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  • 1 afanar

    v.
    to pinch, to swipe (informal) (robar).
    * * *
    1 familiar (robar) to nick, pinch
    1 to work with zeal
    \
    afanarse en to work hard at
    afanarse por to strive to, do one's best to
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) * (=birlar) to pinch *, swipe *
    2) CAm [+ dinero] to earn, make
    3) (=acosar) to press, harass, bother; LAm (=empujar) to hustle
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (arg) ( robar) to pinch (colloq)
    2) (Col fam)
    a) ( apurar) to rush
    b) ( preocupar) to worry
    3) (Per fam) < chica> to hit on (AmE colloq), to try to get off with (BrE colloq)
    2.
    afanarse v pron
    1) ( esforzarse) to work, toil

    afanarse en or por + inf — to strive to + inf

    2) (enf) (arg) ( robar) to pinch (colloq)
    * * *
    = rip off, heist, nick.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. This can vary, however, as sometimes banks are robbed and armored cars heisted to forward their causes, but this was not Kahl's way of doing things.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    ----
    * afanarse = swipe.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (arg) ( robar) to pinch (colloq)
    2) (Col fam)
    a) ( apurar) to rush
    b) ( preocupar) to worry
    3) (Per fam) < chica> to hit on (AmE colloq), to try to get off with (BrE colloq)
    2.
    afanarse v pron
    1) ( esforzarse) to work, toil

    afanarse en or por + inf — to strive to + inf

    2) (enf) (arg) ( robar) to pinch (colloq)
    * * *
    = rip off, heist, nick.

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

    Ex: This can vary, however, as sometimes banks are robbed and armored cars heisted to forward their causes, but this was not Kahl's way of doing things.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    * afanarse = swipe.

    * * *
    afanar [A1 ]
    vt
    A ( arg) (robar) to swipe ( colloq), to nick ( BrE colloq), to pinch ( BrE colloq)
    B ( Col fam)
    1 (apurar) to rush
    ¡afánale! ( fam); get a move on! ( colloq)
    2 (preocupar) to worry
    C ( Per fam) ‹chica› to hit on ( AmE colloq), to try to get off with ( BrE colloq)
    A (esforzarse) to work, toil afanarse EN or POR + INF to strive to + INF afanarse POR QUE + SUBJ:
    siempre se afana por que todos se sientan como en su casa she always goes to great pains o to a lot of trouble to make everyone feel at home
    B ( enf) ( arg) (robar) ‹cigarrillos/radio› to swipe ( colloq), to nick ( BrE colloq), to pinch ( BrE colloq)
    * * *

    afanar vtr fam (hurtar) to nick, pinch: le afanaron la cartera, they pinched his wallet
    ' afanar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    nick
    - rip
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    Fam [robar] to pinch, to swipe
    * * *
    I v/i C.Am. ( ganar dinero) make money
    II v/t
    1 C.Am.
    dinero make
    2 Rpl fam ( robar) swipe fam, Br tb
    pinch fam

    Spanish-English dictionary > afanar

  • 2 cadena de librerías

    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    * * *

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

    Spanish-English dictionary > cadena de librerías

  • 3 chanchullo

    m.
    1 fiddle, racket (informal).
    2 underhanded transaction, put-up job, shady deal, shady business.
    * * *
    1 familiar fiddle, wangle, racket
    \
    tener chanchullos familiar to be on the fiddle
    * * *
    masculino (fam) racket (colloq), fiddle (BrE colloq)
    * * *
    = scam, confidence scam, fiddle, bung.
    Ex. The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
    Ex. He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex. This paper reports a study based on an eight-week period of participant observation of a particular form of resistance, fiddles.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    ----
    * hacer chanchullos = fiddle.
    * * *
    masculino (fam) racket (colloq), fiddle (BrE colloq)
    * * *
    = scam, confidence scam, fiddle, bung.

    Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.

    Ex: He was a cold-blooded killer, cardsharp, gambler and a consumptive who also ran several confidence scams.
    Ex: This paper reports a study based on an eight-week period of participant observation of a particular form of resistance, fiddles.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    * hacer chanchullos = fiddle.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    racket ( colloq), fiddle ( BrE colloq)
    está metido en no sé qué chanchullos he's involved in all kinds of fiddles o rackets ( colloq)
    * * *

    chanchullo sustantivo masculino (fam) racket (colloq), fiddle (BrE colloq)
    chanchullo sustantivo masculino familiar (negocio turbio) fiddle, swindle
    ' chanchullo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    destaparse
    English:
    fiddle
    - racket
    - hustle
    * * *
    Fam swindle, racket, esp Br fiddle;
    siempre anda metido en chanchullos he's always got some racket going, esp Br he's always on the fiddle;
    hicieron un chanchullo para evitar pagar they worked some scam o Br fiddle to avoid paying
    * * *
    m fam
    trick, scam fam ;
    hacer un chanchullo do a dodgy deal fam, do some shady business
    * * *
    chanchullo nm, fam : shady deal, scam

    Spanish-English dictionary > chanchullo

  • 4 confabulación

    f.
    1 conspiracy, plot, put-up job, scheme.
    2 pseudologia fantastica.
    * * *
    1 conspiracy, plot
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=complot) plot, conspiracy; (=intriga) intrigue
    2) (Com) ring
    * * *
    femenino conspiracy, plot
    * * *
    = collusion, confabulation, scheme, bung, intrigue, connivance.
    Ex. There are four prominent common law defenses to a divorce suit: condonation, recrimination, collusion, and connivance.
    Ex. The present study investigated the content of the confabulations of a neurological patient who developed a striking confabulatory syndrome following removal of a meningioma in the pituitary region.
    Ex. These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. The novel has many trappings that will ensnare the average reader but skulking at the bottom of its well of intrigue is a timeless terror more attuned to the mature sensibilities of an adult audience.
    Ex. There are four prominent common law defenses to a divorce suit: condonation, recrimination, collusion, and connivance.
    ----
    * confabulaciones = scheming.
    * * *
    femenino conspiracy, plot
    * * *
    = collusion, confabulation, scheme, bung, intrigue, connivance.

    Ex: There are four prominent common law defenses to a divorce suit: condonation, recrimination, collusion, and connivance.

    Ex: The present study investigated the content of the confabulations of a neurological patient who developed a striking confabulatory syndrome following removal of a meningioma in the pituitary region.
    Ex: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: The novel has many trappings that will ensnare the average reader but skulking at the bottom of its well of intrigue is a timeless terror more attuned to the mature sensibilities of an adult audience.
    Ex: There are four prominent common law defenses to a divorce suit: condonation, recrimination, collusion, and connivance.
    * confabulaciones = scheming.

    * * *
    conspiracy, plot
    * * *

    confabulación sustantivo femenino
    1 conspiracy
    2 conference
    ' confabulación' also found in these entries:
    English:
    scheme
    * * *
    conspiracy
    * * *
    f plot, conspiracy
    * * *
    confabulación nf, pl - ciones complot, conspiración: plot, conspiracy

    Spanish-English dictionary > confabulación

  • 5 engañar

    v.
    1 to deceive, to trick, to take in, to fool.
    2 to deceive, to lie.
    3 to cheat on, to cuckold, to be unfaithful to, to deceive.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to deceive, mislead, fool, take in
    2 (estafar) to cheat, trick
    3 (ser infiel) to be unfaithful to
    1 to be deceptive
    1 (ilusionarse) to deceive oneself
    2 (equivocarse) to be mistaken, be wrong
    \
    engañar el hambre figurado to stave off hunger
    las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ persona] (=embaucar) to deceive, trick; (=despistar) to mislead; [con promesas, esperanzas] to delude; (=estafar) to cheat, swindle

    engaña a su mujer — he's unfaithful to his wife, he's cheating on his wife

    2)
    2.
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( hacer errar en el juicio) to deceive, mislead

    lo engañó haciéndole creer que... — she deceived him into thinking that...

    engañar a alguien para que + subj — to trick somebody into -ing

    b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)
    c) ( ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on
    2.
    engañarse v pron
    a) (refl) ( mentirse) to deceive oneself, kid oneself (colloq)
    b) ( equivocarse) to be mistaken

    duró, si no me engaño, hasta junio — it lasted until June, if I'm not mistaken

    * * *
    = fool, hoodwink, deceive, cheat (on), delude, trick, dupe, perpetrate + deception, practise + a deception, rip off, take in, swindle, fiddle, bamboozle, shortchange, bluff, cheat + Posesivo + way through, be had, humbug, lead + Nombre + down the garden path, con, hoax, bullshit.
    Ex. We may be fooling ourserlves and I would caution public libraries, school libraries and libraries in general that indeed one code might not satisfy all our needs.
    Ex. In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex. Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.
    Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex. Nonetheless, it is claimed that his 1987 graduate and undergraduate editions continue to delude students seeking information about schools to attend, including schools of library science.
    Ex. People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex. He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex. The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.
    Ex. Librarians have been practising a deception, and must wake up to three dangers.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex. Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being ' fiddled' in Italy.
    Ex. Benny Morris claims that Karsh is attempting to hoodwink and bamboozle readers.
    Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex. They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.
    Ex. One of the major dichotomies between students and teachers is the recognition by students that the technologies can give them an edge, that is they can cheat their way through school.
    Ex. By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    Ex. Being able to bullshit effectively requires at least a modicum of knowledge about the subject at hand.
    ----
    * dejarse engañar = fall for, get + sucked in.
    * engañar al sistema = beat + the system, game + the system.
    * engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door.
    * las apariencias engañan = don't judge a book by its cover, there's more to it than meets the eye.
    * si mi olfato no me engaña = if my hunch is right, if I am not mistaken.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( hacer errar en el juicio) to deceive, mislead

    lo engañó haciéndole creer que... — she deceived him into thinking that...

    engañar a alguien para que + subj — to trick somebody into -ing

    b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)
    c) ( ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on
    2.
    engañarse v pron
    a) (refl) ( mentirse) to deceive oneself, kid oneself (colloq)
    b) ( equivocarse) to be mistaken

    duró, si no me engaño, hasta junio — it lasted until June, if I'm not mistaken

    * * *
    = fool, hoodwink, deceive, cheat (on), delude, trick, dupe, perpetrate + deception, practise + a deception, rip off, take in, swindle, fiddle, bamboozle, shortchange, bluff, cheat + Posesivo + way through, be had, humbug, lead + Nombre + down the garden path, con, hoax, bullshit.

    Ex: We may be fooling ourserlves and I would caution public libraries, school libraries and libraries in general that indeed one code might not satisfy all our needs.

    Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex: Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.
    Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex: Nonetheless, it is claimed that his 1987 graduate and undergraduate editions continue to delude students seeking information about schools to attend, including schools of library science.
    Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex: The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.
    Ex: Librarians have been practising a deception, and must wake up to three dangers.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex: Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being ' fiddled' in Italy.
    Ex: Benny Morris claims that Karsh is attempting to hoodwink and bamboozle readers.
    Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex: They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.
    Ex: One of the major dichotomies between students and teachers is the recognition by students that the technologies can give them an edge, that is they can cheat their way through school.
    Ex: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    Ex: Being able to bullshit effectively requires at least a modicum of knowledge about the subject at hand.
    * dejarse engañar = fall for, get + sucked in.
    * engañar al sistema = beat + the system, game + the system.
    * engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door.
    * las apariencias engañan = don't judge a book by its cover, there's more to it than meets the eye.
    * si mi olfato no me engaña = if my hunch is right, if I am not mistaken.

    * * *
    engañar [A1 ]
    vt
    1
    (embaucar): no te dejes engañar don't be misled o fooled o deceived o taken in
    sé que no estuviste allí, tú a mí no me engañas I know you weren't there, you can't fool me
    a él no se lo engaña tan fácilmente he's not so easily fooled o duped o deceived, he's not taken in that easily
    te han engañado, no está hecho a mano you've been cheated o conned o had o done, it's not handmade ( colloq)
    me engañó la vista my eyes deceived o misled me
    si la memoria no me engaña if my memory serves me right o correctly
    las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive
    engañar el hambre or el estómago to keep the wolf from the door ( colloq)
    comimos un poco de queso para engañar el hambre we had some cheese to keep the wolf from the door o to take the edge off our appetites o to keep us going
    2 (ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on ( AmE colloq)
    su marido la engaña con la secretaria her husband's being unfaithful to her o cheating on her, he's having an affair with his secretary
    1 ( refl) (mentirse) to deceive oneself, delude oneself, kid oneself ( colloq)
    no te engañes, no se va a casar contigo don't deceive o delude o kid yourself, she's not going to marry you
    2 (equivocarse) to be mistaken
    duró, si no me engaño, hasta noviembre it lasted until November, if I'm not mistaken
    * * *

     

    engañar ( conjugate engañar) verbo transitivo


    tú a mí no me engañas you can't fool me;
    lo engañó haciéndole creer que … she deceived him into thinking that …;
    engañar a algn para que haga algo to trick sb into doing sth
    b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)


    engañarse verbo pronominal ( refl) ( mentirse) to deceive oneself, kid oneself (colloq)
    engañar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to deceive, mislead
    2 (mentir) to lie: no me engañes, ese no es tu coche, you can't fool me, this isn't your car
    3 (la sed, el hambre, el sueño) comeremos un poco para engañar el hambre, we'll eat a bit to keep the wolf from the door
    4 (timar) to cheat, trick
    5 (ser infiel) to be unfaithful to
    II verbo intransitivo to be deceptive: parece pequeña, pero engaña, it looks small, but it's deceptive
    ' engañar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    burlar
    - confiada
    - confiado
    - torear
    - tramoya
    - clavar
    - disfraz
    - disfrazar
    - joder
    English:
    betray
    - cheat
    - deceive
    - delude
    - double-cross
    - dupe
    - fool
    - fox
    - have
    - hoax
    - hoodwink
    - lead on
    - mess about
    - mess around
    - mislead
    - put over
    - ride
    - stitch up
    - take in
    - trick
    - try on
    - two-time
    - unfaithful
    - wool
    - hood
    - kid
    - lead
    - square
    - take
    - two
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [mentir] to deceive;
    engañó a su padre haciéndole ver que había aprobado she deceived her father into believing that she had passed;
    es difícil engañarla she is not easily deceived, she's hard to fool;
    logró engañar al portero he managed to outsmart the goalkeeper;
    me engañó lo bien que vestía y que hablaba she was so well dressed and so well spoken that I was taken in;
    ¿a quién te crees que vas a engañar? who are you trying to fool o kid?;
    a mí no me engañas, sé que tienes cincuenta años you can't fool me, I know you're fifty
    2. [ser infiel a] to deceive, to cheat on;
    engaña a su marido she cheats on her husband;
    me engañó con mi mejor amiga he cheated on me with my best friend
    3. [estafar] to cheat, to swindle;
    te engañaron vendiéndote esto tan caro they cheated you if they sold that to you for such a high price;
    engañar a alguien como a un chino o [m5] a un niño to take sb for a ride
    4. [hacer más llevadero] to appease;
    engañar el hambre to take the edge off one's hunger
    ♦ vi
    to be deceptive o misleading;
    engaña mucho, no es tan tonto como parece you can easily get the wrong impression, he's not as stupid as he seems;
    las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive
    * * *
    v/t
    1 deceive, cheat;
    engañar el hambre take the edge off one’s appetite;
    te han engañado you’ve been had fam
    2 ( ser infiel a) cheat on, be unfaithful to
    * * *
    1) embaucar: to trick, to deceive, to mislead
    2) : to cheat on, to be unfaithful to
    * * *
    1. (mentir) to lie
    2. (ser infiel) to cheat on
    3. (timar) to trick
    4. (dar impresión falsa) to be deceptive
    esta foto engaña: parezco más alta de lo que soy this photo is deceptive: I look taller than I am

    Spanish-English dictionary > engañar

  • 6 estafar

    v.
    to swindle.
    estafó cien millones a la empresa he defrauded the company of a hundred million
    El pillo defraudó a la tienda The thief defrauded the store.
    * * *
    1 to swindle, trick, cheat, defraud
    \
    me han estafado familiar I've been done, I've been had
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VT to swindle, defraud, twist *

    estafar algo a algn — to swindle sb out of sth, defraud sb of sth

    ¡me han estafado! — I've been done! *

    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud

    estafarle algo a alguien — to defraud somebody of something, swindle somebody out of something

    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip... off (colloq), to con (colloq)
    * * *
    = cheat (on), defraud, rip off, swindle, shortchange, bilk, humbug, con, hoax.
    Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex. The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex. With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud

    estafarle algo a alguien — to defraud somebody of something, swindle somebody out of something

    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip... off (colloq), to con (colloq)
    * * *
    = cheat (on), defraud, rip off, swindle, shortchange, bilk, humbug, con, hoax.

    Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

    Ex: The librarian wishes to maximise access to information while not defrauding authors and publishers.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

    * * *
    estafar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ( Der) to swindle, defraud estafarle algo A algn to defraud sb OF sth, swindle sb OUT OF sth
    le estafó a la empresa varios millones de pesos he defrauded the company of several million pesos, he swindled the company out of several million pesos
    2 ( fam) (timar) to rip … off ( colloq), to con ( colloq)
    ¡qué manera de estafar a la gente! what a con o rip-off! ( colloq)
    * * *

    estafar ( conjugate estafar) verbo transitivo
    a) (Der) to swindle, defraud;

    estafarle algo a algn to defraud sb of sth, swindle sb out of sth
    b) (fam) ( timar) to rip … off (colloq), to con (colloq)

    estafar verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat, trick: estafaron a un pensionista y le dejaron sin sus ahorros, they swindled the pensioner out of his entire savings
    ' estafar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    defraudar
    - timar
    - engañar
    - robar
    English:
    chisel
    - con
    - defraud
    - diddle
    - fiddle
    - rook
    - swindle
    - trick
    - cheat
    - rip
    * * *
    1. [timar, robar] to swindle;
    [a empresa, organización] to defraud;
    estafó millones a la empresa he defrauded the company of millions
    2. Fam [cobrar abusivamente] to rip off;
    ¿10.000 por esta camisa? a ti te han estafado 10,000 for that shirt? you've been ripped off o had
    * * *
    v/t swindle, cheat;
    estafar algo a alguien cheat s.o. out of sth, defraud s.o. of sth
    * * *
    defraudar: to swindle, to defraud
    * * *
    estafar vb to swindle

    Spanish-English dictionary > estafar

  • 7 lugar destacado

    (n.) = prime space
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    * * *

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lugar destacado

  • 8 lugar visible

    (n.) = prime space
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    * * *

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lugar visible

  • 9 soborno

    m.
    1 bribery.
    2 bribe (dinero, regalo).
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: sobornar.
    * * *
    1 (acción) bribery
    2 (regalo etc) bribe
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=pago) bribe
    2) (=delito) bribery
    3) And, Cono Sur (=sobrecarga) extra load; (=prima) extra, bonus

    de soborno — extra, in addition

    * * *
    masculino ( acción) bribery; (dinero, regalo) bribe
    * * *
    = bribery, bung, bribe.
    Ex. The article 'Publishing in Russia - the heady doldrums of change' lists inflation; piracy; bribery; and lack of organization as the main drawbacks of the new Russian publishing industry.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. The top three most important issues were found to be 'disposal of hazardous waste,' 'acceptance of bribes' and 'sexual harassment'.
    ----
    * dinero de soborno = hush money.
    * * *
    masculino ( acción) bribery; (dinero, regalo) bribe
    * * *
    = bribery, bung, bribe.

    Ex: The article 'Publishing in Russia - the heady doldrums of change' lists inflation; piracy; bribery; and lack of organization as the main drawbacks of the new Russian publishing industry.

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: The top three most important issues were found to be 'disposal of hazardous waste,' 'acceptance of bribes' and 'sexual harassment'.
    * dinero de soborno = hush money.

    * * *
    1 (acción) bribery
    obtener algo mediante soborno to obtain something by bribery
    2 (dinero, regalo) bribe
    ofrecer un soborno to offer a bribe
    aceptar/recibir un soborno to accept/receive a bribe
    * * *

    Del verbo sobornar: ( conjugate sobornar)

    soborno es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    sobornó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    sobornar    
    soborno
    sobornar ( conjugate sobornar) verbo transitivo
    to bribe, suborn (frml)
    soborno sustantivo masculino ( acción) bribery;
    (dinero, regalo) bribe
    sobornar verbo transitivo to bribe
    soborno m (cohecho) bribery
    (dinero, favor aceptado) bribe
    ' soborno' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    denunciar
    - venderse
    - mordida
    English:
    bribe
    - bribery
    - buy off
    - graft
    - payoff
    - sweetener
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [acción] bribery
    2. [dinero, regalo] bribe;
    aceptar un soborno to accept a bribe
    ♦ de soborno loc adj
    Bol, Chile additional
    * * *
    m bribe
    * * *
    1) : bribery
    2) : bribe
    * * *
    soborno n bribe

    Spanish-English dictionary > soborno

  • 10 tejemaneje

    m.
    1 intrigue.
    2 to-do, fuss (ajetreo).
    3 hustle and bustle, funny business.
    4 scheming way.
    * * *
    1 familiar (afán) fuss, bustle
    2 familiar (enredos) intrigue, scheming, funny business
    * * *
    masculino (fam)
    a) ( maquinación) intrigue

    tejemanejes — skulduggery, scheming

    b) (Esp) ( actividad)

    ¿qué tejemanejes se traen? — what are they up to?

    * * *
    = power play, bung.
    Ex. The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.
    * * *
    masculino (fam)
    a) ( maquinación) intrigue

    tejemanejes — skulduggery, scheming

    b) (Esp) ( actividad)

    ¿qué tejemanejes se traen? — what are they up to?

    * * *
    = power play, bung.

    Ex: The author offers a detailed overview of how Congress came to pass the USA Patriot Act and some of the power plays that took place behind the scenes.

    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called ' bungs' for prime space.

    * * *
    ( fam)
    hubo muchos tejemanejes antes de su nombramiento there was a lot of skulduggery o scheming leading up to his appointment
    si descubren en qué tejemanejes anda metido, lo van a echar if they find out about the underhand o ( colloq) dodgy dealings he's involved in, they'll throw him out ( colloq)
    * * *

    tejemaneje m fam
    1 (enredo turbio) fiddle
    ha ascendido a base de conspiraciones y tejemanejes, she's plotted and schemed her way up
    2 (ajetreo, ir y venir) activity, bustle: menudo tejemaneje hay en el mercado, what a commotion in the market
    * * *
    Fam
    1. [maquinación] intrigue;
    lo logró a base de tejemanejes he achieved it by scheming;
    es un tejemaneje para poder ascender it's a ruse o scheme to get promoted
    2. [ajetreo] to-do, fuss

    Spanish-English dictionary > tejemaneje

  • 11 timar

    v.
    1 to cheat, to con.
    2 to deceive, to fool, to swindle, to trick.
    Elsa birló al cajero y robó dinero Elsa tricked the cashier and stole money.
    * * *
    1 to swindle, cheat, trick
    1 familiar to make eyes at each other
    * * *
    verb
    to cheat, con, swindle
    * * *
    1.
    VT to swindle, con *

    ¡me han timado! — I've been conned! *

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat
    * * *
    = cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.
    Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
    Ex. People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex. He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex. In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex. By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to swindle, cheat
    * * *
    = cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink, be had, humbug, con, hoax.

    Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

    Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
    Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
    Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
    Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
    Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.
    Ex: By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.
    Ex: More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    Ex: A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.
    Ex: He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

    * * *
    timar [A1 ]
    vt
    to swindle, cheat, rip … off ( colloq)
    ( Esp fam) timarse CON algn (mirar, coquetear) to flirt WITH sb, make eyes AT sb; (tener relaciones) to carry on WITH sb ( colloq)
    * * *

    timar ( conjugate timar) verbo transitivo
    to swindle, cheat
    timar vtr (estafar) to cheat, swindle
    familiar rip off: te han timado, you've been swindled o cheated
    ' timar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    engañar
    - estafar
    English:
    cheat
    - chisel
    - con
    - decoy
    - dupe
    - fleece
    - lead on
    - rip off
    - swindle
    - diddle
    - rip
    * * *
    timar vt
    1. [estafar]
    timar a alguien to swindle sb;
    timar algo a alguien to swindle sb out of sth
    2. [engañar] to cheat, to con;
    ¿cinco mil por eso? ¡te han timado! five thousand for that? you've been done o had!
    * * *
    v/t cheat
    * * *
    timar vt
    : to swindle, to cheat
    * * *
    timar vb to swindle / to cheat
    me han timado 10.000 pesetas I've been swindled out of 10,000 pesetas

    Spanish-English dictionary > timar

  • 12 usurpar

    v.
    to usurp.
    * * *
    1 to usurp
    * * *
    VT [+ poder, trono] to usurp; [+ tierras] to seize
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (frml) <propiedad/título> to misappropriate; < territorio> to seize; < poder> to usurp
    * * *
    = usurp, hijack, take over, rip off, commandeer.
    Ex. Peter Jackaman fears 'that public libraries have failed to grasp the opportunity which this development offered, and as result their potential role has, in many cases, been usurped by other agencies'.
    Ex. Information may have been hijacked as the province of computer operators rather than librarians.
    Ex. We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.
    Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex. He was left without a scratch and pursued the shooter on foot until the gunman commandeered a passing car.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (frml) <propiedad/título> to misappropriate; < territorio> to seize; < poder> to usurp
    * * *
    = usurp, hijack, take over, rip off, commandeer.

    Ex: Peter Jackaman fears 'that public libraries have failed to grasp the opportunity which this development offered, and as result their potential role has, in many cases, been usurped by other agencies'.

    Ex: Information may have been hijacked as the province of computer operators rather than librarians.
    Ex: We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.
    Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
    Ex: He was left without a scratch and pursued the shooter on foot until the gunman commandeered a passing car.

    * * *
    usurpar [A1 ]
    vt
    ( frml); ‹propiedad/título› to misappropriate; ‹territorio› to seize
    usurpar el poder/trono to usurp power/the throne ( frml)
    * * *

    usurpar ( conjugate usurpar) verbo transitivo (frml) ‹propiedad/título› to misappropriate;
    ‹ territorio› to seize;
    ‹ poder› to usurp
    usurpar verbo transitivo
    1 (las funciones, poder, etc) to usurp
    2 (una propiedad) to misappropriate
    ' usurpar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    encroach
    - usurp
    * * *
    to usurp
    * * *
    v/t usurp
    * * *
    : to usurp

    Spanish-English dictionary > usurpar

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