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    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > educational vote

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    Новый англо-русский словарь > educational vote

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    vote [vəυt]
    1. n
    1) голосова́ние; баллотиро́вка;

    to cast a vote голосова́ть

    ;

    to put to the vote ста́вить на голосова́ние

    ;

    to get out the ( или a) vote амер. доби́ться акти́вного уча́стия в голосова́нии свои́х предполага́емых сторо́нников

    2) (избира́тельный) го́лос;

    to count the votes производи́ть подсчёт голосо́в

    3) пра́во го́лоса;

    to have the vote име́ть пра́во го́лоса

    ;

    one man one vote ка́ждый избира́тель име́ет пра́во голосова́ть то́лько оди́н раз

    4) во́тум; реше́ние ( принятое большинством);

    vote of nonconfidence во́тум недове́рия

    5) ассигнова́ния, креди́ты ( принятые законодательным органом);

    educational vote ассигнова́ния на образова́ние

    6) о́бщее число́ голосо́в; голоса́
    7) избира́тельный бюллете́нь
    8) уст. избира́тель
    2. v
    1) голосова́ть ( for — за, against — про́тив)
    2) постановля́ть большинство́м голосо́в
    3) ассигнова́ть; выделя́ть ( средства)
    4) разг. признава́ть;

    the play was voted a failure пье́са была́ при́знана неуда́чной

    5) разг. предлага́ть, вноси́ть предложе́ние;

    I vote that we go home я за то, что́бы пойти́ домо́й

    vote down провали́ть ( предложение);
    vote in избра́ть голосова́нием (куда-л.);

    to vote smb. into a committee голосова́нием избра́ть кого́-л. в коми́ссию

    ;
    vote through провести́ путём голосова́ния;

    to vote a measure ( a bill, etc.) through провести́ мероприя́тие (зако́н и т.п.) путём голосова́ния

    to vote with one's feet разг. голосова́ть нога́ми, уходи́ть ( с собрания и т.п.)

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > vote

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    [vəut]
    cast vote голосовать cast vote участвовать в голосовании casting vote голос, дающий перевес casting vote решающий голос vote (избирательный) голос; to count the votes производить подсчет голосов dissenting vote голоса против; without a dissenting vote единогласно vote ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом); educational vote ассигнования на образование eligible vote квалифицированный голос fluid vote голоса колеблющихся избирателей to get out the (или а) vote амер. добиться активного участия в голосовании своих предполагаемых сторонников vote право голоса; to have the vote иметь право голоса; one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз having the right to vote обладание правом голоса vote разг. предлагать, вносить предложение; I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой; vote down провалить (предложение) invalid vote недействительный голос majority vote решение большинством голосов, большинство голосов majority vote решение большинством голосов negative vote отклонение голосованием negative vote отрицательный результат голосования vote право голоса; to have the vote иметь право голоса; one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз oral vote устное голосование vote признавать; the play was voted a failure пьеса была признана неудачной proxy vote голосование по доверенности secret vote тайное голосование simple majority vote голосование простым большинством split vote = split ticket tied vote разделение голосов поровну vote in избрать голосованием (куда-л.); vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию; vote through провести путем голосования voice vote принятие (решения, резолюции и т.п.) путем опроса участвующих в голосовании voice vote принятие (решения, резолюции и т. п.) путем опроса участвующих в голосовании vote ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом); educational vote ассигнования на образование vote баллотировать vote баллотировка vote вотировать vote вотум; решение (принятое большинством); vote of non-confidence вотум недоверия vote вотум vote выносить вотум vote (избирательный) голос; to count the votes производить подсчет голосов vote голос vote голосование; баллотировка; to cast a vote голосовать; to put to the vote ставить на голосование vote голосование vote голосовать (for - за, against - против) vote голосовать vote уст. избиратель vote избирательный бюллетень vote количество поданных голосов vote общее число голосов; голоса vote постановлять большинством голосов vote постановлять большинством голосов vote право голоса; to have the vote иметь право голоса; one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз vote право голоса vote разг. предлагать, вносить предложение; I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой; vote down провалить (предложение) vote признавать; the play was voted a failure пьеса была признана неудачной vote решать голосованием, утверждать голосованием vote решение, принятое голосованием vote число голосов to vote a measure (a bill, etc.) through провести мероприятие (закон и т. п.) голосованием vote разг. предлагать, вносить предложение; I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой; vote down провалить (предложение) vote down отклонять vote down проваливать при голосовании vote for голосовать за vote in избрать голосованием (куда-л.); vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию; vote through провести путем голосования vote in избрать голосованием (куда-л.); vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию; vote through провести путем голосования vote of confidence вотум доверия vote of no confidence вотум недоверия vote вотум; решение (принятое большинством); vote of non-confidence вотум недоверия vote of nonconfidence вотум недоверия vote in избрать голосованием (куда-л.); vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию; vote through провести путем голосования dissenting vote голоса против; without a dissenting vote единогласно

    English-Russian short dictionary > vote

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    vəut
    1. сущ.
    1) а) голосование, баллотировка to get out the/a vote амер. ≈ добиться активного участия в голосовании своих предполагаемых сторонников bullet vote ≈ выборочное голосование complimentary vote ≈ поощрительное голосование (голосование за кандидата, не имеющего шансов на победу, но которого не хотят обидеть) one-house vote ≈ однопалатное голосование б) голос (на выборах) ;
    уст. избиратель popular vote ≈ голоса избирателей silent vote в) право голоса г) общее число голосов;
    голоса
    2) а) вотум, решение( принятое большинством) vote of non-confidence straw vote б) ассигнования, кредиты( принятые законодательным органом)
    3) избирательный бюллетень
    2. гл.
    1) а) голосовать The committee were equally divided, so the chairman voted against the suggestion to prevent it being passed. ≈ Голоса членов комитета разделились поровну, и в этом случае председатель проголосовал против, не желая, чтобы предложение прошло. б) постановлять большинством голосов
    2) а) перен. признавать The play was voted a failure. ≈ Пьеса была признана неудачной. б) перен. разг. предлагать, вносить предложение I vote that we go home. ≈ Я за то, чтобы пойти домой. ∙ vote down vote in vote into vote out vote through голосование, баллотировка - secret * тайное голосование - voice * устное голосование - rollcall *, * by rollcall поименное голосование - * by rollcall at the rostrum публичное поименное голосование у трибуны - * by proxy голосование по доверенности - * by correspondence /by mail/ голосование по почте - * by (a) show of hands голосование поднятием рук - * by sitting and standing, (американизм) rising * голосование вставанием - to take a * провести голосование - to put to the * ставить на голосование - to explain one's * выступить по мотивам голосования голос, право голоса - an affirmative * голос "за" - casting * решающий голос - concurring *s совпадающие голоса - one * per 10 shares (экономика) один голос на каждые десять акций - to cast a * проголосовать - number of *s recorded число поданных голосов /опущенных бюллетеней, избирателей, участвовавших в выборах/ (собирательнле) голоса;
    количество поданных голосов;
    количество голосовавших - the floating * голоса независимых /колеблющихся/ избирателей - to carry /to gain/ all * получить все голоса;
    пройти единогласно - N. gained the * against X. N. получил больше голосов, чем Х. - to get out the /a/ * (американизм) добиться явки избирателей на выборы - the * was light( американизм) процент явки на выборы был низкий право голоса;
    избирательное право - women have the * женщины пользуются избирательным правом (тк. в ед. ч.) вотум;
    резолюция;
    решение (принятое голосованием) - * of confidence вотум доверия - the * of censure вотум порицания;
    вотум недоверия - * of thanks выражение признательности избирательный бюллетень;
    шар( при баллотировке) - to cast one's * into the urn опустить бюллетень в урну (парламентское) ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом) - army * ассигнования на армию избиратель определенная группа избирателей (социальная и т. п.) голосовать, баллотировать, вотировать - without the right to * с совещательным голосом - to * for a proposal голосовать за предложения - to * in the affirmative голосовать за - to * by ballot баллотировать, решать тайным голосованием;
    подавать голос посредством избирательного бюллетеня и т. п. - to * by (a) show of hands голосовать поднятием рук (into) выбирать - to * smb. into the chair избирать кого-л. председателем - to * into parliament выбрать в парламент постановлять (большинством голосов) - the assembly *d an appeal собрание приняло обращение - the assembly *d a deputation собрание избрало делегацию (парламентское) ассигновывать;
    выделять (средства) - to * a sum ассигновать /утвердить/ сумму - to * $1000 for the sufferers выделить 1000 долларов на помощь пострадавшим решать, единодушно признавать - the play was *d a success по общему признанию, пьеса оказалась удачной - she was *d charming все нашли ее очаровательной (разговорное) стоять( за что-л.) ;
    выражать мнение, предлагать - I * that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой > to * with one's feet голосовать ногами, уходить( с собрания и т. п.) cast ~ голосовать cast ~ участвовать в голосовании casting ~ голос, дающий перевес casting ~ решающий голос ~ (избирательный) голос;
    to count the votes производить подсчет голосов dissenting ~ голоса против;
    without a dissenting vote единогласно vote ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом) ;
    educational vote ассигнования на образование eligible ~ квалифицированный голос fluid ~ голоса колеблющихся избирателей to get out the (или а) ~ амер. добиться активного участия в голосовании своих предполагаемых сторонников ~ право голоса;
    to have the vote иметь право голоса;
    one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз having the right to ~ обладание правом голоса ~ разг. предлагать, вносить предложение;
    I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой;
    vote down провалить( предложение) invalid ~ недействительный голос majority ~ решение большинством голосов, большинство голосов majority ~ решение большинством голосов negative ~ отклонение голосованием negative ~ отрицательный результат голосования ~ право голоса;
    to have the vote иметь право голоса;
    one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз oral ~ устное голосование ~ признавать;
    the play was voted a failure пьеса была признана неудачной proxy ~ голосование по доверенности secret ~ тайное голосование simple majority ~ голосование простым большинством split ~ = split ticket tied ~ разделение голосов поровну ~ in избрать голосованием (куда-л.) ;
    vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию;
    vote through провести путем голосования voice ~ принятие( решения, резолюции и т.п.) путем опроса участвующих в голосовании voice ~ принятие (решения, резолюции и т. п.) путем опроса участвующих в голосовании vote ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом) ;
    educational vote ассигнования на образование ~ баллотировать ~ баллотировка ~ вотировать ~ вотум;
    решение (принятое большинством) ;
    vote of non-confidence вотум недоверия ~ вотум ~ выносить вотум ~ (избирательный) голос;
    to count the votes производить подсчет голосов ~ голос ~ голосование;
    баллотировка;
    to cast a vote голосовать;
    to put to the vote ставить на голосование ~ голосование ~ голосовать (for - за, against - против) ~ голосовать ~ уст. избиратель ~ избирательный бюллетень ~ количество поданных голосов ~ общее число голосов;
    голоса ~ постановлять большинством голосов ~ постановлять большинством голосов ~ право голоса;
    to have the vote иметь право голоса;
    one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз ~ право голоса ~ разг. предлагать, вносить предложение;
    I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой;
    vote down провалить (предложение) ~ признавать;
    the play was voted a failure пьеса была признана неудачной ~ решать голосованием, утверждать голосованием ~ решение, принятое голосованием ~ число голосов to ~ a measure( a bill, etc.) through провести мероприятие( закон и т. п.) голосованием ~ разг. предлагать, вносить предложение;
    I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой;
    vote down провалить (предложение) ~ down отклонять ~ down проваливать при голосовании ~ for голосовать за ~ in избрать голосованием (куда-л.) ;
    vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию;
    vote through провести путем голосования ~ in избрать голосованием (куда-л.) ;
    vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию;
    vote through провести путем голосования ~ of confidence вотум доверия ~ of no confidence вотум недоверия ~ вотум;
    решение (принятое большинством) ;
    vote of non-confidence вотум недоверия ~ of nonconfidence вотум недоверия ~ in избрать голосованием (куда-л.) ;
    vote into: to vote (smb.) into a committee голосованием избрать (кого-л.) в комиссию;
    vote through провести путем голосования dissenting ~ голоса против;
    without a dissenting vote единогласно

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > vote

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    [vəut] n քվեարկում. քվեարկության ձայն. put to the vote քվեարկու թյան/քվեարկման դնել. decide by vote քվեարկությամբ որոշել. proceed to a vote անցնել քվեարկության. secret/free vote գաղտնի/ազատ քվեարկություն. The question/motion goes to the vote Հարցը/Առաջարկությունը դրվում է քվեարկ ման. plural vote բազմակի քվեարկում. vote by roll call անվանական քվեարկություն. vote by show of hands քվեարկություն ձեռք բարձրաց նելով. a vote of confidence/non confidence վստահության/անվստահության քվե. pass a vote of censure պարսավանքի/նախատինքի որոշում ընդունել. invalid vote անվավեր քվեարկու թյան որոշում ընդունել. (քվե, ձայն) cast a vote ձայն տալ, քվեարկել. split one’s vote երկու թեկնածուի օգտին ձայն տալ. casting/deciding vote վճռական ձայն. the total number of vote cast տված ձայների քանակը. He won by three vote Նա ընդամենը 3 ձայն ավելի ստացավ (երեք ձայնով հաղթեց). the floating vote (ընտ րող ների) տատանվող ձայներ/քվեներ. (քվե աթերթ.) cast one’s vote into the urn քվեաթերթը քվեատուփի մեջ գցել. (բյուջեի ֆինանսավորում) educational vote կրթության ֆինանսավորում
    II
    [vəut] v քվեարկել, ձայն տալ. the right to vote ձայնի իրավունք. vote for/against թեր/կողմ և դեմ քվեարկել. vote down չքվեարկել/չընտրել/տապալել. The proposal was voted down Առա ջարկությունը չընդունվեց. vote in/into/on to ձայների մեծամասնությամբ ընտրել. vote in a government կառավարություն ընտրել. The film was voted a success Ֆիլմը հաջողված համարվեց. vote money for smth տնտ. ֆի նան սավորել, դրամ հատկացնել. vote for imposing the tax քվեարկել հարկեր մտցնելու օգտին. vote smb into an office/to a committee ընտրել պաշտոնում/կոմիտեի կազմում. vote a party out of power ղեկավար կուսակցությունը տապա լել ընտրությունների ժամանակ vote through անցկացնել, ընդունել. The bill was voted through Օրենքի նախագիծը ընդուն վեց/ անցավ

    English-Armenian dictionary > vote

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    [vəut] 1. сущ.
    1) голосование, баллотировка

    to get out the / a vote — амер. добиться активного участия в голосовании своих предполагаемых сторонников

    bullet voteамер. выборочное голосование

    complimentary voteамер. поощрительное голосование (голосование за кандидата, не имеющего шансов на победу, но которого не хотят обидеть)

    one-house voteамер. однопалатное голосование

    2)

    popular voteамер. голоса избирателей

    Syn:
    б) ( votes) уст. избиратели, электорат
    в) право голоса; избирательное право

    Every member of the community should have a vote in electing those delegates. — Каждый член общества должен иметь право голоса при выборах этих представителей.

    Syn:
    г) общее число голосов; голоса
    Syn:
    ballot I 1.
    4) вотум; решение, принятое большинством
    5) брит. назначения, ассигнования, кредиты ( принятые законодательным органом)
    Syn:
    2. гл.
    1)

    to vote smb. into a committee — голосованием избрать кого-л. в комиссию

    The committee were equally divided, so the chairman voted against the suggestion to prevent it being passed. — Голоса членов комитета разделились поровну, и в этом случае председатель проголосовал против, не желая, чтобы предложение прошло.

    б) постановлять большинством голосов, принимать решение большинством голосов
    Syn:
    2) выделять средства, ассигновать

    The amount voted for public works in 1872 was 642,856 pounds. — Ассигнования на общественную деятельность в 1872 году составили 642 856 фунтов стерлингов.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) признавать; выносить решение

    The play was voted a failure. — Пьеса была признана неудачной.

    The fair lady's dresses were voted charming. — Наряды великосветских дам были признаны восхитительными.

    Syn:
    б) разг. предлагать, вносить предложение

    I vote that we go home. — Я за то, чтобы пойти домой.

    Syn:
    4)
    а) заставлять голосовать определённым образом; оказывать давление при голосовании
    б) амер. регистрировать избирателей ( при прохождении процедуры голосования)
    - vote in
    - vote out
    - vote through

    Англо-русский современный словарь > vote

  • 8 vote

    1. noun
    1) голосование; баллотировка; to cast a vote голосовать; to put to the vote ставить на голосование; to get out the (или а) vote amer. добиться активного участия в голосовании своих предполагаемых сторонников
    2) (избирательный) голос; to count the votes производить подсчет голосов
    3) право голоса; to have the vote иметь право голоса; one man one vote каждый избиратель имеет право голосовать только один раз
    4) общее число голосов; голоса
    5) вотум; решение (принятое большинством); vote of non-confidence вотум недоверия
    6) избирательный бюллетень
    7) ассигнования, кредиты (принятые законодательным органом); educational vote ассигнования на образование
    8) obsolete избиратель
    2. verb
    1) голосовать (for - за, against - против)
    2) постановлять большинством голосов
    3) признавать; the play was voted a failure пьеса была признана неудачной
    4) collocation предлагать, вносить предложение; I vote that we go home я за то, чтобы пойти домой
    vote down
    vote in
    vote into
    vote through
    * * *
    1 (n) голос; голосование; право голоса
    2 (v) вотировать; голосовать; проголосовать
    * * *
    1) голос, голосование 2) голосовать
    * * *
    [ vəʊt] n. голосование, баллотировка, голос, голос на выборах, избирательный голос, право голоса, голоса, общее число голосов, вотум, решение, избирательный бюллетень, ассигнования, кредиты, избиратель v. голосовать, баллотировать, вносить предложение, постановлять большинством голосов, ассигновать, выделять, предлагать, признавать
    * * *
    баллотирование
    баллотирования
    баллотировка
    вотум
    голос
    голосование
    голосования
    голосовать
    избиратель
    постановление
    проголосовать
    решать
    утверждать
    * * *
    1. сущ. 1) а) голосование б) голосование 2) а) голос (на выборах); устар., мн. избиратели б) право голоса; избирательное право в) общее число голосов 3) избирательный бюллетень 2. гл. 1) а) голосовать б) постановлять большинством голосов, принимать решение большинством голосов 2) выделять средства

    Новый англо-русский словарь > vote

  • 9 ассигнования на образование

    General subject: educational vote

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > ассигнования на образование

  • 10 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 11 mínimo

    adj.
    minimal, lowest, least, minimum.
    m.
    minimum.
    * * *
    1 minimum, lowest
    1 minimum
    \
    como mínimo at least
    ni la más mínima idea not the faintest (idea)
    mínimo común múltiplo lowest common multiple
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    1 minimum
    * * *
    1. noun m. 2. (f. - mínima)
    adj.
    1) least, smallest
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    1. ADJ
    1) (=inferior) [nivel, cantidad] minimum

    tarifa mínima: 2 euros — minimum fare: 2 euros

    lo mínimo, es lo mínimo que podemos hacer — it's the least we can do

    lo más mínimo — the least o the slightest

    el dinero no me interesa lo más mínimoI'm not the least o the slightest bit interested in money

    precio mínimo — minimum price

    en un tiempo mínimo — in no time at all

    múltiplo 2., salario, servicio 1), c)
    2) (=muy pequeño) [habitación, letra] tiny, minute; [detalle] minute; [gasto, beneficio] minimal
    3) [plazo]
    2. SM
    1) (=cantidad mínima) minimum

    ¿cuál es el mínimo? — what is the minimum?

    bajo mínimos — Esp [credibilidad, moral] at rock bottom; [consumo, presupuesto] very low

    con el presupuesto bajo mínimos — with the budget cut back to a minimum, with a very low budget

    como mínimo — at least

    eso costará, como mínimo, 40 euros — that will cost at least 40 euros

    un mínimo de algo — a minimum of sth

    reducir algo al mínimo — to keep o reduce sth to a minimum

    2) (Econ) record low, lowest point
    3) (Mat) [de una función] minimum
    4) (Meteo)

    mínimo de presión — low-pressure area, trough

    mínima
    5) Caribe (Aut) choke
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    I
    - ma adjetivo
    a) <temperatura/peso> minimum (before n)
    b) ( insignificante) < detalle> minor
    c) ( muy pequeño) minute, tiny
    II
    masculino minimum

    con un mínimo de esfuerzowith a o the minimum of effort

    con un mínimo de sentido común — with the least bit of (common) sense, with a modicum of sense (frml)

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    = bare [barer -comp., barest -sup.], low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], minimal, minimum, negligible, reduced, baseline [base line], monadic, lower bound, razor-thin, paltry [paltrier -comp., paltriest -sup.], measly [measlier -comp., measliest -sup.].
    Ex. Those are just the bare beginnings.
    Ex. Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
    Ex. The intellectual input at the indexing stage is minimal, even in systems where in the interest of enhanced consistency there is some intervention at the indexing stage.
    Ex. When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.
    Ex. Microforms are obviously very compact, and the microforms themselves occupy negligible space.
    Ex. The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.
    Ex. This article describes the development of the first baseline inventory of information resources at the U.S.
    Ex. Modern economic theory, with its bias in favor of atomistic or monadic analysis, fails to take into account ethical questions.
    Ex. The resulting cost and benefit models permit estimating a lower bound on benefits and the calculations of net benefits (benefits less costs).
    Ex. Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
    Ex. And there is no guarantee that any of the paltry sums of extra money available will actually benefit the workers in the recipient countries.
    Ex. Despite the Bank of England's base rate having risen by a full percentage point, the average savings rate is still ' measly'.
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    * a un coste mínimo = at (a) minimum cost.
    * como mínimo = at least, conservatively, at a minimum.
    * como mínimo hasta que = minimally until.
    * con sólo una mínima idea de = with only the sketchiest idea of.
    * con unos costes mínimos = with minimum costs.
    * coste mínimo = minimal cost, minimum cost.
    * diferencia entre... y... es mínima = line between... and... is thin.
    * en lo más mínimo = not in the least + Nombre Negativo.
    * grupo mínimo relacionado = minimum zone cohort.
    * lo más mínimo = so much as.
    * lo mínimo = bare necessities, the.
    * mantener Algo al mínimo = keep + Nombre + at a minimum.
    * mínima parte = fraction.
    * nivel mínimo del agua = low-water mark.
    * no importar lo más mínimo = could not care less.
    * no tener la más mínima idea sobre Algo = Negativo + have + the foggiest idea.
    * precio mínimo = threshold price.
    * reducción al mínimo = minimisation [minimization, -USA].
    * reducido al mínimo = stripped down.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * salario mínimo = living wage, minimum salary, poverty level.
    * salario mínimo, el = minimum wage, the.
    * ser mínimo = be at a minimum.
    * servicios mínimos = skeleton staff.
    * sin la más mínima de duda = without a shadow of a doubt.
    * sin la más mínima duda = beyond a shadow of a doubt.
    * temperatura mínima = minimum temperature.
    * vivir con lo mínimo = live on + a shoestring (budget).
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    I
    - ma adjetivo
    a) <temperatura/peso> minimum (before n)
    b) ( insignificante) < detalle> minor
    c) ( muy pequeño) minute, tiny
    II
    masculino minimum

    con un mínimo de esfuerzowith a o the minimum of effort

    con un mínimo de sentido común — with the least bit of (common) sense, with a modicum of sense (frml)

    * * *
    = bare [barer -comp., barest -sup.], low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], minimal, minimum, negligible, reduced, baseline [base line], monadic, lower bound, razor-thin, paltry [paltrier -comp., paltriest -sup.], measly [measlier -comp., measliest -sup.].

    Ex: Those are just the bare beginnings.

    Ex: Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
    Ex: The intellectual input at the indexing stage is minimal, even in systems where in the interest of enhanced consistency there is some intervention at the indexing stage.
    Ex: When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.
    Ex: Microforms are obviously very compact, and the microforms themselves occupy negligible space.
    Ex: The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.
    Ex: This article describes the development of the first baseline inventory of information resources at the U.S.
    Ex: Modern economic theory, with its bias in favor of atomistic or monadic analysis, fails to take into account ethical questions.
    Ex: The resulting cost and benefit models permit estimating a lower bound on benefits and the calculations of net benefits (benefits less costs).
    Ex: Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.
    Ex: And there is no guarantee that any of the paltry sums of extra money available will actually benefit the workers in the recipient countries.
    Ex: Despite the Bank of England's base rate having risen by a full percentage point, the average savings rate is still ' measly'.
    * a un coste mínimo = at (a) minimum cost.
    * como mínimo = at least, conservatively, at a minimum.
    * como mínimo hasta que = minimally until.
    * con sólo una mínima idea de = with only the sketchiest idea of.
    * con unos costes mínimos = with minimum costs.
    * coste mínimo = minimal cost, minimum cost.
    * diferencia entre... y... es mínima = line between... and... is thin.
    * en lo más mínimo = not in the least + Nombre Negativo.
    * grupo mínimo relacionado = minimum zone cohort.
    * lo más mínimo = so much as.
    * lo mínimo = bare necessities, the.
    * mantener Algo al mínimo = keep + Nombre + at a minimum.
    * mínima parte = fraction.
    * nivel mínimo del agua = low-water mark.
    * no importar lo más mínimo = could not care less.
    * no tener la más mínima idea sobre Algo = Negativo + have + the foggiest idea.
    * precio mínimo = threshold price.
    * reducción al mínimo = minimisation [minimization, -USA].
    * reducido al mínimo = stripped down.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * salario mínimo = living wage, minimum salary, poverty level.
    * salario mínimo, el = minimum wage, the.
    * ser mínimo = be at a minimum.
    * servicios mínimos = skeleton staff.
    * sin la más mínima de duda = without a shadow of a doubt.
    * sin la más mínima duda = beyond a shadow of a doubt.
    * temperatura mínima = minimum temperature.
    * vivir con lo mínimo = live on + a shoestring (budget).

    * * *
    mínimo1 -ma
    1 ‹temperatura/cantidad/peso› minimum ( before n)
    los beneficios han sido mínimos profits have been minimal
    no le importa lo más mínimo he couldn't care less, he doesn't care in the least
    el trabajo no le interesa en lo más mínimo he is not in the least o slightest bit interested in his work
    [ S ] consumición/tarifa mínima 2 euros minimum charge 2 euros
    no tengo la más mínima idea I haven't the faintest o slightest idea
    no se preocupa en lo más mínimo por su familia she doesn't show the slightest concern for her family
    me contó hasta los detalles más mínimos de su experiencia he told me about his experience in minute detail
    era lo mínimo que podía hacer it was the least I could do
    2 (muy pequeño) minute, tiny
    una casa de proporciones mínimas a tiny house, a house of minute proportions
    Compuesto:
    mínimo común denominador/múltiplo
    lowest common denominator/multiple
    la bolsa ha alcanzado el mínimo del año the stock exchange has reached its lowest point this year
    pretende hacer todo con un mínimo de esfuerzo he tries to do everything with a minimum of effort o with as little effort as possible
    gana un mínimo de $50.000 she earns a minimum of $50,000
    no tiene ni un mínimo de educación she has absolutely no manners
    al menos podría tener un mínimo de respeto he could at least show a little (bit of) o a modicum of respect
    para hacer ese trabajo tiene que tener un mínimo de inteligencia a modicum of intelligence is required to do this job
    si tuvieras un mínimo de sentido común, no habrías hecho eso if you had any sense at all o if you had a modicum of sense, you wouldn't have done that
    tendrá, como mínimo, unos 40 años he must be at least forty
    como mínimo podrías haberle dado las gracias you could at least have thanked him
    habrá que reducir al mínimo los gastos costs will have to be kept to a minimum
    * * *

     

    mínimo 1
    ◊ -ma adjetivo

    a)temperatura/peso minimum ( before n);


    el trabajo no le interesa en lo más mínimo he is not in the slightest (bit) interested in his work;
    no tengo la más mínima idea I haven't the faintest idea

    diferencia/beneficios minimal
    mínimo 2 sustantivo masculino
    minimum;

    como mínimo at least
    mínimo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (muy pequeño) minute, tiny
    2 (muy escaso) minimal
    3 (menor posible) minimum
    sueldo mínimo, minimum wage/salary
    II sustantivo masculino minimum
    un mínimo de dos meses, a minimum of two months
    mil pesetas como mínimo, a thousand pesetas at least

    ' mínimo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    baja
    - bajo
    - denominador
    - ínfima
    - ínfimo
    - mínima
    - mínimamente
    - múltipla
    - múltiplo
    - salario
    - tasar
    - consumo
    - minimizar
    English:
    bare
    - cheap
    - deposit
    - least
    - low
    - lowest
    - minimal
    - minimum
    - minimum wage
    - say
    - sense
    - skeleton
    - slight
    - light
    - lowest common denominator
    - marginal
    - minimize
    - minute
    - modicum
    - quick
    - scrap
    - very
    * * *
    mínimo, -a
    superlativo
    ver pequeño
    adj
    1. [lo más bajo posible o necesario] minimum;
    la mínima puntuación para aprobar es el cinco you need a minimum score of five to pass;
    salario o [m5] sueldo mínimo minimum wage;
    lo mínimo que podría hacer es disculparse the least she could do is apologize
    Mat mínimo común denominador lowest common denominator; Mat mínimo común múltiplo lowest common multiple
    2. [muy pequeño] [efecto, importancia] minimal, very small;
    [protesta, ruido] slightest;
    no tengo la más mínima idea I haven't the slightest idea;
    sus hijos no le importan lo más mínimo he couldn't care less about his children;
    en este país no existe la más mínima libertad there's absolutely no freedom at all in this country;
    en lo más mínimo in the slightest
    nm
    minimum;
    trabaja un mínimo de 10 horas she works a minimum of 10 hours;
    al mínimo to a minimum;
    pon la calefacción al mínimo put the heating at minimum;
    la libra alcanzó un mínimo histórico frente al dólar the pound reached an all-time low against the dollar;
    no tiene un mínimo de sentido común he hasn't an ounce of common sense;
    si tuviera un mínimo de decencia la llamaría if he had an ounce of decency he'd call her;
    estar bajo mínimos [de comida, gasolina] to have almost run out;
    la popularidad del presidente se encuentra bajo mínimos the president's popularity is at rock bottom;
    el equipo se presenta a la final bajo mínimos the team is going into the final well below strength o with a severely depleted side
    como mínimo loc adv
    [como muy tarde] at the latest; [como poco] at the very least;
    llegaremos como mínimo a las cinco we'll be there by five at the latest;
    si te vas, como mínimo podrías avisar if you're going to leave, you could at least let me know
    * * *
    I adj minimum;
    como mínimo at the very least;
    no me interesa lo más mínimo I’m not in the least interested
    II m minimum
    * * *
    mínimo, -ma adj
    1) : minimum
    salario mínimo: minimum wage
    2) : least, smallest
    3) : very small, minute
    1) : minimum, least amount
    2) : modicum, small amount
    3)
    como mínimo : at least
    * * *
    mínimo1 adj minimum
    el más mínimo... the slightest...
    mínimo2 n minimum

    Spanish-English dictionary > mínimo

  • 12 antiguo

    adj.
    1 ancient, early, antique, long-standing.
    2 former, olden, one-time, sometime.
    3 outdated, of a bygone era, archaic, outmoded.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: antiguar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) ancient, old; (coche) vintage, old
    2 (en empleo) senior
    3 (pasado) old-fashioned
    4 (anterior) former
    1 the ancients
    \
    a la antigua in an old-fashioned way
    de antiguo since ancient times
    * * *
    (f. - antigua)
    adj.
    1) old
    * * *
    antiguo, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) (=viejo) [ciudad, costumbre] old; [coche] vintage; [mueble, objeto, libro] antique

    a la antigua (usanza) — in the old-fashioned way

    de o desde antiguo — from time immemorial

    en lo antiguo — in olden days liter, in ancient times

    chapado, música
    2) ( Hist) [civilización, restos] ancient

    el palacio árabe más antiguo — the oldest Arab palace, the most ancient Arab palace

    edad 2)
    3) (=anterior) old, former

    la antigua capilla, ahora sala de exposiciones — the old o former chapel, now an exhibition hall

    un antiguo novio — an old boyfriend, an ex-boyfriend

    mi antiguo jefe — my former boss, my ex-boss

    más antiguo — [cliente, socio] longest-standing; [empleado, prisionero] longest-serving

    el socio más antiguo — the most senior member, the longest-standing member, the oldest member

    alumno
    4) (=anticuado) [traje, estilo, persona] old-fashioned; [mentalidad] outdated
    2. SM / F
    1) (=anticuado)

    tu madre es una antigua — your mother is really old-fashioned, your mother is a real fuddy-duddy *

    2) (=veterano)
    3) ( Hist)
    * * *
    - gua adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( viejo) <ciudad/libro> old; <ruinas/civilización> ancient; <mueble/lámpara> antique, old; < coche> vintage, old; <costumbre/tradición> old
    b) ( veterano) old, long-standing

    de or desde antiguo — from time immemorial

    2) (delante del n) ( de antes) old (before n), former (before n)
    3) ( anticuado) old-fashioned
    * * *
    = ancient, early [earlier -comp., earliest -sup.], former, old [older -comp., oldest -sup.], long-standing, age-old, sometime + Nombre, erstwhile, overaged, olde, retrospective, timeworn, antique.
    Ex. But this traditional stance conceals an ancient feud between cataloguers and reference librarians over the true function of the library catalogue.
    Ex. Microforms are easy to use, although there were early reservations concerning the fact that users need to become familiar with any specific kind of microform and its reader.
    Ex. This person acted as the liaison with the former UNIMARC Working Group.
    Ex. These circumvent many of the problems that must be tackled in subject indexing such as the emergence of new terms and new meanings for old words.
    Ex. The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.
    Ex. The current environment in higher education is providing an opportunity for librarians to define a future that will ensure their central role in the educational process and thus resolve these remaining age-old questions.
    Ex. One of the most successful is the system devised by Dyson, sometime editor of CA.
    Ex. This article relates the professional experiences of an erstwhile academic librarian.
    Ex. Bielefeld University is replacing its overaged mainframe data processing systems in the library.
    Ex. The article 'Ye olde smart card' presents an annotated list of information sources on the credit card industry.
    Ex. It seems appropriate to take a retrospective look at the evolution of our catalog and the ideology which has shaped it.
    Ex. But beyond the honeymoon hotels and resorts, Polynesian life goes on and timeworn traditions are preserved.
    Ex. A small cranberry tree surrounded by holly sits on an antique marble-top table.
    ----
    * a la antigua = old-style.
    * a la antigua usanza = old-style.
    * antigua esposa = ex-wife.
    * antigua gloria = Posesivo + former glory.
    * antigua grandeza = Posesivo + former glory.
    * Antigua Grecia = Ancient Greece.
    * antigua novia = ex-girlfriend.
    * antigua Roma = ancient Rome.
    * antiguo alumno = alumnus [alumni, -pl.], alum.
    * antiguo esplendor = Posesivo + former glory.
    * antiguo periodista = ex-journalist.
    * antiguo régimen, el = ancient regime, the.
    * antiguos egipcios, los = ancient Egyptians, the.
    * antiguo soldado = ex-soldier.
    * Antiguo Testamento, el = Old Testament (O.T.), the.
    * asociación de antiguos alumnos = alumni association.
    * casco antiguo = old town.
    * casco antiguo de la ciudad, el = oldest part of the city, the.
    * chapado a la antigua = fuddy-duddy.
    * de antigua generación = low-end.
    * de antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * en el mundo antiguo = in antiquity.
    * impreso antiguo = old print.
    * ISBD(A) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material anti = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * ley antigua = ancient law.
    * libro antiguo = old book, rare book.
    * más antiguo = longest-serving.
    * más antiguo, el = seniormost, the.
    * muy antiguo = centuries-old.
    * obra antigua = ancient work.
    * periódicos antiguos = old newspapers.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antigua grandeza = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antiguo esplendor = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antiguo gloria = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * red de antiguos compañeros = old boy network.
    * restituir Algo a su antigua grandeza = restore + Nombre + to + Posesivo + former glory.
    * reunión de antiguos alumnos = class reunion.
    * ser muy antiguo = go back + a long way.
    * vestido a la antigua = frumpy [frumpier -comp., frumpiest -sup.], frumpish.
    * * *
    - gua adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( viejo) <ciudad/libro> old; <ruinas/civilización> ancient; <mueble/lámpara> antique, old; < coche> vintage, old; <costumbre/tradición> old
    b) ( veterano) old, long-standing

    de or desde antiguo — from time immemorial

    2) (delante del n) ( de antes) old (before n), former (before n)
    3) ( anticuado) old-fashioned
    * * *
    = ancient, early [earlier -comp., earliest -sup.], former, old [older -comp., oldest -sup.], long-standing, age-old, sometime + Nombre, erstwhile, overaged, olde, retrospective, timeworn, antique.

    Ex: But this traditional stance conceals an ancient feud between cataloguers and reference librarians over the true function of the library catalogue.

    Ex: Microforms are easy to use, although there were early reservations concerning the fact that users need to become familiar with any specific kind of microform and its reader.
    Ex: This person acted as the liaison with the former UNIMARC Working Group.
    Ex: These circumvent many of the problems that must be tackled in subject indexing such as the emergence of new terms and new meanings for old words.
    Ex: The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.
    Ex: The current environment in higher education is providing an opportunity for librarians to define a future that will ensure their central role in the educational process and thus resolve these remaining age-old questions.
    Ex: One of the most successful is the system devised by Dyson, sometime editor of CA.
    Ex: This article relates the professional experiences of an erstwhile academic librarian.
    Ex: Bielefeld University is replacing its overaged mainframe data processing systems in the library.
    Ex: The article 'Ye olde smart card' presents an annotated list of information sources on the credit card industry.
    Ex: It seems appropriate to take a retrospective look at the evolution of our catalog and the ideology which has shaped it.
    Ex: But beyond the honeymoon hotels and resorts, Polynesian life goes on and timeworn traditions are preserved.
    Ex: A small cranberry tree surrounded by holly sits on an antique marble-top table.
    * a la antigua = old-style.
    * a la antigua usanza = old-style.
    * antigua esposa = ex-wife.
    * antigua gloria = Posesivo + former glory.
    * antigua grandeza = Posesivo + former glory.
    * Antigua Grecia = Ancient Greece.
    * antigua novia = ex-girlfriend.
    * antigua Roma = ancient Rome.
    * antiguo alumno = alumnus [alumni, -pl.], alum.
    * antiguo esplendor = Posesivo + former glory.
    * antiguo periodista = ex-journalist.
    * antiguo régimen, el = ancient regime, the.
    * antiguos egipcios, los = ancient Egyptians, the.
    * antiguo soldado = ex-soldier.
    * Antiguo Testamento, el = Old Testament (O.T.), the.
    * asociación de antiguos alumnos = alumni association.
    * casco antiguo = old town.
    * casco antiguo de la ciudad, el = oldest part of the city, the.
    * chapado a la antigua = fuddy-duddy.
    * de antigua generación = low-end.
    * de antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde antiguo = from time immemorial.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * en el mundo antiguo = in antiquity.
    * impreso antiguo = old print.
    * ISBD(A) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material anti = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * ley antigua = ancient law.
    * libro antiguo = old book, rare book.
    * más antiguo = longest-serving.
    * más antiguo, el = seniormost, the.
    * muy antiguo = centuries-old.
    * obra antigua = ancient work.
    * periódicos antiguos = old newspapers.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antigua grandeza = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antiguo esplendor = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * recuperar + Posesivo + antiguo gloria = regain + Posesivo + former glory.
    * red de antiguos compañeros = old boy network.
    * restituir Algo a su antigua grandeza = restore + Nombre + to + Posesivo + former glory.
    * reunión de antiguos alumnos = class reunion.
    * ser muy antiguo = go back + a long way.
    * vestido a la antigua = frumpy [frumpier -comp., frumpiest -sup.], frumpish.

    * * *
    A
    1 (viejo) ‹casa/ciudad› old; ‹ruinas/civilización› ancient; ‹mueble/lámpara› antique, old; ‹libro› old; ‹coche› vintage, old
    la parte antigua de la ciudad the old part of the city
    la antigua Roma ancient Rome
    una costumbre muy antigua an ancient o a very old custom
    es mejor no reavivar antiguas rencillas it's best not to revive old quarrels
    2 (veterano) old, long-standing
    es uno de nuestros más antiguos clientes he's one of our oldest customers
    3 ( en locs):
    a la antigua in an old-fashioned way
    se viste a la antigua she dresses in an old-fashioned way o style
    chapado a la antigua old-fashioned
    de or desde antiguo from time immemorial
    una tradición que viene de antiguo a tradition which dates from time immemorial
    Compuestos:
    masculine ancien régime
    masculine Old Testament
    B ( delante del n) (de antes) old ( before n), former ( before n)
    un antiguo novio an ex-boyfriend o old boyfriend
    visitamos mi antiguo colegio we visited my old school
    Río, antigua capital del Brasil Rio, the former capital of Brazil
    C (anticuado) ‹persona/estilo› old-fashioned
    tiene una cara muy antigua she has a very old-fashioned kind of face, her face seems to belong to another era
    * * *

     

    antiguo
    ◊ - gua adjetivo

    1
    a) ( viejo) ‹ciudad/libro old;

    ruinas/civilización ancient;
    mueble/lámpara antique, old;
    coche vintage, old;
    costumbre/tradición old;


    c) ( en locs)


    chapado a la antigua old-fashioned;
    de or desde antiguo from time immemorial
    2 ( delante del n) ( de antes) old ( before n), former ( before n);

    3 ( anticuado) old-fashioned
    antiguo,-a adjetivo
    1 old, ancient: Antiguo Testamento, Old Testament
    2 (pasado de moda) old-fashioned
    3 (empleado, cargo) senior
    4 (anterior) former
    ' antiguo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antigua
    - casco
    - decana
    - decano
    - entre
    - restituir
    - sellar
    - testamento
    - ver
    - combatiente
    - viejo
    English:
    alumnus
    - ancient
    - antique
    - become
    - dissociate
    - encounter
    - ex-
    - flame
    - former
    - gramophone
    - imperial mile
    - long-standing
    - old
    - old-style
    - one
    - paper
    - take over
    - testament
    - erstwhile
    - further
    - long
    - past
    - sometime
    - veteran
    - vintage car
    * * *
    antiguo, -a
    adj
    1. [viejo] old;
    [inmemorial] ancient;
    un antiguo amigo/enemigo an old friend/enemy
    antiguo alumno [de colegio] ex-pupil, former pupil, US alumnus;
    el antiguo continente [Europa] Europe;
    la antigua Roma Ancient Rome;
    el Antiguo Testamento the Old Testament
    2. [anterior, previo] former;
    la antigua Unión Soviética the former Soviet Union
    el antiguo régimen the former regime; Hist the ancien régime
    3. [veterano]
    los miembros/empleados más antiguos tienen preferencia preference is given to the longest-serving members/employees;
    los vecinos más antiguos the neighbours who've been here longest
    4. [pasado de moda] old-fashioned;
    a la antigua in an old-fashioned way;
    chapado a la antigua stuck in the past, old-fashioned
    nm,f
    1. [persona] old-fashioned person;
    su tío es un antiguo her uncle is very old-fashioned
    2.
    los antiguos [de la Antigüedad] the ancients
    * * *
    adj old; del pasado remoto ancient;
    su antiguo novio her old o former boyfriend;
    a la antigua in the old-fashioned way;
    edad antigua ancient times pl
    * * *
    antiguo, - gua adj
    1) : ancient, old
    2) : former
    3) : old-fashioned
    a la antigua: in the old-fashioned way
    * * *
    antiguo adj
    1. (mueble, cuadro, etc) antique
    2. (casa, coche) old
    3. (idioma, cultura) ancient
    4. (anterior) former
    5. (en el trabajo) senior
    6. (anticuado) old fashioned
    ¡qué ideas más antiguas tienes! what old fashioned ideas you've got!

    Spanish-English dictionary > antiguo

  • 13 edad

    f.
    age.
    ¿qué edad tienes? how old are you?
    tiene 25 años de edad she's 25 years old
    una persona de mediana edad a middle-aged person
    una persona de edad an elderly person
    ¡son cosas de la edad! it's (just) his/her/their age!
    la edad antigua ancient times
    la edad de Bronce the Bronze Age
    la edad contemporánea the modern age
    edad del juicio age of reason
    la edad de Hierro the Iron Age
    la edad Media the Middle Ages
    la edad de Piedra the Stone Age
    edad de la razón age of reason
    * * *
    1 age
    ¿qué edad tiene usted? how old are you?
    2 (tiempo, época) time, period
    \
    de mediana edad middle-aged
    en edad escolar of school age
    edad de oro golden age
    edad del pavo awkward age
    Edad Media Middle Ages plural
    Edad Moderna Modern Age
    la tercera edad eufemístico old age, retirement age
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de persona, animal, árbol] age

    ¿qué edad tiene? — how old is he?, what age is he?

    jóvenes de edades comprendidas entre los 18 y los 26 años — young people aged 18 to 26, young people between the age of 18 and 26

    ¿qué edad le echas? — how old do you think he is?

    edad adultaadulthood

    llegar a la edad adulta — to become an adult, reach adulthood

    a la edad de ocho añosat the age of eight

    una mujer de edad avanzadaa woman of advanced years

    un señor de cierta edad — a gentleman of a certain age

    un niño de corta edad — a young child

    una persona de edad — an elderly person

    en edad escolarof school age

    edad de (la) jubilaciónretirement age

    edad límiteage limit

    edad maduramiddle age

    mediana edad — middle age

    tener edad de hacer algo, estar en (la) edad de hacer algo — to be old enough to do sth

    no tener edad para hacer algo(=ser muy joven) not to be old enough to do sth, not to be of an age to do sth; (=ser muy mayor) to be too old to do sth

    tercera edad — (=personas) senior citizens pl, older people pl ; (=edad) old age

    llegar a la tercera edad es traumático para muchas personas — for many people, reaching old age is traumatic

    edad penal — age of legal responsibility, age of criminal responsibility

    mayor 1., 4), mayoría 2), menor 1., 1), d)
    2) ( Hist) age

    Edad Antiguaperiod from the beginning of history to the decline of the Roman Empire

    Edad Contemporánea — Modern Age, Modern Period

    Edad de Oro — (Literat) Golden Age ( of Spanish literature)

    Edad Modernaperiod from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution

    * * *
    1) (de persona, árbol) age

    ¿qué edad tiene? — how old is he?

    se saca or quita la edad — (AmL) he makes out (that) he's younger than he actually is

    aún no tiene la edad suficiente — he's still not old enough...

    de edad madura or de mediana edad — middle-aged

    estar en edad de merecer — (ant o hum) to be of courting age (dated)

    2) (Hist) ( época) age, period
    * * *
    = age, age, age range, age level.
    Ex. The needs of readers housebound by physical disability, or made immobile by increasing age, are met by a supply of reading material from a van delivery service.
    Ex. A helpful arrangement supports browsing by grouping documents which have some characteristic in common, for example, author, subject, age.
    Ex. If the local number is used to store the birth date of the borrower, all borrowers in a specified age range can be selected.
    Ex. Second, I chose specific books appropriate to the age level and the educational level.
    ----
    * alcanzar la mayoría de edad = come of + age.
    * Alta Edad Media, la = Early Middle Ages, the, High Middle Ages, the, Dark Ages, the.
    * baja Edad Media, la = late Middle Ages, the.
    * ciudadano de edad avanzada = elderly citizen.
    * ciudadano de la tercera edad = senior citizen.
    * con la edad = with age.
    * consumo de bebidas alcohólicas por menores de edad = underage drinking.
    * cuidados para personas de la tercera edad = elderly care, elder care [eldercare].
    * de edad = elderly.
    * de edad avanzada = over the hill.
    * de edad mediana = middle-aged.
    * de edad universitaria = college-age.
    * de la edad media = dark-age.
    * de mayor edad = senior.
    * de mediana edad = middle-aged.
    * de + Número + años de edad = aged + Número.
    * de trece años de edad = thirteen-year-old.
    * de treinta y ocho años de edad = thirty-eight-year-old.
    * dimensión de la edad = age dimension.
    * discriminación por razones de edad = ageism [agism].
    * discriminatorio por razones de edad = ageist [agist].
    * distribución por edades = age distribution.
    * diversidad de edades = age-spread.
    * dominio de las personas con más edad = senior power.
    * edad adulta = adulthood.
    * edad de finalización de los estudios = terminal education age.
    * edad de hielo = ice age.
    * Edad de Hierro, la = Iron Age, the.
    * edad de jubilación = retirement age.
    * edad de la cita = citation age.
    * edad de oro = golden age.
    * Edad de Piedra, la = Stone Age, the.
    * edad de votar = voting age.
    * edad dorada = golden age.
    * edad en la que un niño aprende a andar = toddlerhood.
    * edades = age group [age-group].
    * edad escolar = school age.
    * edad media = mediaeval ages [medieval ages, -USA], Middle Ages, average age.
    * edad media de las referencias = mean reference age.
    * en edad de trabajar = working-age.
    * en la edad de la piedra = in the dark ages.
    * entre diferentes edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * grupo de edad = age bracket, age group [age-group].
    * grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría = peer group.
    * grupo según edad = age group [age-group].
    * hombre de la edad del hielo = iceman [icemen, -pl.].
    * la edad se lleva en el alma = you are as old as you feel.
    * la juventud no es cuestión de edad sino de espíritu = you are as old as you feel.
    * límite de edad = age limit.
    * margen de edad = age group [age-group].
    * mayoría de edad = adulthood.
    * media de edad = mean age.
    * mediana de edad = median age.
    * menor de edad = underage.
    * niño de edad escolar = school-age child.
    * niño en edad escolar = school-age child.
    * niño en edad preescolar = preschooler.
    * persona de edad avanzada = elderly person.
    * persona de la tercera edad = elder.
    * personas de la tercera edad, las = elderly, the.
    * promedio de edad = average age.
    * que afecta a varias edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * relacionado con la edad = age-related.
    * relativo a varias edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * tercera edad = third age.
    * * *
    1) (de persona, árbol) age

    ¿qué edad tiene? — how old is he?

    se saca or quita la edad — (AmL) he makes out (that) he's younger than he actually is

    aún no tiene la edad suficiente — he's still not old enough...

    de edad madura or de mediana edad — middle-aged

    estar en edad de merecer — (ant o hum) to be of courting age (dated)

    2) (Hist) ( época) age, period
    * * *
    = age, age, age range, age level.

    Ex: The needs of readers housebound by physical disability, or made immobile by increasing age, are met by a supply of reading material from a van delivery service.

    Ex: A helpful arrangement supports browsing by grouping documents which have some characteristic in common, for example, author, subject, age.
    Ex: If the local number is used to store the birth date of the borrower, all borrowers in a specified age range can be selected.
    Ex: Second, I chose specific books appropriate to the age level and the educational level.
    * alcanzar la mayoría de edad = come of + age.
    * Alta Edad Media, la = Early Middle Ages, the, High Middle Ages, the, Dark Ages, the.
    * baja Edad Media, la = late Middle Ages, the.
    * ciudadano de edad avanzada = elderly citizen.
    * ciudadano de la tercera edad = senior citizen.
    * con la edad = with age.
    * consumo de bebidas alcohólicas por menores de edad = underage drinking.
    * cuidados para personas de la tercera edad = elderly care, elder care [eldercare].
    * de edad = elderly.
    * de edad avanzada = over the hill.
    * de edad mediana = middle-aged.
    * de edad universitaria = college-age.
    * de la edad media = dark-age.
    * de mayor edad = senior.
    * de mediana edad = middle-aged.
    * de + Número + años de edad = aged + Número.
    * de trece años de edad = thirteen-year-old.
    * de treinta y ocho años de edad = thirty-eight-year-old.
    * dimensión de la edad = age dimension.
    * discriminación por razones de edad = ageism [agism].
    * discriminatorio por razones de edad = ageist [agist].
    * distribución por edades = age distribution.
    * diversidad de edades = age-spread.
    * dominio de las personas con más edad = senior power.
    * edad adulta = adulthood.
    * edad de finalización de los estudios = terminal education age.
    * edad de hielo = ice age.
    * Edad de Hierro, la = Iron Age, the.
    * edad de jubilación = retirement age.
    * edad de la cita = citation age.
    * edad de oro = golden age.
    * Edad de Piedra, la = Stone Age, the.
    * edad de votar = voting age.
    * edad dorada = golden age.
    * edad en la que un niño aprende a andar = toddlerhood.
    * edades = age group [age-group].
    * edad escolar = school age.
    * edad media = mediaeval ages [medieval ages, -USA], Middle Ages, average age.
    * edad media de las referencias = mean reference age.
    * en edad de trabajar = working-age.
    * en la edad de la piedra = in the dark ages.
    * entre diferentes edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * grupo de edad = age bracket, age group [age-group].
    * grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría = peer group.
    * grupo según edad = age group [age-group].
    * hombre de la edad del hielo = iceman [icemen, -pl.].
    * la edad se lleva en el alma = you are as old as you feel.
    * la juventud no es cuestión de edad sino de espíritu = you are as old as you feel.
    * límite de edad = age limit.
    * margen de edad = age group [age-group].
    * mayoría de edad = adulthood.
    * media de edad = mean age.
    * mediana de edad = median age.
    * menor de edad = underage.
    * niño de edad escolar = school-age child.
    * niño en edad escolar = school-age child.
    * niño en edad preescolar = preschooler.
    * persona de edad avanzada = elderly person.
    * persona de la tercera edad = elder.
    * personas de la tercera edad, las = elderly, the.
    * promedio de edad = average age.
    * que afecta a varias edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * relacionado con la edad = age-related.
    * relativo a varias edades = cross-age [cross age].
    * tercera edad = third age.

    * * *
    A [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] (de una persona, un árbol) age
    ¿qué edad tiene/le calculas? how old is he/do you think he is?
    a la edad de veinte años at (the age of) twenty
    tienen la misma edad they are the same age
    aparenta más edad de la que tiene she looks older than she is
    niños de edades comprendidas entre los siete y los catorce años children between the ages of seven and fourteen
    su marido le dobla la edad her husband is twice her age
    se saca or quita la edad ( AmL); he makes out (that) he's younger than he actually is
    aún no tiene edad para decidir por sí mismo he's still not old enough to decide for himself
    yo a tu edad ya ayudaba en casa at your age I was already helping around the house
    de edad madura or de mediana edad middle-aged
    una persona de edad an elderly person
    un señor de cierta edad a gentleman of a certain age
    desde temprana edad from an early age
    a tan tierna edad at such a young o tender age
    yo ya no estoy en edad de hacer esas cosas I'm too old for that sort of thing
    niños en edad escolar children of school age
    la edad adulta adulthood
    estar en edad de merecer ( ant o hum); to be of courting age ( dated)
    Compuestos:
    ( fam):
    están en la edad del pavo they're at that awkward age
    voting age
    mental age
    age of criminal o legal responsibility
    manhood
    B ( Hist) (época) age, period
    Compuestos:
    la edad antigua ancient times (pl)
    Bronze Age
    Iron Age
    space age
    golden age
    Stone Age
    la edad media the Middle Ages (pl)
    la edad moderna the period from the last decade of the 15th Century up until the French Revolution
    * * *

     

    edad sustantivo femenino
    1 (de persona, árbol) age;

    un joven de unos quince años de edad a boy of about fifteen;
    ¿qué edad tiene? how old is he?;
    aún no tiene la edad suficiente he's still not old enough …;
    de edad madura or de mediana edad middle-aged;
    una persona de edad an elderly person;
    niños en edad escolar children of school age;
    estar en la edad del pavo to be at that awkward age
    2 (Hist) ( época) age, period;
    la Eedad de bronce/de hierro/de piedra the Bronze/Iron/Stone Age;

    la Eedad media the Middle Ages (pl)
    edad sustantivo femenino
    1 age: ese niño es de mi edad, that boy is my age
    no tienes edad para votar, you aren't old enough to vote
    ¿qué edad tiene tu prima?, how old is your cousin?
    aprendió a leer a una edad avanzada, she learned to read late in life
    2 (periodo) age: Edad de Oro, Golden Age
    edad del pavo, the awkward age
    Edad Media, Middle Ages pl ➣ Ver nota en año
    ♦ Locuciones: ser mayor de edad, to be of age
    ser menor de edad, to be under age
    de corta edad, young
    de edad avanzada, elderly
    ' edad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acusarse
    - ambientar
    - año
    - antigüedad
    - baja
    - bajo
    - bronce
    - cabeza
    - datar
    - escolar
    - flexible
    - juventud
    - llevar
    - madura
    - maduro
    - mayor
    - menor
    - mentira
    - minoría
    - pavo
    - pequeña
    - pequeño
    - representar
    - resaltar
    - residencia
    - respetable
    - tercera
    - tercero
    - vasallaje
    - adelantado
    - alcanzar
    - aparentar
    - asilo
    - avanzado
    - cierto
    - corto
    - doblar
    - encoger
    - grande
    - indiscreción
    - mayoría
    - mediano
    - moderno
    - para
    - preescolar
    - que
    - quitar
    - tener
    - tiempo
    - tope
    English:
    abandon
    - adulthood
    - age
    - at
    - attain
    - awkward age
    - boyish
    - early
    - fifty
    - for
    - growing
    - Iron Age
    - lie
    - limber
    - look
    - mental age
    - middle age
    - Middle Ages
    - middle-aged
    - midlife
    - minor
    - nursing home
    - old
    - one
    - overgrown
    - preschool
    - qualify
    - reach
    - rest home
    - senior
    - Stone Age
    - tell
    - under
    - aged
    - ageism
    - ageist
    - consent
    - contemporary
    - dark
    - date
    - elderly
    - eldest
    - generation
    - golden
    - grow
    - ice
    - infant
    - irrespective
    - lower
    - middle
    * * *
    edad nf
    1. [de persona, objeto] age;
    ¿qué edad tienes? how old are you?;
    tiene veinticinco años de edad she's twenty-five years old;
    un joven de veinte años de edad a young man of twenty;
    él aparenta más edad que ella he looks older than she does;
    tiene el doble de edad que él she's twice his age;
    la edad media de los participantes es de treinta años the average age of the participants is thirty;
    a/desde temprana edad at/from an early age;
    a o [m5] con la tierna edad de tres años at the tender age of three;
    se casó a la edad de veintidós años he got married at (the age of) twenty-two;
    a mi edad uno se cansa con facilidad one gets tired easily at my age;
    a tu edad yo ya trabajaba I already had a job at your age;
    mujeres entre los treinta y cuarenta años de edad women aged between thirty and forty;
    una persona de edad an elderly person;
    una señora de cierta edad a lady of a certain age;
    un niño de corta edad a young child;
    una persona de mediana edad a middle-aged person;
    ¡son cosas de la edad! it's (just) his/her/their age!;
    ya estás en edad de salir con chicos you're old enough now to be going out with boys;
    estar en edad de merecer to be of marriageable age;
    estar en edad de trabajar to be of working age;
    distribuir/ordenar un grupo por edades to divide/organize a group by age
    edad adulta adulthood, adult age;
    edad escolar school age;
    estar en edad escolar to be of school age;
    edad de jubilación retirement age;
    edad del juicio age of reason;
    edad madura middle age;
    edad mental mental age;
    Fam edad del pavo:
    está en la edad del pavo she's at that awkward age;
    Méx Fam edad de la punzada:
    está en la edad de la punzada she's at that awkward age;
    edad de la razón age of reason
    2. [periodo] age
    la edad antigua ancient times;
    la Edad de o del Bronce the Bronze Age;
    la Edad Contemporánea the modern age [since the French revolution];
    la Edad de o del Hierro the Iron Age;
    la Edad Media the Middle Ages;
    la edad de los metales = period comprising the Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 4000-500 BC);
    la Edad Moderna = period between 1492 and the French Revolution;
    la edad de oro the golden age;
    la edad de oro de la pintura holandesa the golden age of Dutch painting;
    la Edad de Piedra the Stone Age
    * * *
    f
    1 age;
    a la edad de at the age of;
    a mi edad at my age;
    ¿qué edad tienes? how old are you?;
    en edad escolar school-age, of school age;
    en edad penal old enough to be sent to prison;
    de mediana edad middle-aged;
    la tercera edad the over 60s;
    una señora de edad an elderly lady;
    estar en la edad del pavo be at that awkward age
    2 ( época)
    :
    la Edad Media the Middle Ages pl ;
    de oro fig the golden age
    * * *
    edad nf
    1) : age
    ¿qué edad tiene?: how old is she?
    2) época, era: epoch, era
    * * *
    edad n age
    ¿qué edad tienes? how old are you?
    ser mayor de edad to be eighteen / to be an adult

    Spanish-English dictionary > edad

  • 14 system

    n
    2) способ; метод

    to deploy a system — размещать / разворачивать систему (напр. обороны)

    to formulate a system — разрабатывать / вырабатывать систему

    to merge one's monetary systems — объединять свои валютные системы

    to overhaul / to reform a country's political system — перестраивать политическую систему страны

    to set up a system — создавать / учреждать систему

    - abolition of the system
    - accounting system
    - administrative system
    - advanced system
    - advantages of the system
    - air-based system
    - aircraft telecommunications system
    - antagonistic systems
    - anti-ballistic missile system
    - anti-missile defense system
    - anti-missile space defense system
    - anti-satellite systems
    - ASAT systems
    - authoritative system
    - automated management systems
    - automated system
    - automatic control system
    - automatic data processing system
    - banking system
    - bipartisan system
    - biparty system
    - bonus system
    - break-up of the system
    - British entry into the European Monetary System
    - bureaucrat system
    - capitalist economic system
    - capitalist system
    - career development system
    - centrally planned system
    - clan system
    - classified national defense system
    - collapse of the system
    - collective security system
    - communal system
    - communications system
    - competitive price system
    - complex system
    - comprehensive system
    - compulsory purchase system
    - computer system
    - constitutional system
    - contract system
    - control system
    - conventional system
    - country programming system
    - credit and banking system
    - credit system
    - crisis of the system
    - cultural system
    - currently-operating system
    - decentralized system
    - defense system
    - deficiency of the system
    - delivery system
    - democratic political systems
    - deterrent system
    - different social systems
    - disintegration of the system
    - distribution system
    - dynamic international system
    - early warning system
    - ecological system
    - economic system
    - educational system
    - effective system
    - efficient system
    - election system
    - electoral system
    - electronic system
    - EMS
    - European Monetary System
    - exploitation system
    - exploiting system
    - fair system
    - family-planning system
    - federal grant system
    - finance and credit system
    - financial system
    - first-past-the-post voting system
    - forecasting system
    - formation of the system
    - free enterprise system
    - free market system
    - generalized system of preferences
    - global system
    - grid system
    - ground-based system
    - health care system
    - health system
    - historically established system
    - home security system
    - immunity system
    - industrial system
    - inequitable system
    - information system
    - INIS
    - institutional system
    - integrated system
    - intelligence system
    - International Nuclear Information System
    - international system
    - International Trusteeship System
    - irrigation system
    - job-by-job system of payment
    - judicial system
    - land tenure system
    - land-based antiballistic missile system
    - legal system
    - liberalization of the political system
    - life-support system
    - majority system
    - management system
    - managerial system
    - mandate system
    - mandatory system
    - market system
    - mayor-council system
    - merit system
    - metric system
    - missile and satellite detection system
    - missile delivery system
    - misuse of the judicial system for political purposes
    - monarchical system
    - monetary and credit system
    - monetary system
    - monitoring system
    - monopolistic system
    - motor-road and railway system
    - multifaceted system
    - multilateral payments system
    - multiparty system
    - mutually-acceptable system
    - national accounting and control system
    - national defense system
    - new arms systems
    - noncapitalist system
    - obsolete social system
    - old system
    - one-man-one-vote system
    - one-member-one-vote system
    - one-party system
    - opposing social systems
    - optimum system
    - outmoded system
    - overhaul of the tax system
    - parliamentary system
    - party system
    - payments system
    - pension system
    - people's democratic system
    - philosophical system
    - planning system
    - political system
    - post adjustment system
    - power system
    - preferential system
    - premium system
    - presidential system
    - price system
    - private enterprise system
    - program budgeting system
    - proportional representation system
    - public pension system
    - records system
    - regimented political system
    - remnants of the system
    - reports system
    - republican system
    - ruling system
    - safeguards system
    - satellite-tracking system
    - sea-based system
    - security system
    - social security system
    - social system
    - socio-economic system
    - socio-political system
    - space defense system
    - space weapons systems
    - space-based system
    - spoils system
    - stability system
    - stable system
    - state political system
    - state system
    - state-managed social security system
    - strategic nuclear-weapon systems
    - submarine-based system
    - supply system
    - system of collective security
    - system of exploitation
    - system of geographical distribution
    - system of government and public organizations
    - taxation system
    - technologically advanced weapons systems
    - territorial system
    - training system
    - transition to a multiparty system
    - tribal system
    - trusteeship system
    - two-party system
    - united economic system
    - visa system
    - voting system
    - wage system
    - world system
    - world trading system

    Politics english-russian dictionary > system

  • 15 eligible

    який відповідає вимозі (вимогам); який має право ( завдяки задоволенню певних вимог); який має право за законом; який має пасивне виборче право; який має право на обрання; який має право на перебування на посаді, який має право обіймати посаду
    - eligible for citizenship
    - eligible for funding
    - eligible for membership
    - eligible for office
    - eligible for parole
    - eligible for patent protection
    - eligible for patenting
    - eligible offender
    - eligible prisoner
    - eligible to an office
    - eligible to carry firearms
    - eligible to take job
    - eligible to work
    - eligible to vote
    - eligible vote
    - eligible voter

    English-Ukrainian law dictionary > eligible

  • 16 YEA

    1) Военный термин: yaw error amplifier
    2) Фирменный знак: Young Entrepreneurs Asia
    3) Образование: Youth Educational Adventures
    4) ООН: YES vote

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > YEA

  • 17 yea

    1) Военный термин: yaw error amplifier
    2) Фирменный знак: Young Entrepreneurs Asia
    3) Образование: Youth Educational Adventures
    4) ООН: YES vote

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > yea

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