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  • 2 ampliación

    f.
    1 enlargement, expansion, amplification, augmentation.
    2 extension.
    3 blow-up, blowup.
    4 magnification.
    * * *
    1 enlargement, extension
    2 ARQUITECTURA extension
    3 (fotografía) enlargement
    \
    ampliación de capital increase in capital
    ampliación de estudios furthering of studies
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) extension, expansion
    * * *
    SF (=acción) extension; (Fot) enlargement; (=expansión) expansion

    ampliación de capital, ampliación de capitales — increase of capital

    * * *
    a) (de local, carretera) extension; ( de negocio) expansion
    b) (Com, Fin)

    una ampliación de capital/de plantilla — an increase in capital/in the number of staff

    c) (de conocimientos, vocabulario) widening
    d) (de plazo, período) extension
    e) (Fot) enlargement
    * * *
    = amplification, blow-up, elaboration, enlargement, extension, magnification, broadening, extension, widening.
    Ex. Even with such a limitation and many later supplementations by various hands, by way of addition, correction and amplification, it falls far short of completeness.
    Ex. In most of these cases, however, a limited number of full-size ' blow-ups', on paper, are also produced which can be made available to users who cannot use microfiche.
    Ex. The 1949 code was essentially a greater elaboration of the 1908 code in an attempt to rectify the omissions of the 1908 code.
    Ex. This enlargement of interests forms the basis of the claim to provide an information education appropriate to other than library-type environments.
    Ex. These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.
    Ex. The inscription, readable without magnification, placed at the top of the microfiche to identify its contents is known as the microfiche header.
    Ex. This article reports on the views a sample of Australian library educators holds about the broadening of library education.
    Ex. This article also describes a multi-million pound extension scheme which is in the course of construction at Glasgow's Mitchell Library = Este artículo también describe una ampliación de varios millones de libras que está en construcción en la Biblioteca Mitchell de Glasgow.
    Ex. Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.
    ----
    * ampliación de la biblioteca = library extension.
    * ampliación de las responsabilidades laborales = job enrichment.
    * ampliación de responsabilidades laborales = job enlargement.
    * escala de ampliación = enlargement ratio.
    * proyecto de ampliación = addition project.
    * señal de ampliación = extension sign.
    * * *
    a) (de local, carretera) extension; ( de negocio) expansion
    b) (Com, Fin)

    una ampliación de capital/de plantilla — an increase in capital/in the number of staff

    c) (de conocimientos, vocabulario) widening
    d) (de plazo, período) extension
    e) (Fot) enlargement
    * * *
    = amplification, blow-up, elaboration, enlargement, extension, magnification, broadening, extension, widening.

    Ex: Even with such a limitation and many later supplementations by various hands, by way of addition, correction and amplification, it falls far short of completeness.

    Ex: In most of these cases, however, a limited number of full-size ' blow-ups', on paper, are also produced which can be made available to users who cannot use microfiche.
    Ex: The 1949 code was essentially a greater elaboration of the 1908 code in an attempt to rectify the omissions of the 1908 code.
    Ex: This enlargement of interests forms the basis of the claim to provide an information education appropriate to other than library-type environments.
    Ex: These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.
    Ex: The inscription, readable without magnification, placed at the top of the microfiche to identify its contents is known as the microfiche header.
    Ex: This article reports on the views a sample of Australian library educators holds about the broadening of library education.
    Ex: This article also describes a multi-million pound extension scheme which is in the course of construction at Glasgow's Mitchell Library = Este artículo también describe una ampliación de varios millones de libras que está en construcción en la Biblioteca Mitchell de Glasgow.
    Ex: Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.
    * ampliación de la biblioteca = library extension.
    * ampliación de las responsabilidades laborales = job enrichment.
    * ampliación de responsabilidades laborales = job enlargement.
    * escala de ampliación = enlargement ratio.
    * proyecto de ampliación = addition project.
    * señal de ampliación = extension sign.

    * * *
    1 (de un local, una carretera) extension; (de negocio) expansion
    2 ( Com, Fin):
    una ampliación de capital an increase in capital
    la ampliación de la plantilla the increase in the number of staff
    3 (de conocimientos, del vocabulario) widening
    el debate sobre la ampliación de esta ley the debate on the broadening o widening of the scope of this law
    4 (de un plazo, período) extension
    5 ( Fot) (procedimiento) enlargement; (copia ampliada) enlargement
    * * *

     

    ampliación sustantivo femenino
    a) (de local, carretera) extension;

    ( de negocio) expansion
    b) (Com, Fin):

    ◊ una ampliación de capital/de personal an increase in capital/in the number of staff

    c) (de conocimientos, vocabulario) widening

    d) (de plazo, período) extension

    e) (Fot) enlargement

    ampliación sustantivo femenino
    1 (de plazo, de duración) extension
    2 (de una construcción grande) enlargement, (de una casa) addition, enlargement, extension
    3 (de negocio) expansion
    4 (de una fotografía, un plano) enlargement
    ' ampliación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    extensión
    English:
    blowup
    - enlargement
    - extension
    * * *
    1. [de negocio] expansion;
    una ampliación de plantilla an increase in staff numbers;
    la ampliación de la Unión Europea the enlargement of the European Union
    Informát ampliación de memoria memory upgrade
    2. [de local, vivienda] extension;
    [de aeropuerto] expansion
    3. Econ ampliación de capital share o equity issue
    4. [de plazo] extension;
    la ampliación del horario de apertura de bares the extension o lengthening of opening hours for bars
    5. [de fotografía] enlargement
    * * *
    f
    1 increase; de negocio expansion; de plazo, edificio extension
    2 FOT enlargement, blow-up
    * * *
    ampliación nf, pl - ciones : expansion, extension
    * * *
    1. (de edificio, plazo) extension
    2. (de negocio) expansion
    3. (de número, cantidad) increase
    4. (de una foto) enlargement

    Spanish-English dictionary > ampliación

  • 3 Mergenthaler, Ottmar

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 11 May 1854 Hachtel, Germany
    d. 28 October 1899 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    [br]
    German/American inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine.
    [br]
    Mergenthaler came from a family of teachers, but following a mechanical bent he was apprenticed to a clockmaker. Having served his time, Mergenthaler emigrated to the USA in 1872 to avoid military service. He immediately secured work in Washington, DC, in the scientific instrument shop of August Hahl, the son of his former master. He steadily acquired a reputation for skill and ingenuity, and in 1876, when Hahl transferred his business to Baltimore, Mergenthaler went too. Soon after, they were commissioned to remedy the defects in a model of a writing machine devised by James O.Clephane of Washington. It produced print by typewriting, which was then multiplied by lithography. Mergenthaler soon corrected the defects and Clephane ordered a full-size version. This was completed in 1877 but did not work satisfactorily. Nevertheless, Mergenthaler was moved to engage in the long battle to mechanize the typesetting stage of the printing process. Clephane suggested substituting stereotyping for lithography in his device, but in spite of their keen efforts Mergenthaler and Hahl were again unsuccessful and they abandoned the project. In spare moments Mergenthaler continued his search for a typesetting machine. Late in 1883 it occurred to him to stamp matrices into type bars and to cast type metal into them in the same machine. From this idea, the Linotype machine developed and was completed by July 1884. It worked well and a patent was granted on 26 August that year, and Clephane and his associates set up the National Typographic Company of West Virginia to manufacture it. The New York Tribune ordered twelve Linotypes, and on 3 July 1886 the first of these set part of that day's issue. During the previous year the company had passed into the hands of a group of newspaper owners; increasing differences with the Board led to Mergenthaler's resignation in 1888, but he nevertheless continued to improve the machine, patenting over fifty modifications. The Linotype, together with the Monotype of Tolbert Lanston, rapidly supplanted earlier typesetting methods, and by the 1920s it reigned supreme, the former being used more for newspapers, the latter for book work.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute John Scott Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1964, The Composition of Reading Matter, London.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Mergenthaler, Ottmar

  • 4 número

    m.
    1 number, amount, quantity, sum.
    2 number, numeral, Arabic numeral, cipher.
    3 size, number.
    4 issue, copy, number.
    5 act, number.
    * * *
    1 (gen) number
    2 (de una publicación) number, issue
    ■ ¿qué número calzas? what's your shoe size?, what size shoe do you take?
    5 (de lotería) lottery ticket number
    7 LINGÚÍSTICA number
    8 familiar scene
    \
    en números redondos in round figures
    en números rojos in the red
    hacer números to do the figures
    montar un número familiar to make a scene
    pedir número to take a numbered ticket
    ser el número uno to be the number one
    ser miembro de número to be a full member
    sin número (edificio) unnumbered 2 (en abundancia) countless
    número arábigo Arabic numeral
    número atrasado back number
    número de matrícula registration number, US license number
    número de serie serial number
    número entero whole number
    número extraordinario (en prensa) special edition, special issue
    número impar odd number
    número ordinal ordinal number
    número par even number
    número primo prime number
    número romano Roman numeral
    * * *
    noun m.
    4) size
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Mat) number

    volver a números negros — to get back into the black, return to profitability

    • de número, miembro de número — full member

    profesor de número — tenured teacher, teacher with a permanent post

    • echar o hacer números — * to do one's sums, number-crunch

    • sin número, calle Aribau, sin número — Aribau street, no number

    número binario — (Inform) binary number

    número de identificación fiscal — ID number used for tax purposes

    número de lote — batch number, batch code

    número de matrícula — (Aut) registration number

    número de teléfono — telephone number, phone number

    número dos — (lit) number two

    el número dos del partido — the second in command of the party, the party's number two

    número personal de identificación — (=clave) personal identification number

    para mí, Sinatra será siempre el número uno — for me Sinatra will always be number one

    el jugador número uno de su país — the number one player in his country, the top player in his country

    2) [de zapatos] size
    3) [de periódico, revista] number, issue

    número cero — dummy number, dummy run

    número extraordinario — special edition, special issue

    4) (=billete de lotería) ticket
    5) (Teat) act, number
    6) (Gram) number
    7) (Mil) man; (=soldado raso) private; (=policía) policeman
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Mat) number

    problemas sin número — innumerable o countless problems

    en números redondos — in round numbers

    b) ( de zapatos) size

    ¿qué número calzas? — what size shoe do you take?

    c) ( billete de lotería) lottery ticket
    2) (Espec) act

    montar un/el número — (Esp fam) to kick up a fuss (colloq)

    3) ( de publicación) issue
    * * *
    = extent, incidence, issue, number, numeral, percentage, tally [tallies, pl.], scale.
    Ex. The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.
    Ex. The number of entries in pre-co-ordinate system will depend upon the incidence of references and multiple entries.
    Ex. This is an issue devoted in part to papers presented at the conference arranged and hosted by the State Library of New South Wales.
    Ex. The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).
    Ex. Records can be retrieved by character strings (that is, sequences of letters and numerals).
    Ex. But those institutions, and I am referring particularly to public libraries, serve a very large percentage of the nation's library users.
    Ex. As the various parts of the record are entered, the document summary indicates the additions by the tallies opposite the record parts.
    Ex. I have a feeling that all our old technologies are getting progressively more expensive and more inefficient, and that all our new technologies are getting progressively cheaper and more efficient because of questions of scale.
    ----
    * acción de marcar un número = dialling.
    * admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.
    * área del número normalizado y de las condiciones de adquisición = International Standard Book Number and terms of availability area, standard number and terms of availability area.
    * aumentar en número = grow in + numbers, increase in + numbers.
    * base de un número = subscript numeral.
    * colorear por números = paint by + numbers.
    * con el número = numbered.
    * con un gran número de lectores = widely-read.
    * cuadrar números = add up + figures.
    * el mismo número = as many.
    * en el mismo número de años = in as many years.
    * enemigo público número uno = public enemy number one.
    * en grandes números = in record numbers.
    * en gran número = numerously.
    * en números redondos = in round figures.
    * en números reducidos = in small numbers.
    * en un número cada vez mayor = in increasing numbers.
    * exceder en número = outnumber.
    * exponente de un número = superscript numeral.
    * ficha de número de registro = accessions card.
    * gran número de = great numbers of.
    * integridad de los números = integrity of numbers.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * marcar un número de teléfono = dial + number.
    * montar un número = kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, raise + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, make + a ruckus, kick up + a row.
    * nº (número) + Número = # (number) + Número, no. (number) + Número.
    * Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
    * número actual = current issue.
    * Número + al año = Número + annually.
    * Número + al día = Número + a day.
    * número anterior = backrun, back issue.
    * número aproximado = ballpark number.
    * número arábigo = Arabic numeral.
    * número atrasado = back issue, back copy.
    * número binario = binary digit.
    * Número + cada año = Número + annually.
    * número cada vez mayor = rising numbers.
    * número capicúo = palindrome.
    * número consecutivo = running number.
    * número de adquisiciones = acquisition rate.
    * número de alumnos matriculados = enrolment [enrollment, -USA].
    * Número + de ancho = Número + wide.
    * número de aprobados = pass rate.
    * número de asientos = seating.
    * número de bibliografía nacional = national record number.
    * número de búsquedas fallidas = failure rate.
    * número decimal = decimal number.
    * número de citas = number of citations.
    * número de clasificación = class mark [classmark], class number, classification number, rank number.
    * número de control = control number.
    * número de documentos devueltos a los estantes = shelving statistics.
    * número de ejemplar = copy number.
    * número de emergencia = hotline [hot-line].
    * número de exportaciones = export figures.
    * número de fascículo = issue number.
    * número de identificación = ID number (identification number).
    * número de identificación del documento = library registration number.
    * número de intentos fallidos = failure rate.
    * número de la bibliografía nacional = national bibliographic record number.
    * número de la búsqueda = set number.
    * Número + de largo = Número + long.
    * número de la tarjeta de crédito = credit card number.
    * número del documento = document identification number, document number.
    * número de lector = borrower number.
    * número del editor = publisher's number (música).
    * número de matrícula = registration number, car registration number.
    * número de modelo = model number.
    * número de muertos = death toll.
    * número de opus = opus number.
    * número de orden = rank number.
    * número de páginas = pagination.
    * número de palabras = wordage.
    * número de participantes = turnout.
    * número de pedido = order number.
    * número de plancha = plate number.
    * número de préstamo = charging number.
    * número de préstamos = circulation figures.
    * número de publicaciones = publication count.
    * número de referencia del documento = document reference number.
    * número de referencias = number of citations.
    * número de registro = accession number, card number.
    * número de relación = linking number.
    * número de respuestas recibidas = response rate, rate of response.
    * número de serie = serial number.
    * número de solicitudes denegadas = failure rate.
    * número de suspensos = failure rate.
    * número de tarjeta de proceso = transaction card number.
    * número de teléfono = phone number, telephone number, dial-up number, dial-up number, dial-up number.
    * número de teléfono de llamada gratuita = toll free telephone number, toll-free number.
    * número de teléfono que no está incluido en el directorio telefónico = unlisted telephone number.
    * número de tema = thematic index number.
    * número determinado de = nth.
    * número de víctimas = death toll.
    * número de volumen = volume number.
    * número entero = integer.
    * número entero positivo = positive integer.
    * Número + en total = Número + in number.
    * número equivocado = wrong number.
    * número especial = special issue, special number.
    * número identificado de un ordenador en una red = network address.
    * número impar = odd number.
    * número indicador de materia = SIN, Subject Indicator Number.
    * Número Internacional Normalizado para Libros (ISBN) = ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
    * Número Internacional Normalizado para Publicaciones Seriadas (ISSN) = ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).
    * número limitado de alumnos matriculados = limited enrolment.
    * número mágico = magic number.
    * número matriz = master number.
    * número monográfico = thematic issue.
    * número nacional de identificación bibliográfica = national bibliography number.
    * número normalizado = standard number.
    * número ordinal = ordinal, ordinal number.
    * número par = even number.
    * número pin = PIN (personal identification number), PIN number.
    * Número + por ciento = by + factor of + Número, Número + percentage points.
    * número reclamado = claimed issue.
    * número romano = roman numeral.
    * números recientes de las revistas = current journals.
    * número total = head count.
    * número trascendente = transcendental number.
    * número trece = thirteenth.
    * número uno = number one.
    * Número + vez = Número + time.
    * número y distribución de personal = staffing conditions.
    * ordenación por número curren = accession order, accession order, arrangement by accession number.
    * ordenado por número de clasificación = in class number order.
    * ordenar por número curren = arrange by + accession number.
    * PIN (número de identificación personal) = PIN (personal identification number).
    * poner a + Número = set to + Número.
    * procesador de números = number cruncher.
    * redondear al número entero más cercano = round up to + the nearest whole number.
    * sección de últimos números de publicaciones periódicas = current periodicals area.
    * ser de número limitado = be limited in number.
    * superar en número = outnumber.
    * tarifa por el número de operaciones = volume-based tariff.
    * último número, el = latest issue, the.
    * una gran número de = a broad variety of.
    * un buen número de = a good number of.
    * un cierto número de = a number of.
    * un gran número de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of.
    * un número cada vez mayor = growing numbers.
    * un número cada vez mayor de = a growing number of, a growing body of.
    * un número de = a series of.
    * un número reducido de = a residue of, a small number of.
    * un número variado de + Nombre = any number of + Nombre.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Mat) number

    problemas sin número — innumerable o countless problems

    en números redondos — in round numbers

    b) ( de zapatos) size

    ¿qué número calzas? — what size shoe do you take?

    c) ( billete de lotería) lottery ticket
    2) (Espec) act

    montar un/el número — (Esp fam) to kick up a fuss (colloq)

    3) ( de publicación) issue
    * * *
    = extent, incidence, issue, number, numeral, percentage, tally [tallies, pl.], scale.

    Ex: The extent of searchable elements will vary from one data base to another.

    Ex: The number of entries in pre-co-ordinate system will depend upon the incidence of references and multiple entries.
    Ex: This is an issue devoted in part to papers presented at the conference arranged and hosted by the State Library of New South Wales.
    Ex: The headings will be arranged according to the filing sequence of the notation (for example, alphabetically for letters or numerically for numbers).
    Ex: Records can be retrieved by character strings (that is, sequences of letters and numerals).
    Ex: But those institutions, and I am referring particularly to public libraries, serve a very large percentage of the nation's library users.
    Ex: As the various parts of the record are entered, the document summary indicates the additions by the tallies opposite the record parts.
    Ex: I have a feeling that all our old technologies are getting progressively more expensive and more inefficient, and that all our new technologies are getting progressively cheaper and more efficient because of questions of scale.
    * acción de marcar un número = dialling.
    * admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.
    * área del número normalizado y de las condiciones de adquisición = International Standard Book Number and terms of availability area, standard number and terms of availability area.
    * aumentar en número = grow in + numbers, increase in + numbers.
    * base de un número = subscript numeral.
    * colorear por números = paint by + numbers.
    * con el número = numbered.
    * con un gran número de lectores = widely-read.
    * cuadrar números = add up + figures.
    * el mismo número = as many.
    * en el mismo número de años = in as many years.
    * enemigo público número uno = public enemy number one.
    * en grandes números = in record numbers.
    * en gran número = numerously.
    * en números redondos = in round figures.
    * en números reducidos = in small numbers.
    * en un número cada vez mayor = in increasing numbers.
    * exceder en número = outnumber.
    * exponente de un número = superscript numeral.
    * ficha de número de registro = accessions card.
    * gran número de = great numbers of.
    * integridad de los números = integrity of numbers.
    * línea de números = number line.
    * marcar un número de teléfono = dial + number.
    * montar un número = kick up + a fuss, kick up + a stink, raise + a stink, make + a stink (about), make + a racket, make + a row, make + a ruckus, kick up + a row.
    * nº (número) + Número = \# (number) + Número, no. (number) + Número.
    * Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
    * número actual = current issue.
    * Número + al año = Número + annually.
    * Número + al día = Número + a day.
    * número anterior = backrun, back issue.
    * número aproximado = ballpark number.
    * número arábigo = Arabic numeral.
    * número atrasado = back issue, back copy.
    * número binario = binary digit.
    * Número + cada año = Número + annually.
    * número cada vez mayor = rising numbers.
    * número capicúo = palindrome.
    * número consecutivo = running number.
    * número de adquisiciones = acquisition rate.
    * número de alumnos matriculados = enrolment [enrollment, -USA].
    * Número + de ancho = Número + wide.
    * número de aprobados = pass rate.
    * número de asientos = seating.
    * número de bibliografía nacional = national record number.
    * número de búsquedas fallidas = failure rate.
    * número decimal = decimal number.
    * número de citas = number of citations.
    * número de clasificación = class mark [classmark], class number, classification number, rank number.
    * número de control = control number.
    * número de documentos devueltos a los estantes = shelving statistics.
    * número de ejemplar = copy number.
    * número de emergencia = hotline [hot-line].
    * número de exportaciones = export figures.
    * número de fascículo = issue number.
    * número de identificación = ID number (identification number).
    * número de identificación del documento = library registration number.
    * número de intentos fallidos = failure rate.
    * número de la bibliografía nacional = national bibliographic record number.
    * número de la búsqueda = set number.
    * Número + de largo = Número + long.
    * número de la tarjeta de crédito = credit card number.
    * número del documento = document identification number, document number.
    * número de lector = borrower number.
    * número del editor = publisher's number (música).
    * número de matrícula = registration number, car registration number.
    * número de modelo = model number.
    * número de muertos = death toll.
    * número de opus = opus number.
    * número de orden = rank number.
    * número de páginas = pagination.
    * número de palabras = wordage.
    * número de participantes = turnout.
    * número de pedido = order number.
    * número de plancha = plate number.
    * número de préstamo = charging number.
    * número de préstamos = circulation figures.
    * número de publicaciones = publication count.
    * número de referencia del documento = document reference number.
    * número de referencias = number of citations.
    * número de registro = accession number, card number.
    * número de relación = linking number.
    * número de respuestas recibidas = response rate, rate of response.
    * número de serie = serial number.
    * número de solicitudes denegadas = failure rate.
    * número de suspensos = failure rate.
    * número de tarjeta de proceso = transaction card number.
    * número de teléfono = phone number, telephone number, dial-up number, dial-up number, dial-up number.
    * número de teléfono de llamada gratuita = toll free telephone number, toll-free number.
    * número de teléfono que no está incluido en el directorio telefónico = unlisted telephone number.
    * número de tema = thematic index number.
    * número determinado de = nth.
    * número de víctimas = death toll.
    * número de volumen = volume number.
    * número entero = integer.
    * número entero positivo = positive integer.
    * Número + en total = Número + in number.
    * número equivocado = wrong number.
    * número especial = special issue, special number.
    * número identificado de un ordenador en una red = network address.
    * número impar = odd number.
    * número indicador de materia = SIN, Subject Indicator Number.
    * Número Internacional Normalizado para Libros (ISBN) = ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
    * Número Internacional Normalizado para Publicaciones Seriadas (ISSN) = ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).
    * número limitado de alumnos matriculados = limited enrolment.
    * número mágico = magic number.
    * número matriz = master number.
    * número monográfico = thematic issue.
    * número nacional de identificación bibliográfica = national bibliography number.
    * número normalizado = standard number.
    * número ordinal = ordinal, ordinal number.
    * número par = even number.
    * número pin = PIN (personal identification number), PIN number.
    * Número + por ciento = by + factor of + Número, Número + percentage points.
    * número reclamado = claimed issue.
    * número romano = roman numeral.
    * números recientes de las revistas = current journals.
    * número total = head count.
    * número trascendente = transcendental number.
    * número trece = thirteenth.
    * número uno = number one.
    * Número + vez = Número + time.
    * número y distribución de personal = staffing conditions.
    * ordenación por número curren = accession order, accession order, arrangement by accession number.
    * ordenado por número de clasificación = in class number order.
    * ordenar por número curren = arrange by + accession number.
    * PIN (número de identificación personal) = PIN (personal identification number).
    * poner a + Número = set to + Número.
    * procesador de números = number cruncher.
    * redondear al número entero más cercano = round up to + the nearest whole number.
    * sección de últimos números de publicaciones periódicas = current periodicals area.
    * ser de número limitado = be limited in number.
    * superar en número = outnumber.
    * tarifa por el número de operaciones = volume-based tariff.
    * último número, el = latest issue, the.
    * una gran número de = a broad variety of.
    * un buen número de = a good number of.
    * un cierto número de = a number of.
    * un gran número de = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of.
    * un número cada vez mayor = growing numbers.
    * un número cada vez mayor de = a growing number of, a growing body of.
    * un número de = a series of.
    * un número reducido de = a residue of, a small number of.
    * un número variado de + Nombre = any number of + Nombre.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Mat) number
    vive en el número 15 she lives at number 15
    el número premiado es el 10895 the winning number is (number) 10895
    pagó una suma de seis números he paid a six figure sum
    el gran número de respuestas recibidas the large number of replies received
    problemas sin número innumerable o countless problems
    en números redondos in round numbers
    estar en números rojos ( fam); to be in the red ( colloq)
    tengo la cuenta en números rojos my account is o I'm in the red ( colloq)
    hacer números to do one's arithmetic o ( BrE) sums
    ¿qué número calzas? what size shoe do you take?
    3 (billete de lotería) lottery ticket
    Compuestos:
    random number
    Arabic numeral
    atomic number
    binary number
    cardinal number
    complex number
    decimal
    vehicle identification number
    account number
    fax number
    identity number
    (de persona) identity number; (de producto) identification number
    ● número de identificación fiscal or tributaria
    tax identity number, taxpayer ID ( AmE), Unique Taxpayer Reference ( BrE)
    PIN number, Personal Identification Number
    (en Esp) national identity card number
    mass number
    license number ( AmE), registration number ( BrE)
    serial number
    telephone number
    flight number
    whole number
    fraction
    odd number
    mixed number
    ordinal number
    even number
    perfect number
    prime number
    real number
    Roman numeral
    es el número uno de su clase he's top of o the best in his class
    el número uno egipcio the Egyptian leader
    B ( Espec) act
    un excelente número cómico an excellent comedy act o ( BrE) turn
    montar un/el número ( Esp fam); to kick up a fuss ( colloq)
    el número del mes de mayo the May issue o edition
    un número especial or extraordinario a special issue o edition
    números atrasados back numbers o issues
    E ( Esp frml) (policía) officer, constable ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo numerar: ( conjugate numerar)

    numero es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    numeró es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    numerar    
    número
    numerar ( conjugate numerar) verbo transitivo
    to number
    número sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (Mat) number;


    número de matrícula license number (AmE), registration number (BrE);
    número de serie serial number;
    número de teléfono/fax phone/fax number;
    una suma de seis números a six figure sum;
    problemas sin número innumerable o countless problems

    ◊ ¿qué número calzas? what size shoe do you take?


    2
    a) (Espec) act


    numerar verbo transitivo to number
    número sustantivo masculino
    1 number: me equivoqué al escribir el último número, I made a mistake writting the last figure
    soy el número tres de la lista, I'm third on the list
    número de teléfono, telephone number
    número par/impar, even/odd number
    un buen número de personas, a large number of people
    2 (de una revista) number, issue
    número atrasado, back number
    3 (de calzado) size
    4 (de un espectáculo) sketch, act
    5 familiar montar un número, to make a scene
    6 (billete de juego de azar) ticket: tengo un número de lotería de Navidad, I have a Christmas lottery ticket
    ♦ Locuciones: números rojos, in the red: mi cuenta está en números rojos, my account is in the red
    ' número' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acrecentar
    - acrobacia
    - aforo
    - arábiga
    - arábigo
    - atrasada
    - atrasado
    - cabeza
    - calzar
    - cantidad
    - capicúa
    - cardinal
    - cifra
    - espectáculo
    - espuma
    - herida
    - herido
    - imaginaria
    - imaginario
    - indeterminada
    - indeterminado
    - matrícula
    - n.º
    - núm.
    - otra
    - otro
    - par
    - pasada
    - pasado
    - plato
    - premiada
    - premiado
    - prima
    - primo
    - quedarse
    - redonda
    - redondo
    - referencia
    - repetida
    - repetido
    - rey
    - salir
    - serie
    - superior
    - teléfono
    - terminación
    - abundar
    - buscar
    - ciento
    - cinco
    English:
    accurate
    - act
    - admission
    - alarming
    - Arabic numeral
    - army
    - back
    - copy
    - death toll
    - dial
    - eight
    - even
    - exact
    - fascism
    - flock
    - grand finale
    - grand total
    - growth
    - intake
    - integer
    - issue
    - licence number
    - low
    - lucky
    - membership
    - myriad
    - N
    - no.
    - number
    - numeral
    - O
    - odd
    - one
    - ordinal
    - outnumber
    - over
    - poll
    - prime
    - registration number
    - round
    - round down
    - round up
    - routine
    - scene
    - serial
    - size
    - special
    - stock up
    - strength
    - strong
    * * *
    1. [signo] number;
    mi número de la suerte my lucky number;
    en números rojos in the red;
    hacer números to reckon up;
    ser el número uno to be number one;
    [en lista de éxitos] to top the charts;
    fue el número uno de su promoción he was the best in his year;
    el número dos del partido republicano the number two o second in command of the Republican Party;
    sin número [muchos] countless, innumerable;
    un sin número de modelos diferentes countless o innumerable different models
    número de afiliación a la seguridad social Br national insurance number, US social security number;
    número atómico atomic number;
    número binario binary number;
    número cardinal cardinal number;
    número complejo complex number;
    número complementario [en lotería] = complementary number, Br ≈ bonus ball;
    número de cuenta account number;
    número entero whole number, integer;
    Fot número f f number;
    número de fax fax number;
    número impar odd number;
    Informát número IP IP number;
    número irracional irrational number;
    número de matrícula [de vehículo] Br registration number, US license number;
    [de alumno] matriculation number;
    número natural natural number;
    número ordinal ordinal number;
    número par even number;
    número primo prime number;
    número quebrado fraction;
    número racional rational number;
    número redondo round number;
    número de referencia reference number;
    Informát número de registro registration number;
    número romano Roman numeral;
    número de serie serial number;
    número de sucursal [de banco] sort code;
    número de teléfono telephone number
    2. [tamaño, talla] size;
    ¿qué número calzas? what size shoe are you?, what size shoe do you take?
    3. [de publicación] issue, number
    número atrasado back number;
    número extraordinario special edition o issue
    4. [de lotería] ticket
    5. Gram number
    6. [de espectáculo] turn, number;
    Esp Fam
    montar el número to make o cause a scene
    7. Esp [de policía] officer
    8. Rel
    Números Numbers
    * * *
    m
    1 number;
    un gran número de a large number of;
    sin número countless;
    ser el número uno be number one, be the best;
    en números redondos in round figures;
    en números rojos fig in the red;
    hacer números fam add up the figures, Br
    do one’s sums
    2 de publicación issue
    3 de zapato size
    4
    :
    montar un número fam make a scene
    5
    :
    de número socio full; empleado, profesor permanent; catedrático tenured
    * * *
    1) : number
    número impar: odd number
    número ordinal: ordinal number
    número arábico: Arabic numeral
    número quebrado: fraction
    2) : issue (of a publication)
    3)
    sin número : countless
    * * *
    1. (en general) number
    2. (de calzado) size
    ¿qué número calzas? what size do you take in shoes?
    4. (espectáculo) act / number

    Spanish-English dictionary > número

  • 5 colocar

    v.
    1 to place, to put.
    hay que colocar bien ese cuadro, está torcido that picture needs to be hung properly, it isn't straight
    vuelve a colocar ese libro donde estaba put that book back where it was
    Ella coloca el jarrón en la mesa She places the vase on the table.
    La financiera coloca dinero The finance company invests money.
    2 to place, to invest.
    3 to find a job for.
    colocó a su hijo de abogado en su empresa he found his son a job as a lawyer in his own firm
    4 to marry off.
    5 to palm off (informal) (endilgar).
    le colocaron una moto que no funciona they palmed a motorbike off on him that doesn't work
    6 to place in a job, to place.
    Ella coloca a Ricardo She places Richard in a job.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ SACAR], like link=sacar sacar
    1 (gen) to place, put; (alfombra) to lay; (cuadro) to hang
    2 (dar empleo) to get a job for
    3 (casar) to marry off
    4 MILITAR to position
    5 FINANZAS to invest
    6 (mercancías) to sell well
    9 argot (drogas) to get stoned
    1 (situarse) to place oneself, put oneself, find oneself a place
    2 (trabajar) to find a job (de, as), get a job (de, as)
    4 argot (embriagarse) to get sozzled; (drogarse) to get stoned
    * * *
    verb
    1) to place, put
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=situar) [gen] to place; [+ cartel] to put up; [+ bomba] to plant, place; [+ tropas] to position, place; [+ baldosa, moqueta, primera piedra] to lay; [+ cuadro] to hang; (Náut) [+ quilla] to lay down

    de un solo pase colocó la pelota en la portería — he put o placed the ball in the net with just one touch

    2) (=ordenar) [+ muebles, objetos, libros] to arrange
    3) (=dar trabajo)

    colocar a algn — [agencia] to get sb a job; [empresario, jefe] to give sb a job

    4) (Econ) [+ acciones, dinero] to place
    5) † (=casar) to marry off
    6) * (=endilgar)

    colocar algo a algn — to palm sth off on sb, palm sb off with sth

    2.
    VI Esp
    ** [drogas, alcohol]
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( en lugar) to place, put; <losas/alfombra> to lay; < cuadro> to hang
    b) (Com, Fin) < acciones> to place; < dinero> to place, invest; < producto> to put
    2) < persona>
    a) ( en lugar) to put
    b) ( en trabajo) to get... a job
    2.
    colocarse v pron
    1) (situarse, ponerse)

    se colocó a mi lado — she stood/sat beside me

    2) ( en trabajo) to get a job
    3) (Esp arg) ( con drogas) to get stoned (colloq)
    4) (refl)
    a) ( arreglarse) < sombrero> to adjust; < falda> to straighten
    b) (Chi) ( ponerse) <reloj/abrigo> to put on
    * * *
    = arrange, collocate, place, position, sit, site, tuck, lay + in place, go on, dispose, lay on, range, set up, lay out.
    Ex. A catalogue is a list of the materials or items in a library, with the entries representing the items arranged in some systematic order.
    Ex. Author entry gives direct access to particular documents whilst at the same time collocating documents with the same author.
    Ex. In each class the most significant facet is placed first, the next most significant next, and so on.
    Ex. Once the cursor has been positioned to where the mistake was made, then enter in the correct data.
    Ex. It would be highly desirable to have a phone sitting on top of the library catalogue (if your are still in the dark ages with a card catalogue that is).
    Ex. The library's data bases are available at a number of locations via appropriately sited terminals.
    Ex. The easy chairs are however often tucked into odd corners where you could not put a full table and chair anyway.
    Ex. Finally gold leaf was laid in place over the blind impressions, and fixed into them with further impressions of the hot tools, surplus gold being rubbed off.
    Ex. If the issue is to go on the display shelf, an 'X' appears under 'Display'.
    Ex. This system promises to augment existing networks with the appropriate intelligence which will enable them to build, test, manage, maintain, change, dispose and withdraw services easily, rapidly and cost effectively.
    Ex. Machine-made paper, provided that it was dry, could be laid on with sufficient accuracy for register to be made with no more ado than adjustment of the forme for the second run.
    Ex. Serials can be ranged in the order of the access number, i.e. in the order of their arrival, without distinction as to their size or contents.
    Ex. The reference service is set up next to, on in the case of small units, in the reading room.
    Ex. There should be plenty of space to lay out all the books attractively and for people to move about without feeling too crowded.
    ----
    * colocar Algo en reserva = place + Nombre + in reserve, place + Nombre + on reserve, place + Nombre + on hold.
    * colocar como primer elemento de un encabezamiento compuesto = lead.
    * colocar de nuevo en los estantes = reshelve [re-shelve].
    * colocar en el lugar donde = put in + the place where.
    * colocar en los estantes = shelve.
    * colocar en los estantes sin distinguir tipo de material = intershelve.
    * colocar en sentido horizontal = lay + flat.
    * colocar en su lugar = drop into + place.
    * colocar en un lugar = put into + place.
    * colocar en un lugar erróneo = misplace.
    * colocar fuera de alcance = place + out of reach.
    * colocar junto a = juxtapose.
    * colocar juntos en el catálogo = collocate.
    * colocarse = get + high.
    * colocarse en la posición de = place + Reflexivo + in the position of.
    * colocarse las medallas = take + the credit (for).
    * colocar una bomba = plant + bomb.
    * que se coloca en lo alto del televisor = set-top.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( en lugar) to place, put; <losas/alfombra> to lay; < cuadro> to hang
    b) (Com, Fin) < acciones> to place; < dinero> to place, invest; < producto> to put
    2) < persona>
    a) ( en lugar) to put
    b) ( en trabajo) to get... a job
    2.
    colocarse v pron
    1) (situarse, ponerse)

    se colocó a mi lado — she stood/sat beside me

    2) ( en trabajo) to get a job
    3) (Esp arg) ( con drogas) to get stoned (colloq)
    4) (refl)
    a) ( arreglarse) < sombrero> to adjust; < falda> to straighten
    b) (Chi) ( ponerse) <reloj/abrigo> to put on
    * * *
    = arrange, collocate, place, position, sit, site, tuck, lay + in place, go on, dispose, lay on, range, set up, lay out.

    Ex: A catalogue is a list of the materials or items in a library, with the entries representing the items arranged in some systematic order.

    Ex: Author entry gives direct access to particular documents whilst at the same time collocating documents with the same author.
    Ex: In each class the most significant facet is placed first, the next most significant next, and so on.
    Ex: Once the cursor has been positioned to where the mistake was made, then enter in the correct data.
    Ex: It would be highly desirable to have a phone sitting on top of the library catalogue (if your are still in the dark ages with a card catalogue that is).
    Ex: The library's data bases are available at a number of locations via appropriately sited terminals.
    Ex: The easy chairs are however often tucked into odd corners where you could not put a full table and chair anyway.
    Ex: Finally gold leaf was laid in place over the blind impressions, and fixed into them with further impressions of the hot tools, surplus gold being rubbed off.
    Ex: If the issue is to go on the display shelf, an 'X' appears under 'Display'.
    Ex: This system promises to augment existing networks with the appropriate intelligence which will enable them to build, test, manage, maintain, change, dispose and withdraw services easily, rapidly and cost effectively.
    Ex: Machine-made paper, provided that it was dry, could be laid on with sufficient accuracy for register to be made with no more ado than adjustment of the forme for the second run.
    Ex: Serials can be ranged in the order of the access number, i.e. in the order of their arrival, without distinction as to their size or contents.
    Ex: The reference service is set up next to, on in the case of small units, in the reading room.
    Ex: There should be plenty of space to lay out all the books attractively and for people to move about without feeling too crowded.
    * colocar Algo en reserva = place + Nombre + in reserve, place + Nombre + on reserve, place + Nombre + on hold.
    * colocar como primer elemento de un encabezamiento compuesto = lead.
    * colocar de nuevo en los estantes = reshelve [re-shelve].
    * colocar en el lugar donde = put in + the place where.
    * colocar en los estantes = shelve.
    * colocar en los estantes sin distinguir tipo de material = intershelve.
    * colocar en sentido horizontal = lay + flat.
    * colocar en su lugar = drop into + place.
    * colocar en un lugar = put into + place.
    * colocar en un lugar erróneo = misplace.
    * colocar fuera de alcance = place + out of reach.
    * colocar junto a = juxtapose.
    * colocar juntos en el catálogo = collocate.
    * colocarse = get + high.
    * colocarse en la posición de = place + Reflexivo + in the position of.
    * colocarse las medallas = take + the credit (for).
    * colocar una bomba = plant + bomb.
    * que se coloca en lo alto del televisor = set-top.

    * * *
    colocar [A2 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (en un lugar) to place, put; ‹losas/alfombra› to lay; ‹cuadro› to hang
    coloca el cuadro un poco más arriba put o hang the picture a little higher up
    colocó los sillones a ambos lados del sofá he placed o arranged o positioned the armchairs on both sides of the sofa
    los libros estaban colocados por orden alfabético the books had been placed o arranged in alphabetical order
    colocó el jarrón en el centro de la mesa she placed o put o positioned the vase in the center of the table
    colócalo de manera que no obstruya el paso put it somewhere it's not going to get in people's way
    2 ( Com, Fin) ‹acciones› to place; ‹dinero› to place, invest
    colocó el dinero al 9% she placed o invested the money at 9%
    colocar un producto en el mercado to launch a product on to the market
    B ‹persona›
    1 (en un lugar) to put
    la colocaron en primera fila they put her in the front row
    colocó a los niños por orden de estatura he put o arranged the children in order of height
    2
    (en un trabajo): un amigo lo colocó en el banco a friend got him a job at the bank
    el padre lo colocó como jefe de departamento his father placed him in charge of the department
    3 ‹hija› to marry off
    A
    (ponerse, situarse): entró y se colocó al lado del director she came in and stood/sat beside the director
    se colocaron en primera fila they sat in the front row
    con esta victoria el equipo se coloca en tercer lugar after this win the team moves into third place
    B (en un trabajo) to get a job
    se colocó como secretaria she got a job as a secretary
    se colocó en una casa muy buena she found a position in a very good household
    en cuanto acabó la carrera se colocó as soon as she finished studying she found o got a job
    C
    1 ( fam) (emborracharse) to get plastered ( colloq)
    2 ( arg) (con drogas) to get stoned ( colloq)
    D ( refl) ( Chi) ‹reloj/abrigo/sombrero› to put on
    * * *

     

    colocar ( conjugate colocar) verbo transitivo
    1

    ‹losas/alfombra› to lay;
    ‹ cuadro› to hang;
    ‹ bomba› to plant
    b) (Com, Fin) ‹ acciones› to place;

    ‹ dinero› to place, invest
    2 ‹ persona›

    b) ( en trabajo) to get … a job

    colocarse verbo pronominal
    a) (situarse, ponerse):

    ◊ se colocó a mi lado she stood/sat beside me


    colocar verbo transitivo
    1 to place, put
    2 (dar un empleo) to give work to
    3 Fin (invertir) to invest
    4 (encasquetar) ese vendedor ya me ha colocado una batidora manual, that salesman saddled me with a manual mixer
    4 argot (drogar) to stone
    ' colocar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    actual
    - disponer
    - estacar
    - estirón
    - recoger
    - atravesar
    - depositar
    - emplear
    - encajar
    - instalar
    - lado
    - montar
    - poner
    - situar
    - ubicar
    English:
    actual
    - arrange
    - lay
    - maybe
    - perch
    - place
    - plant
    - plonk
    - pose
    - position
    - put
    - range
    - replace
    - set
    - sit
    - stack
    - stand
    - station
    - bomb
    - bug
    - hang
    - reset
    - stick
    - turf
    - upright
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [en un sitio] to place, to put;
    colocar una bomba to plant a bomb;
    el acomodador coloca a los espectadores en sus asientos the usher shows the audience to their seats;
    vuelve a colocar ese libro donde estaba put that book back where it was;
    nos colocaron en la parte de atrás del avión they put us in the rear section of the plane
    2. [en una posición]
    colocar los brazos en alto to raise one's arms;
    hay que colocar bien ese cuadro, pues está torcido that picture needs to be hung properly, it isn't straight
    3. [en un empleo] to find a job for;
    colocó a su hijo de abogado en su empresa he found his son a job as a lawyer in his own firm
    4. [casar] to marry off
    5. Bolsa [acciones] to place;
    [dinero] to invest;
    coloqué mis ahorros en acciones I invested my savings in esp Br shares o esp US stock(s);
    colocaron un millón de títulos they placed a million in bonds
    6. [endilgar] to palm off (a on);
    le colocaron una moto que no funciona they palmed a motorbike off on him that doesn't work;
    el vendedor me intentó colocar un modelo más caro the salesman tried to get me to buy a more expensive model
    7. Fam [sujeto: droga] to give a high to;
    ¿a ti te coloca la marihuana? does marijuana give you a high?
    ♦ vi
    Fam [droga, alcohol]
    este costo coloca cantidad this hash gives you a real high;
    este ponche coloca mucho this punch is strong stuff
    * * *
    v/t put, place;
    * * *
    colocar {72} vt
    1) poner: to place, to put
    2) : to find a job for
    3) : to invest
    * * *
    1. (en general) to put [pt. & pp. put] / to place
    2. (instalar) to install
    3. (proporcionar un empleo) to find a job [pt. & pp. found] / to get a job
    4. (endilgar) to get rid of

    Spanish-English dictionary > colocar

  • 6 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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  • 7 Betrag

    Betrag m FIN, GEN amount, amt, sum • den Betrag feststellen RECHT settle the figure (Schadensersatz) • dieser Betrag erscheint nicht in den Büchern RW this sum does not appear in the accounts • einen Betrag hinterlegen BANK, BÖRSE deposit a sum • einen Betrag von einem Bankkonto abheben BANK withdraw a sum from a bank account
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    m <Finanz, Geschäft> amount (amt), sum ■ den Betrag feststellen < Recht> Schadensersatz settle the figure ■ dieser Betrag erscheint nicht in den Büchern < Rechnung> this sum does not appear in the accounts ■ einen Betrag hinterlegen < Börse> deposit a sum ■ einen Betrag von einem Bankkonto abheben < Bank> withdraw a sum from a bank account
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    Betrag
    amount, sum [of money], rate, (Buchungsposten) item, (Gesamtbetrag) total, (Wert) value, (Ziffer) figure;
    • bis zum Betrag von to the extent of, up to the amount of;
    • gut für jeden Betrag good for any amount;
    • über den Betrag von... good for...;
    • Betrag eingezogen und Ware ausgeliefert collected and delivered;
    • Betrag erhalten payment (amount) received, (Wechsel) for value received;
    • Betrag bar erhalten cash received;
    • abgebuchter Betrag amount debited;
    • abgehobener Betrag draw;
    • von der Bank abgehobener Betrag sum withdrawn from the bank;
    • nicht abgehobener Betrag unexpended portion;
    • abgerechneter Betrag amount deducted;
    • abgerundeter Betrag round sum, amount rounded off;
    • abgeschriebener Betrag amount written off;
    • abzugsfähiger Betrag deductible amount, (Einkommensteuer) personal allowance (Br.) (credit, US), deduction (US);
    • angegebener Betrag indicated (stated) amount;
    • mit 5% Zinsen angelegter Betrag sum invested at 5 per cent interest;
    • pro forma angesetzter Betrag nominal amount (sum);
    • angezahlter Betrag amount paid on instalment (deposit);
    • anrechnungspflichtiger Betrag chargeable amount;
    • aufgewendeter Betrag amount spent;
    • ausgelegter Betrag money disbursed;
    • ausgeschriebener Betrag (Anzeige) amount stated;
    • ausgesetzter Betrag allowance;
    • ausgewiesener Betrag declared amount;
    • ausgezahlter Betrag amount paid on account, disbursement;
    • ausmachender Betrag final amount;
    • noch ausstehender Betrag balance due, amount owing;
    • beliebiger Betrag any amount;
    • zu viel berechneter Betrag overcharge;
    • bestimmbarer Betrag determinable amount;
    • bestimmter Betrag definite (given, stated) sum, specific (given) amount;
    • betroffener Betrag amount involved;
    • doppelter Betrag double the amount;
    • einzubehaltender Betrag amount to be withheld;
    • einem Kreditbrief entnommener Betrag amount withdrawn from a letter of credit;
    • entstandener, noch nicht fälliger Betrag amount accrued;
    • erheblicher Betrag substantial amount;
    • fakturierter Betrag invoiced charge;
    • fälliger Betrag amount (sum) due;
    • feststehender Betrag liquidated sum;
    • ganzer Betrag full amount, sum total;
    • doppelt gebuchter Betrag amount entered twice;
    • von der Versicherung gedeckter Betrag amount of insurance carried, amount covered;
    • genauer Betrag precise amount;
    • gesamter Betrag total amount;
    • geschuldeter Betrag sum (amount) due (owing);
    • gesperrter Betrag blocked amount;
    • gewetteter Betrag bet;
    • zu viel gezahlter Betrag sum paid in excess;
    • gezeichneter Betrag subscribed amount, subscription;
    • gleichhoher Betrag equal sum of money;
    • fast einem vollen Lohneinkommen gleichkommender Betrag to approximate full working pay;
    • gleichwertiger Betrag equivalence;
    • großer Betrag large sum;
    • auf Ertragskonto gutgeschriebener Betrag amount brought to credit of revenue account;
    • hinterlegter Betrag deposited amount, deposit;
    • als Sicherheit hinterlegter Betrag bail;
    • kleiner Betrag small amount;
    • körperschaftssteuerfreier Betrag corporation tax relief (Br.);
    • kreditierter Betrag amount advanced;
    • krummer Betrag skewed amount;
    • namhafter Betrag considerable amount;
    • niedrigerer Betrag minor amount;
    • offen stehender Betrag uncovered amount;
    • pfändungsfreier Betrag mace-exempt amount (US);
    • Pro-Kopf-Betrag capitation grant;
    • realisierter Betrag amount realized;
    • restlicher Betrag remaining (residual) amount, balance due;
    • roher Betrag gross amount;
    • rückständiger Betrag arrears,overdue amount;
    • schuldiger Betrag sum payable (owing);
    • schwankender Betrag variable fee;
    • sicherstehender Betrag safe sum in hand;
    • für die Dividendenausschüttung zur Verfügung stehender Betrag sum available for dividends;
    • noch zur Verfügung stehender Betrag unexpended balance;
    • steuerfreier Betrag exemption, credit (US);
    • steuerpflichtiger Betrag taxable portion;
    • strittiger Betrag amount at issue (in dispute);
    • aus der Rücklage zu tragender Betrag sum chargeable to reserve;
    • überfälliger Betrag amount overdue;
    • überschießender Betrag amount (sum) in excess, exceeding (surplus) amount, surplus, (Saldo) unpaid balance;
    • überwiesener Betrag amount remitted;
    • überzahlter Betrag excess amount;
    • überzogener Betrag overdraft;
    • unbedeutender Betrag miserable (paltry) sum;
    • veranschlagter Betrag estimated amount;
    • vereinbarter Betrag amount agreed upon;
    • verfügbarer Betrag amount available;
    • für die Ausschüttung frei verfügbarer Betrag amount regarded as free for distribution;
    • versicherter Betrag amount insured;
    • veruntreuter Betrag defalcation;
    • voller Betrag entire (full) amount;
    • vorausgezahlter (vorausbezahlter) Betrag amount paid in advance;
    • vorgetragener Betrag amount brought forward;
    • uns zustehender Betrag money owing to us;
    • Betrag von etwa 4 Dollar amount in the region (neighborhood, US) of 4 dollars;
    • bewilligter Betrag von 100.000 Dollar für ein Vorhaben vote of $ 100,000 for a project;
    • Betrag pro Einheit unit amount;
    • Betrag in bestimmter Höhe definite and certain amount;
    • Betrag in Worten sum (amount) in words;
    • Betrag in Zahlen amount in figures;
    • Betrag an j. abführen to pay an amount to s. o.;
    • Betrag abrunden to make up an amount, to round off a sum;
    • Betrag absetzen to set aside an amount;
    • bestimmten Betrag für Abnutzung absetzen to write off so much for wear and tear;
    • Betrag abziehen to deduct an amount;
    • Betrag zu 6% anlegen to invest a sum at 6 per cent interest;
    • Betrag zur Zahlung anweisen to authorize the payment of a sum;
    • Betrag anzahlen to pay an amount as deposit;
    • zum Betrag von... auflaufen to mount up to the sum of...;
    • Betrag gleichmäßig aufteilen to split a sum into equal shares, to prorate an amount;
    • Betrag unter verschiedene Leute aufteilen to allocate a sum amongst several people;
    • erheblichen Betrag ausmachen to run to a respectable figure;
    • fünfstelligen Betrag ausmachen to run into five figures;
    • Scheck über einen Betrag von 1000 Euro ausstellen to write out a cheque (Br.) (check, US) for the amount of euro 1000;
    • j. mit einem Betrag belasten to charge an amount to s. one’s account, to pass an amount to the debit of s. o.;
    • jds. Konto mit einem Betrag belasten to carry (place, enter) a sum to s. one’s debit;
    • Betrag für etw. bestimmen to allocate a sum to s. th.;
    • abstimmungsweise einen Betrag bewilligen to vote a sum;
    • Betrag in Abzug bringen to deduct a sum;
    • Betrag als Ausgabe (im Soll) buchen to enter [up] an amount in the expenditure;
    • Betrag bei einer Bank einzahlen to bank an amount, to pay an amount into the bank;
    • Betrag auf jds. Konto einzahlen to pay in a sum to s. one’s credit;
    • Spenden zu jedem Betrag entgegennehmen to accept contributions of any size;
    • sich für den Betrag seiner Spesen erholen to recover expenses;
    • um den erforderlichen Betrag zu erreichen to make up the required sum;
    • Betrag von jem. fordern to come upon s. o. for a sum;
    • Betrag guthaben to have a balance in one’s favo(u)r;
    • jem. (jds. Konto) einen Betrag gutschreiben to place an amount to s. one’s credit, to pass an amount (put a sum) to the credit of s. o.;
    • bedeutenden Betrag verloren haben to be a loser to a considerable amount;
    • Betrag für etw. hinterlegen to leave a deposit on s. th.;
    • Betrag kündigen to call in a sum;
    • bestimmten Betrag von seinen Ersparnissen nehmen to set apart so much out of one’s savings;
    • für einen Betrag gut sein to be good for a sum;
    • jem. einen großen Betrag schuldig sein to be indebted to a large amount to s. o.;
    • Betrag für wohltätige Zwecke zur Verfügung stellen to subscribe a sum to charity;
    • Betrag wieder zur Verfügung stellen to refund an amount;
    • benötigten Betrag überschreiten to be in excess of the sum required;
    • Betrag als Einnahme verbuchen to put an amount in the receipts;
    • Betrag unter verschiedene Leute [gleichmäßig] verteilen to apportion a sum among several people;
    • Betrag vorschießen to advance an amount (a sum);
    • Betrag zulasten eines Kontos vortragen to charge a sum to the debit;
    • Betrag auf neue Rechnung vortragen to bring forward an amount;
    • Betrag dem Reservefonds zuführen to allocate an amount to the reserve fund.
    unterschreiten, Betrag
    to fall below an amount;
    • Plankosten unterschreiten to undershoot the target costs.
    verifizieren, Betrag
    to prove a sum.

    Business german-english dictionary > Betrag

  • 8 sich

    abkühlen, sich
    (Konjunktur) to cool off.
    abmelden, sich
    to notify one’s departure.
    absprechen, sich
    to come to an arrangement, to agree;
    • sich mit seinen Mitarbeitern absprechen to consult with one’s fellow workers;
    • Schadenersatz absprechen to disallow damages.
    abwechseln, sich
    to take turns, to alternate;
    • jährlich abwechseln (Vorsitz) to rotate every year;
    • in Schichten abwechseln to rotate shifts.
    aneignen, sich
    to acquire, to appropriate, to adopt;
    • sich Geld aneignen to embezzle funds, to misappropriate (convert) money;
    • sich einen Namen aneignen to adopt a name.
    auspendeln, sich
    (Zinssätze) to stabilize at a certain level.
    auswirken, sich
    to bear upon, to take effect;
    • sich auf das Betriebsergebnis auswirken to come through into the results;
    • sich kostenmäßig auswirken to make a showing on costs;
    • sich in einer Preiserhöhung auswirken to result in a price increase;
    • sich schnell auswirken (Investitionen) to pick up quickly;
    • sich ungünstig auswirken to have an unfavo(u)rable effect;
    • sich voll auswirken to be in full swing;
    • sich als Vorteil auswirken to turn out to be an advantage.
    behaupten, sich
    to stand one’s ground, (Kurse) to hold their ground, to keep its head, to keep (remain) steady, to remain firm;
    • sich gut behaupten (Wechselkurs) to hold fairly steady;
    • weiterhin hohe Kurse behaupten to continue to rule high;
    • seine Rechte behaupten to safeguard one’s rights;
    • sich am Schluss behaupten oder leicht abschwächen (Börse) to close steady to slightly lower;
    • sich in seiner Stellung behaupten to hold one’s position;
    • seine Stellung im technologischen Wettbewerb behaupten to keep up in the technology race.
    behauptend, sich
    (Preis) steady.
    behelfen, sich
    to make shift, to manage, to resort to expedients;
    • sich ohne Sekretärin behelfen to do without the services of a secretary.
    belaufen, sich
    to come (mount up, run) to, to reach, to rise, to run into, to make;
    • sich auf 10.000 Euro belaufen to foot up (figure out) to euro 10,000 debts;
    • sich auf das Doppelte des Voranschlags belaufen to come to double the estimate;
    • insgesamt belaufen to aggregate, to total;
    • sich ungefähr belaufen to come near to.
    bereichern, sich
    to line one’s pockets, to make one’s pile;
    • sich an Kinderarbeit bereichern to exploit child labo(u)r;
    • sich öffentlich bereichern to enrich o. s. from public office.
    beruhigen, sich
    (Börse) to settle down, (politische Lage) to become stable, to ease;
    • Gläubiger mit einer Ratenzahlung beruhigen to put off a dun with an instal(l)ment.
    bewegen, sich
    (Preise) to range (vary) from... to...;
    • sich abwärts bewegen to be on the downgrade (skids, US);
    • sich fast einheitlich um die 20% bewegen to cluster around the 20 per cent mark;
    • sich entsprechend der Preisindexziffern bewegen to move in sympathy with the index figures of prices.
    bewerben, sich
    to apply for, to stand as a candidate for (Br.), to run, to [run as a] candidate, to seek, to go up (Br.), (um Lieferungen) to make a bid for, to tender, (um einen Preis) to compete for;
    • sich um ein Amt bewerben to run (stand) for an office (US);
    • sich um einen Auftrag bewerben to make a tender;
    • sich persönlich bewerben to make a personal application;
    • sich um eine Stelle (Stellung) bewerben to apply (run) for a position, to put in for a post (job, fam.), to compete for a job.
    bewähren, sich
    (Artikel) to stand the strain (test);
    • sich nicht bewähren to prove a failure.
    drehen, sich
    (Börse) to turn;
    • sich um ein Thema drehen to run on a subject.
    durchschlagen, sich
    to shift for a living;
    • kostenmäßig durchschlagen to make a showing on cost;
    • auf die Ladenverkaufspreise durchschlagen to work through to prices in the shops;
    • direkt auf die Preise durchschlagen to feed straight through into the prices.
    eignen, sich
    to qualify, to be suitable (qualified);
    • sich als Kapitalanlage eignen to be suitable for investment.
    einbürgern, sich
    to become established;
    • teilweise einbürgern to denizen;
    • wieder einbürgern to repatriate.
    einigen, sich
    to agree, to come to terms, to settle an issue (Br.);
    • sich über die Bedingungen einigen to agree upon the terms;
    • sich mit seinen Gläubigern einigen to compound with one’s creditors;
    • sich auf die Gründung einer Gesellschaft einigen to agree to form a company;
    • sich gütlich einigen to settle a matter amicably, to come to an amicable arrangement;
    • sich auf einen bestimmten Preis einigen to agree on a certain price;
    • sich vergleichsweise einigen to reach a settlement.
    einmischen, sich
    to intervene, to interfere, to meddle, to barge in (fam.);
    • sich in die Angelegenheiten eines Nachbarlandes einmischen to intervene in the affairs of a neighbo(u)ring country;
    • sich unaufgefordert (ungefragt) einmischen to meddle.
    einpendeln, sich
    (Kurse) to even out, to settle down.
    einschiffen, sich
    to embark, to get (go) aboard, to join one’s ship, to go on board, to [take] ship.
    einwählen, sich
    (Computer) to plug into.
    emporarbeiten, sich
    to work one’s way up, to win one’s way from poverty.
    entschließen, sich
    to determine, to decide, to make up one’s mind, to resolve;
    • sich zu einem Kauf entschließen to decide on buying.
    ereignen, sich
    to occur, to happen, to take place.
    erholen, sich
    to recreate, to convalesce, to recuperate, to pick up, (Industrie) to be reviving, (Kurse) to look (pick, prick) up, to recover, to revive, to rally, to rise, to improve, (Markt) to improve, (sich schadlos halten) to make up for one’s losses, to repay (reimburse, recoup) o. s.;
    • sich bei jem. erholen to draw (reimburse o. s.) upon s. o.;
    • sich von einem geschäftlichen Fehlschlag erholen to recover from a business setback;
    • sich beim Giranten erholen to have recourse to the endorser of a note;
    • sich von den Nachwirkungen des Krieges erholen to recover from the effects of the war;
    • sich bei den Schlusskursen erholen to be improving at the close;
    • sich schnell erholen (Kurse) to brisk up;
    • sich wieder erholen (Kurse) to be picking up again, to experience a recovery;
    • sich finanziell wieder erholen to recover financially (one’s strength), to recuperate;
    • sich für eine Zahlung erholen to cover o. s.
    etablieren, sich
    to establish o. s., to set up shop for o. s., to start a business.
    festigen, sich
    to consolidate, (Börse, Kurse, Preise) to [become] firm, to steady, to stiffen, to strengthen, to harden, to stabilize;
    • Dollarkurs festigen to strengthen the dollar price;
    • seine Stellung festigen to strengthen one’s position, to solidify one’s place;
    • Währung festigen to stabilize the currency;
    • sich erneut im Vergleich mit anderen harten Währungen festigen to strengthen again against other major currencies;
    • Wechselkurse festigen to stabilize exchange rates.
    freizeichnen, sich
    to contract out, to exempt o. s. from a liability.
    gesundschrumpfen, sich
    to shrink to profitable size;
    • sich gesundstoßen to make a packet (fam.).
    heraufarbeiten, sich
    to work one’s way (o. s.) up (o. s. into a good position).
    herauskristallisieren, sich
    to crystallize, to take shape;
    • sich herausmachen (Firma) to make good progress;
    • sein Kapital herausnehmen to withdraw one’s capital;
    • Gehälter aus dem Preisindexsystem herausnehmen to disindex salaries from the price index;
    • Geld aus jem. herauspressen to squeeze money out of s. o.;
    • weitere Steuern aus dem Volk herauspressen to screw more taxes out of the people;
    • Gewinne aus einem fallenden und überbesetzten Markt herausprügeln müssen to be forced to slug it out in a slumping and overcrowded market;
    • Geld herausrücken to cough up (US sl.), to fork out (sl.);
    • Zahlungen herausschieben to postpone payment;
    • herausschinden to eke out;
    • Geld aus jem. herausschinden to extract money from s. o.;
    • zusätzliche Urlaubswoche herausschinden to wangle an extra week’s holiday;
    • Geld aus einer Sache herausschlagen to get one’s money’s worth;
    • allerlei Vorteile herausschlagen to gain all kinds of advantages;
    • Unfähige herausschmeißen to weed out the incompetents;
    • heraussetzen (Mieter) to evict, to eject, to turn out.
    herausstellen, sich
    to turn out, to prove;
    • besonders herausstellen (Presse) to feature (US coll.), to highlight (US);
    • sich als Fälschung herausstellen to prove to be a forgery;
    • groß herausstellen to give a build-up;
    • sich als sehr hoch herausstellen (Kosten) to come rather high;
    • sich als missglückt herausstellen (Anlage) to turn sour;
    • sich als Vorteil herausstellen to turn out to be an advantage.
    hinschleppen, sich
    to drag on.
    konkretisieren, sich
    (Forderung) to crystallize.
    konstituieren, sich
    (parl.) to assemble;
    • Ausschuss konstituieren to appoint a committee;
    • sich als eingetragene Gesellschaft konstituieren to form themselves into a registered corporation.
    kreuzen, sich
    to intersect, (Interessen) to clash, to run counter, (Straße) to cross.
    kristallisieren, sich
    to crystallize.
    kräftigen, sich
    (Kurs) to improve, to recover, (Markt) to strengthen;
    • Dollarkurs kräftigen to strengthen the dollar price.
    lebensversichern, sich
    to assure one’s life with a company (Br.);
    • sich für 20.000 L lebensversichern to insure (assure, Br.) o. s. for L 20,000;
    • sich gegenseitig lebensversichern to insure one’s own life for the benefit of the other;
    • seine Schlüsselkräfte lebensversichern to take out life policies on one’s key man.
    liieren, sich
    (Gesellschafter) to unite, to join, to associate, to become a partner.
    massieren, sich
    (Aufträge) to pile up.
    niederlassen, sich
    to set up for o. s., to take up one’s abode (domicile, residence), to locate, (Wohnsitz) to settle down;
    • sich als Anwalt niederlassen to settle down in the practice of law;
    • sich als Arzt niederlassen to put up (hang out) one’s shingle;
    • sich als Buchhändler niederlassen to establish o. s. (set up business) as a bookseller;
    • sich für dauernd niederlassen to settle down for good;
    • sich geschäftlich niederlassen to establish o. s. as a businessman, to set up for o. s., to set up shop, to set o. s. up in business;
    • sich im Hauptgeschäftsviertel niederlassen to fix one’s residence in the city;
    • sich widerrechtlich niederlassen to abate.
    rentieren, sich
    to pay [its way (for costs)], to pay well, to bring a return, (Betrieb) to be profitable, (Ware) to leave a margin;
    • sich gut rentieren to yield good profits;
    • sich nicht rentieren not to be worthwhile;
    • sich noch rentieren to break even;
    • sich gerade noch rentieren to wash its face (Br. sl.);
    • sich in zehn Jahren rentieren to pay its way in ten years.
    stabilisieren, sich
    to become stable;
    • Preise stabilisieren to stabilize (peg) prices.
    treffen, sich
    to meet, to gather, to assemble;
    • Abkommen treffen to come to an agreement (terms);
    • Anordnungen treffen to prescribe;
    • Auslese treffen to cull;
    • Buchung treffen to pass (effect) an entry;
    • Freigabeverfügungen für die Wirtschaftshilfe treffen to loosen its grip on the economic-aid purse strings;
    • auf Öl treffen to strike oil;
    • Steuerzahler heftig treffen to clobber the taxpayers;
    • Übereinkommen treffen to compact;
    • Übereinkunft treffen to come to an arrangement;
    • Verabredung treffen to make (fix) an appointment;
    • Verbraucher unmittelbar treffen to fall directly onto the consumer;
    • vorläufige Vereinbarung treffen to make a provisional arrangement;
    • Vorbereitungen (Vorkehrungen) treffen to make preparations;
    • Vorsichtsmaßregeln treffen to take precautionary measures.
    unterordnen, sich
    to subordinate o. s.
    verausgaben, sich
    to spend beyond one’s means, to run short of money.
    verbürgen, sich
    to [a]vouch, to undertake, to warrant, to guarantee, to stand surety, to bail;
    • sich für einen Bericht verbürgen to warrant a report;
    • sich für jds. Ehrlichkeit und Zuverlässigkeit verbürgen to warrant s. o. an honest and reliable person;
    • sich für eine Schuld verbürgen to answer for a debt;
    • sich für jds. Zahlungsfähigkeit verbürgen to vouch for s. one's ability to pay.
    verkalkulieren, sich
    to miscalculate, to overshoot.
    vermehren, sich
    to multiply;
    • sein Vermögen vermehren to enlarge one’s fortune;
    • Zahlungsmittelumlauf vermehren to expand the currency.
    verschulden, sich
    to run into debt, to take on debts, to involve o. s. (get into) debt, to outrun the constable (Br.), to run up a score (Br.);
    • sich kurzfristig erheblich verschulden to borrow heavily on a short-term basis;
    • sich erneut verschulden to run into debt again;
    • sich total verschulden (Staat) to plunge into debt;
    • sich ungewöhnlich verschulden to go into debt at a record chip (US).
    verschätzen, sich
    to be out in one’s calculation[s] (estimate).
    verspekulieren, sich
    to lose money by bad investment.
    verspäten, sich
    (Schiff, Zug) to be overdue (behind schedule, US).
    versteifen, sich
    (Markt) to tighten [up].
    verzweigen, sich
    to branch out.
    zurückhalten, sich
    to keep a low profile, (Börse) to stay on the sidelines, (Verbraucher) to hold back, to resist;
    • Aktien in Erwartung von Kurssteigerungen zurückhalten to hold stocks for a rise;
    • Informationsmaterial zurückhalten to hold back information;
    • Mittel zurückhalten to bottle up funds;
    • sich mit der Verwirklichung geplanter Kapazitätsausweitungen zurückhalten to hold back on bringing in planned new capacity;
    • restliche Ware zurückhalten to hold over the rest of the goods;
    • Waren unberechtigt zurückhalten to wrongfully detain goods.
    zurückmelden, sich
    to report one’s return;
    • sich vom Urlaub zurückmelden to report back from leave (one’s return).
    zusammenschließen, sich
    to amalgamate, to merge, to combine, to consolidate (US), (pol.) to unite, to fuse;
    • Arbeiter in einer Gewerkschaft zusammenschließen to unite workers in a trade union;
    • Firmen (Gesellschaften) zusammenschließen to consolidate business companies;
    • sich zu einem Kartell zusammenschließen to join a cartel;
    • sich in einem großen Unternehmen zusammenschließen to merge into one large organization;
    • sich zu einem Verein zusammenschließen to club.
    ändern, sich
    to vary;
    • Eintragung ändern to rectify (alter) an entry;
    • nachträglich ändern (Wechsel) to alter materially;
    • zweckentsprechend ändern to adapt.
    überschneiden, sich
    to overlap, to intersect, (Ereignisse) to clash;
    • sich mit einem anderen Termin überschneiden to clash with another date.

    Business german-english dictionary > sich

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