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  • 21 назначаемая должность

    2) Political economy: appointive position

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > назначаемая должность

  • 22 пост, занимаемый по назначению

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > пост, занимаемый по назначению

  • 23 einrichten

    (trennb., hat -ge-)
    I v/t
    1. (Zimmer etc.) furnish; (Küche, Geschäft etc.) fit out; (Labor, Praxis etc.) equip; er hat sein Zimmer nett eingerichtet he’s got his room fixed up very nicely; sie sind nett eingerichtet their place is nicely furnished (allg. fixed up)
    2. (justieren) adjust; (Druckmaschine etc.) set up; MED. (Knochen) set
    3. (schaffen) establish; (Organisation) auch set up; (Filiale) open; (gründen) found; (Buslinie) start; (Konto) open
    4. (ermöglichen, organisieren) arrange (for); es einrichten, dass... see to it that...; wenn du es einrichten kannst if you can manage it; kannst du es irgendwie einrichten, dass...? can you possibly arrange things so that...?; ich werde es so einrichten, dass ich um vier gehen kann auch I’ll organize it (umg. fix it) so that I can leave at four; das wird sich schon einrichten lassen we’ll see to that(, don’t worry)
    5. (bearbeiten) (Musik) arrange; (Roman, Stück) adapt
    6. DRUCK. (Seiten) lay out, set up
    II v/refl
    1. furnish one’s home (place umg.); weitS. (sich einleben) settle in; sich neu einrichten refurnish one’s home (place umg.), get new furnishings; du hast dich nett eingerichtet you’ve made the place really nice, you’ve set yourself up nicely; wie hat er sich eingerichtet? how’s he got himself set up (in his place)?; häuslich II
    2. (auskommen) make ends meet; (sich anpassen) adapt to circumstances
    3. sich einrichten auf (+ Akk) prepare for, get ready for; organisatorisch: auch make arrangements for; (rechnen mit) be prepared for; auf so etwas sind / waren wir nicht eingerichtet we’re not geared to that sort of thing / we weren’t prepared for anything like that
    * * *
    (ausrüsten) to install; to fit out; to equip;
    (möblieren) to furnish;
    (organisieren) to establish; to organise; to arrange; to organize
    * * *
    ein|rich|ten sep
    1. vt
    1) (= möblieren) Wohnung, Zimmer to furnish; (= ausstatten) Hobbyraum, Spielzimmer, Praxis, Labor to equip, to fit out (Brit)

    ein Haus antik/modern éínrichten — to furnish a house in an old/a modern style

    sein Haus neu éínrichten — to refurnish one's house

    Wohnungen im Dachgeschoss éínrichten — to convert the attic into flats (Brit) or apartments

    2) (= gründen, eröffnen) to set up; Lehrstuhl to establish; Konto to open; Buslinie etc to start
    3) (= einstellen) Maschine, Computer to set up; Motor to set (
    auf +acc for); (MIL ) Geschütz to aim ( auf +acc at)

    Seite éínrichten (Comput: Menübefehl) — page setup

    4) (= bearbeiten) Musikstück to arrange; Theaterstück to adapt
    5) (fig = arrangieren) to arrange, to fix (inf)

    ich werde es éínrichten, dass wir um zwei Uhr da sind — I'll see to it that we're there at two

    das lässt sich éínrichten — that can be arranged

    auf Tourismus eingerichtet sein — to be geared to tourism

    6) (MED) Arm, Knochen to set
    2. vr
    1)

    (= sich möblieren) sich éínrichten/neu éínrichten — to furnish/refurnish one's house/one's flat (Brit) or apartment

    See:
    2) (= sich der Lage anpassen) to get along or by, to manage; (= sparsam sein) to cut down

    er hat sich im bürgerlichen Leben eingerichtet — he has settled down into middle-class life

    3)

    éínrichten — to prepare oneself for sth

    sich auf eine lange Wartezeit éínrichten — to be prepared for a long wait

    * * *
    1) (to start or establish: When was the Red Cross instituted?) institute
    2) (to provide (a house etc) with furniture: We spent a lot of money on furnishing our house.) furnish
    * * *
    ein|rich·ten
    I. vt
    ▪ [jdm] etw [irgendwie] \einrichten to furnish sth [somehow] [for sb]
    die Wohnung war schon fertig eingerichtet the flat was already furnished
    etw anders \einrichten to furnish sth differently
    etw neu \einrichten to refurnish [or refit] sth
    eine Apotheke/eine Praxis/ein Labor \einrichten to fit out sep [or equip] a pharmacy/surgery/laboratory
    ▪ irgendwie eingerichtet sein to be furnished in a certain style, to have some kind of furniture
    antik eingerichtet sein to have antique furniture
    ▪ irgendwie eingerichtet somehow furnished
    ein gut eingerichtetes Büro a well-appointed office form
    ▪ [jdm] etw \einrichten to install sth [for sb]
    ein Spielzimmer/Arbeitszimmer \einrichten to fit out [or furnish] a playroom/workroom
    ▪ etw \einrichten to set up sep [or establish] [or open] sth
    einen Lehrstuhl \einrichten to establish [or found] a chair
    ▪ [neu] eingerichtet [newly] set-up [or established] [or opened]
    ▪ einzurichtend to be set up [or established] [or opened
    4. FIN
    ▪ [jdm] etw [bei jdm] \einrichten to open sth [for sb] [with sb]
    ein Konto bei einer Bank \einrichten to open an account at a bank
    5. TECH, INFORM (einstellen)
    ▪ etw \einrichten to set up sep [or adjust] sth
    ▪ etw \einrichten to open [or establish] [or start] sth
    ▪ es \einrichten, dass... arrange [or fix] it so that...
    es lässt sich \einrichten that can be arranged [or BRIT fixed [up]]
    wenn es sich irgendwie \einrichten lässt, dann komme ich if it can be arranged, I'll come
    8. (bearbeiten) Musikstück to arrange; Theaterstück, Text to adapt
    9. MED
    ▪ [jdm] etw \einrichten to set sth [for sb]
    einen gebrochenen Arm \einrichten to set a broken arm
    10. (vorbereitet sein)
    ▪ auf etw akk eingerichtet sein to be prepared [or geared up] for sth
    darauf war ich nicht eingerichtet I wasn't prepared for that
    II. vr
    ▪ sich akk [irgendwie] \einrichten to furnish sth [somehow]
    ich richte mich völlig neu ein I'm completely refurnishing my home
    2. (sich einbauen)
    ▪ sich dat etw \einrichten to install sth
    er richtet sich eine kleine Atelierwohnung ein he's putting in a small studio flat
    ▪ sich akk \einrichten to adapt [to a situation], to get accustomed to a situation
    ▪ sich akk auf etw akk \einrichten to be prepared for sth
    sich akk auf eine lange Wartezeit \einrichten to be ready [or prepared] for a long wait
    * * *
    1.
    1)

    sich gemütlich/schön einrichten — furnish one's home comfortably/beautifully

    sich [mit seinem Gehalt] einrichten — get by or make ends meet [on one's salary]

    sich auf jemanden/etwas einrichten — prepare for somebody/something

    2.
    1) furnish <flat, house>; fit out <shop, restaurant>; equip < laboratory>
    2) (ermöglichen) arrange
    3) (eröffnen) open <branch, shop>; set up < advisory centre>; start, set up < business>
    * * *
    einrichten (trennb, hat -ge-)
    A. v/t
    1. (Zimmer etc) furnish; (Küche, Geschäft etc) fit out; (Labor, Praxis etc) equip;
    er hat sein Zimmer nett eingerichtet he’s got his room fixed up very nicely;
    sie sind nett eingerichtet their place is nicely furnished (allg fixed up)
    2. (justieren) adjust; (Druckmaschine etc) set up; MED (Knochen) set
    3. (schaffen) establish; (Organisation) auch set up; (Filiale) open; (gründen) found; (Buslinie) start; (Konto) open
    4. (ermöglichen, organisieren) arrange (for);
    es einrichten, dass … see to it that …;
    wenn du es einrichten kannst if you can manage it;
    kannst du es irgendwie einrichten, dass …? can you possibly arrange things so that …?;
    ich werde es so einrichten, dass ich um vier gehen kann auch I’ll organize it (umg fix it) so that I can leave at four;
    das wird sich schon einrichten lassen we’ll see to that(, don’t worry)
    5. (bearbeiten) (Musik) arrange; (Roman, Stück) adapt
    6. TYPO (Seiten) lay out, set up
    B. v/r
    1. furnish one’s home (place umg); weitS. (sich einleben) settle in;
    sich neu einrichten refurnish one’s home (place umg), get new furnishings;
    du hast dich nett eingerichtet you’ve made the place really nice, you’ve set yourself up nicely;
    wie hat er sich eingerichtet? how’s he got himself set up (in his place)?; → häuslich B
    2. (auskommen) make ends meet; (sich anpassen) adapt to circumstances
    3.
    sich einrichten auf (+akk) prepare for, get ready for; organisatorisch: auch make arrangements for; (rechnen mit) be prepared for;
    auf so etwas sind/waren wir nicht eingerichtet we’re not geared to that sort of thing/we weren’t prepared for anything like that
    * * *
    1.
    1)

    sich gemütlich/schön einrichten — furnish one's home comfortably/beautifully

    sich [mit seinem Gehalt] einrichten — get by or make ends meet [on one's salary]

    sich auf jemanden/etwas einrichten — prepare for somebody/something

    2.
    1) furnish <flat, house>; fit out <shop, restaurant>; equip < laboratory>
    2) (ermöglichen) arrange
    3) (eröffnen) open <branch, shop>; set up < advisory centre>; start, set up < business>
    * * *
    v.
    to arrange v.
    to construct v.
    to establish v.
    to furnish v.
    to institute v.
    to organise (UK) v.
    to organize (US) v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > einrichten

  • 24 einrichten

    ein|rich·ten
    vt
    [jdm] etw [irgendwie] \einrichten to furnish sth [somehow] [for sb];
    die Wohnung war schon fertig eingerichtet the flat was already furnished;
    etw anders \einrichten to furnish sth differently;
    etw neu \einrichten to refurnish [or refit] sth;
    eine Apotheke/ eine Praxis/ein Labor \einrichten to fit out sep [or equip] a pharmacy/surgery/laboratory;
    irgendwie eingerichtet sein to be furnished in a certain style, to have some kind of furniture;
    antik eingerichtet sein to have antique furniture;
    irgendwie eingerichtet somehow furnished;
    ein gut eingerichtetes Büro a well-appointed office ( form)
    [jdm] etw \einrichten to instal[l] sth [for sb];
    ein Spielzimmer/Arbeitszimmer \einrichten to fit out [or furnish] a playroom/workroom
    3) ( gründen)
    etw \einrichten to set up sep [or establish] [or open] sth;
    einen Lehrstuhl \einrichten to establish [or found] a chair;
    [neu] eingerichtet [newly] set-up [or established] [or opened];
    einzurichtend to be set up [or established] [or opened];
    4) fin
    [jdm] etw [bei jdm] \einrichten to open sth [for sb] [with sb];
    ein Konto bei einer Bank \einrichten to open an account at a bank
    etw \einrichten to open [or establish] [or start] sth
    es \einrichten, dass... arrange [or fix] it so that...;
    es lässt sich \einrichten that can be arranged [or ( Brit) fixed [up]];
    wenn es sich irgendwie \einrichten lässt, dann komme ich if it can be arranged, I'll come
    7) ( bearbeiten) Musikstück to arrange; Theaterstück, Text to adapt
    8) med
    [jdm] etw \einrichten to set sth [for sb];
    einen gebrochenen Arm \einrichten to set a broken arm
    auf etw akk eingerichtet sein to be prepared [or geared up] for sth;
    darauf war ich nicht eingerichtet I wasn't prepared for that
    vr
    sich [irgendwie] \einrichten to furnish sth [somehow];
    ich richte mich völlig neu ein I'm completely refurnishing my home
    sich dat etw \einrichten to instal[l] sth;
    er richtet sich eine kleine Atelierwohnung ein he's putting in a small studio flat
    sich \einrichten to adapt [to a situation], to get accustomed to a situation
    sich auf etw akk \einrichten to be prepared for sth;
    sich auf eine lange Wartezeit \einrichten to be ready [or prepared] for a long wait

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > einrichten

  • 25 λάχος

    λάχος [ᾰ], εος, τό, ([etym.] λᾰχεῖν)
    1 lot, destiny, Thgn. 592, S.Ant. 1303 (so Bothe for λέχος).
    2 appointed office, A.Ch. 361 (lyr.), Eu. 334 (lyr.): pl., ib. 310 (anap.), 347, 386 (both lyr.).
    II portion obtained by lot, share, Pi.O.7.58, N.10.85, A.Eu. 400, X.An. 5.3.9; ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ λ., = τὸ τρίτον or τρίτως, A.Eu.5;

    νυκτὸς τρίτατον λ. Mosch.2.2

    , cf. A.R.1.1082;

    ἤματος Id.3.1340

    .—Poet. word, used by X., and found in dialects,

    τῶν χρημάτων τὸ λ. IG5(2).262.20

     (Mantinea, v B.C.), cf. Schwyzer289.88 (Rhodian, ii B.C.).

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > λάχος

  • 26 embete

    * * *
    subst. office, post, government post (bli ansatt i et embete) be appointed to a post

    Norsk-engelsk ordbok > embete

  • 27 oficio

    m.
    1 trade.
    de oficio by trade
    2 job (trabajo).
    3 official minute (document).
    el Santo oficio the Holy Office, the Inquisition
    oficio de difuntos funeral service
    5 function, role.
    6 occupation, job, profession, service.
    7 craft.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: oficiar.
    * * *
    1 (ocupación) job, occupation; (especializado) trade
    2 (función) role, function
    3 (comunicado oficial) official letter, official note
    4 RELIGIÓN service
    \
    de oficio by trade
    ser del oficio to be in the trade
    oficio de difuntos funeral mass
    oficio divino divine office
    el Santo Oficio the Holy Office, the Inquisition
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) occupation, trade
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=profesión) trade

    sin oficio ni beneficio —

    2) (=función) function

    el oficio de esta pieza es de... — what this part does is...

    3)

    de oficio: miembro de oficio — ex officio member

    abogado 1)
    4) (=comunicado) official letter
    5) (Rel) service, mass

    oficio de difuntos — funeral service, mass for the dead, office for the dead

    6)

    Santo Oficio — ( Hist) Holy Office, Inquisition

    7)
    8) (=trascocina) scullery
    * * *
    1) ( trabajo) trade

    ser del oficio — (fam) to be a hooker (sl), to be on the game (BrE colloq)

    sin oficio ni beneficio: un vago sin oficio ni beneficio — a lazy bum (AmE colloq), a good-for-nothing layabout (BrE)

    2)
    a) ( comunicación oficial) official letter

    tamaño oficio — (AmS) foolscap

    b) (Der)
    3) (Relig) service, office
    •
    * * *
    = craft, occupation, trade.
    Ex. He draws a distinction between a craft, based on customary activities and modified by the trial and error of individual practice, and a profession.
    Ex. Headings such as SALESMEN AND SALESMANSHIP and FIREMEN, since they are assigned to works covering the activities of both men and women in these occupations, are not specific.
    Ex. Non-bibliographic data bases are particularly used for businesses and industry to extract information in the fields of business, economics, trade and commerce.
    ----
    * abogado de oficio = legal aid.
    * aprender los trucos del oficio = learn + the ropes.
    * aprendizaje de un oficio = apprenticeship.
    * casa de oficios = vocational school.
    * ejercer un oficio = ply + Posesivo + trade.
    * envío de oficio = blanket order.
    * ex oficio = ex officio.
    * gaje del oficio = occupational hazard.
    * riesgo del oficio = occupational hazard.
    * truco del oficio = trade trick, trick of the trade.
    * trucos del oficio = tips of the trade.
    * * *
    1) ( trabajo) trade

    ser del oficio — (fam) to be a hooker (sl), to be on the game (BrE colloq)

    sin oficio ni beneficio: un vago sin oficio ni beneficio — a lazy bum (AmE colloq), a good-for-nothing layabout (BrE)

    2)
    a) ( comunicación oficial) official letter

    tamaño oficio — (AmS) foolscap

    b) (Der)
    3) (Relig) service, office
    •
    * * *
    = craft, occupation, trade.

    Ex: He draws a distinction between a craft, based on customary activities and modified by the trial and error of individual practice, and a profession.

    Ex: Headings such as SALESMEN AND SALESMANSHIP and FIREMEN, since they are assigned to works covering the activities of both men and women in these occupations, are not specific.
    Ex: Non-bibliographic data bases are particularly used for businesses and industry to extract information in the fields of business, economics, trade and commerce.
    * abogado de oficio = legal aid.
    * aprender los trucos del oficio = learn + the ropes.
    * aprendizaje de un oficio = apprenticeship.
    * casa de oficios = vocational school.
    * ejercer un oficio = ply + Posesivo + trade.
    * envío de oficio = blanket order.
    * ex oficio = ex officio.
    * gaje del oficio = occupational hazard.
    * riesgo del oficio = occupational hazard.
    * truco del oficio = trade trick, trick of the trade.
    * trucos del oficio = tips of the trade.

    * * *
    A (trabajo) trade
    era carpintero de oficio he was a carpenter by trade
    aprender un oficio to learn a trade
    ser del oficio ( fam); to be a hooker (sl), to be on the game ( BrE colloq)
    B
    1 (comunicación oficial) official letter
    despachar or mandar un oficio to send an official letter
    tamaño oficio (Col, CS); foolscap
    2
    ( Der): de oficio: abogado de oficio a court-appointed counsel, public defender ( AmE)
    actuar de oficio to act on one's own initiative
    C ( Relig) service, office
    los oficios de Semana Santa the Holy Week services o offices
    santo1 (↑ santo (1))
    Compuesto:
    mass o office for the dead
    D ( Arquit) utility room
    * * *

     

    Del verbo oficiar: ( conjugate oficiar)

    oficio es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    ofició es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    oficiar    
    oficio
    oficio sustantivo masculino
    1 ( trabajo) trade;

    2 (Der)

    3 (Relig) service, office
    oficio sustantivo masculino
    1 trade
    (profesión) job, occupation
    2 (comunicación oficial) official letter o note
    abogado de oficio, state-appointed lawyer
    3 Rel service
    ' oficio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogacía
    - abogada
    - abogado
    - albañilería
    - alfarería
    - artesanía
    - auditoría
    - basurero
    - carpintería
    - censor
    - censora
    - contabilidad
    - costura
    - de
    - ejercer
    - encuadernación
    - enfermería
    - equivocar
    - ser
    - escribanía
    - gajes
    - grabada
    - grabado
    - gremio
    - maestra
    - maestro
    - peletería
    - peluquería
    - repostería
    - soldador
    - soldadora
    - truco
    - vaquera
    - vaquero
    - artilugio
    - funeral
    English:
    craft
    - occupational
    - office
    - ply
    - priesthood
    - service
    - trade
    - trick
    - apprenticeship
    - inquisition
    * * *
    oficio nm
    1. [profesión manual] trade;
    de oficio by trade
    2. [trabajo] job;
    Fam
    no tener oficio ni beneficio to have no trade;
    ser del oficio Fam Euf to be a working girl, Br to be on the game
    Euf el oficio más viejo del mundo the oldest profession (in the world)
    3. Der
    de oficio [abogado] court-appointed, legal aid;
    [diligencia] judicial proceedings
    4. [documento] official minute
    5. [experiencia]
    tener mucho oficio to be very experienced;
    se llegó a un acuerdo gracias a los buenos oficios del ministro an agreement was reached thanks to the good offices of the minister
    6. Rel [ceremonia] service
    oficio de difuntos funeral service
    7. [función] function, role
    8. [comunicación] communiqué, official notice
    9. Col, Ven Fam [tarea doméstica] housework
    * * *
    m
    1 trabajo trade;
    sin oficio ni beneficio fam with no trade
    2
    :
    abogado de oficio public defender, Br duty solicitor
    3
    :
    Santo Oficio HIST Holy Office, Inquisition
    * * *
    oficio nm
    1) : trade, profession
    es electricista de oficio: he's an electrician by trade
    2) : function, role
    3) : official communication
    4) : experience
    tener oficio: to be experienced
    5) : religious ceremony
    * * *
    3. (acto religioso) service

    Spanish-English dictionary > oficio

  • 28 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 29 appoint

    transitive verb
    1) (fix) bestimmen; festlegen [Zeitpunkt, Ort]
    2) (choose for a job) einstellen; (assign to office) ernennen

    appoint somebody [to be or as] something/to do something — jemanden zu etwas ernennen/jemanden dazu berufen, etwas zu tun

    appoint somebody to something — jemanden in etwas (Akk.) einsetzen

    * * *
    [ə'point]
    1) (to give (a person) a job or position: They appointed him manager; They have appointed a new manager.) einstellen
    2) (to fix or agree on (a time for something): to appoint a time for a meeting.) verabreden
    •
    - academic.ru/84210/appointed">appointed
    - appointment
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    ap·point
    [əˈpɔɪnt]
    vt
    1. (select)
    ▪ to \appoint sb [to do sth] jdn [dazu] berufen[, etw zu tun]
    ▪ to \appoint sb [as] sth jdn zu etw dat ernennen [o bestellen]
    to \appoint sb as heir jdn als Erben einsetzen
    to \appoint a commission eine Kommission einrichten
    ▪ to have been \appointed date festgesetzt worden sein
    3. LAW ( form)
    ▪ to \appoint sth [to sb/sth] [jdm/etw] etw übertragen
    * * *
    [ə'pɔɪnt]
    vt
    1) (to a job) einstellen; (to a post) ernennen

    to appoint sb to an office — jdn in ein Amt berufen

    to appoint sb sth — jdn zu etw ernennen or bestellen (geh) or als etw (acc) berufen

    to appoint sb to do sth — jdn dazu bestimmen, etw zu tun

    they appointed him to the vacant position — sie gaben ihm die( freie) Stelle; (professorship) sie haben ihn auf den Lehrstuhl berufen

    2) (= designate, ordain) bestimmen; (= agree) festlegen or -setzen, verabreden, ausmachen
    * * *
    appoint [əˈpɔınt] v/t
    1. jemanden ernennen, jemanden, einen Ausschuss etc einsetzen:
    appoint sb (as oder to be) jemanden ernennen zu;
    appoint sb to jemanden einsetzen in (akk), jemanden berufen in (akk);
    appoint sb governor jemanden zum Gouverneur bestellen oder ernennen, jemanden als Gouverneur berufen oder einsetzen;
    appoint sb guardian jemanden zum Vormund bestellen;
    appoint an heir einen Erben einsetzen;
    appoint sb one’s heir jemanden als Erben einsetzen;
    appoint sb to a chair jemanden auf einen Lehrstuhl berufen
    2. anordnen, vorschreiben
    3. festsetzen, bestimmen:
    the appointed day der festgesetzte Tag oder Termin, der Stichtag;
    appoint a day for trial einen Termin (zur Verhandlung) anberaumen
    4. ausstatten, einrichten ( with mit):
    5. obs bestimmen, beschließen ( to do zu tun)
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    transitive verb
    1) (fix) bestimmen; festlegen [Zeitpunkt, Ort]
    2) (choose for a job) einstellen; (assign to office) ernennen

    appoint somebody [to be or as] something/to do something — jemanden zu etwas ernennen/jemanden dazu berufen, etwas zu tun

    * * *
    v.
    bestimmen v.
    ernennen v.
    erstellen v.
    festsetzen v.

    English-german dictionary > appoint

  • 30 ufficio

    m (pl -ci) office
    ufficio cambi bureau de change
    ufficio postale post office
    ufficio stampa press office
    ufficio turistico tourist information office
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    ufficio s.m.
    1 ( struttura burocratica, posto di lavoro) office; ( reparto) department; ( edificio, locali) (office) premises (pl.): domani sarò in ufficio alle otto, I'll be in the office tomorrow at eight; l'ufficio chiude a mezzogiorno, the office closes at noon; hanno un ufficio in affitto vicino alla stazione, they rent premises near the station; mobili per ufficio, office furniture; orario d'ufficio, office hours // (amm.): ufficio centrale, central office; ufficio distaccato, di zona, branch (o field) office; ufficio contabile, accounting office; ufficio governativo, government office (o bureau); uffici doganali, customs house; ufficio imposte, tax office; ufficio legale, legal office (o department); ufficio tecnico, technical department, ( di impresa) production engineering department; ufficio turistico, viaggi, tourist, travel office; ufficio acquisti, purchase department; ufficio commerciale, vendite, sales office (o department); ufficio cassa, cashier's office; ufficio del personale, personnel department; ufficio di rappresentanza, representative office; ufficio pubblicità, advertising office (o department)
    2 ( carica, funzione) office, task, function, job, post, position: l'ufficio di direttore, di ministro, the office of director, of minister; accettare, rifiutare un ufficio, to accept, to refuse an office; conferire un ufficio, to appoint to an office; sospendere qlcu. dall'ufficio, to suspend s.o. from his post // d'ufficio, officially: doveri d'ufficio, office (o official) duties; ragioni d'ufficio, official reasons; segreto d'ufficio, official secret; omissione d'atti d'ufficio, failure to perform official duties; mettersi in contatto con qlcu. d'ufficio, to get in touch with s.o. officially // (dir.): reato perseguibile d'ufficio, indictable offence; nominato d'ufficio, appointed by the court; difensore d'ufficio, consel appointed by the court (o public defender); procedimento ( penale) d'ufficio, prosecution ex officio
    3 ( dovere) duty: adempiere al proprio ufficio, to do one's duty; fuori ufficio, off duty; è ufficio del giudice essere imparziale, it is the duty of a judge to be impartial
    4 ( intervento): interporre i propri uffici a favore di qlcu., to intercede on s.o.'s. behalf; buoni uffici, good offices; per merito dei suoi buoni uffici ottenni questo posto, thanks to his good offices I got this post
    5 (eccl.) → uffizio.
    * * *
    pl. -ci [uf'fitʃo, tʃi] sostantivo maschile
    1) (locale di lavoro) office, bureau*; (settore di una compagnia) department, section

    ufficio acquisti, (del) personale — purchasing department, personnel (department)

    lavoro d'ufficio — clerical work, deskwork (anche spreg.)

    orario di ufficio — office o business hours

    2) (incarico, carica) office

    sospendere qcn. da un ufficio — to suspend sb. from his post

    d'ufficio — [pensionamento, licenziamento] compulsory

    abuso d'ufficio — abuse of authority, misfeasance

    avvocato d'ufficio — duty solicitor BE, public defender AE

    4) form. (favore, intervento)
    5) relig. office, service
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    * * *
    ufficio
    pl. -ci /uf'fit∫o, t∫i/
    sostantivo m.
     1 (locale di lavoro) office, bureau*; (settore di una compagnia) department, section; ufficio acquisti, (del) personale purchasing department, personnel (department); lavoro d'ufficio clerical work, deskwork (anche spreg.); orario di ufficio office o business hours
     2 (incarico, carica) office; ufficio pubblico public office; ufficio di giudice justiceship; sospendere qcn. da un ufficio to suspend sb. from his post
     3 (autorità) d'ufficio [pensionamento, licenziamento] compulsory; abuso d'ufficio abuse of authority, misfeasance; avvocato d'ufficio duty solicitor BE, public defender AE
     4 form. (favore, intervento) grazie ai loro buoni -ci through their good offices
     5 relig. office, service; l'ufficio funebre the office for the dead
    ufficio del catasto land office; ufficio di collocamento employment exchange; ufficio informazioni information bureau; ufficio postale post office; ufficio stampa press office; ufficio del turismo tourist (information) office.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > ufficio

  • 31 ministerio

    m.
    1 ministry (British), department (United States) (politics).
    2 ministry (religion).
    * * *
    1 PLÍTICA ministry, US department
    2 RELIGIÓN ministry
    \
    Ministerio de Defensa Ministry of Defense
    ministerio fiscal ≈Department of Public Prosecution
    Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GB ≈ Foreign Office, US ≈ State Department
    Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda Ministry of Finance, GB ≈ Exchequer, Treasury, US Treasury Department
    Ministerio del Interior Ministry of the Interior, GB ≈ Home Office, US ≈ Department of the Interior
    Ministerio de Obras Públicas Ministry of Public Works, US Department of Public Works
    * * *
    noun m.
    department, ministry
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Pol) ministry, department ( esp EEUU)

    Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores — Foreign Office, State Department (EEUU)

    Ministerio de (la) Gobernación o del Interior — ≈ Home Office, Department of the Interior (EEUU)

    Ministerio de Hacienda — Treasury, Treasury Department (EEUU)

    2) (Jur)

    el ministerio público — the Prosecution, the State Prosecutor (EEUU)

    * * *
    1) (Pol) ministry, department (AmE)
    2) (Relig) ministry
    * * *
    = government department, ministry, department.
    Ex. Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.
    Ex. E. M. d'Hondt, newly-appointed NBLC chairman, urged that discussions be opened with the ministry of Social and Cultural Services to mitigate the effect of public lending right on library budgets.
    Ex. One of the aims of this department is to promote a climate for British industry and commerce as conducive to enterprise and competition as that in any other industrialized country.
    ----
    * Ministerio Americano de Sanidad y Consumo = Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
    * ministerio de asuntos exteriores = Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    * Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, el = Foreign Office, the.
    * Ministerio de Comercio = Department of Trade.
    * Ministerio de Comercio e Industria = Department of Trade and Industry.
    * Ministerio de Defensa = Ministry of Defence.
    * Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda = Lord Chancellor's Office.
    * Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia = Department of Education and Science.
    * Ministerio de Hacienda Americano = Inland Revenue Service (IRS).
    * ministerio de la gobernación = government ministry.
    * ministerio del gobierno = government ministry.
    * Ministerio del Interior, el = Home Office, the.
    * Ministerio del Medio Ambiente = Department of the Environment.
    * Ministerio de Trabajo = Department of Labor.
    * ministerio de transportes = transport authorities.
    * ministerio sacerdotal = ministry.
    * ministerio sacerdotal, el = ministry, the.
    * * *
    1) (Pol) ministry, department (AmE)
    2) (Relig) ministry
    * * *
    = government department, ministry, department.

    Ex: Funding for advice centres can originate from any one of four government departments: the Department of Trade, the Home Office, the Lord Chancellor's Office and the Department of the Environment.

    Ex: E. M. d'Hondt, newly-appointed NBLC chairman, urged that discussions be opened with the ministry of Social and Cultural Services to mitigate the effect of public lending right on library budgets.
    Ex: One of the aims of this department is to promote a climate for British industry and commerce as conducive to enterprise and competition as that in any other industrialized country.
    * Ministerio Americano de Sanidad y Consumo = Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
    * ministerio de asuntos exteriores = Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    * Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, el = Foreign Office, the.
    * Ministerio de Comercio = Department of Trade.
    * Ministerio de Comercio e Industria = Department of Trade and Industry.
    * Ministerio de Defensa = Ministry of Defence.
    * Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda = Lord Chancellor's Office.
    * Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia = Department of Education and Science.
    * Ministerio de Hacienda Americano = Inland Revenue Service (IRS).
    * ministerio de la gobernación = government ministry.
    * ministerio del gobierno = government ministry.
    * Ministerio del Interior, el = Home Office, the.
    * Ministerio del Medio Ambiente = Department of the Environment.
    * Ministerio de Trabajo = Department of Labor.
    * ministerio de transportes = transport authorities.
    * ministerio sacerdotal = ministry.
    * ministerio sacerdotal, el = ministry, the.

    * * *
    A ( Pol) ministry, department ( AmE)
    Compuestos:
    ≈ Defense Department ( in US), ≈ Ministry of Defence ( in UK)
    ≈ Treasury Department ( in US), ≈ Treasury ( in UK)
    ≈ Treasury Department ( in US), ≈ Treasury ( in UK)
    ≈ Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈ Home Office ( in UK)
    ● Ministerio de or del Medio Ambiente
    Ministry/Department of the Environment
    ≈ State Department ( in US), ≈ Foreign Office ( in UK)
    ● Ministerio de or del Trabajo
    Ministry/Department of Employment
    ● Ministerio Fiscal or Público
    Attorney General's office
    B ( Relig) ministry
    * * *

     

    ministerio sustantivo masculino
    1 (Pol) ministry, department (AmE);
    ◊ Mministerio de Hacienda ≈ Treasury Department ( in US), ≈ Treasury ( in UK);

    Mministerio del Interior ≈ Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈ Home Office ( in UK);
    Mministerio de Relaciones or Asuntos Exteriores ≈ State Department ( in US), ≈ Foreign Office ( in UK)
    2 (Relig) ministry
    ministerio sustantivo masculino Pol Rel ministry
    Algunos de los ministerios más importantes:
    M. de Asuntos Exteriores, GB Foreign Office, US State Department
    M. de Educación, Ministry of Education
    M. de Hacienda, GB Treasury, US Treasury Department
    M. de Interior, GB Home Office, US Department of the Interior*
    M. de Sanidad, Ministry of Health
    * Department of the Interior abarca muchas áreas ajenas a las responsabilidades de un Ministerio de Interior europeo, tales como la protección del medioambiente, conservación de parques naturales y monumentos históricos o asuntos relacionados con las comunidades indias e insulares bajo la jurisdicción de EE.UU.
    ' ministerio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antitabaco
    - cacerolada
    - fomento
    - hacienda
    - interior
    - obra
    - autoridad
    - cancillería
    - secretaría
    English:
    come under
    - defence
    - defense
    - demonstrator
    - department
    - DTI
    - education
    - foreign
    - ministry
    - office
    - treasury
    - home
    - interior
    - state
    * * *
    1. [institución] Br ministry, US department;
    [periodo] time as minister;
    durante el ministerio de Sánchez while Sánchez was minister
    Ministerio de Agricultura Ministry of Agriculture, Br ≈ Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, US ≈ Department of Agriculture;
    Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Br ≈ Foreign Office, US ≈ State Department;
    Ministerio de Comercio Ministry of Trade, Br ≈ Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, US ≈ Department of Commerce;
    Ministerio de Defensa Ministry of Defence, US ≈ Defense Department;
    Ministerio de Economía Ministry of Economic Affairs, Br ≈ Treasury, US ≈ Treasury Department;
    Ministerio de Finanzas Ministry of Finance;
    Ministerio de Fomento Ministry of Public Works;
    Ministerio de Gobernación Ministry of the Interior, Br ≈ Home Office, US ≈ Department of the Interior;
    Ministerio de Hacienda Ministry of Economic Affairs, Br ≈ Treasury, US ≈ Treasury Department;
    Ministerio de Industria Ministry of Industry, Br ≈ Department of Trade and Industry;
    Ministerio del Interior Ministry of the Interior, Br ≈ Home Office, US ≈ Department of the Interior;
    Ministerio de Justicia Ministry of Justice, Br ≈ office of the Attorney General, US ≈ Department of Justice;
    Am Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Br ≈ Foreign Office, US ≈ State Department;
    Ministerio de Sanidad Ministry of Health, Br ≈ Department of Health;
    Ministerio de Trabajo Ministry of Employment, Br ≈ Department for Work and Pensions, US ≈ Department of Labor
    2. Der ministerio fiscal [acusación] public prosecutor;
    ministerio público [acusación] public prosecutor
    3. Rel ministry
    * * *
    m POL department
    * * *
    : ministry, department
    * * *
    ministerio n ministry [pl. ministries]

    Spanish-English dictionary > ministerio

  • 32 direction

    direction [diʀεksjɔ̃]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = sens) direction
    • dans quelle direction est-il parti ? which way did he go?
    • train en direction de... train for...
    • « autres directions » (panneau) "all other routes"
    • « toutes directions » (panneau) "all routes"
       b. ( = action de diriger) [d'entreprise, usine, théâtre] management ; [de journal, pays, gouvernement, parti] running ; [d'orchestre] conducting ; [d'acteurs] directing ; [d'opération, manœuvre] supervision
    • prendre la direction de [+ service] to become head of ; [+ usine, entreprise] to become manager of ; [+ équipe, travaux] to take charge of ; [+ mouvement, pays] to become leader of ; [+ journal] to take over the editorship of
       c. ( = personnel) management ; [de journal] editorial board
       d. [de voiture] steering
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    +1! Un seul des sens de direction se traduit par le mot anglais direction.
    * * *
    diʀɛksjɔ̃
    1) ( chemin) direction

    être or aller dans la bonne/mauvaise direction — lit, fig to be heading in the right/wrong direction

    dans la direction de, en direction de — [aller, regarder] toward(s)

    prenez la direction Nation — ( d'autobus) take the bus going to ‘Nation’; ( de métro) take the train going to ‘Nation’

    la direction Lille — ( route) the Lille road

    faire un pas or geste en direction de quelqu'un — fig to make an overture to somebody

    2) ( fonction de directeur) ( gestion) management; ( supervision) supervision; ( de journal) editorship; (de parti, mouvement) leadership

    assurer la direction de — (d'entreprise, de service) to manage, to run; (de projet, travaux) to be in charge of

    3) ( personnes) management
    4) ( lieu) manager's office; ( siège social) head office
    5) ( service) department
    6) ( de véhicule) steering

    direction à crémaillère/assistée — rack-and-pinion/power steering

    * * *
    diʀɛksjɔ̃ nf
    1) [entreprise] (responsabilité, équipe) management
    2) (= service) [budget, développement] management
    3) MUSIQUE conducting
    4) [travaux, chantier] supervision
    5) AUTOMOBILES steering
    6) (= sens) direction

    C'est dans quelle direction? — Which way is it?, Which direction is it in?

    On va dans la même direction que vous. — We're going the same way as you., We're going in the same direction as you.

    en direction de (avion, train) — for, going to, (bateau) bound for

    "toutes directions" AUTOMOBILES — "all routes"

    * * *
    1 ( chemin) direction; se tromper de direction to go in the wrong direction; être or aller dans la bonne/mauvaise direction lit, fig to be heading in the right/wrong direction; changer de direction lit, fig to change direction; quelle est la direction du vent? which way is the wind blowing?; quelle direction ont-ils prise? which way did they go?; il a pris la direction du nord he headed north; il faut orienter nos recherches dans une autre direction we must take a new direction in our research; dans la direction de, en direction de [aller, regarder] toward(s); un village dans la direction de Clermont a village on the way to Clermont; demander la direction de la poste/mairie to ask the way ou for directions to the post office/town hall; indiquer la direction à qn to tell sb the way, to give sb directions; prenez la direction Nation ( d'autobus) take the bus going to ‘Nation’; ( de métro) take the train going to ‘Nation’; la direction Lille ( route) the Lille road; train en direction de Toulouse Toulouse train; avion/bateau en direction de Lisbonne flight/ship to Lisbon; faire un pas or geste en direction de qn fig to make an overture to sb;
    2 ( fonction de directeur) ( gestion) management; ( supervision) supervision; ( de journal) editorship; (de parti, mouvement) leadership; on leur a confié la direction du projet/de l'entreprise/des travaux they've been put in charge of the project/company/work; il a été nommé à la direction de l'usine he's been appointed manager of the factory; il veut siéger à la direction he wants to be on the management team; assurer la direction de to manage, to run [entreprise, service]; to be in charge of [opération, travaux, projet]; orchestre sous la direction de orchestra conducted by; thèse /recherches sous la direction de thesis/research supervised by;
    3 ( personnes) management; la direction et les ouvriers management and workers; la direction refuse de négocier the management refuses to negotiate; allez vous plaindre à la direction go and complain to the management; ‘changement de direction’ ‘under new management’; ‘la direction décline toute responsabilité’ ‘the management accepts no responsibility’;
    4 ( lieu) manager's office; ( siège social) head office; les grévistes ont occupé la direction de l'usine the strikers took over the factory manager's office;
    5 ( service) department; direction commerciale/du personnel sales/personnel department;
    6 Aut, Aviat, Naut steering.
    direction assistée Aut power steering; direction à crémaillère Aut rack-and-pinion steering; direction des ressources humaines, DRH human resources department.
    [dirɛksjɔ̃] nom féminin
    1. [fonction de chef - d'une entreprise] management, managing ; [ - d'un orchestre] conducting, direction (US) ; [ - d'un journal] editorship ; [ - d'une équipe sportive] captaining
    a. [société, usine] to take over the running ou management of
    se voir confier la direction d'une société/d'un journal/d'un lycée to be appointed manager of a firm/chief editor of a newspaper/head of a school
    2. [organisation - de travaux] supervision ; [ - d'un débat] chairing, conducting ; [ - de la circulation, des opérations] directing
    3. [maîtrise, cadres]
    4. [bureau] manager's office
    5. [sens] direction, way
    vous allez dans quelle direction? which way are you going?, where are you heading for?
    ‘toutes directions’ ‘all routes’
    a. [coureurs, ballons] to scatter
    c. [conversation] to wander
    6. CINÉMA & THÉÂTRE & TÉLÉVISION
    direction (d'acteurs) directing, direction
    7. AUTOMOBILE & MÉCANIQUE steering
    ————————
    de direction locution adjectivale
    [équipe] managerial
    ————————
    en direction de locution prépositionnelle
    les trains/avions/vols en direction de Marseille trains/planes/flights to Marseilles

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > direction

  • 33 urząd

    - ędu; - ędy; loc sg - ędzie; m
    ( organ władzy) department; ( biuro) office; ( stanowisko) post

    Urząd Skarbowy — ≈Internal Revenue (BRIT), ≈the IRS (US)

    urząd stanu cywilnego — register lub registry (BRIT) office

    pełnić lub sprawować urząd urząd — +gen to hold the office of

    obrońca z urzędu — public defender (US), court-appointed lawyer (BRIT)

    * * *
    mi
    -ę-
    1. (= organ władzy) office; agency; department; Urząd Bezpieczeństwa hist. the Security Service ( in communist Poland); urząd celny customhouse, customs-house; Urząd Ochrony Państwa the State Security Office; Urząd Patentowy Patent Office; US the Patent and Trademark Office; urząd pocztowy post office; Urząd Rady Ministrów the Office of the Council of Ministers; urząd skarbowy US the Internal Revenue Service, IRS; Br. Inland Revenue; urząd stanu cywilnego (civil) registry office; urząd wojewódzki the Province Governor's Office; urząd zatrudnienia employment agency; z urzędu ex officio; obrońca z urzędu prawn. court-appointed attorney, assigned counsel.
    2. (= biuro) office.
    3. (= oficjalna funkcja, stanowisko) office, post; piastować l. sprawować urząd hold office; pozostać na urzędzie remain in office; powołać kogoś na stanowisko dyrektora appoint sb (to serve) as director, appoint sb director; złożyć urząd resign l. step down from office.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > urząd

  • 34 interventor

    adj.
    intervening.
    m.
    1 comptroller, bookkeeper, book-keeper, controller.
    2 interventor, administrator.
    3 controller, court appointed interventor.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (gen) inspector, auditor; (de ayuntamiento) treasurer
    2 (en elecciones) scrutineer
    \
    interventor,-ra de cuentas auditor
    * * *
    interventor, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=inspector) inspector, supervisor; [en elecciones] scrutineer, canvasser (EEUU)
    2)

    interventor(a) judicial — receiver, official receiver; LAm government-appointed manager

    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino
    1) (Fin)
    a) ( inspector) auditor
    2) ( en elecciones) canvasser (AmE), scrutineer (BrE)
    * * *
    = auditor, comptroller, controller, town manager, city manager, city budget director.
    Ex. The records are often checked by auditors so complete accuracy is essential.
    Ex. This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
    Ex. When such suggestions are subjected to critical analysis by the discerning, uncommitted controllers of finance, one fundamental question must surely emerge -- 'Why?' = Cuando los interventores de finanzas exigentes y neutrales someten estas sugerencias a un análisis crítico, sin duda debe surgir una cuestión fundamental: "¿Por qué?".
    Ex. Department heads estimate their expenditures for the coming year and submit them to the town manager, who approves or disapproves them.
    Ex. This paper describes a case study where a proposal by the city manager to cut the budget of the public library by 40% has left the library director very disheartened.
    Ex. The city budget director announced that in the next fiscal year the city of Deuxville will adopt a program budget format.
    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino
    1) (Fin)
    a) ( inspector) auditor
    2) ( en elecciones) canvasser (AmE), scrutineer (BrE)
    * * *
    = auditor, comptroller, controller, town manager, city manager, city budget director.

    Ex: The records are often checked by auditors so complete accuracy is essential.

    Ex: This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
    Ex: When such suggestions are subjected to critical analysis by the discerning, uncommitted controllers of finance, one fundamental question must surely emerge -- 'Why?' = Cuando los interventores de finanzas exigentes y neutrales someten estas sugerencias a un análisis crítico, sin duda debe surgir una cuestión fundamental: "¿Por qué?".
    Ex: Department heads estimate their expenditures for the coming year and submit them to the town manager, who approves or disapproves them.
    Ex: This paper describes a case study where a proposal by the city manager to cut the budget of the public library by 40% has left the library director very disheartened.
    Ex: The city budget director announced that in the next fiscal year the city of Deuxville will adopt a program budget format.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    A ( Fin)
    1 (inspector — de un banco) auditor, inspector; (— de una empresa) auditor
    Compuesto:
    interventor/interventora judicial
    receiver/administrator
    B (en elecciones) canvasser ( AmE), scrutineer ( BrE)
    * * *

    interventor,-ora sustantivo masculino auditor, inspector
    ' interventor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    interventora
    English:
    controller
    * * *
    interventor, -ora nm,f
    1. Com [de cuentas] auditor
    2. [de tren] ticket collector
    3. [en elecciones] Br scrutineer, US canvasser
    4. Am [administrador] administrator [appointed by the government]
    * * *
    1 de cuentas auditor
    2 ( revisor) (ticket) inspector
    3 electoral canvasser, Br
    scrutineer
    * * *
    1) : inspector
    2) : auditor, comptroller

    Spanish-English dictionary > interventor

  • 35 fijado

    adj.
    appointed, vested.
    m.
    fixing.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: fijar.
    * * *
    1 fixing
    * * *
    = appointed, set.
    Ex. When she arrived at her boss's office at the appointed time, she learned why she had been asked for the breakdown of her day's activities.
    Ex. With a set number of categories the specificity of the headings to be included in the index must be determined to a large extent.
    * * *
    = appointed, set.

    Ex: When she arrived at her boss's office at the appointed time, she learned why she had been asked for the breakdown of her day's activities.

    Ex: With a set number of categories the specificity of the headings to be included in the index must be determined to a large extent.

    * * *
    fijado -da
    ( Chi fam) persnickety ( AmE colloq), pernickety ( BrE colloq), fussy ( BrE colloq)
    * * *
    fijado nm
    Fot fixing, fixation
    * * *
    m FOT fixing

    Spanish-English dictionary > fijado

  • 36 Bentham, Sir Samuel

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 11 January 1757 England
    d. 31 May 1831 London, England
    [br]
    English naval architect and engineer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Jeremiah Bentham, a lawyer. His mother died when he was an infant and his early education was at Westminster. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a master shipwright at Woolwich and later at Chatham Dockyard, where he made some small improvements in the fittings of ships. In 1778 he completed his apprenticeship and sailed on the Bienfaisant on a summer cruise of the Channel Fleet where he suggested and supervised several improvements to the steering gear and gun fittings.
    Unable to find suitable employment at home, he sailed for Russia to study naval architecture and shipbuilding, arriving at St Petersburg in 1780, whence he travelled throughout Russia as far as the frontier of China, examining mines and methods of working metals. He settled in Kritchev in 1782 and there established a small shipyard with a motley work-force. In 1784 he was appointed to command a battalion. He set up a yard on the "Panopticon" principle, with all workshops radiating from his own central office. He increased the armament of his ships greatly by strengthening the hulls and fitting guns without recoil, which resulted in a great victory over the Turks at Liman in 1788. For this he was awarded the Cross of St George and promoted to Brigadier- General. Soon after, he was appointed to a command in Siberia, where he was responsible for opening up the resources of the country greatly by developing river navigation.
    In 1791 he returned to England, where he was at first involved in the development of the Panopticon for his brother as well as with several other patents. In 1795 he was asked to look into the mechanization of the naval dockyards, and for the next eighteen years he was involved in improving methods of naval construction and machinery. He was responsible for the invention of the steam dredger, the caisson method of enclosing the entrances to docks, and the development of non-recoil cannonades of large calibre.
    His intervention in the maladministration of the naval dockyards resulted in an enquiry that brought about the clearing-away of much corruption, making him very unpopular. As a result he was sent to St Petersburg to arrange for the building of a number of ships for the British navy, in which the Russians had no intention of co-operating. On his return to England after two years he was told that his office of Inspector-General of Navy Works had been abolished and he was appointed to the Navy Board; he had several disagreements with John Rennie and in 1812 was told that this office, too, had been abolished. He went to live in France, where he stayed for thirteen years, returning in 1827 to arrange for the publication of some of his papers.
    There is some doubt about his use of his title: there is no record of his having received a knighthood in England, but it was assumed that he was authorized to use the title, granted to him in Russia, after his presentation to the Tsar in 1809.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Mary Sophia Bentham, Life of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Bentham, K.S.G., Formerly Inspector of Naval Works (written by his wife, who died before completing it; completed by their daughter).
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Bentham, Sir Samuel

  • 37 appoint

    1. III
    1) appoint smth. appoint the time (the day, the date, the place, etc.) назначать /устанавливать/ время /срок/ и т. д.
    2) appoint smb. appoint a chairman (a delegate, a representative, etc.) назначать председателем и т.д., выдвигать председателя и т.д.; appoint the guardian of one's children (an agent, a trustee, etc.) назначать детям опекуна и т. д.
    2. IV
    1) appoint smb. in some manner appoint smb. officially (unanimously, etc.) официально и т. д. назначать /выдвигать/ кого-л.; appoint smb. at some time appoint smb. annually (newly, etc.) ежегодно и т. д. назначить кого-л.; let us first appoint delegates давайте сначала вдвинем делегатов; appoint smb. for some time appoint smb. provisionally временное назначать кого-л.
    2) appoint smth. in some manner book. appoint smth. comfortably (lavishly, magnificently, etc.) обставлять что-л. удобно /уютно/ и т. д., обеспечить/снабдить/ что-л. всеми удобствами и т. д.
    3. V
    appoint smb. smth.
    1) appoint the eldest member of the club chairman (the youngest son his heir, one's friend the guardian of one's children, the talented man judge, etc.) назначать старейшего члена клуба председателем и т. д.; appoint smb. professor of the University провести кого-л. профессором университета; they appointed White manager они назначили Уайта управляющим
    2) appoint him a task (each member his duties, her a very difficult mission, etc.) поручать ему задание и т. д.
    4. VII
    appoint smb. to do smth. appoint smb. to go there (to talk over smth., to represent smb., etc.) поручать кому-л. отправиться туда и т. д.; they appointed him to conduct the negotiations они поручили ему веста переговоры
    5. XI
    1) be appointed for smth. the time appointed for the meeting was
    8)
    2) be appointed smb. he was appointed ambassador to Cuba его назначили послом на Кубу; be appointed to smth. he was appointed to the position его назначили на эту должность
    3) be appointed smth. I was appointed the task of collecting all the available information мне было поручено /передо мной была поставлена задача/ собрать все имеющиеся сведения; be appointed to do smth. I was appointed to do the job мне поручили сделать эту работу /выполнить это задание/
    6. XXI1
    1) appoint smth. for smth. appoint the time (the day, the date, the place, etc.) for the meeting (for the ceremony, for the wedding, etc.) назначать /устанавливать, определять/ время и т. д. собрания и т. д., did they appoint the time for the next meeting? они назначили время следующей встречи?
    2) appoint smb. to /on/ smth. appoint smb. to the post (to a high office, on the commission, to a University, to a ship, etc.) назначить /поставить/ кого-л. на эту должность и т. д.; we must officially appoint our representative on the board мы должны официально выделить своего представителя в совет; appoint smb. to professorship дать кому-л. профессуру, присвоить кому-л. звание профессора
    7. XXIV1
    appoint smb. as smth. appoint smb. as a substitute for the teacher (as a representative from our country, as the agent for the sale, as one of the committee, etc.) назначить кого-л. замещать учителя и т. д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > appoint

  • 38 dirección

    f.
    1 direction, guidance, orientation, tack.
    2 address, postal address.
    3 steering wheel, steering.
    4 management, administration.
    5 editorial board.
    6 editorship.
    7 authorities.
    8 leadership, leaders of the party.
    * * *
    1 (acción de dirigir) management, running
    2 (cargo) directorship, position of manager; (de un partido) leadership; (de un colegio) headship; (de editorial) position of editor
    3 (junta) board of directors, management
    4 (oficina) head office, headquarters plural
    5 (sentido) direction, way
    6 (destino) destination
    7 (domicilio) address
    8 TÉCNICA steering
    \
    llevar la dirección de algo to run something, direct something
    dirección asistida AUTOMÓVIL power assisted steering, power steering
    dirección general head office
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) direction, way
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=sentido) direction

    ¿podría indicarme la dirección de la playa? — could you show me the way to the beach?

    • salir con dirección a — to leave for

    • ir en dirección contraria — to go the other way

    • de dos direcciones Esp —

    • ir en dirección a — to go in the direction of, go towards, head for

    el taxi iba en dirección al aeropuerto — the taxi was going in the direction of o towards the airport, the taxi was heading for the airport

    • calle de dirección obligatoria o única — one-way street

    2) (=orientación) way
    3) (=señas) address

    • poner la dirección a un sobre — to address an envelope

    4) (=control) [de empresa, hospital, centro de enseñanza] running; [de partido] leadership; [de película] direction

    dirección colectiva, dirección colegiada — (Pol) collective leadership

    5) (=personal directivo)

    • la dirección — [de empresa, centro escolar] the management; [de partido] the leadership; [de periódico] the editorial board

    prohibido fumar en este local: la dirección — smoking is prohibited in this building: the management

    6) (=cargo) [en colegio] headship, principalship (EEUU); [en periódico, revista] editorship; [en partido] leadership; [de gerente] post of manager; [de alto cargo] directorship
    7) (=despacho) [en colegio] headteacher's office, principal's office (EEUU); [en periódico, revista] editor's office; [de gerente] manager's office; [de alto cargo] director's office
    8) (=oficina principal) head office

    Dirección General de Seguridad — State Security Office, State Security Service

    dirección provincial — regional office of a government department

    9) (Aut, Náut) steering

    dirección asistida, dirección hidráulica — LAm power steering

    * * *
    1) ( señas) address
    2) (sentido, rumbo) direction

    ¿en qué dirección iba? or ¿qué dirección llevaba? — which way was he heading o going?

    3) (Auto) ( mecanismo) steering
    4) (Adm)
    a) ( cargo - en escuela) principalship (AmE), headship (BrE); (- en empresa) post o position of manager
    b) ( cuerpo directivo - de empresa) management; (- de periódico) editorial board; (- de prisión) authorities (pl); (- de partido) leadership
    c) ( oficina - en escuela) principal's office (AmE), headmaster's/headmistress's office (BrE); (- en empresa) manager's/director's office; (- en periódico) editorial office
    5)
    a) (de obra, película) direction
    c) (de empresa, proyecto) management
    * * *
    1) ( señas) address
    2) (sentido, rumbo) direction

    ¿en qué dirección iba? or ¿qué dirección llevaba? — which way was he heading o going?

    3) (Auto) ( mecanismo) steering
    4) (Adm)
    a) ( cargo - en escuela) principalship (AmE), headship (BrE); (- en empresa) post o position of manager
    b) ( cuerpo directivo - de empresa) management; (- de periódico) editorial board; (- de prisión) authorities (pl); (- de partido) leadership
    c) ( oficina - en escuela) principal's office (AmE), headmaster's/headmistress's office (BrE); (- en empresa) manager's/director's office; (- en periódico) editorial office
    5)
    a) (de obra, película) direction
    c) (de empresa, proyecto) management
    * * *
    dirección1
    1 = administration, directorship, management, senior staff, governance, senior management, top management, headship, steerage, directing, leadership, senior managers.

    Ex: Since the Reagan administration began its war on waste in 1981, farmers and other citizens have had not alternative to buying their information from the private sector at far steeper prices.

    Ex: An applicant for the directorship of a medium-sized public library is asked to explain how he would conduct a community survey and demonstrate how he would plan library programs.
    Ex: The practice of librarianship requires performance of the same management functions irrespective of position.
    Ex: Senior SLIS staff were seen to be relatively content with their present levels of funding which has been modestly increased in recent years = El personal de dirección de las EUBYD parecía estar relativamente contento con sus niveles actuales de financiación que se han incrementado moderadamente en los últimos años.
    Ex: Public libraries specifically face enormous problems of funding and governance.
    Ex: In some library authorities these associations are highly developed and form a positive bridge between junior staff and the senior management.
    Ex: Nevertheless, performance evaluation can be made more effective if, as stated earlier, the program is strongly supported by top management.
    Ex: In the context of collegial management in university libraries, this article presents the advantages and disadvantages of rotating headships.
    Ex: Incorrect reference entry is an unpardonable sin, since the purpose of the entry is to give exact steerage to the original paper from the abstract.
    Ex: All managers should be knowledgeable in strategies of good directing so that a productive and nurturing environment can be created.
    Ex: The leadership challenge is to flatten out differences, identify the new goals, and make tough decisions.
    Ex: Our senior managers are responsible for the day-to-day running of the organisation.
    * asumir la dirección = take over + the leadership (from).
    * bajo la dirección de = under the supervision of.
    * comité de dirección = steering committee.
    * de dirección = directorial, administrative.
    * dirección cinematográfica = film direction.
    * dirección compartida = shared governance.
    * dirección de la biblioteca = library administrators.
    * dirección de la biblioteca, la = library administration, the.
    * dirección general = directorate-general.
    * dirección participativa = participative management.
    * en el puesto de dirección = in the hot seat.
    * en la dirección = in the saddle.
    * en la dirección (de) = at the helm (of).
    * equipo de dirección = management, management team, administrative team.
    * grupo de dirección = management.
    * junta de dirección = board of directors.
    * junta de dirección de la escuela = school board.
    * nivel alto de dirección = higher management.
    * ocupar un cargo de dirección = hold + a chair.
    * personal de dirección = senior staff, senior management.
    * puesto de dirección = position of leadership.
    * relativo a la dirección = directorial.
    * resumen de la dirección = executive summary.
    * reunión de la dirección = board meeting.

    dirección2
    2 = direction, quarter.

    Ex: Thus the thesaurus user may approach a term from 'either direction'.

    Ex: A reappraisal is therefore outlined here with the understanding that it is open to rebuttal and challenge from whatever quarter.
    * cambiar dirección = change + direction.
    * cambio de dirección = change of hands.
    * continuar en esta dirección = proceed + along this way.
    * dar dirección = lend + direction.
    * dirección del viento = wind direction.
    * en ambas direcciones = two-way.
    * en dirección de la proa = abaft.
    * en dirección este = eastward(s), eastbound.
    * en dirección norte = northbound.
    * en dirección oeste = westbound, westward(s).
    * en dirección sur = southward(s), southbound.
    * en la dirección de = toward(s).
    * en la dirección de la máquina = machine-direction.
    * en la dirección del viento = downwind.
    * falta de dirección = indirection.
    * indicador de dirección = signpost.
    * línea de dirección = line of direction.
    * mantener Algo en la dirección correcta = keep + Nombre + on track.
    * mirar en otra dirección = look + the other way.
    * por buena dirección = a step in the right direction.
    * seguir una dirección = follow + path, take + path.
    * timón de dirección = rudder.
    * tomar otra dirección = branch off + on a side trail.
    * tomar una dirección = take + direction.

    dirección3
    3 = address.

    Ex: The Acquisitions system uses a Name address Directory as its source of address information for orders.

    * correo con dirección errónea = misdirected mail.
    * dirección de contacto = contact address.
    * dirección de correo = mailing address.
    * dirección de correo electrónico = email address.
    * dirección de envío = shipping address.
    * dirección de facturación = billing address, invoice address.
    * dirección del remitente = return address.
    * dirección de pago = payment address.
    * dirección favorita = bookmark.
    * dirección para correspondencia = mailing address.
    * dirección postal = postal address, mailing address.
    * dirección web = web address.
    * fichero de direcciones = addresses file.
    * intercambio de direcciones = exchange of address.
    * libreta de direcciones = address book.
    * lista de direcciones = mailing list.
    * máquina de imprimir direcciones = addressograph, addressing machine.
    * poner la dirección en un sobre = address + envelope.

    dirección4

    Ex: This article describes in detail the various methods of ink-jet printing employing electrostatic steering, electromagnetic steering, and multiple ink jets.

    * dirección asistida = power steering.

    dirección5
    5 = tack.

    Ex: The simplest tack would be to include the metadata in the notes field but sorting by metadata attributes is problematic and clunky.

    * dirección asistida = power-assisted steering.
    * explorar una dirección = chart + direction.

    * * *
    A (señas) address
    nombre y dirección name and address
    Compuestos:
    absolute address
    business address
    e-mail address
    home address
    postal address
    relative address
    telegraphic address
    B (sentido, rumbo) direction
    circulaba con or en dirección a Madrid it was heading toward(s) Madrid
    ellos venían en dirección contraria they were coming the other way o from the opposite direction
    ¿en qué dirección iba? or ¿qué dirección llevaba? which way was he heading o going?
    su política ha tomado una nueva dirección their policy has taken a new direction
    cambiar de dirección to change direction
    la flecha indica dirección obligatoria the arrow indicates that it's one way only
    C ( Auto) (mecanismo) steering; (volante) steering wheel
    alinear la dirección to align the wheels
    Compuesto:
    power-assisted steering, power steering
    D ( Adm)
    1 (cargo — en una escuela) principalship ( AmE), headship ( BrE); (— en una empresa) post o position of manager
    2 (cuerpo directivo — de una empresa) management; (— de un periódico) editorial board; (— de una prisión) authorities (pl); (— de un partido) leadership
    3 (oficina — en una escuela) principal's office ( AmE), headmaster's/headmistress's office ( BrE); (— en una empresa) manager's/director's office; (— en un periódico) editorial office
    E
    1 (de una obra, película) direction
    es su primer trabajo de dirección it's the first time she's directed, it's her first job as a director o her first directing job
    la dirección es de Saura it is directed by Saura
    2
    (de una orquesta): bajo la dirección de Campomar conducted by Campomar
    3 (de una empresa, proyecto) management
    bajo la dirección de su profesor under the guidance of her teacher
    * * *

     

    dirección sustantivo femenino
    1 ( señas) address
    2 (sentido, rumbo) direction;
    ◊ ellos venían en dirección contraria they were coming the other way o from the opposite direction;

    ¿en qué dirección iba? which way was he heading o going?;
    señal de dirección prohibida no-entry sign;
    dirección obligatoria one way only
    3 (Auto) ( mecanismo) steering;

    4 (Adm)
    a) ( cargo — en escuela) principalship (AmE), headship (BrE);

    (— en empresa) post o position of manager

    (— de periódico) editorial board;
    (— de prisión) authorities (pl);
    (— de partido) leadership
    c) ( oficina — en escuela) principal's office (AmE), headmaster's/headmistress's office (BrE);

    (— en empresa) manager's/director's office;
    (— en periódico) editorial office
    dirección sustantivo femenino
    1 (sentido, rumbo) direction
    dirección obligatoria, one way only
    dirección prohibida, no entry
    en dirección a, towards
    2 (domicilio) address
    3 Cine Teat direction
    4 (conjunto de dirigentes de una empresa) management
    (de un partido) leadership
    (de un colegio) headship, US principal's office
    5 (cargo de dirección) directorship
    6 (oficina del director) director's office
    7 Auto Téc steering
    dirección asistida, power steering
    ' dirección' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - abajo
    - allí
    - cambiarse
    - canalizar
    - cara
    - de
    - derivar
    - DGT
    - dirigir
    - domicilio
    - dorso
    - este
    - girar
    - giro
    - hacia
    - jefatura
    - junta
    - lado
    - llevar
    - para
    - patronal
    - recta
    - recto
    - rumbo
    - saber
    - seña
    - singladura
    - viraje
    - a
    - actual
    - adelante
    - adentro
    - afuera
    - anotar
    - arriba
    - arroba
    - atrás
    - calle
    - camino
    - casualidad
    - contramano
    - contrario
    - deber
    - encabezamiento
    - indicador
    - nordeste
    - noroeste
    - norte
    - oeste
    English:
    address
    - administration
    - ahead
    - ashore
    - back
    - business
    - change
    - course
    - direction
    - double-jointed
    - eastbound
    - entry
    - film making
    - him
    - inquire
    - leadership
    - management
    - negotiation
    - oncoming
    - opposite
    - out of
    - over
    - overseas
    - power steering
    - promptly
    - redirect
    - round
    - self-addressed
    - somewhere
    - south
    - south-east
    - south-west
    - spin
    - steering
    - swing
    - switch
    - to
    - turn
    - up
    - way
    - westward
    - with
    - down
    - east
    - easterly
    - eastward
    - head
    - inland
    - internal
    - may
    * * *
    1. [sentido] direction;
    se halla interrumpido el tráfico en ambas direcciones the road is closed in both directions;
    cambiar de dirección to change direction;
    en dirección contraria in the opposite direction;
    señal de dirección obligatoria = sign indicating that traffic must go in a particular direction;
    dirección prohibida [en letrero] no entry;
    no gires por la siguiente, que es dirección prohibida don't take the next turning, it's no entry;
    circular en dirección prohibida to drive the wrong way up a one-way street
    2. [rumbo] direction;
    con dirección a, en dirección a towards, in the direction of;
    los trenes con o [m5] en dirección a Málaga trains to Malaga;
    ¿en qué dirección ibas? which way were you going?;
    íbamos en dirección a mi casa we were heading for my place;
    el buque avanzaba en la dirección del viento the ship had the wind behind it;
    los acontecimientos han tomado una dirección inesperada events have taken an unexpected turn
    3. [domicilio] address;
    déme su nombre y dirección, por favor could you tell me your name and address, please?
    dirección de entrega shipping address
    4. Informát address
    dirección de correo electrónico e-mail address;
    dirección electrónica [de correo] e-mail address;
    [de página] web page address;
    dirección IP IP address;
    dirección de memoria memory address;
    dirección web web address
    5. [mando, gestión] [de empresa, hospital] management;
    [de partido] leadership; [de colegio] headship; [de periódico] editorship; [de película] direction; [de obra de teatro] production; [de orquesta] conducting;
    estudia dirección de cine he's studying film directing
    6. [oficina] [de empresa, hospital] manager's office;
    [de colegio] Br headmaster's/headmistress's o US principal's office; [de periódico] editor's office
    7. [junta directiva] [de empresa, hospital] management;
    [de partido] leadership; [de colegio] management team; [de periódico] editorial board;
    la dirección de este periódico no se hace responsable de la opinión de sus colaboradores the editors of this newspaper are not responsible for opinions expressed by contributors
    dirección comercial commercial department;
    dirección general head office;
    RP Dirección General Impositiva Br ≈ Inland Revenue, US ≈ IRS;
    Dirección General de Tráfico = government department in charge of road transport
    8. [de vehículo] steering
    Esp dirección asistida power steering; Am dirección hidráulica power steering
    9. Geol strike
    * * *
    f
    1 ( sentido) direction;
    en aquella dirección that way, in that direction;
    2 COM management; POL leadership
    3 de coche steering
    4 TEA, de película direction;
    bajo la dirección de under the direction of, directed by
    5 en carta address
    6 ( rumbo)
    :
    en dirección a heading for;
    en dirección sur heading south
    7
    :
    direcciones pl ( instrucciones) guidelines
    * * *
    dirección nf, pl - ciones
    1) : address
    2) : direction
    3) : management, leadership
    4) : steering (of an automobile)
    * * *
    1. (sentido) direction
    se fue en esa dirección she went in that direction / she went that way
    2. (señas) address [pl. addresses]

    Spanish-English dictionary > dirección

  • 39 cargo

    m.
    1 charge (cuidado).
    los niños han quedado a mi cargo the children have been left in my care
    estar a cargo de algo, tener algo a su cargo to be in charge of something
    me hago cargo de la difícil situación I am aware of o I realize the difficulty of the situation
    me da cargo de conciencia dejarle pagar I feel bad about letting him pay
    2 post, position (empleo).
    ocupa un cargo muy importante she holds a very important position o post
    cargo público public office
    3 charge (finance).
    con cargo a charged to
    correr a cargo de to be borne by
    hacerse cargo de to pay for
    formular graves cargos contra alguien to bring serious charges against somebody
    5 debit, fee, debit charge.
    6 freight, loading.
    7 office.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: cargar.
    * * *
    1 (peso) load, weight
    2 (empleo) post, position
    3 (gobierno, custodia) charge, responsibility
    4 FINANZAS charge, debit
    5 DERECHO (falta) charge, accusation
    \
    correr a cargo de alguien to be the responsibility of somebody
    ■ el discurso de inauguración correrá a cargo del Sr. Torres Sr. Torres will make the opening speech
    desempeñar el cargo de / ocupar el cargo de to occupy the post of
    estar al cargo de to be in charge of
    hacerse cargo de (responsabilizarse de) to take charge of 2 (entender) to realize
    jurar el cargo to take an oath
    alto cargo top job, high-ranking position
    cargo de conciencia figurado weight on one's conscience
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) load, burden
    3) post, office
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=puesto) post

    ocupa el cargo de comisario europeo desde hace tres años — he has held the office o post of European Commissioner for three years

    • alto cargo — (=persona) top official, senior official; (=puesto) high-ranking position, top post

    ha dimitido un alto cargo directivo — a top o senior official has resigned

    • desempeñar un cargo — to hold a position

    • jurar el cargo — to be sworn in

    • poner el cargo a disposición de algn — euf to offer up one's post to sb

    cargo público — (=puesto) public office; (=persona) person in public office

    2)

    • a cargo de —

    a) (=responsable de) in charge of, responsible for
    b) (=bajo la responsabilidad de)

    "formación a cargo de la empresa" — "training will be provided"

    la clausura del festival estará a cargo de Plácido Domingo — Plácido Domingo will be the main attraction of the festival's closing ceremony

    las reparaciones correrán a cargo del dueño — the cost of repairs will be met by the owner, repairs will be paid for by the owner

    • tener algo a su cargo — to be in charge of sth, be responsible for sth

    3)

    • hacerse cargo de — (=encargarse) to take charge of; (=pagar) to pay for; (=entender) to realize

    cuando él murió, su hijo se hizo cargo del negocio — when he died, his son took charge of o took over the business

    me hago cargo de la importancia de estas conversaciones — I am aware of o realize how important these talks are

    -estamos pasando unos momentos difíciles -sí, ya me hago cargo — "we're going through difficult times" - "yes, I understand o realize"

    4) (Com) charge

    cargo por gestión — [de un billete electrónico] administration fee

    5) (Jur) charge

    cargo de conciencia, tengo cargo de conciencia por el tiempo perdido — I feel guilty about all that wasted time

    pliego, testigo 1., 1)
    6) Chile, Perú (=certificación) date stamp ( providing proof of when a document was submitted)
    * * *
    1) ( puesto) post, position (frml)
    2) (responsabilidad, cuidado)
    a)

    a cargo de alguien: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o (frml) charge; el negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the business; dejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of sales; tiene cuatro hijos a su cargo or (Col) a cargo he has four children to support; tiene a su cargo la división comercial — she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department

    b)
    c)

    correr a cargo de alguien: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company; la organización del concierto corre a mi cargo — I'm responsible for organizing the concert

    d)

    hacerse cargo de algo — ( hacerse responsable) de puesto/tarea to take charge of something; de gastos to take care of something; ( comprender) (Esp) to undertand something, to appreciate something

    3) (Com, Fin) charge

    con cargo a mi cuenta — to be debited against o charged to my account

    4) (Der) charge
    * * *
    1) ( puesto) post, position (frml)
    2) (responsabilidad, cuidado)
    a)

    a cargo de alguien: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o (frml) charge; el negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the business; dejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of sales; tiene cuatro hijos a su cargo or (Col) a cargo he has four children to support; tiene a su cargo la división comercial — she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department

    b)
    c)

    correr a cargo de alguien: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company; la organización del concierto corre a mi cargo — I'm responsible for organizing the concert

    d)

    hacerse cargo de algo — ( hacerse responsable) de puesto/tarea to take charge of something; de gastos to take care of something; ( comprender) (Esp) to undertand something, to appreciate something

    3) (Com, Fin) charge

    con cargo a mi cuenta — to be debited against o charged to my account

    4) (Der) charge
    * * *
    cargo1
    1 = officer, official, position, post, office, job title, incumbent.
    Nota: Nombre.

    Ex: Thus, sometimes the information does not reach those officers who would benefit most from access to it.

    Ex: See also reference tracings include related headings such as personal and corporate headings for officials, pseudonyms used as uniform headings, etc.
    Ex: He has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility.
    Ex: The chief librarian or director of libraries, by which title the post is sometimes now known, will in general be fully occupied with making decisions on internal professional policy.
    Ex: Until Groome appeared, city officials were chosen not so much for their ability to administer the affairs of their offices as for who they knew; hence, old-style machine politics with its accompanying corruption found a congenial atmosphere in which to operate.
    Ex: The job title is designed to indicate the group (professional, associate, technician, or clerk) to which the job belongs and the level of the job within that grouping.
    Ex: This practice of having the former incumbent of the job train the new employee is risky, particularly if that departing employee has in any way been a problem.
    * alto cargo = senior post, senior manager, senior executive, high official, top manager, senior official.
    * alto cargo público = senior public official.
    * altos cargos = people in high office.
    * ascender a un cargo = rise to + position.
    * aspirar a un cargo = aspire to + position.
    * beneficios del cargo, los = spoils of office, the.
    * cargo de director = directorship.
    * cargo directivo = senior post, top official, senior position, managerial position, executive position, top position.
    * cargo ejecutivo = managerial position, executive position.
    * cargo ejecutivo del gobierno = government executive.
    * cargo ministerial = ministry official.
    * cargo oficial = officer.
    * cargo político = government official.
    * cargo público = public official, federal official, elected official, public office.
    * dejar un cargo = resign + office, step down from + Posesivo + position, leave + office.
    * dimitir de un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.
    * en el cargo = in the saddle, in office.
    * en virtud del cargo que ocupa = ex officio.
    * en virtud de su cargo = ex officio.
    * jurar un cargo = swear in.
    * ocupar el cargo = be in the position.
    * ocupar un cargo = hold + position.
    * ocupar un cargo de dirección = hold + a chair.
    * persona designada para un cargo = appointee.
    * prebendas del cargo, las = spoils of office, the.
    * relevar de un cargo = relieve of + duty.
    * renunciar a un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.
    * titular del cargo = incumbent.
    * tomar posesión de un cargo = swear in, take + office.

    cargo2

    Ex: The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.

    * a cargo = in the saddle.
    * a cargo (de) = charged with, in charge (of).
    * a cargo de Alguien = under supervision.
    * a cargo de las riendas = in the saddle.
    * a cargo del ayuntamiento = local authority-run.
    * a cargo del gobierno = government-operated, government-run.
    * a cargo de una sola persona = one-man band.
    * a cargo de voluntarios = volunteer-run.
    * Algo a cargo de una sola persona = one-person operation.
    * bajo el cargo de = on charges of.
    * cargo de conciencia = guilty conscience.
    * con cargo a = to be debited to, to be charged to.
    * con cargo de conciencia = remorseful.
    * correr a cargo de = be the responsibility of.
    * estar a cargo de = man, be the responsibility of.
    * familiar a cargo = dependent.
    * hacerse cargo = take over, assume + role.
    * hacerse cargo de = take + charge of, take + Nombre + under + Posesivo + wings.
    * hacerse cargo de Algo = take (+ Nombre) + on board (+ Nombre), hold + the fort, hold + the fortress.
    * persona a cargo = dependent.
    * poner a Alguien al cargo de = put + Nombre + in charge of.
    * poner a cargo de = put in + charge of.
    * tener a cargo de uno = have + as + Posesivo + charge.
    * tener a + Posesivo + cargo = have + in + Posesivo + charge.

    cargo3
    3 = charge, indictment.

    Ex: No less prestigious an authority than a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the man principally responsible for that volume.

    Ex: Enter indictments as instructed in rule 21.36C1.
    * absolver a Alguien de todos los cargos = acquit + Nombre + on all counts.
    * cargos criminales = criminal charges.
    * formular cargos contra = bring + charges against.
    * formular cargos contra Alguien = press + charges.
    * libertad sin cargos = unconditional discharge.

    cargo4
    * culto al cargo = cargo cult.
    * nota de cargo = credit note.
    * * *
    A (puesto) position ( frml), post
    desempeña un cargo importante en la empresa he has o holds an important position in the firm
    tiene un cargo de mucha responsabilidad she has a very responsible job o post o position
    hoy toma posesión de su cargo he takes up his post o position today, he takes up office today
    alto1 (↑ alto (1))
    Compuesto:
    los que ostentan cargos públicos those who hold public office
    B (responsabilidad, cuidado)
    1
    a cargo de algn: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o ( frml) charge
    un concierto a cargo de la Orquesta Nacional ( frml); a concert performed by the National Orchestra
    el negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the business
    dejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of sales
    tiene cuatro hijos a su cargoor ( Col) a cargo he has four children to support
    tiene a su cargo la división comercial she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department
    2
    al cargo de algo in charge of sth
    quedó/lo pusieron al cargo del departamento he was left/they put him in charge of the department
    3
    correr a cargo de algn: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company
    la organización del concierto corre a cargo de su ayudante her assistant is responsible for organizing the concert
    el papel principal corre a cargo de Fernando Arias the main part o the leading role is played by Fernando Arias
    4
    hacerse cargo de algo (hacerse responsable) ‹de un puesto/una tarea› to take charge of sth;
    ‹de gastos› to take care of sth; (entender) ( Esp) to be aware of sth
    ¿podría hacerse cargo de nuestra sucursal en Panamá? could you take charge of o head our branch in Panama?
    mi abuela se hizo cargo de mí my grandmother took care of me
    me hago cargo de la gravedad de la situación I am aware of the gravity of the situation
    es un problema difícil — sí, me hago cargo it's a difficult problem — yes, I realize that o I am aware of that
    Compuesto:
    no tengo ningún cargo de conciencia por no haber ido a visitarlo I don't feel at all guilty for not having been to visit him, I feel no remorse at not having been to visit him
    me da/quedó un cargo de conciencia horrible I feel/felt terribly guilty
    C ( Com, Fin) charge
    sin cargo adicional at no additional cost, at no extra charge
    sin cargo free of charge
    pidió unos cheques de viaje con cargo a su cuenta she ordered some traveler's checks to be debited against o charged to her account
    D ( Der) charge
    niega todos los cargos que se le imputan he denies all the charges against him
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    Del verbo cargar: ( conjugate cargar)

    cargo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    cargó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
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    cargo
    cargar ( conjugate cargar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹barco/avión/camión› to load;


    no cargues tanto el coche don't put so much in the car
    b) ‹pistola/escopeta› to load;

    ‹pluma/encendedor› to fill;
    ‹ cámara› to load, put a film in
    c) (Elec) to charge

    2

    b) ‹ combustible› to fuel;

    ◊ tengo que cargo nafta (RPl) I have to fill up with gasoline (AmE) o (BrE) petrol

    c) (Inf) to load

    3 ( de obligaciones) cargo a algn de algo to burden sb with sth;
    ◊ me cargoon la culpa they put o laid the blame on me

    4
    a) ‹paquetes/bolsas› to carry;

    ‹ niño› (AmL) to carry
    b) (AmL exc RPl) ‹ armas› to carry

    c) (Ven fam) ( llevar puesto) to wear;

    ( tener consigo):

    5 ( a una cuenta) to charge
    6 (Méx fam) ( matar) to kill
    verbo intransitivo
    1 cargo con algo ‹ con bulto› to carry sth;

    2 cargo contra algn [tropas/policía] to charge on o at sb
    3 [ batería] to charge
    4 (fam) ( fastidiar):

    cargarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) [pilas/flash] to charge;

    [ partícula] to become charged
    b) cargose de algo ‹de bolsas/equipaje› to load oneself down with sth;

    ‹ de responsabilidades› to take on a lot of sth;
    ‹ de deudas› to saddle oneself with sth
    2
    a) (fam) ( matar) to kill

    b) (Esp fam) ‹ motor› to wreck;

    ‹ jarrón› to smash
    cargo sustantivo masculino
    1 ( puesto) post, position (frml);
    (de presidente, ministro) office;

    un cargo de responsabilidad a responsible job o post
    2 (responsabilidad, cuidado):

    estar a cargo de algo to be in charge of sth;
    los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company;
    hacerse cargo de algo ‹de puesto/tarea› to take charge of sth;

    ‹ de gastos› to take care of sth;

    3
    a) (Com, Fin) charge;


    b) (Der) charge

    cargar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to load: cargó al niño en brazos, she took the boy in her arms
    2 (un mechero, una pluma) to fill
    3 (poner carga eléctrica) to charge
    4 (atribuir algo negativo) cargar a alguien con las culpas, to put the blame on sb
    le cargan la responsabilidad a su padre, they put the blame on his father
    5 Com to charge: cárguelo a mi cuenta, charge it to my account
    6 familiar Educ to fail
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (soportar, hacerse cargo) to lumber [con, with]: carga con la casa y con la suegra, she has to do all the housework as well as having to take care of her mother-in-law
    figurado cargar con las consecuencias, to suffer the consequences
    2 (llevar un peso) to carry: siempre carga con lo más pesado, he always takes the heaviest
    3 (arremeter, atacar) to charge [contra, against]
    cargo sustantivo masculino
    1 (puesto) post, position
    2 (cuidado, responsabilidad) charge
    estar al cargo de, to be in charge of
    3 Jur charge, accusation
    4 Fin charge, debit 5 cargo de conciencia, weight on one's conscience, remorse
    ♦ Locuciones: correr a cargo de, (gastos) to be met by
    hacerse cargo de, to take charge of: en seguida se hizo cargo de mi situación, he understood my situation immediately
    ' cargo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acceder
    - acusación
    - adscribir
    - alcaldía
    - antecesor
    - antecesora
    - antigua
    - antiguo
    - candidata
    - candidato
    - candidatura
    - carga
    - cargar
    - cargamento
    - cargarse
    - censor
    - censora
    - cesar
    - consejería
    - correr
    - cuidada
    - cuidado
    - dimitir
    - dirección
    - disputarse
    - educación
    - flete
    - función
    - inhabilitar
    - jefatura
    - jurar
    - juramentar
    - lamentarse
    - minoritaria
    - minoritario
    - nombrar
    - ostentar
    - permanencia
    - poltrona
    - posesión
    - presentarse
    - pretendienta
    - pretendiente
    - regentar
    - rehabilitación
    - reintegrar
    - relevar
    - relumbrón
    - renuncia
    - renunciar
    English:
    appointment
    - assume
    - backbencher
    - band
    - bump off
    - by-election
    - cargo
    - charge
    - count
    - denial
    - deny
    - drop
    - ex
    - foreman
    - handle
    - impression
    - incitement
    - inflict
    - lay on
    - office
    - outrank
    - resign
    - set down
    - shed
    - stand down
    - succeed
    - toss about
    - toss around
    - vessel
    - back
    - commission
    - dean
    - debit
    - dependant
    - discharge
    - dock
    - extra
    - fly
    - front
    - handling
    - impeach
    - incumbent
    - land
    - landing
    - lay
    - load
    - meet
    - reinstate
    - relieve
    - seize
    * * *
    cargo nm
    1. [empleo] post, position;
    ocupa o [m5] es un cargo muy importante she holds a very important position o post;
    tomar posesión del cargo to take up office
    cargo directivo manager;
    cargo público: [m5] ostenta o [m5] es un cargo público she holds public office;
    varios cargos públicos se han visto involucrados en el escándalo several people holding public office have been implicated in the scandal
    2. [cuidado] charge;
    los niños han quedado a mi cargo the children have been left in my care;
    una producción a cargo del Teatro Nacional a National Theatre production;
    está a cargo de o [m5] tiene a su cargo la seguridad de la empresa he is in charge of o responsible for company security;
    hacerse cargo de [asumir el control de] to take charge of;
    [ocuparse de] to take care of; [comprender] to understand;
    se hizo cargo de la gestión de la empresa she took over the running of the company;
    el ejército se hizo cargo del poder the army took power o took over;
    no te preocupes, yo me hago cargo de los niños don't worry, I'll look after the children;
    me hago cargo de la difícil situación I am aware of o I realize the difficulty of the situation;
    tenemos que ir al entierro y llegaremos tarde – sí, me hago cargo we have to go to the funeral, so we'll be late – OK, I understand
    3. Econ charge;
    con cargo a charged to;
    correr a cargo de to be borne by;
    todos los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa all expenses will be borne by the company;
    la comida corre a cargo de la empresa the meal is on the company;
    la organización corre a cargo del Municipio the organization will be carried out by the town council, the town council will be organizing the event;
    sin cargo adicional for o at no extra charge
    4. [acusación] charge;
    formular graves cargos contra alguien to bring serious charges against sb;
    cargo de conciencia:
    tener cargo de conciencia to feel pangs of conscience, to feel remorse;
    me da cargo de conciencia dejarle pagar I feel bad about letting him pay;
    comprar productos de este país me representa un cargo de conciencia I feel guilty about buying this country's products
    5. [buque de carga] cargo ship, freighter
    * * *
    m
    1 position;
    alto cargo high-ranking position; persona high-ranking official;
    cargo ministerial ministerial post
    2 JUR charge
    3
    :
    a cargo de la madre in the mother’s care;
    tener algo a su cargo, estar a cargo de algo be in charge of sth;
    está a cargo de Gómez Gómez is in charge of it;
    hacerse cargo de algo take charge of sth;
    tomar a su cargo take charge of
    4 COM
    :
    con cargo a nosotros on our account
    5
    :
    me da cargo de conciencia it makes me feel guilty
    * * *
    cargo nm
    1) : burden, load
    2) : charge
    a cargo de: in charge of
    3) : position, office
    * * *
    1. (empleo) post
    2. (delito) charge
    hacerse cargo (encargarse de) to take charge of [pt. took; pp. taken] (comprender) to understand [pt. & pp. understood]

    Spanish-English dictionary > cargo

  • 40 назначавам

    1. (на работа) appoint, nominate, take on
    назначавам някого (за) учител appoint s.o. a teacher
    назначавам на вакантно място fill a vacancy
    назначавам някого на служба appoint s.o. to an office/to a post
    2. (уговарям) fix, set
    назначавам среща fix/make an, appointment, fix/set/make a date
    назначавам наряд воен. detail on duty
    назначавам анкета institute an inquiry
    * * *
    назнача̀вам,
    гл.
    1. (на работа) appoint, nominate, designate; take on; \назначавам на вакантно място fill a vacancy; успявам да бъда назначен get o.s. appointed;
    2. ( уговарям) fix, set; \назначавам среща fix/make an appointment/a date; • \назначавам анкета institute an inquiry; \назначавам наряд воен. detail on duty.
    * * *
    appoint: назначавам s.o. a teacher - назначавам някого за учител; assign; employ; post{poust}
    * * *
    1. (на работа) appoint, nominate, take on 2. (уговарям) fix, set 3. НАЗНАЧАВАМ анкета institute an inquiry 4. НАЗНАЧАВАМ на вакантно място fill a vacancy 5. НАЗНАЧАВАМ наряд воен. detail on duty 6. НАЗНАЧАВАМ някого (за) учител appoint s.o. a teacher 7. НАЗНАЧАВАМ някого на служба appoint s.o. to an office/to a post 8. НАЗНАЧАВАМ среща fix/make an, appointment, fix/set/make a date 9. те се съгласиха да ме назначат за три месеца they agreed to take me on for three months 10. успявам да бъда назначен get o.s. appointed

    Български-английски речник > назначавам

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