantee the lawful use of those funds.
    Ex: At the top of the hierarchy would be the high officials and their families: the vizier, the overseer of the treasury, and the first priest.
    * grupo supervisor = steering group.
    * supervisor de la disciplina = disciplinarian.
    * supervisor de la libertad condicional = probation officer.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    supervisor
    * * *

    supervisor
    ◊ - sora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    supervisor
    supervisor,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino supervisor

    ' supervisor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    editor
    - editora
    - sobrestante
    - superintendente
    - supervisora
    - sobrecargo
    English:
    supervisor
    - supervisory
    - exacting
    - foreman
    - make
    - marshal
    * * *
    supervisor, -ora
    ♦ adj
    supervisory
    ♦ nm,f
    supervisor
    * * *
    m, supervisora f supervisor
    * * *
    : supervisor, overseer
    * * *
    supervisor n supervisor

    Spanish-English dictionary > supervisor

  • 12 попериодная оценка

    Попериодная оценка равномерно распределена на некотором интервале. — The per-period valuation is uniformly distributed on some interval.

    Направлена на определение положения одной производственной операции по отношению к другой в иерархии зарплаты. — Job evaluation aims to determine the relative position of one job to another in a wage or salary hierarchy. It is intended to provide data for developing basic pay structures.

    Производственные операции анализируются на основе нескольких компонентов, и результаты выражаются в цифрах. Общая оценка в баллах определяет положение каждой операции в иерархии. — Jobs are analyzed in terms of a number of components and the results are expressed numerically. The total points' score determines the position of each job in a hierarchy.

    Russian-English Dictionary "Microeconomics" > попериодная оценка

  • 13 unten

    Adv.
    1. (down) below; im Hause: downstairs; umg. (im Süden) down south; nach unten down(wards); im Hause: downstairs; ( dort) unten am See down by the lake; da unten down there; ganz unten right (down) at the bottom; weiter unten further down; von unten from below; von oben bis unten from top to bottom (Person: auch toe); siehe unten see below; siehe S. 7 unten see p.7 bottom; siehe unten, S. 18 see below, page 18; mit dem Gesicht nach unten face down; rechts unten at the bottom right; sich unten waschen euph. wash one’s lower parts; er ist bei mir unten durch umg. I’m through with him; unten erwähnt oder genannt undermentioned; nachgestellt: mentioned below; unten stehend in Text: following, below (beide nachgestellt) bitte unten Stehendes beachten please see below
    2. gesellschaftlich etc.: at the bottom; er steht ganz unten ( in der Hierarchie) he’s right at the bottom (of the hierarchy oder totem pole umg.); sich von unten hochdienen work one’s way up (the ladder): MIL.: rise from the ranks; unten in der Tabelle stehen SPORT be at the bottom of the table; ganz unten rangiert... SPORT in last place ( oder propping up the table etc. umg., Am. in the cellar) is...
    * * *
    below; down; beneath; downstairs; under; at the bottom
    * * *
    ụn|ten ['ʊntn]
    adv
    (=im unteren Teil, am unteren Ende in Rangfolge) at the bottom; (= tiefer, drunten) (down) below; (= an der Unterseite) underneath; (in Gebäude) (down) below, downstairs; (inf geografisch) down south; (= flussab) downstream; (= tiefer gelegen) down there/here

    unten im Tal/Wasser/Garten — down in the valley/water/garden

    dort or da/hier unten — down there/here

    unten erwähnt, unten genannt — mentioned below

    der/die unten Erwähnte or Genannte — the undermentioned (person) (form), the person mentioned below

    rechts/links unten — down on the right/left

    ich weiß schon nicht mehr, was or wo oben und unten ist (inf) — I don't know whether I'm coming or going (inf)

    unten stehend — following; (lit) standing below

    * * *
    un·ten
    [ˈʊntn̩]
    dort \unten (fam) down there
    hier \unten down here
    weiter \unten further down
    nach \unten zu further down
    von \unten from down below
    von \unten [her] from the bottom up[wards]
    bis \unten [an etw akk] down [to sth]
    \unten an etw dat/in etw dat at/in the bottom of sth
    das Buch steht weiter \unten im Bücherschrank the book is lower down in the bookcase
    \unten in etw akk down [below] in sth
    ich habe die Bücher \unten ins Regal gelegt I've put the books down below on the shelf
    \unten links/rechts [at the] bottom left/right
    2. (Unterseite) bottom
    3. (in einem tieferen Stockwerk) down below, downstairs
    nach \unten downstairs
    der Aufzug fährt nach \unten the lift is going down
    nach \unten gehen to go downstairs
    \unten in etw dat down in sth
    ganz \unten (fam) right at the bottom
    sie hat sich von ganz \unten hochgearbeitet she has worked her way up right from the bottom
    \unten erwähnt [o genannt] [o stehend] mentioned below pred
    siehe \unten see below
    6. (am hinteren Ende) at the bottom
    \unten an etw dat at the bottom of sth
    7. (fam: im Süden) down
    8.
    ▶ bei jdm \unten durch sein (fam) to be through with sb
    * * *
    1) down

    hier/da unten — down here/there

    nach unten — (auch fig.) downward

    unten liegen — be down below; (darunter) lie underneath

    2) (in Gebäuden) downstairs

    der Aufzug fährt nach unten/kommt von unten — the lift (Brit.) or (Amer.) elevator is going down/coming up

    3) (am unteren Ende, zum unteren Ende hin) at the bottom

    nach unten [hin] — towards the bottom; (als Bildunterschrift)

    ‘unten [rechts]’ — ‘below [right]’; (auf einem Karton o. ä.)

    ‘unten’ — ‘other side up’

    unten erwähnt/genannt — undermentioned; mentioned below postpos.

    unten stehend — following; given below postpos.

    4) (an der Unterseite) underneath
    5) (in einer Hierarchie, Rangfolge) at the bottom

    ziemlich weit unten auf der Liste — rather a long way down/right at the bottom of the list

    6) ([weiter] hinten im Text) below

    weiter unten — further on; below

    7) (im Süden) down south

    hier/dort unten — down here/there [in the south]

    * * *
    unten adv
    1. (down) below; im Hause: downstairs; umg (im Süden) down south;
    nach unten down(wards); im Hause: downstairs;
    (dort) unten am See down by the lake;
    da unten down there;
    ganz unten right (down) at the bottom;
    weiter unten further down;
    von unten from below;
    von oben bis unten from top to bottom (Person: auch toe);
    siehe unten see below;
    siehe S. 7 unten see p.7 bottom;
    siehe unten, S. 18 see below, page 18;
    rechts unten at the bottom right;
    sich unten waschen euph wash one’s lower parts;
    er ist bei mir unten durch umg I’m through with him;
    genannt undermentioned; nachgestellt: mentioned below;
    2. gesellschaftlich etc: at the bottom;
    er steht ganz unten (in der Hierarchie) he’s right at the bottom (of the hierarchy oder totem pole umg);
    sich von unten hochdienen work one’s way up (the ladder): MIL rise from the ranks;
    unten in der Tabelle stehen SPORT be at the bottom of the table;
    ganz unten rangiert … SPORT in last place ( oder propping up the table etc umg, US in the cellar) is …
    * * *
    1) down

    hier/da unten — down here/there

    nach unten — (auch fig.) downward

    unten liegen — be down below; (darunter) lie underneath

    2) (in Gebäuden) downstairs

    der Aufzug fährt nach unten/kommt von unten — the lift (Brit.) or (Amer.) elevator is going down/coming up

    3) (am unteren Ende, zum unteren Ende hin) at the bottom

    nach unten [hin] — towards the bottom; (als Bildunterschrift)

    ‘unten [rechts]’ — ‘below [right]’; (auf einem Karton o. ä.)

    ‘unten’ — ‘other side up’

    unten erwähnt/genannt — undermentioned; mentioned below postpos.

    unten stehend — following; given below postpos.

    4) (an der Unterseite) underneath
    5) (in einer Hierarchie, Rangfolge) at the bottom

    ziemlich weit unten auf der Liste — rather a long way down/right at the bottom of the list

    6) ([weiter] hinten im Text) below

    weiter unten — further on; below

    7) (im Süden) down south

    hier/dort unten — down here/there [in the south]

    * * *
    adj.
    down adj.
    downstairs adj.
    lowly adj.
    under adj.
    underfoot adj. adv.
    below adv. präp.
    beneath prep.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > unten

  • 14 defender

    v.
    1 to defend.
    defender los intereses de alguien to defend somebody's interests
    defendió su teoría con sólidos argumentos he supported his theory with sound arguments
    Elsa defiende su posición Elsa defends her position.
    Elsa defiende los derechos humanos Elsa defends human rights.
    2 to protect (proteger) (del frío, calor).
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ ENTENDER], like link=entender entender
    1 (gen) to defend (contra/de, against)
    2 (mantener una opinión, afirmación) to defend, uphold; (respaldar a alguien) to stand up for, support
    3 (proteger) to protect (contra/de, against/from)
    4 DERECHO (algo) to argue, plead; (a alguien) to defend
    1 (espabilarse) to manage, get by, get along
    ■ ¿qué tal se defiende en inglés? how does she get by in English?, what's her English like?
    \
    defender una causa DERECHO to argue a case
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    VT (Mil) [+ país, territorio, intereses] to defend; [+ causa, ideas] to defend, champion; (Jur) to defend

    el Real Madrid defiende el título de campeón — Real Madrid are defending the championship title, Real Madrid are the defending champions

    defiendo la tesis doctoral el mes que viene — I'm having a viva on o (EEUU) I'm defending my doctoral thesis next month

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( proteger) <guarnición/nación> to defend, protect; < persona> to defend

    siempre defiende a su hermana — he always defends o stands up for his sister

    defender a alguien de algo/alguien — to defend somebody against something/somebody

    b) < intereses> to protect, defend; <derechos/título> to defend
    c) (Der) to defend
    d) <idea/teoría/opinión> to defend, uphold; <causa/ideal> to champion, defend

    defender la tesis — ≈to defend one's dissertation ( in US), ≈to have a viva on one's thesis ( in UK)

    2.
    defenderse v pron
    a) (refl) ( contra una agresión) to defend o protect oneself; (Der) to defend oneself

    defenderse de algo/alguien — to defend oneself against something/somebody

    b) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by (colloq)
    * * *
    = advocate, argue, argue + in favour of, be + Posesivo + contention, contend, defend, espouse, maintain, make + apology, make + a case for, plead for, put + the case for, uphold, crusade for, preach, preach, champion, speak up for, speak up for, articulate + the case for, present + case for, mount + defence, strike + a blow for, raise + the flag of, come down in + favour of, stick up for, stand by, rally (a)round, rally behind, stand for.
    Ex. In order to understand the citation order that PRECIS indexing advocates it is necessary to examine the function of the operators more closely.
    Ex. Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex. Despite the present financial straits of developing countries, she argues in favour of long-term plan for the acquisition of relevant rare book material.
    Ex. It is our contention that an understanding of such basic principles is fundamental to an appreciation of the many and varied contexts that the individual is likely to encounter.
    Ex. The author contends that it is possible to view the search conducted with the aid of a series of menus as having strong similarities with the search through the hierarchy of a enumerative classification scheme.
    Ex. A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant.
    Ex. Most respondents espoused the latter view as an appropriate response to IT developments to date.
    Ex. They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.
    Ex. My perspective, for which I make no apology, is that of someone who works daily with the nitty-gritty of cataloging, as many of you do.
    Ex. This point-by-point evaluation makes a fairly convincing case for the public access online catalogue.
    Ex. I would plead for more standardization, not less, because I think whatever we do is going to be imperfect.
    Ex. A more moderate approach is found in the writings of Olding, who puts the case for multiple entry very concisely in a short pamphlet.
    Ex. It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.
    Ex. There are also dedicated individuals within government who have found a niche from which to crusade for school libraries.
    Ex. A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.
    Ex. A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.
    Ex. In particular he championed free photoduplication of library materials as a natural extension of library services to patrons at a distance.
    Ex. Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.
    Ex. Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.
    Ex. Moreover, in addition to quantitative measures, qualitative indicators of benefits should be considered so as to present a complete picture when articulating the case for a library's total positive impact.
    Ex. An MP, a barrister, and a financial consultant present the case for charging Value Added Tax (VAT) on books.
    Ex. The author mounts a spirited defence of the National Library of Australia future collecting priorities.
    Ex. In an effort to save US culture, strike a blow for reading, and correct well intentioned but misguided notions about the Internet making libraries obsolete, offers ten reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library..
    Ex. The Augustinian order kept his theological tradition, and raised the flag of the Augustinian thought before and after the German reformer.
    Ex. The author comes down in favour of adding notes to cataloguing records on the grounds that the educational purpose that they are intended to serve is clear.
    Ex. He states that he has always admired Woody Allen, explaining that when he first saw his films he was happy to see that someone was sticking up for the little guy.
    Ex. It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.
    Ex. I recalled how bereft we felt when we lost our son and how friends and neighbours rallied round and offered a shoulder to cry on.
    Ex. The second group, who rallied behind McCarthy, was composed of students and intellectuals who were vociferous against the war.
    Ex. I will stand for your rights as my forefathers did before me!.
    ----
    * defender a = put + a word in for.
    * defender a Alguien = stand up for.
    * defender Algo = argue + Posesivo + corner.
    * defender el fuerte = hold + the fortress.
    * defender el honor de Uno = defend + Posesivo + honour.
    * defender enérgicamente = be vociferous about/in.
    * defender la causa de = further + the cause of.
    * defender la necesidad = articulate + the need.
    * defender la necesidad de = support + the case for.
    * defender lo indenfensible = defend + the indefensible.
    * defender los derechos de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + rights.
    * defender los intereses = defend + interests, lobby for + interests.
    * defender los intereses de = go to + bat for, bat for.
    * defender los principios de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + principles.
    * defender + Posesivo + argumento = support + Posesivo + case, buttress + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + caso = take up + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + causa = advance + Posesivo + cause.
    * defender + Posesivo + idea = support + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + postura = argue + Posesivo + case.
    * defenderse = bite back, stand up, strike back, fight back, fight for + Posesivo + life.
    * defenderse de ataques = ward off + attacks.
    * defenderse por uno mismo = fend for + Reflexivo.
    * defender una causa = promote + cause, support + cause, champion + cause.
    * defender una idea = champion + idea.
    * defender un argumento = support + view.
    * defender un opinión = support + view.
    * saber defenderse = hold + Posesivo + own.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( proteger) <guarnición/nación> to defend, protect; < persona> to defend

    siempre defiende a su hermana — he always defends o stands up for his sister

    defender a alguien de algo/alguien — to defend somebody against something/somebody

    b) < intereses> to protect, defend; <derechos/título> to defend
    c) (Der) to defend
    d) <idea/teoría/opinión> to defend, uphold; <causa/ideal> to champion, defend

    defender la tesis — ≈to defend one's dissertation ( in US), ≈to have a viva on one's thesis ( in UK)

    2.
    defenderse v pron
    a) (refl) ( contra una agresión) to defend o protect oneself; (Der) to defend oneself

    defenderse de algo/alguien — to defend oneself against something/somebody

    b) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by (colloq)
    * * *
    = advocate, argue, argue + in favour of, be + Posesivo + contention, contend, defend, espouse, maintain, make + apology, make + a case for, plead for, put + the case for, uphold, crusade for, preach, preach, champion, speak up for, speak up for, articulate + the case for, present + case for, mount + defence, strike + a blow for, raise + the flag of, come down in + favour of, stick up for, stand by, rally (a)round, rally behind, stand for.

    Ex: In order to understand the citation order that PRECIS indexing advocates it is necessary to examine the function of the operators more closely.

    Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex: Despite the present financial straits of developing countries, she argues in favour of long-term plan for the acquisition of relevant rare book material.
    Ex: It is our contention that an understanding of such basic principles is fundamental to an appreciation of the many and varied contexts that the individual is likely to encounter.
    Ex: The author contends that it is possible to view the search conducted with the aid of a series of menus as having strong similarities with the search through the hierarchy of a enumerative classification scheme.
    Ex: A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant.
    Ex: Most respondents espoused the latter view as an appropriate response to IT developments to date.
    Ex: They maintain, in an article written for Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) 'that automated cataloging systems have addressed only half of the problems of maintaining a library catalog'.
    Ex: My perspective, for which I make no apology, is that of someone who works daily with the nitty-gritty of cataloging, as many of you do.
    Ex: This point-by-point evaluation makes a fairly convincing case for the public access online catalogue.
    Ex: I would plead for more standardization, not less, because I think whatever we do is going to be imperfect.
    Ex: A more moderate approach is found in the writings of Olding, who puts the case for multiple entry very concisely in a short pamphlet.
    Ex: It's about time that we go back to these principles and make sure that the quality of cataloging is upheld.
    Ex: There are also dedicated individuals within government who have found a niche from which to crusade for school libraries.
    Ex: A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.
    Ex: A major failing of the information industry is that its members tend to preach to one another whereas what they should be doing is talking to everyone else outside the information industry.
    Ex: In particular he championed free photoduplication of library materials as a natural extension of library services to patrons at a distance.
    Ex: Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.
    Ex: Many people voiced fears that volunteers would be used to take over paid jobs from the workforce, but others spoke up for volunteers saying that in many cases they had created extra jobs for the permanent staff.
    Ex: Moreover, in addition to quantitative measures, qualitative indicators of benefits should be considered so as to present a complete picture when articulating the case for a library's total positive impact.
    Ex: An MP, a barrister, and a financial consultant present the case for charging Value Added Tax (VAT) on books.
    Ex: The author mounts a spirited defence of the National Library of Australia future collecting priorities.
    Ex: In an effort to save US culture, strike a blow for reading, and correct well intentioned but misguided notions about the Internet making libraries obsolete, offers ten reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library..
    Ex: The Augustinian order kept his theological tradition, and raised the flag of the Augustinian thought before and after the German reformer.
    Ex: The author comes down in favour of adding notes to cataloguing records on the grounds that the educational purpose that they are intended to serve is clear.
    Ex: He states that he has always admired Woody Allen, explaining that when he first saw his films he was happy to see that someone was sticking up for the little guy.
    Ex: It's hard to believe she stands by a man who gets his kicks out of beating her black and blue everynight.
    Ex: I recalled how bereft we felt when we lost our son and how friends and neighbours rallied round and offered a shoulder to cry on.
    Ex: The second group, who rallied behind McCarthy, was composed of students and intellectuals who were vociferous against the war.
    Ex: I will stand for your rights as my forefathers did before me!.
    * defender a = put + a word in for.
    * defender a Alguien = stand up for.
    * defender Algo = argue + Posesivo + corner.
    * defender el fuerte = hold + the fortress.
    * defender el honor de Uno = defend + Posesivo + honour.
    * defender enérgicamente = be vociferous about/in.
    * defender la causa de = further + the cause of.
    * defender la necesidad = articulate + the need.
    * defender la necesidad de = support + the case for.
    * defender lo indenfensible = defend + the indefensible.
    * defender los derechos de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + rights.
    * defender los intereses = defend + interests, lobby for + interests.
    * defender los intereses de = go to + bat for, bat for.
    * defender los principios de Uno = stand up for + Posesivo + principles.
    * defender + Posesivo + argumento = support + Posesivo + case, buttress + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + caso = take up + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + causa = advance + Posesivo + cause.
    * defender + Posesivo + idea = support + Posesivo + case.
    * defender + Posesivo + postura = argue + Posesivo + case.
    * defenderse = bite back, stand up, strike back, fight back, fight for + Posesivo + life.
    * defenderse de ataques = ward off + attacks.
    * defenderse por uno mismo = fend for + Reflexivo.
    * defender una causa = promote + cause, support + cause, champion + cause.
    * defender una idea = champion + idea.
    * defender un argumento = support + view.
    * defender un opinión = support + view.
    * saber defenderse = hold + Posesivo + own.

    * * *
    defender [E8 ]
    vt
    1 (proteger) ‹guarnición/nación› to defend, protect; ‹persona› to defend
    siempre defiende a su hermana he always defends o protects o stands up for his sister
    defender a algn DE algo/algn to defend sb AGAINST sth/sb
    la defendió de las acusaciones/de sus atacantes he defended her against the accusations/against her attackers
    2 ‹intereses› to protect, defend; ‹derechos› to defend; ‹título› to defend
    3 ( Der) ‹caso› to defend; ‹acusado/cliente› to defend
    4 ‹idea/teoría/opinión› to defend, uphold; ‹causa/ideal› to champion, defend
    defender la tesis ≈ to defend one's dissertation ( in US), ≈ to have a viva on one's thesis ( in UK)
    1 ( refl) (contra una agresión) to defend o protect oneself; ( Der) to defend oneself defenderse DE algo/algn to defend oneself AGAINST sth/sb
    2 ( fam) (arreglárselas) to get by ( colloq)
    me defiendo bastante bien en francés I can get by quite well in French
    ¿sabes jugar al tenis? — bueno, me defiendo can you play tennis? — well, I'm not too bad ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    defender ( conjugate defender) verbo transitivo
    to defend;
    ‹ intereses› to protect;
    defender a algo/algn de algo/algn to defend sth/sb against sth/sb
    defenderse verbo pronominal
    a) ( refl) ( contra una agresión) to defend o protect oneself;

    (Der) to defend oneself;
    defenderse de algo/algn to defend oneself against sth/sb
    b) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by (colloq);


    defender verbo transitivo to defend [contra, against] [de, from]
    ' defender' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    defensa
    - defensor
    - defensora
    - muerte
    - resguardar
    - uña
    - unirse
    - valedor
    - valedora
    - defienda
    English:
    argue
    - defend
    - defender
    - guard
    - leg
    - plead
    - speak up
    - stand up
    - stick up for
    - uphold
    - advocate
    - champion
    - speak
    - stand
    - stick
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [país, ideas] to defend;
    [amigo] to stand up for; Dep [contrario, delantero] to mark;
    defender a alguien de algo to defend sb from o against sth;
    defender los derechos/intereses de alguien to defend sb's rights/interests;
    defendió su teoría con sólidos argumentos he supported his theory with sound arguments;
    defender la tesis [en universidad] Br ≈ to have one's viva, US ≈ to defend one's dissertation;
    Dep
    defender el título to defend the title;
    defender algo a capa y espada to defend sth tooth and nail
    2. [reo, acusado] to defend
    3. [proteger] [del frío, calor] to protect (de against)
    ♦ vi
    Dep to mark;
    defender al hombre to mark man for man, to man-mark;
    defender en zona to use a zone defence
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 defend (de against)
    2 en fútbol mark
    II v/i en fútbol mark
    * * *
    defender {56} vt
    : to defend, to protect
    * * *
    1. (en general) to defend
    2. (proteger) to protect

    Spanish-English dictionary > defender

  • 15 inférieur

    inférieur, e [ɛ̃feʀjœʀ]
    1. adjective
       a. (dans l'espace, dans une hiérarchie) lower
       b. [qualité] inferior (à to ) ; [nombre, quantité] smaller
    2. masculine noun, feminine noun
    * * *

    1.
    inférieure ɛ̃feʀjœʀ adjectif
    1) (dans l'espace, dans une hiérarchie) lower
    2) ( en valeur) [température, vitesse, coût, salaire, nombre] lower (à than); [taille] smaller (à than); [durée] shorter (à than)
    3) ( de qualité moindre) [travail, ouvrage, qualité] inferior (à to)

    2.
    nom masculin, féminin inferior
    * * *
    ɛ̃feʀjœʀ inférieur, -e
    1. adj
    1) (position, rang) lower
    2) (qualité) inferior

    C'est moins cher, mais de qualité inférieure. — It's cheaper but of inferior quality.

    inférieur à [somme] — less than, [quantité] less than, smaller than, (= moins bon que) inferior to

    se montrer inférieur à (= pas à la hauteur de) [tâche, mission] — to prove unequal to

    2. nm/f
    * * *
    A adj
    1 ( situé en bas dans l'espace) [mâchoire, membres, paupière, lèvre] lower; [niveaux, étages] lower, bottom; dans le coin inférieur gauche in the bottom left-hand corner;
    2 ( situé en bas dans une hiérarchie) [grades, classes sociales] lower; les échelons inférieurs d'une hiérarchie the lower echelons of a hierarchy; on l'a rétrogradé au rang inférieur he was demoted to the next rank down; il t'est hiérarchiquement inférieur he's below you in the hierarchy;
    3 ( en valeur) [température, vitesse, coût, salaire, nombre] lower (à than); [taille, dimensions] smaller (à than); [durée] shorter (à than); mes notes sont inférieures à la moyenne my marks GB ou grades US are below average; des coûts de production inférieurs à la moyenne lower than average production costs; le niveau de vie est très inférieur à celui des pays occidentaux the standard of living is much lower than in Western countries; taux d'intérêt inférieurs à 10% interest rates lower than 10%; les chiffres sont inférieurs de 20% aux prévisions the figures are 20% lower than predicted; être en nombre inférieur to be fewer in number;
    4 ( de qualité moindre) [travail, ouvrage, qualité] inferior (à to); un objet/ouvrage de qualité inférieure an object/a work of inferior quality; leur flotte/aviation est inférieure à celle de l'ennemi their fleet/air force is inferior to that of the enemy; il ne t'est inférieur en rien he's in no way inferior to you; ton adversaire t'était inférieur your opponent was not as good as you;
    5 Math si a est inférieur à b if a is less than b; x est inférieur ou égal à y x is less than or equal to y;
    6 Astron inferior;
    7 Biol, Bot, Géol, Zool lower.
    B nm,f inferior; traiter qn en inférieur to treat sb as an inferior.
    ( féminin inférieure) [ɛ̃ferjɶr] adjectif
    1. [du bas - étagères, membres] lower ; [ - lèvre, mâchoire] lower, bottom (avant nom)
    [situé en dessous] lower down, below
    2. [moins bon - niveau] lower ; [ - esprit, espèce] inferior, lesser ; [ - qualité] inferior, poorer
    3. [plus petit - chiffre, salaire] lower, smaller ; [ - poids, vitesse] lower ; [ - taille] smaller
    a. [chiffre] lower ou smaller ou less than
    b. [rendement] lower than, inferior to
    4. [dans une hiérarchie - le plus bas] lower
    animaux/végétaux inférieurs BOTANIQUE & ZOOLOGIE lower animals/plants
    6. GÉOGRAPHIE [cours, région] lower
    ————————
    , inférieure [ɛ̃ferjɶr] nom masculin, nom féminin
    [généralement] inferior
    [subalterne] inferior, subordinate, underling (péjoratif)

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  • 16 Hoch

    1. hoch < attr hohe(r, s), höher, attr höchste(r, s)> [ho:x] adj
    ein hoher Turm a tall [or high] tower;
    ein hoher Baum/ Mensch a tall tree/person;
    eine hohe Decke a high ceiling;
    [gut] 20 Meter \Hoch sein to be [a good] 20 metres [or (Am) -ers] tall/high [or in height] /deep; Aufhängung, Dach to be [a good] 20 metres [or (Am) -ers] off the ground;
    ein Mann von hohem Wuchs ( liter) a man of tall stature (a. form)
    ein 125 Meter hoher Turm a 125 metre [high] tower
    2) ( beträchtlich) high, large;
    hohe Beträge large amounts;
    hohe Kosten high costs;
    ein hoher Lotteriegewinn a big lottery win
    3) ( stark gesteigert) high;
    etw einem hohen Druck aussetzen to expose sth to a high pressure;
    hohes Fieber haben to be running a high temperature
    4) ( erheblich) extensive, severe;
    hohe Verluste severe losses;
    ein hoher Sachschaden extensive damage to property
    5) ( groß) great, high;
    ein hoher Lebensstandard a high standard of living;
    du hast aber hohe Ansprüche! you're very demanding [or ( form) exigent] !;
    eine hohe Freude a great pleasure;
    die Gesundheit ist ein hohes Gut health is a precious commodity
    6) ( bedeutend) great, high;
    hohe Ämter/ ein hohes Amt bekleiden to hold high office;
    hohes Ansehen great respect;
    ein hoher Feiertag an important public holiday;
    hohe Offiziere high-ranking officers;
    ein hohe Position in der Firma a senior position in the firm
    7) ( sehr) highly;
    \Hoch angesehen ( geh) highly regarded [or ( form) esteemed];
    \Hoch begabt highly gifted [or talented];
    \Hoch beladen heavily laden;
    \Hoch besteuert highly taxed;
    \Hoch bezahlt highly paid, well paid;
    \Hoch dotiert highly remunerated ( form)
    eine \Hoch dotierte Stelle a highly remunerative position ( form)
    \Hoch empfindlich extremely [or very] delicate tech highly sensitive; foto high speed, fast attr;
    \Hoch entwickelt ( weit fortgeschritten) highly developed [or evolved];
    eine \Hoch entwickelte Kultur a highly developed civilization;
    ( verfeinert) sophisticated;
    \Hoch favorisiert sein to be the strong favourite [or (Am) -orite];
    \Hoch geehrt ( geh) highly honoured [or (Am) -ored];
    \Hoch geehrter Herr Präsident! dear Mr President!;
    \Hoch gelobt highly praised;
    \Hoch geschätzt highly esteemed [or valued] [or prized];
    \Hoch infektiös highly infectious;
    \Hoch industrialisiert highly industrialized;
    \Hoch kompliziert highly complicated;
    \Hoch konzentriert arbeiten to be completely focused on one's work;
    \Hoch motiviert highly motivated;
    \Hoch qualifiziert highly qualified;
    \Hoch radioaktiv highly radioactive;
    \Hoch rentabel highly profitable;
    \Hoch sensibel highly sensitive;
    \Hoch stehend advanced;
    eine \Hoch stehende Kultur an advanced civilization;
    wirtschaftlich/wissenschaftlich \Hoch stehend economically/scientifically advanced;
    gesellschaftlich \Hoch stehende Leute people of high social standing;
    \Hoch versichert heavily insured;
    \Hoch verschuldet deep in debt pred;
    wie \Hoch bist du verschuldet? how much [or deep] in debt are you?;
    jdn [als jdn/etw] \Hoch achten to respect sb highly [or greatly] [as sb/sth];
    \Hoch geachtet highly [or greatly] respected;
    etw \Hoch achten to respect sth highly [or greatly];
    jdm etw \Hoch anrechnen to give sb a great credit for sth;
    jdn/etw \Hoch einschätzen to have a high opinion of sb/sth;
    \Hoch eingeschätzt werden to be thought highly [or highly thought]; [or well] of;
    jdn/etw zu \Hoch einschätzen to overestimate sb/sth;
    jdn/etw \Hoch schätzen to appreciate sb/sth very much, to value sb/sth highly
    8) pred
    jdm zu \Hoch sein ( fam) to be above sb's head; s. a. Schule, C, Haus, Herrschaft
    adv <höher, am höchsten>
    1) ( nach oben)
    wie \Hoch kannst du den Ball werfen? how high can you throw the ball?;
    der Berg ragt 5000 Meter \Hoch empor the mountain towers to a height of 5000 metres;
    etw \Hoch halten ( in die Höhe halten) to hold up sth sep;
    \Hoch zum Himmel zeigen to point up at [or to] the sky;
    \Hoch gewachsen tall;
    einen Gang \Hoch schalten auto to shift [up] gears;
    [zu] \Hoch singen mus to sing [too] high
    \Hoch auf dem Berg befindet sich eine Jagdhütte there's a hunting lodge high up on the mountain;
    die Sterne stehen \Hoch am Himmel the stars are high up in the sky;
    wir fliegen 4000 Meter \Hoch we're flying at a height of 4,000 metres;
    \Hoch gelegen high-lying [or -altitude]; attr;
    im \Hoch gelegenen Gebirgstal high up in the mountains;
    \Hoch oben high up;
    im Keller steht das Wasser 3 cm \Hoch the water's 3 cm deep in the cellar;
    wie \Hoch steht das Thermometer? how high is the temperature?; s. a. Ross
    3) ( äußerst) extremely, highly, very;
    der Vorschlag ist mir \Hoch willkommen I very much welcome the suggestion
    \Hoch gewinnen to win a large amount;
    \Hoch wetten to bet heavily
    2 \Hoch 4 2 to the power of 4 spec;
    x \Hoch 3 x to the power of 3 spec, x cubed spec
    WENDUNGEN:
    zu \Hoch gegriffen sein to be an exaggeration;
    \Hoch und heilig ( fam) faithfully;
    \Hoch und heilig schwören, dass... to swear blind that...;
    etw \Hoch und heilig versprechen to promise sth faithfully;
    \Hoch hergehen ( fam) to be lively;
    auf ihren Partys geht es immer \Hoch her there's always a lively atmosphere at her parties;
    \Hoch hinauswollen ( fam) to aim high;
    jd ist \Hoch in den Fünfzigern/Sechzigern etc. sb's in his/her late fifties/sixties etc.;
    wenn es \Hoch kommt ( fam) at the most;
    [bei etw] \Hoch pokern [o reizen] ( fam) to take a big chance [with sth];
    \Hoch stehen to be high up;
    er stand in der Rangordnung recht \Hoch he was very high up in the hierarchy;
    \Hoch! get up!;
    \Hoch, ihr Faulpelze! [get] up, you lazy so-and-sos!
    2. Hoch -s, -s> [ho:x] nt
    cheer;
    ein dreifaches \Hoch dem glücklichen Brautpaar three cheers for the happy couple;
    ein \Hoch auf jdn ausbringen to give sb a cheer
    3. Hoch -s, -s> [ho:x] nt
    meteo high

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  • 17 hoch

    1. hoch < attr hohe(r, s), höher, attr höchste(r, s)> [ho:x] adj
    ein hoher Turm a tall [or high] tower;
    ein hoher Baum/ Mensch a tall tree/person;
    eine hohe Decke a high ceiling;
    [gut] 20 Meter \hoch sein to be [a good] 20 metres [or (Am) -ers] tall/high [or in height] /deep; Aufhängung, Dach to be [a good] 20 metres [or (Am) -ers] off the ground;
    ein Mann von hohem Wuchs ( liter) a man of tall stature (a. form)
    ein 125 Meter hoher Turm a 125 metre [high] tower
    2) ( beträchtlich) high, large;
    hohe Beträge large amounts;
    hohe Kosten high costs;
    ein hoher Lotteriegewinn a big lottery win
    3) ( stark gesteigert) high;
    etw einem hohen Druck aussetzen to expose sth to a high pressure;
    hohes Fieber haben to be running a high temperature
    4) ( erheblich) extensive, severe;
    hohe Verluste severe losses;
    ein hoher Sachschaden extensive damage to property
    5) ( groß) great, high;
    ein hoher Lebensstandard a high standard of living;
    du hast aber hohe Ansprüche! you're very demanding [or ( form) exigent] !;
    eine hohe Freude a great pleasure;
    die Gesundheit ist ein hohes Gut health is a precious commodity
    6) ( bedeutend) great, high;
    hohe Ämter/ ein hohes Amt bekleiden to hold high office;
    hohes Ansehen great respect;
    ein hoher Feiertag an important public holiday;
    hohe Offiziere high-ranking officers;
    ein hohe Position in der Firma a senior position in the firm
    7) ( sehr) highly;
    \hoch angesehen ( geh) highly regarded [or ( form) esteemed];
    \hoch begabt highly gifted [or talented];
    \hoch beladen heavily laden;
    \hoch besteuert highly taxed;
    \hoch bezahlt highly paid, well paid;
    \hoch dotiert highly remunerated ( form)
    eine \hoch dotierte Stelle a highly remunerative position ( form)
    \hoch empfindlich extremely [or very] delicate tech highly sensitive; foto high speed, fast attr;
    \hoch entwickelt ( weit fortgeschritten) highly developed [or evolved];
    eine \hoch entwickelte Kultur a highly developed civilization;
    ( verfeinert) sophisticated;
    \hoch favorisiert sein to be the strong favourite [or (Am) -orite];
    \hoch geehrt ( geh) highly honoured [or (Am) -ored];
    \hoch geehrter Herr Präsident! dear Mr President!;
    \hoch gelobt highly praised;
    \hoch geschätzt highly esteemed [or valued] [or prized];
    \hoch infektiös highly infectious;
    \hoch industrialisiert highly industrialized;
    \hoch kompliziert highly complicated;
    \hoch konzentriert arbeiten to be completely focused on one's work;
    \hoch motiviert highly motivated;
    \hoch qualifiziert highly qualified;
    \hoch radioaktiv highly radioactive;
    \hoch rentabel highly profitable;
    \hoch sensibel highly sensitive;
    \hoch stehend advanced;
    eine \hoch stehende Kultur an advanced civilization;
    wirtschaftlich/wissenschaftlich \hoch stehend economically/scientifically advanced;
    gesellschaftlich \hoch stehende Leute people of high social standing;
    \hoch versichert heavily insured;
    \hoch verschuldet deep in debt pred;
    wie \hoch bist du verschuldet? how much [or deep] in debt are you?;
    jdn [als jdn/etw] \hoch achten to respect sb highly [or greatly] [as sb/sth];
    \hoch geachtet highly [or greatly] respected;
    etw \hoch achten to respect sth highly [or greatly];
    jdm etw \hoch anrechnen to give sb a great credit for sth;
    jdn/etw \hoch einschätzen to have a high opinion of sb/sth;
    \hoch eingeschätzt werden to be thought highly [or highly thought]; [or well] of;
    jdn/etw zu \hoch einschätzen to overestimate sb/sth;
    jdn/etw \hoch schätzen to appreciate sb/sth very much, to value sb/sth highly
    8) pred
    jdm zu \hoch sein ( fam) to be above sb's head; s. a. Schule, C, Haus, Herrschaft
    adv <höher, am höchsten>
    1) ( nach oben)
    wie \hoch kannst du den Ball werfen? how high can you throw the ball?;
    der Berg ragt 5000 Meter \hoch empor the mountain towers to a height of 5000 metres;
    etw \hoch halten ( in die Höhe halten) to hold up sth sep;
    \hoch zum Himmel zeigen to point up at [or to] the sky;
    \hoch gewachsen tall;
    einen Gang \hoch schalten auto to shift [up] gears;
    [zu] \hoch singen mus to sing [too] high
    \hoch auf dem Berg befindet sich eine Jagdhütte there's a hunting lodge high up on the mountain;
    die Sterne stehen \hoch am Himmel the stars are high up in the sky;
    wir fliegen 4000 Meter \hoch we're flying at a height of 4,000 metres;
    \hoch gelegen high-lying [or -altitude]; attr;
    im \hoch gelegenen Gebirgstal high up in the mountains;
    \hoch oben high up;
    im Keller steht das Wasser 3 cm \hoch the water's 3 cm deep in the cellar;
    wie \hoch steht das Thermometer? how high is the temperature?; s. a. Ross
    3) ( äußerst) extremely, highly, very;
    der Vorschlag ist mir \hoch willkommen I very much welcome the suggestion
    \hoch gewinnen to win a large amount;
    \hoch wetten to bet heavily
    2 \hoch 4 2 to the power of 4 spec;
    x \hoch 3 x to the power of 3 spec, x cubed spec
    WENDUNGEN:
    zu \hoch gegriffen sein to be an exaggeration;
    \hoch und heilig ( fam) faithfully;
    \hoch und heilig schwören, dass... to swear blind that...;
    etw \hoch und heilig versprechen to promise sth faithfully;
    \hoch hergehen ( fam) to be lively;
    auf ihren Partys geht es immer \hoch her there's always a lively atmosphere at her parties;
    \hoch hinauswollen ( fam) to aim high;
    jd ist \hoch in den Fünfzigern/Sechzigern etc. sb's in his/her late fifties/sixties etc.;
    wenn es \hoch kommt ( fam) at the most;
    [bei etw] \hoch pokern [o reizen] ( fam) to take a big chance [with sth];
    \hoch stehen to be high up;
    er stand in der Rangordnung recht \hoch he was very high up in the hierarchy;
    \hoch! get up!;
    \hoch, ihr Faulpelze! [get] up, you lazy so-and-sos!
    2. Hoch -s, -s> [ho:x] nt
    cheer;
    ein dreifaches \hoch dem glücklichen Brautpaar three cheers for the happy couple;
    ein \hoch auf jdn ausbringen to give sb a cheer
    3. Hoch -s, -s> [ho:x] nt
    meteo high

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  • 18 haut

    haut, e [ˈo, ˈot]
    ━━━━━━━━━
    ━━━━━━━━━
    1. <
       a. high ; [herbe, arbre, édifice] tall
    • avoir une haute opinion de soi-même to have a high opinion of o.s.
    • être haut en couleur ( = rougeaud) to have a high colour ; ( = coloré, pittoresque) to be colourful
    2. <
    • combien fait-il de haut ? how high is it?
       b. ( = partie supérieure) top
    • « haut » "this way up"
       c. ( = vêtement) top
       d. (locutions)
    • être au plus haut (dans les sondages) [personne] to be riding high ; [cote, popularité] to be at its peak
    • prendre qn de haut to look down on sb► de haut en bas, du haut en bas [couvrir, fouiller] from top to bottom ; [s'ouvrir] from the top downwards
    • en haut de [+ immeuble, escalier, côte, écran] at the top of
    3. <
    4. <
    5. <
       a. ( = en hauteur) [monter, sauter, voler] high
    • haut les mains ! hands up!
       b. ( = fort) lire tout haut to read aloud
       c. ( = dans les aigus) monter haut to hit the top notes
       e. ( = en arrière) voir plus haut see above
    6. <
    * * *

    1.
    haute ’o, ’ot adjectif
    1) [montagne, mur, talon] high; [arbre, monument] tall; [herbe] long, tall

    attention, la première marche est haute — be careful, the first step is steep

    3) ( dans une échelle de valeurs) [température, salaires, précision] high; [note, ton] high, high-pitched
    4) ( dans une hiérarchie) (before n) [personnage, poste] high-ranking; [clergé, magistrat] senior; [société] high; [responsabilités] big; [dirigeant, responsable] senior, high-ranking

    haut Comité/Conseil — National Committee/Council

    5) Géographie upper

    2.
    1) ( à un niveau élevé) [monter, voler] high
    2) ( dans le temps) far back
    4) ( fort) loudly

    parler haut et clair — fig to speak unambiguously


    3.
    nom masculin
    1) ( partie élevée) top
    2) ( hauteur)

    faire 50 mètres de haut — to be 50 metres [BrE] high


    4.
    en haut locution ( à l'étage supérieur) upstairs; ( à un étage supérieur) on an upper floor; (de rideau, mur, page) at the top; (le ciel, le paradis) above

    passer par en haut — ( par la route) to take the top road

    les voleurs sont entrés par en haut — ( par l'étage) the thieves got in upstairs


    5.
    hauts nom masculin pluriel Géographie heights
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    voir les choses de haut — ( avec sérénité) to have a detached view of things

    avoir or connaître des hauts et des bas — to have one's ups and downs

    l'emporter or gagner or vaincre haut la main — to win hands down

    prendre quelqu'un de haut — to look down one's nose at somebody; cri, pavé

    * * *
    'o, 'ot haut, -e
    1. adj
    1) (situation) high

    plus haut (en altitude, sur un mur) — higher up, further up, (dans un texte) above

    3) (son, ton, voix) high, high-pitched

    à haute voix — aloud, out loud

    haut en couleur (chose) — colourful Grande-Bretagne colorful USA brightly coloured Grande-Bretagne brightly colored USA (personnage) colourful Grande-Bretagne colorful USA

    2. adv
    1) [situé, placé] high

    en haut (dans une armoire, sur une pente) — at the top, (dans une maison) upstairs

    La salle de bain est en haut. — The bathroom is upstairs.

    Le nid est tout en haut de l'arbre. — The nest is right at the top of the tree.

    tomber de haut — to fall from a height, figto come back to earth with a bump

    dire qch tout haut — to say sth aloud, to say sth out loud

    4)

    haut les mains! — hands up!, stick 'em up! *

    3. nm

    Le haut de l'immeuble a été endommagé. — The top of the building was damaged., The upper floors of the building were damaged.

    de haut en bas (mouvement) — downwards, (en intégralité) from top to bottom

    * * *
    A adj
    1 ⇒ Les mesures de longueur ( étendu verticalement) [montagne, mur, talon] high; [arbre, monument, bâtiment] tall; [herbe] long, tall; homme de haute taille tall man; un objet plus haut que large an object that is higher than it is wide; un bâtiment haut de 20 étages a building 20 storeys GB ou stories US high, a 20-storey GB ou 20-story US building; un mât haut de 10 mètres a mast ten metresGB high, a ten-metreGB mast; plus haut/moins haut que higher/lower than; l'immeuble dans lequel il habite est très haut he lives in a block of high-rise flats GB ou a high-rise apartment block US; attention, la première marche est haute be careful, the first step is steep;
    2 ( situé en altitude) high; une haute branche a high branch; la partie haute d'un bâtiment/mur/arbre the top part of a building/wall/tree; l'étagère la plus haute the top shelf; une robe à taille haute a high-waisted dress;
    3 ( dans une échelle de valeurs) [fréquence, pression, température, prix, capacité, précision] high; [note, ton] high, high-pitched; les hauts salaires/revenus high salaries/incomes; parler à haute voix to speak loudly; dire/lire qch à haute voix to say/read sth out loud; jouer une carte plus haute to play a higher card; être à haut risque to be very risky; être du plus haut ridicule to be highly ridiculous; au plus haut point immensely, intensely; aimer qch au plus haut point to like sth immensely; produit de haute qualité high-quality product; avoir une haute opinion de qn/soi-même to have a high opinion of sb/oneself; tenir qn en haute estime to hold sb in high esteem ou regard;
    4 ( dans une hiérarchie) (before n) [personnage, situation, poste] high-ranking; [clergé, magistrat] senior; [société, rang] high; [responsabilités] big; [dirigeant, responsable] senior, high-ranking; les plus hautes instances the highest authorities; bénéficier de hautes protections to have friends in high places; le haut Comité/Conseil pour the National Committee/Council for; haute surveillance close supervision;
    5 Géog upper; la haute Égypte Upper Egypt; le haut Nil the Upper Nile;
    6 Hist dater de la plus haute antiquité to date from earliest antiquity; le haut Moyen Âge the early Middle Ages.
    B adv
    1 ( à un niveau élevé) [monter, s'élever, voler, sauter] high; voler très haut dans le ciel to fly high in the sky; un personnage haut placé a person in a high position; viser trop haut to aim too high; la lune est haut dans le ciel the moon is high up in the sky; haut perché sur perched high on; le plus haut the highest; sauter le plus haut to jump the highest; de haut from above;
    2 ( dans le temps) far back; aussi haut qu'on remonte dans l'antiquité however far back in history we go;
    3 ( dans un texte) plus haut above; comme indiqué plus haut as noted above; colle-le plus haut sur la page stick it higher up on the page; voir plus haut see above;
    4 ( fort) loudly; parler haut to talk loudly; parlez moins haut! keep your voice down!; parlez plus haut! speak up!; dire qch bien haut to say sth loud(ly); mettre la radio plus haut to turn the radio up; tout haut out loud; parler haut et clair fig to speak unambiguously; ne dire or n'avoir jamais un mot plus haut que l'autre never to raise one's voice.
    C nm
    1 ( partie élevée) top; le haut du mur the top of the wall; le haut du visage the top part of the face; le haut du corps the top half of the body; dans le haut (de) at the top (of); l'appartement/l'étagère du haut the top flat/shelf; les pièces du haut the upstairs rooms; sur le haut de la colline/côte at the top of the hill/slope; commencer par le haut to start at the top; prendre qch par le haut to get hold of the top of sth; du haut de from the top of; de or du haut en bas from top to bottom; parler du haut d'un balcon/d'une tribune to speak from a balcony/a platform; le haut de son maillot de bain the top of her swimsuit;
    2 ( hauteur) mesurer or faire 50 mètres de haut to be 50 metresGB high; une tour de 35 m de haut a 35 m tower; être à son plus haut to be at its highest level.
    D en haut loc ( à l'étage supérieur) upstairs; ( à un étage supérieur) on an upper floor; (de rideau, mur, page) at the top; (le ciel, le paradis) above; le bruit vient d'en haut the noise is coming from above; tout en haut right at the top; jusqu'en haut up to the top, right to the top; passer par en haut ( par la route) to take the top road; les voleurs sont entrés par en haut ( par l'étage) the thieves got in upstairs; ordre qui vient d'en haut order from the top; mettez la date en haut de la page à droite put the date in the top right-hand corner of the page.
    E hauts nmpl Géog heights; les hauts de Meuse the heights of the Meuse.
    F haute○ nf upper crust○; fréquenter les gens de la haute to rub shoulders with the upper crust.
    haut en couleur [personnage, tableau, texte] colourfulGB; haut fait heroic deed; haut fonctionnaire senior civil servant; haut lieu de centreGB of ou for; en haut lieu in high places; une décision prise en haut lieu a decision taken at a high level; haut plateau high plateau; haute définition TV high definition; télévision (à) haute définition high definition TV; écran à haute définition graphique Ordinat screen with high resolution graphics; haute école lit, Équit haute école, classical equitation; c'est un exercice de haute école fig it's a very advanced exercise; haute mer Naut open sea; Haute Cour (de Justice) High Court of Justice; hautes eaux high water (sg); hautes sphères high social circles; hautes terres Géog highlands; hautes voiles Naut upper sails; hauts fourneaux blast furnace.
    marcher la tête haute to walk with one's head held high; prendre or regarder or voir les choses de haut ( sans s'arrêter aux détails) to see things in broad terms; ( avec sérénité) to have a detached view of things; tomber de haut to be dumbfounded; regarder qn de haut en bas to look sb up and down; avoir or connaître des hauts et des bas to have one's ups and downs; haut les mains! hands up!; l'emporter or gagner or vaincre haut la main to win hands down; prendre qn/qch de haut to look down one's nose at sb/sth; ⇒ cri, pavé.
    ( féminin haute) [ʼo, ʼot] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou h muet [ʼot]) adjectif
    1. [de grande dimension] high, tall
    les hautes colonnes du temple the lofty ou towering columns of the temple
    BOTANIQUE [tige, tronc] tall
    [qui a poussé] high
    2. [d'une certaine dimension]
    3. [situé en hauteur] high
    4. [extrême, intense] high
    5. [dans une hiérarchie] high, top (avant nom)
    de haut niveau top-level, high-level
    la haute coiffure haute coiffure, designer hairdressing
    de hautes études commerciales/militaires advanced business/military studies
    les hauts fonctionnaires top ou top-ranking civil servants
    6. [dans une échelle de valeurs] high
    tenir quelqu'un/quelque chose en haute estime to hold somebody/something in high esteem
    7. BOURSE & COMMERCE high
    8. MUSIQUE & PHONÉTIQUE high
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    adverbe
    1. [dans l'espace] high
    2. [dans le temps] far (back)
    [dans un livre]
    3. [fort, avec puissance]
    parlez plus haut speak up, speak louder
    dites-le haut et clair ou bien haut tell (it to) everyone, say it out loud
    5. [dans une hiérarchie] high
    6. BOURSE & COMMERCE high
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    nom masculin
    1. [partie supérieure] top
    [sur une caisse, un emballage]
    ‘haut’ ‘(this way ou side) up’
    2. [vêtement & gén] top
    [de robe] bodice
    3. [hauteur]
    a. [chuter] to fall headlong
    c. [être surpris] to be flabbergasted
    ————————
    hauts nom masculin pluriel
    1. [dans des noms de lieux] heights
    avoir ou connaître des hauts et des bas to have one's ups and downs
    ————————
    haute nom féminin
    de haut locution adverbiale
    1. [avec détachement] casually, unconcernedly
    prendre ou regarder ou voir les choses de haut to look at things with an air of detachment
    2. [avec mépris]
    a. [être surpris] to be flabbergasted
    de haut en bas locution adverbiale
    1. [sans mouvement] from top to bottom
    2. [avec mouvement, vers le bas] from top to bottom, downwards
    3. [avec mépris]
    regarder ou considérer quelqu'un de haut en bas to look somebody up and down
    d'en haut locution adverbiale
    1. [depuis la partie élevée] from above
    du haut locution adjectivale
    a. [de la partie haute du village] the people up the top end (of the village)
    b. [des étages supérieurs] the people upstairs
    du haut de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [depuis la partie élevée de - échelle, colline] from the top of
    en haut locution adverbiale
    1. [à l'étage supérieur] upstairs
    2. [dans la partie élevée] at the top
    3. [en l'air] up in the sky
    en haut de locution prépositionnelle

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > haut

  • 19 Historical Portugal

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

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    [Swahili Word] digrii
    [Swahili Plural] digrii
    [English Word] degree (academic)
    [English Plural] degrees
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
    [Derived Language] English
    [Derived Word] degree
    [Swahili Definition] shahada
    [English Definition] award conferred by an educational institution signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study
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    [Swahili Word] digrii
    [Swahili Plural] digrii
    [English Word] rank
    [English Plural] ranks
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
    [Derived Language] English
    [Derived Word] degree
    [Swahili Definition] cheo
    [English Definition] position in a social hierarchy
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    [Swahili Word] digrii
    [Swahili Plural] digrii
    [English Word] degree (of temperature)
    [English Plural] degrees
    [Part of Speech] noun
    [Class] 9/10
    [Derived Language] English
    [Derived Word] degree
    [English Definition] a unit of temperature on a specified scale
    [Terminology] meteorology
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