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1 government's term of office

Юридический термин: срок правомочий правительства

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > government's term of office
2 government's term of office

срок правомочий правительства

Англо-русский юридический словарь > government's term of office
3 term

1) термин; выражение

2) промежуток времени; срок; срок полномочий; срок наказания; амер. наказание

3) аренда на срок

4) постановление ( договора), условие

5) судебная сессия

6) день, когда наступает срок квартальных платежей (аренда, проценты и т.п.)

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terms and conditions — постановления и условия ( договора);

to come to terms — достичь соглашения, договориться;

to finish a term — отбыть срок наказания;

to get a term — получить срок наказания;

to give a term — назначить срок наказания;

to win a term — разг. получить срок наказания

term of imprisonment credited toward another term of imprisonment — срок тюремного заключения, назначенный с зачётом ранее назначенного или отбытого срока тюремного заключения

- term of appeal
- term of appointment
- term of art
- term of bill
- term of contract
- terms of delivery
- term of imprisonment
- term of jail
- terms of law
- term of lease
- term of legislature
- term of life
- term of natural life
- term of office
- term of parole
- terms of partnership
- term of payment
- term of probation
- term of punishment
- terms of reference
- term of sentence
- terms of submission
- terms of the claims
- term of the court
- term of the grand jury
- term of the jury
- term of validity
- term of years
- term of years absolute
- additional term
- adjourned term
- aggregate term of imprisonment
- awarded term of imprisonment
- berth terms
- broad term
- clear terms
- concessionary terms
- concurrent terms
- conference terms
- consecutive terms
- convertible terms
- court term
- delivery terms
- determinate term
- Easter term
- elected term
- expired term
- express terms
- extended term
- extended term of imprisonment

- extensible term
- foul term
- full term
- general term
- general terms of delivery
- government's term of office
- gross terms
- heavy term of imprisonment
- Hilary term
- implied terms
- indeterminate term
- initial term
- innominate terms
- jail term
- landed terms
- law term
- lengthy term of imprisonment
- liner terms
- long term
- maximum term
- maximum term of imprisonmnent
- Michaelmas term
- minimum term
- minimum term of imprisonment
- mutual terms
- narrow term
- ordinary term
- parole term
- Paschal term
- patent term
- preclusive term
- presidential term
- prison term
- probation term
- probatory term
- senatorial term
- served term
- set term
- settled term
- short term
- short term of imprisonment
- stringent term
- technical terms of law
- trade terms
- Trinity term
- uncertain term
- unexpired term
- unserved term
- vague terms

Англо-русский юридический словарь > term
4 office

n

1) контора, канцелярия, офис; ведомство, бюро, учреждение

2) pl службы ( помещения)

3) служба

4) услуга

5) должность

6) властные полномочия, власть

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to abuse one's office — злоупотреблять служебным положением

to accept the renewal of one's term of office — соглашаться на возобновление мандата

to approach the end of one's term of office — приближаться к концу своего пребывания у власти

to assume office — вступать в должность

to be halfway through one's term of office — отработать половину срока пребывания на посту

to be in office — занимать пост; быть у власти

to bug an office — устанавливать подслушивающие устройства в канцелярии / офисе

to call smb to the Foreign Office — вызывать кого-л. в Министерство иностранных дел ( Великобритания)

to come to office — вступать в должность

to complete one's term of office — завершить пребывание на посту

to confirm smb in office for life — утверждать кого-л. на посту пожизненно

to continue in office — продолжать исполнять свои обязанности; оставаться у власти

to direct offices — руководить учреждениями

to dismiss smb from one's office — освобождать кого-л. от занимаемого поста

to drive smb from office — вынуждать / заставлять кого-л. уйти в отставку; смещать кого-л.

to ease smb into office — устраивать кого-л. на должность

to elect smb to / into office — избирать кого-л. на должность / на пост

to end one's term in office — закончить срок своего пребывания у власти

to enter (upon) / to get into / to step into / to take office — вступать в должность; приходить к власти

to extend the term of office — продлевать полномочия / мандат

to force smb from office — вынуждать / заставлять кого-л. уйти в отставку; смещать кого-л.

to hand over one's office to smb — передавать кому-л. свою должность

to hold a presidential office for two consecutive terms — занимать пост президента два срока подряд

to hound smb out of office — посредством травли вынуждать кого-л. уйти в отставку

to install / to put smb in office — ставить кого-л. у власти

to institute smb in(to) an office — назначать кого-л. на должность

to leave office — уходить со службы / с должности / в отставку, покидать свой пост

to limit smb's term of office — ограничивать срок пребывания кого-л. на посту

to lose office — лишаться власти

to misuse one's office — злоупотреблять служебным положением

to occupy office — занимать пост

to open one's own offices in a country — открывать свои бюро в какой-л. стране

to pass one's office to smb — передавать власть кому-л.

to permit no more than two terms in any elected office — разрешать занимать любую выборную должность не более двух сроков

to raid an office — производить рейд в офисе ( компании)

to reach the highest office — добиваться высшего поста

to reinstate smb in his / her former office — восстанавливать кого-л. в прежней должности

to reject smb's bid to stay in office — отвергать чью-л. попытку остаться у власти

to release smb from office — отстранять кого-л. от власти

to relieve smb of one's office — снимать кого-л. с работы

to relinquish office — уходить со службы / с должности / в отставку, покидать свой пост

to remain in office — оставаться у власти

to remove smb from office on a bloodless coup — отстранять кого-л. от власти в результате бескровного переворота

to renew the term of office — возобновлять мандат

to resign in office — выходить в отставку до истечения срока полномочий

to restore smb to office — восстанавливать кого-л. в должности

to return to office — возвращаться к власти

to run for an office — баллотироваться, быть выдвинутым (куда-л.), выставлять свою кандидатуру

to serve out one's full term of office — проработать полный срок пребывания на посту

to settle into office — занимать руководящий пост

to soldier on in office — продолжать выполнять свои нелегкие обязанности в правительстве

to stand for office — баллотироваться на какой-л. пост

to stay (on) in office — продолжать оставаться у власти

to step down from office — уходить в отставку

to step out of office — подавать в отставку

to swear smb in / into office — приводить кого-л. к присяге ( обычно президента при вступлении в должность)

to sweep smb from office — смещать кого-л. значительным числом голосов

to sweep smb into office — избирать кого-л. значительным числом голосов

to try to negotiate the removal from office of smb — пытаться договориться об отстранении кого-л. от власти

to use one's good offices — посредничать

to vote smb out of office — отстранять кого-л. от власти в результате выборов

to win office — побеждать на выборах, приходить к власти

- a new cabinet will take office

- abuse of office

- accountant's office
- administrator's office
- arms procurement office
- assumption of office
- brief period in office
- briefing office
- Colonial Office
- Commonwealth Office
- Congressional Budget Office
- Conservative Party's central office
- curtailment of one's term of office
- departure from office
- editorial office
- elected office
- elective office
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive Office of the Secretary-General
- fall from office
- field office
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- foreign office
- Foreign Office
- good offices
- government offices
- he was continued in office
- head principal office
- highest judicial offices
- holder of an office
- Home Office
- House of Lords Record Office
- impropriety in office
- in office
- inquiry office
- judicial offices
- Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility
- legal advice office
- limit of 10 years on the term in office
- main offices of state
- Major's office
- military procurator's office
- misdemeanor in office
- newspaper office
- office accommodation
- office facilities
- office hours
- office man
- office number
- Office of Counter-terrorism of the State Department
- Office of General Services
- Office of Legal Affairs
- Office of Management and Budget
- Oval Office
- Parliament Office
- political office
- post-and-telegraph office
- prime minister's office
- printing office
- public office
- public procurator's office
- purchasing office
- Record Office
- rector's office
- Regional office
- renewal of term of office
- rotation of office
- Russian Visa and Registration for Foreigners Office
- statistics office
- tenure of office
- term of office
- time in office
- trade office
- trade promotion office
- treasurer's office
- UBO
- Unemployment Benefit Office
- unfit to hold office
- vice-chancellor's office
- War Office
- White House Office

Politics english-russian dictionary > office
5 term

1. noun
1) (word expressing definite concept) [Fach]begriff, der

legal/medical term — juristischer/medizinischer Fachausdruck

term of reproach — Vorwurf, der

in terms of money/politics — unter finanziellem/politischem Aspekt

2) in pl. (conditions) Bedingungen

he does everything on his own terms — er tut alles, wie er es für richtig hält

come to or make terms [with somebody] — sich [mit jemandem] einigen

come to terms [with each other] — sich einigen

come to terms with something — (be able to accept something) mit etwas zurechtkommen; (resign oneself to something) sich mit etwas abfinden

terms of reference — (Brit.) Aufgabenbereich, der

3) in pl. (charges) Konditionen

their terms are... — sie verlangen...

hire purchase on easy terms — Ratenkauf zu günstigen Bedingungen

4)

in the short/long/medium term — kurz-/lang-/mittelfristig

5) (Sch.) Halbjahr, das; (Univ.): (one of two/three/four divisions per year) Semester, das/Trimester, das/Quartal, das

during term — während des Halbjahres/Semesters usw.

out of term — in den Ferien

end of term — Halbjahres-/Semesterende usw.

6) (limited period) Zeitraum, der; (period of tenure)

term [of office] — Amtszeit, die

7) (period of imprisonment) Haftzeit, die

8) in pl. (mode of expression) Worte

praise in the highest terms — in den höchsten Tönen loben

9) in pl. (relations)

be on good/poor/friendly terms with somebody — mit jemandem auf gutem/schlechtem/freundschaftlichem Fuß stehen
2. transitive verb
nennen

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[tə:m] 1. noun
1) (a (usually limited) period of time: a term of imprisonment; a term of office.) die Zeitdauer

2) (a division of a school or university year: the autumn term.) das Semester

3) (a word or expression: Myopia is a medical term for short-sightedness.) der Ausdruck

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- academic.ru/112873/terms">terms
2. verb
(to name or call: That kind of painting is termed `abstract'.) bezeichnen als

- come to terms
- in terms of
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term

[tɜ:m, AM tɜ:rm]

I. n

1. (of two) Semester nt; (of three) Trimester nt

half-\term kurze Ferien, die zwischen den langen Ferien liegen, z.B. Pfingst-/Herbstferien

2. (set duration of job) Amtszeit f

\term of office Amtsperiode f, Amtszeit f

3. (period of sentence)

\term of imprisonment Haftdauer f

prison \term Gefängnisstrafe f

4. ECON ( form: duration of contract) Laufzeit f, Dauer f

\term of a policy Vertragslaufzeit f

5. no pl (anticipated date of birth) Geburtstermin m

her last pregnancy went to \term bei ihrer letzten Schwangerschaft hat sie das Kind bis zum Schluss ausgetragen; (period)

\term of pregnancy Schwangerschaft f

6. (range) Dauer f

in the long/medium/short \term lang-/mittel-/kurzfristig

7. (phrase) Ausdruck m

\term of abuse Schimpfwort nt

\term of endearment Kosewort nt

in layman's \terms einfach ausgedrückt

to be on friendly \terms with sb mit jdm auf freundschaftlichem Fuß stehen

generic \term Gattungsbegriff m

in glowing \terms mit Begeisterung

legal \term Rechtsbegriff m

technical \term Fachausdruck m

in no uncertain \terms unmissverständlich

she told him what she thought in no uncertain \terms sie gab ihm unmissverständlich zu verstehen, was sie dachte

II. vt

▪ to \term sth:

I would \term his behaviour unacceptable ich würde sein Verhalten als inakzeptabel bezeichnen

▪ to \term sb [as] sth jdn als etw bezeichnen, jdn etw nennen

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[tɜːm]
1. n

1) (= period of time) Dauer f, Zeitraum m; (of contract) Laufzeit f; (= limit) Frist f

term of government — Regierungszeit f

term of office — Amtsdauer or -zeit f

term of imprisonment — Gefängnisstrafe f

term of service (Mil) — Militärdienstzeit f

to set a term (of three years) for sth — etw (auf drei Jahre) befristen

elected for a three-year term — auf or für drei Jahre gewählt

the contract is nearing its term — der Vertrag läuft bald ab

in the long/short term — auf lange/kurze Sicht

at term (Fin) — bei Fälligkeit; (Med) zur rechten Zeit

to carry a baby to term — ein Kind (voll) austragen

2) (SCH three in one year) Trimester nt; (four in one year) Vierteljahr nt, Quartal nt; (two in one year) Halbjahr nt; (UNIV) Semester nt

end-of-term exam — Examen nt am Ende eines Trimesters etc

during or in term(-time) — während der Schulzeit; (Univ) während des Semesters

out of term(-time) — in den Ferien

3) (= expression) Ausdruck m

in simple terms — in einfachen Worten

a legal term — ein juristischer (Fach)ausdruck or Terminus (geh)

he spoke of her in the most flattering terms — er äußerte sich sehr schmeichelhaft über sie

a contradiction in terms — ein Widerspruch in sich

4) (MATH, LOGIC) Term m

term in parentheses — Klammerausdruck m

to express one thing in terms of another — eine Sache mit einer anderen erklären

in terms of production we are doing well — was die Produktion betrifft, stehen wir gut da

in terms of money — geldlich, finanziell

in terms of time — zeitlich

5) pl (= conditions) Bedingungen pl

terms of surrender/service/sale/payment — Kapitulations-/Arbeits-/Verkaufs-/Zahlungsbedingungen pl

terms of reference (of committee etc) — Aufgabenbereich m; (of thesis etc) Themenbereich m

to buy sth on credit/easy terms — etw auf Kredit/auf Raten kaufen

the hotel offered reduced terms in winter — das Hotel bot ermäßigte Winterpreise an

on what terms? — zu welchen Bedingungen?

not on any terms — unter gar keinen Umständen

to accept sb on his/her own terms — jdn nehmen, wie er/sie ist

on equal terms — auf gleicher Basis

to come to terms (with sb) — sich (mit jdm) einigen

to come to terms with sth — sich mit etw abfinden

6) termspl

(= relations) to be on good/bad terms with sb — gut/nicht (gut) mit jdm auskommen

to be on friendly terms with sb — auf freundschaftlichem Fuß mit jdm stehen

they are not on speaking terms — sie reden nicht miteinander

what sort of terms are they on? — wie ist ihre Beziehung?

2. vt
nennen, bezeichnen
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term [tɜːm; US tɜrm]

A s

1. ( besonders Fach)Ausdruck, Bezeichnung f:

legal term juristischer Fachausdruck;

term of abuse Schimpfwort n, Beleidigung f; → endearment, technical 2

2. pl Ausdrucksweise f, Worte pl, Denkkategorien pl:

in terms ausdrücklich, in Worten;

praise sb in the highest terms jemanden in den höchsten Tönen loben;

condemn sth in the strongest terms etwas schärfstens verurteilen;

in no uncertain terms unmissverständlich, klipp und klar umg;

in terms of

a) in Form von (od gen),

b) im Sinne von (od gen),

c) hinsichtlich (gen), bezüglich (gen),

d) vom Standpunkt (gen), von … her,

e) verglichen mit, im Verhältnis zu;

in terms of approval beifällig;

in terms of literature literarisch (betrachtet), vom Literarischen her;

in terms of purchasing power in Kaufkraft umgerechnet;

think in economic terms in wirtschaftlichen Kategorien denken;

think in terms of money (nur) in Mark und Pfennig denken; → plain¹ A 4

3. pl Wortlaut m:

the exact terms;

be in the following terms folgendermaßen lauten

4. a) Zeit f, Dauer f:

term (of imprisonment) JUR Freiheitsstrafe f;

term of office Amtszeit, -dauer, -periode f;

for a term of four years für die Dauer von vier Jahren;

he is too old to serve a second term er ist zu alt für eine zweite Amtsperiode,

b) (Zahlungs- etc) Frist f:

term of payment;

on term WIRTSCH auf Zeit;

in the long term auf lange Sicht, langfristig gesehen;

term deposit WIRTSCH Termingeld n, -einlage f;

term insurance WIRTSCH Risikolebensversicherung f

5. WIRTSCH

a) Laufzeit f (eines Vertrags etc)

b) Termin m:

set a term einen Termin festsetzen;

at term zum festgelegten Termin

6. a) Br SCHULE, UNIV Trimester n

b) US UNIV Semester n, SCHULE Halbjahr n

7. JUR Sitzungsperiode f

8. pl (Vertrags- etc)Bedingungen pl, Bestimmungen pl:

terms of delivery WIRTSCH Liefer(ungs)bedingungen;

terms of trade Austauschverhältnis n (im Außenhandel);

on easy terms zu günstigen Bedingungen;

on the terms that … unter der Bedingung, dass …;

come to terms handelseinig werden, sich einigen ( beide:

with mit);

come to terms with sich abfinden mit;

come to terms with the past die Vergangenheit bewältigen;

come to terms with the future die Zukunft(sentwicklungen) akzeptieren;

bring to terms jemanden zur Annahme der Bedingungen bringen; → equal A 10, reference A 3

9. pl Preise pl, Honorar n:

what are your terms? was verlangen Sie?;

I’ll give you special terms ich mache Ihnen einen Sonderpreis

10. pl Beziehungen pl, Verhältnis n (zwischen Personen):

be on good (bad, friendly) terms with auf gutem (schlechtem, freundschaftlichem) Fuße stehen mit;

they are not on speaking terms sie sprechen nicht (mehr) miteinander

11. pl gute Beziehungen pl:

be on terms with sb mit jemandem gutstehen

12. MATH

a) Glied n:

term of a sum Summand m (hinzuzuzählende Zahl),

b) Ausdruck m (einer Gleichung)

c) Geometrie: Grenze f (einer Linie)

13. Logik: Begriff m: → contradiction 2, major A 5 a

14. ARCH Grenzstein m, -säule f

15. PHYSIOL

a) errechneter Entbindungstermin:

carry to (full) term ein Kind austragen;

go ( oder be taken) to term ausgetragen werden;

she is near her term sie steht kurz vor der Niederkunft,

b) obs Menstruation f

B v/t (be)nennen, bezeichnen als:

he may be what is termed an egghead but … er mag das sein, was man einen Eierkopf nennt, aber …

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1. noun
1) (word expressing definite concept) [Fach]begriff, der

legal/medical term — juristischer/medizinischer Fachausdruck

term of reproach — Vorwurf, der

in terms of money/politics — unter finanziellem/politischem Aspekt

2) in pl. (conditions) Bedingungen

he does everything on his own terms — er tut alles, wie er es für richtig hält

come to or make terms [with somebody] — sich [mit jemandem] einigen

come to terms [with each other] — sich einigen

come to terms with something — (be able to accept something) mit etwas zurechtkommen; (resign oneself to something) sich mit etwas abfinden

terms of reference — (Brit.) Aufgabenbereich, der

3) in pl. (charges) Konditionen

their terms are... — sie verlangen...

hire purchase on easy terms — Ratenkauf zu günstigen Bedingungen

4)

in the short/long/medium term — kurz-/lang-/mittelfristig

5) (Sch.) Halbjahr, das; (Univ.): (one of two/three/four divisions per year) Semester, das/Trimester, das/Quartal, das

during term — während des Halbjahres/Semesters usw.

out of term — in den Ferien

end of term — Halbjahres-/Semesterende usw.

6) (limited period) Zeitraum, der; (period of tenure)

term [of office] — Amtszeit, die

7) (period of imprisonment) Haftzeit, die

8) in pl. (mode of expression) Worte

praise in the highest terms — in den höchsten Tönen loben

9) in pl. (relations)

be on good/poor/friendly terms with somebody — mit jemandem auf gutem/schlechtem/freundschaftlichem Fuß stehen
2. transitive verb
nennen

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(school) n.

Semester - n. n.

Ausdruck -¨e m.

Bedingung f.

Begriff -e m.

Frist -en f.

Laufzeit -en f.

Termin -e m.

English-german dictionary > term
6 office

1. n служба, место, должность, пост

office under Government — место на государственной службе

judicial office — судебная должность

holder of an office — должностное лицо

to be in office — занимать пост

to come into office — принять дела; приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей

to take office — вступить в должность; приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей

to resign office — отказаться от должности

to come to the office — приходить на службу

to demit office — отказаться от своего поста

to take over the office — принять должность

give up the office of — отказываться от поста

2. n нахождение у власти, на посту

term of office — срок полномочий

to renew the term of office — возобновить мандат

office of profit — оплачиваемый пост

political office — государственный пост

renounce the office of — отказываться от поста

to step down from an office — уйти со своего поста

action information office — боевой информационный пост

3. n контора, офис, канцелярия

editorial office — редакция

post office — почтовое отделение; почта

publishing office — издательство

inquiry office — справочное бюро

recruiting office — призывной пункт

office expenses — расходы на оргтехнику

office appliances — оргтехника

his office hours are from 12 to 14 — он бывает в конторе с 12 до 14 часов

office number — исходящий номер

office furniture — конторская мебель, конторское оборудование

office staff — конторские служащие

office work — канцелярская работа

prime minister's office — канцелярия премьер-министра

main office — главная контора; главная редакция; штаб

storeholder's office — канцелярия отделения хранения

field office — местная контора; местное отделение

federal express office — офис федерал экспресс

4. n служебное помещение, кабинет, офис

private office — личный кабинет

dental office — стоматологический кабинет

office accommodation — служебное помещение

office accommodations — служебные помещения

cabinet office — секретариат кабинета министров

in office — при исполнении служебных обязанностей

5. n фирма, компания,

brokerage office — брокерская фирма

fire office — общество, компания по страхованию от огня

6. n собир. конторские служащие; служащие учреждений; клерки; сотрудники предприятия

the whole office was at her wedding — на её свадьбе присутствовали все сотрудники отдела

stated office hours — установленные часы работы учреждения

government office — правительственное ведомство, учреждение

office photocopier — конторский светокопировальный аппарат

office copier — конторская копировальная машина

office collator — конторская подборочная машина

7. n ведомство, министерство; управление; комитет

War Office — военное министерство

Post Office — министерство почт

park office — управление склада

tax office — налоговое управление

Supply Office — управление поставок

mission office — Управление миссией

8. n управление, отдел, бюро

international Labour Office — международное бюро труда

Record Office — Государственный архив

supply control office — управление по контролю за поставками

office of international trade — отдел международной торговли

aircraft distribution office — отдел распределения самолетов

Television Information Office — отдел информации телевидения

registry office — бюро записей актов гражданского состояния

9. n l

10. n подсобные помещения; службы при доме

office under overnment — место на государственной службе

office accomodation — размещение в служебных помещениях

transportation office — управление транспортной службы

office area — административно-служебные помещения

leave office — уйти со службы; уйти в отставку

11. n обязанность, долг; функция; задача; роль; предназначение

little domestic offices — несложные домашние обязанности

the office of host — обязанности хозяина

execution of an office — выполнение служебных обязанностей

12. n услуга; помощь

good offices — добрые услуги

13. n религиозный обряд; церковная служба, ежедневное чтение молитв и псалмов; заупокойная месса

Office of Baptism — обряд крещения

priest office — чин священства

office of Readings — чин чтений

office of the Mass — чин обедни

office of Baptism — обряд крещения

night office of vigils — ночная служба

14. n сл. намёк, сведения, знак; тайный сигнал

to give the office — сделать намёк; дать сведения

Синонимический ряд:

1. commission (noun) commission; errand; mission; task

2. den (noun) den; study

3. job (noun) berth; billet; connection; employment; job; occupation; place; position; post; profession; situation; slot; spot; station

4. responsibility (noun) appointment; business; charge; duty; function; performance; province; responsibility; role; service; trust; work

5. room (noun) agency; building; bureau; department; facility; factory; room; suite; warehouse

6. staff (noun) organisation; organization; staff

Антонимический ряд:

resignation

English-Russian base dictionary > office
7 office

'ofis
noun

1) (the room or building in which the business of a firm is done: The firm's head offices are in New York; ( also adjective) office furniture.) kontor

2) (the room in which a particular person works: the bank manager's office.) kontor

3) (a room or building used for a particular purpose: Train tickets are bought at the ticket-office.) kontor, luke

4) (a position of authority, especially in or as a government: Our party has not been in office for years; the office of mayor.) embete; (i makt)posisjon

•

- officer

byrå
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embete
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kall
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kontor

subst. \/ˈɒfɪs\/

1) kontor

2) ( spesielt som sisteledd i sammensetninger) -kontor

• she works at the ticket office

hun jobber på billettkontoret

3) (medisin, amer.) konsultasjonsværelse

4) (offentlig) embete, tjeneste, post, -stilling

• the office of president

presidentembetet

5) tjeneste

6) arbeid, oppgave, plikt, funksjon

7) ( kirkelig) officium, gudstjeneste, messe

• the minister says office

presten forretter gudstjenesten

8) ( slang) tips, vink

• give her the office that...

tips henne om at...

9) (slang, britisk) do, dass

at\/in the office på kontoret

by\/in virtue of one's office i kraft av sitt embete, i embets medfør

divine office ( kirkelig) officium divinum

do\/perform the office of tjenestegjøre som, fungere som, utøve sin plikt som

enter (upon) office tre i tjeneste, bekle en stilling

good office vennetjeneste

the Government in office den sittende regjering

be in office inneha et embete ( om statsråd) sitte i regjeringen ( om parti) ha regjeringsmakten

the last offices den siste ære begravelsesritualet

• perform the last offices for

forrette en begravelse for

Office departement direktorat, etat ( i sammensetninger) -vesen, -verk

office boy\/girl kontorbud

• he works as an office boy

han jobber som kontorbud

office equipment kontormøbler

• do you need any office equipment

trenger du noen kontormøbler?

the Office for the Dead forbønn for de døde

office hours kontortid, ekspedisjonstid, tjenestetid

• I can't do it during the office hours

jeg kan ikke gjøre det i kontortiden

(medisin, amer.) konsultasjonstid

office landscape eller landscaped office kontorlandskap

(an) office of trust (et) tillitsverv

• she holds an office of trust

hun innehar et offentlig embete \/ hun bekler en offentlig stilling

office party firmafest

• he met them all at the office party

han traff dem alle sammen på firmafesten

offices byrå, ekspedisjon, redaksjon driftsbygning, uthus kjøkken, vaskeri, verksted

be out of office ( om statsråd) ikke sitte i regjeringen ( om parti) ikke ha regjeringsmakten

resign\/leave office eller retire from office fratre et embete, gå av

run of office se ➢ run, 1

take office eller come\/get into office tiltre et embete overta statrådsembete ( om parti eller regjering) komme til makten

term of office se ➢ term, 1

while in office i sin embetstid, i sin funksjonstid ( om parti eller regjering) mens man har makten

English-Norwegian dictionary > office
8 office

[ʹɒfıs] n
1. 1) служба, место, должность, пост

office under Government - место на государственной службе

judicial office - судебная должность

holder of an office - должностное лицо

to be in /to hold/ office - занимать пост /должность/ [см. тж. 2)]

to come /to get/ into office - принять дела; приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей

to take /to enter upon/ office - вступить в должность; приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей [см. тж. 2)]

to leave [to resign] office - уйти со службы [в отставку]

he hasn't run for office for years - он уже много лет не выставлял своей кандидатуры (на должность, пост и т. п.)

he was elected twice to the office of president - он дважды избирался на пост президента

2) нахождение у власти, на посту

term of office - срок полномочий

to renew [to extend] the term of office - возобновить [продлить] мандат /полномочия/

to be in /to hold/ office - а) быть у власти ( о правительстве); б) входить в состав правительства, иметь министерский портфель; [см. тж. 1)]

to take /to enter upon/ office - прийти к власти [см. тж. 1)]

to put smb. in office - поставить кого-л. у власти

to be corrupted by office - поддаться разлагающему /развращающему/ влиянию власти /служебного положения/

2. 1) контора, офис, канцелярия

lawyer's office - адвокатская контора

editorial office - редакция

post office - почтовое отделение; почта

publishing office - издательство

inquiry office - справочное бюро

doctor's [dentist's] office - амер. кабинет [зубного] врача

recruiting office - призывной пункт

office expenses - расходы на оргтехнику

office appliances - оргтехника

office hours - а) часы работы учреждения /конторы/; б) приёмные часы

his office hours are from 12 to 14 - он бывает в конторе с 12 до 14 часов

office number - исходящий номер

office furniture - конторская мебель, конторское оборудование

office staff - конторские служащие

office work - канцелярская работа

our London office - наше лондонское отделение; наша контора в Лондоне

to work at an office - служить в учреждении /в конторе/

to be in an office - быть служащим, клерком и т. п.

2) служебное помещение, кабинет, офис

private office - личный кабинет

the chairman's office is to the left - кабинет председателя налево

3) фирма, компания, особ. страховая компания

3. (the office) собир. конторские служащие; служащие учреждений; клерки; сотрудники предприятия

the whole office was at her wedding - на её свадьбе присутствовали все сотрудники отдела /все её коллеги/

4. (Office)

1) ведомство, министерство; управление; комитет

War Office - военное министерство

(the) Foreign Office - министерство иностранных дел

Colonial Office - министерство по делам заморских территорий

2) управление, отдел, бюро

international Labour Office - международное бюро труда

Record Office - Государственный архив

Patent O. - патентное бюро

Office of Education - управление /комитет/ по вопросам образования

5. pl

1) подсобные помещения; службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.)

2) конюшни, амбары, коровники и т. п. на ферме

6. обязанность, долг; функция; задача; роль; предназначение

little domestic offices - несложные домашние обязанности

the office of host [of chairman] - обязанности хозяина [председателя]

consular office - функции консула, консульские обязанности

he performs the office of treasurer - он выполняет функции казначея

7. услуга; помощь

good offices - добрые услуги

ill office - плохая /«медвежья»/ услуга

8. религиозный обряд; церковная служба, ежедневное чтение молитв и псалмов; заупокойная месса

Office of Baptism - обряд крещения

Office for the Dead - заупокойная служба

Office of the Mass - обедня

to say /to recite/ one's office - читать вечернюю или утреннюю молитву

to perform the last offices for smb. - совершать погребальный обряд над кем-л.

9. (the office) сл. намёк, сведения, знак; тайный сигнал

to give [to take] the office - сделать [понять] намёк; дать [принять] сведения

♢ fat office - доходное место

offices of profit - оплачиваемый пост ( занятие которого членом парламента влечёт за собой его отставку)

Holy Office - ист. Святая палата ( официальное название инквизиции)

НБАРС > office
9 office

§ სამსახური, დაწესებულება; ადგილი, თანამდებობა; მოვალეობა

§

1 დაწესებულება, სამმართველო, უწყება

editorial office რედაქცია

publishing office გამომცემლობა

inquiry office ცნობათა ბიურო

recruiting office ჯარში გასაწვევი პუნქტი

Foreign Office საგარეო საქმეთა სამინისტრო

Home Office შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტრო

2 სამსახური

he has gone to the office სამსხურში წავიდა

office hours სამუშაო საათები

●●through the good offices of a friend ერთი მეგობრის კეთილი დახმარებით

3 კაბინეტი

the manager's office მმართველის კაბინეტი

4 თანამდებობა

he holds some office in the ministry რაღაცა თანამდებობაზეა სამინისტროში

5 ძალაუფლება, უფლებამოსილება

post-office საფოსტო განყოფილება

●●printing office / house სტამბა

publishing house / office გამომცემლობა

post office საფოსტო განყოფილება

police office პოლიციის სამმართველო / განყოფილება

●●this doesn't pertain to my office ეს ჩემს კომპეტენციაში არ შედის

he was ousted from office სამსახურიდან დაითხოვეს // სამსახური დაატოვებინეს

an inquiry office ცნობათა ბიურო

term of office / lease თანამდებობაზე ყოფნის / იჯარის ვადა

the USA president's tenure of office is four years აშშ-ს პრეზიდენტად ყოფნის ვადა ოთხი წელიწადია

I voted him into this office ხმა მივეცით, რომ ამ თანამდებობაზე აერჩიათ

head office გამგეობა, მთავარი სამმართველო

the dean's office დეკანატი

government office სახელმწიფო დაწესებულება

English-Georgian dictionary > office
10 term

term 1. BANK Laufzeit f; 2. GEN Begriff m, Bezeichnung f, Wort n; 3. POL Amtsperiode f (of government, office); Dauer f (of treaty); 4. EDU Semester n, (BE) Trimester n • in the longer term GEN längerfristig

Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > term
11 office

ˈɔfɪs сущ.
1) а) пост, должность, служба assume an office be in office come into office enter upon office get into office hold office leave office resign office seek office an office under Government take office win office honorary office appointive office elective office high office б) долг, обязанность, функция It is my office to open the mail. ≈ В мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту. Syn: obligation, duty, business, function
2) а) контора, канцелярия, офис to be in the office ≈ служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
быть на месте at/in an office ≈ в офисе She works at our office. ≈ Она работает в нашем офисе. - branch office head office home office main office booking office box office ticket office dead-letter office doctor's office lawyer's office left-luggage office lost-and-found office lost property office met office meteorological office patent office post office printing office dentist's office recruiting office inquiry office office block public office б) ведомство, министерство;
управление Foreign Office Foreign and Commonwealth Office Home Office Office of Education в) кабинет, комната( занимаемая каким-л. должностным лицом) ;
авиац. сл. кабина пилота
3) а) услуга, помощь good offices Syn: service, kindness, attention б) мн. службы( коммунальные - сарай, гараж и т.п.) в) отхожее место
4) церковная служба;
обряд Office for the Dead Office of the Mass last offices
5) разг. знак, намек give the office take the office Syn: hint, signal служба, место, должность, пост - * under Government место на государственной службе - judicial * cудебная должность - holder of an * должностное лицо - to be in * занимать пост - to come into * принять дела;
приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей - to take * вступить в должность;
приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей - to leave * уйти со службы - he hasn't run for * for years он уже много лет не выставлял своей кандидатуры (на должность, пост и т. п.) - he was elected twice to the * of president он дважды избирался на пост президента нахождение у власти, на посту - term of * cрок полномочий - to renew the term of * возобновить мандат - to be in * быть у власти( о правительстве) входить в состав правительства, иметь министерский портфель - to take * прийти к власти - to put smb. in * поставить кого-л. у власти - to be corrupted by * поддаться разлагающему влиянию власти контора, офис, канцелярия - lawyer's * адвокатская контора - editorial * редакция - post * почтовое отделение;
почта - publishing * издательство - inquiry * справочное бюро - doctor's * (американизм) кабинет врача - recruiting * призывной пункт - * expenses расходы на оргтехнику - * appliances оргтехника - * hours часы работы учреждения;
приемные часы - his * hours are from 12 to 14 он бывает в конторе с 12 до 14 часов - * number исходящий номер - * furniture конторская мебель, конторское оборудование - * staff конторские служащие - * work канцелярская работа - our London * наше лондонское отделение;
наша контора в Лондоне - to work at an * служить в учреждении - to be in an * быть служащим, клерком и т. п. служебное помещение, кабинет, офис - private * личный кабинет - the chairman's * is to the left кабинет председателя налево фирма, компания, особ. страховая компания( собирательнле) конторские служающие;
служащие учреждений;
клерки;
сотрудники предприятия - the whole * was at her wedding на ее свадьбе присутствовали все сотрудники отдела ведомство, министерство;
управление;
комитет - War O. военное министерство - (the) Foreign O. министерство иностранных дел - Сolonial O. министерство по делам заморских территорий управление, отдел, бюро - International Labour O. международное бюро труда - Record O. Государственный архив - Patent O. патентное бюро - O. of Education упрвление по вопросам образования подсобные помещения;
службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.) конюшни, амбары. коровники и т. п. на ферме обязанность, долг;
функция;
задача;
роль;
предназначение - little domestic *s несложные домашние обязанности - the * of host обязанности хозяина - consular * функции консула, консульские обязанности - he performs the * of treasurer он выполняет фунции казначея услуга;
помощь - good *s добные услуги - ill * плохая услуга религиозный обря;
церковная служба, ежедневное чтение молитв и псалмов;
заупокойная месса - O. of Baptism обряд крещения - O. for the Dead заупокойная служба - O. of the Mass обедня - to say one's * читать вечерюю или утреннюю молитву - to perform the last *s for smb. совершать погребальный обряд над кем-л. (сленг) намек, сведения, знак;
тайный сигнал - to give the * сделать намек;
дать сведения > fat * доходное место > *s of profit оплачиваемый пост (занятие которого членом парламента влечет за собой его отставку) > Holy O. (историческое) Святая палата( официальное название инквизиции) accident ~ бюро по несчастным случаям accountant's ~ бухгалтерия accounting ~ бухгалтерия ~ служба, должность;
an office under Government место на государственной службе;
an honorary office почетная должность under: England ~ the Stuarts Англия в эпоху Стюартов;
an office under Government государственная служба application for ~ просьба о зачислении на должность appointment to ~ назначение на должность appointment to ~ назначение на место appointment to ~ назначение на пост assay ~ пробирная палата assessment ~ налоговое управление audit ~ ревизионное управление automated ~ автоматизированное бюро to take (или to enter upon) ~ вступать в должность;
to be in office быть у власти ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет booking ~ билетная касса branch ~ отделение branch ~ филиал branch post ~ местное почтовое отделение branch post ~ филиал почтового отделения broking firm's ~ представительство брокерской фирмы building ~ строительное управление business ~ торговая контора Cabinet ~ секретариат кабинета министров cargo registration ~ бюро регистрации грузов cash ~ касса cash ~ помещение кассы cashier's ~ касса cashier's ~ помещение кассы central ~ главная контора central ~ главный офис clearance ~ расчетная палата clearance ~ расчетное учреждение clearing ~ расчетная палата clearing ~ расчетное учреждение company registration ~ бюро регистрации компаний complaints ~ бюро рекламаций county revenue ~ налоговая инспекция округа criminal records ~ учреждение, ведущее регистрацию преступлений customs ~ таможня data processing ~ отдел обработки данных delivery post ~ почтовое отделение доставки ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет dismissal from ~ освобождение от должности dispatch ~ экспедиционная контора distraint ~ орган, налагающий арест на имущество в обеспечение выполнения долга district ~ окружная контора district ~ районное отделение district ~ районный офис drawing ~ конструкторский отдел drawing ~ конструкторское бюро eligibility for ~ право на занятие должности eligible for ~ имеющий право на занятие должности employment ~ бюро по найму рабочей силы employment ~ бюро по трудоустройству exchange control ~ центр валютного контроля exchange ~ пункт обмена валюты express parcels ~ отделение срочной доставки посылок foreign exchange ~ пункт обмена иностранной валюты forwarding ~ станция отправления forwarding ~ транспортно-экспедиторская контора forwarding ~ транспортно-экспедиторское учреждение front ~ администрация корпорации front ~ главное управление front ~ дилерская комната front ~ дирекция front ~ правление фирмы front ~ руководство организации front ~ руководящие круги full-time ~ штатная должность general post ~ главный почтамт to get (или to come) into ~ принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей;
to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти ~ разг. намек, знак;
to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга government ~ правительственное учреждение head ~ главная контора head ~ правление head ~ управление head post ~ почт. главный почтамт honorary ~ неоплачиваемая должность honorary ~ почетная должность housing ~ управление по жилищному строительству ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга in ~ в должности in ~ у власти ineligible for ~ лишенный права занятия должности, лишенный права на пребывание в должности information ~ справочно-информационное бюро inquiry ~ справочное бюро inquiry ~ справочный стол recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне issuing ~ отдел исходящих документов ~ обязанность, долг;
функция;
it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту joint sales ~ совместный отдел сбыта judicial ~ судебная должность judicial ~ юридическое бюро (палаты лордов) labour ~ отдел кадров land registry ~ государственная контора, регистрирующая земельные сделки ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд law ~ адвокатская фирма law ~ контора адвокатов law ~ судебное ведомство law ~ юридическая фирма to hold ~ занимать пост;
to leave (или to resign) office уйти с должности licensing ~ отдел лицензий life ~ контора по страхованию жизни local branch ~ контора местного отделения local government ~ муниципальное учреждение local ~ местная контора;
местное бюро local ~ местная контора lost property ~ бюро находок luggage registration ~ отделение регистрации багажа main ~ главная контора main ~ главное управление mining ~ управление горной промышленности ministerial ~ канцелярия министра ministerial ~ министерство misconduct in ~ нарушение служебных обязанностей municipal architect's ~ управление архитектора города municipal ~ муниципальное управление national debt ~ отдел банка по государственному долгу national registration ~ государственное бюро записи актов гражданского состояния non-eligibility for ~ отсутствие права на занятие должности non-eligible for ~ не имеющий права на зянятие должности notary's ~ нотариальная контора office бюро ~ ведомство, министерство, контора, канцелярия ~ ведомство, министерство;
управление;
Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) ~ ведомство ~ должность ~ канцелярия ~ контора, канцелярия;
амер. кабинет врача;
to be in the office служить в конторе, в канцелярии;
dentist's office амер. зубоврачебный кабинет ~ контора ~ министерство ~ разг. намек, знак;
to give (to take) the office сделать (понять) намек ~ обязанность, долг;
функция;
it is my office to open the mail в мои обязанности входит вскрывать почту ~ обязанность ~ офис ~ пост ~ расследование по вопросам, связанным с правом короны на недвижимое или движимое имущество ~ служба, должность;
an office under Government место на государственной службе;
an honorary office почетная должность ~ служба ~ pl службы при доме (кладовые и т. п.) ~ служебное помещение ~ управление ~ услуга ~ услуга;
good office любезность, одолжение;
ill office плохая услуга ~ учреждение ~ функция ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд ~ block административное здание;
здание, в котором помещаются конторы разных фирм ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд ~ ведомство, министерство;
управление;
Office of Education Федеральное управление просвещения (в США) ~ of future отдел перспективного планирования ~ of issue эмитент ~ of notary public государственная нотариальная контора ~ of patent agents бюро патентных поверенных ~ церковная служба;
обряд;
Office for the Dead заупокойная служба;
the Office of the Mass обедня;
the last offices похоронный обряд recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне paperless ~ вчт. безбумажное учреждение paperless ~ организация с безбумажным делопроизводством parcels ~ грузовая контора parcels ~ ж.-д. посылочное отделение patent ~ патентное бюро patent ~ патентное ведомство patent: ~ office бюро патентов;
patent right амер. патент pay ~ платежная касса pay ~ платежное учреждение pay ~ финансовая часть payment ~ касса period in ~ период нахождения в должности personnel ~ отдел кадров placement ~ бюро трудоустройства post ~ почтовое отделение prefect's ~ префектура Prime Minister's Office канцелярия премьер-министра public employment ~ государственная контора по трудоустройству public ~ государственное учреждение public ~ муниципальное учреждение public: ~ общественный;
государственный;
public man общественный деятель;
public office государственное, муниципальное или общественное учреждение public prosecutor's ~ прокуратура public record ~ государственный архив record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив public relations ~ отдел по связям с общественными организациями purchasing ~ офис компании, где оформляются все ее покупки Record Office государственный архив (Великобритания) record: Record Office, Public Record Office Государственный архив recruiting ~ призывной пункт;
inquiry office справочное бюро;
our London office наш филиал в Лондоне regional ~ региональное бюро regional ~ региональное управление register ~ бюро записи актов гражданского состояния register ~ регистратура register: ~ office = registry registered ~ зарегистрированная контора registered ~ официальный адрес правления компании registered ~ юридический адрес компании registrar's ~ регистрационное бюро registry ~ регистратура;
отдел записи актов гражданского состояния removal from ~ смещение с должности representative ~ представительство revenue ~ бюро налогов и сборов salary ~ отдел заработной платы sales ~ отдел сбыта shipping ~ транспортная контора social service ~ бюро социального обслуживания social welfare ~ бюро социального обеспечения sorting ~ сортировочный отдел State Accident Compensation Office Государственное управление (бюро) по выплате компенсаций в связи с несчастным случаем status inquiry ~ орган обследования общественного положения to take (или to enter upon) ~ вступать в должность;
to be in office быть у власти take ~ вступать в должность tax collector's ~ налоговое управление tax ~ налоговое управление ticket ~ билетная касса tourist information ~ туристическое бюро vacant ~ вакансия vacant ~ вакантная должность wage ~ касса wage ~ расчетный отдел to get (или to come) into ~ принять дела, приступить к исполнению служебных обязанностей;
to win office победить на выборах, прийти к власти

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > office
12 office

'ofis
noun

1) (the room or building in which the business of a firm is done: The firm's head offices are in New York; (also adjective) office furniture.) despacho, oficina

2) (the room in which a particular person works: the bank manager's office.) despacho, oficina

3) (a room or building used for a particular purpose: Train tickets are bought at the ticket-office.) oficina

4) (a position of authority, especially in or as a government: Our party has not been in office for years; the office of mayor.) cargo

•

- officer

office n despacho / oficina

office

tr['ɒfɪs]

noun

1 (room) despacho, oficina; (building) oficina; (staff) oficina

2 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL ministerio

■ the Foreign Office el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores

3 (post, position) cargo

4 SMALLRELIGION/SMALL oficio

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be in office estar en el poder

to hold office ocupar un cargo

to leave office dimitir, dejar el cargo

to seek office aspirar a un cargo

through somebody's good offices gracias a los buenos oficios de alguien

doctor's office SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL consultorio, consulta

office block edificio de oficinas

office boy recadero

office holder titular nombre masulino o femenino del cargo

office hours horas nombre femenino plural de oficina

office junior auxiliar nombre masulino o femenino de oficina

office work trabajo de oficina

office worker oficinista nombre masulino o femenino

office ['ɔfəs] n

1) : cargo m

to run for office: presentarse como candidato

2) : oficina f, despacho m, gabinete m (en la casa)

office hours: horas de oficina

office

adj.

• de oficina adj.

• oficinesco, -a adj.

n.

• bufete de abogado s.m.

• departamento s.m.

• despacho s.m.

• encargo s.m.

• escritorio s.m.

• gabinete s.m.

• oficina s.f.

• oficio s.m.

• puesto s.m.

'ɑːfəs, 'ɒfɪs
noun

1) c ( room) oficina f, despacho m; (building, set of rooms) oficina f, oficinas fpl; ( staff) oficina f; ( lawyer's office) bufete m or despacho m (de abogado); ( doctor's office) (AmE) consultorio m, consulta f

the company's New York office — las oficinas de la compañía en Nueva York; (before n) <work, furniture> de oficina; <block, building> de oficinas

during office hours — en horas de oficina

office worker — oficinista mf, empleado, -da m,f de oficina, administrativo, -va m,f

2) u (post, position) cargo m

to take office — tomar posesión del cargo

he was in office for three years — ocupó el cargo durante tres años

the party was in/out of office — el partido estaba/ya no estaba en el poder

term of o (AmE also) in office — mandato m

3) c ( Relig) oficio m

['ɒfɪs]
1. N

1) (=place) oficina f ; (=room) despacho m ; [of lawyer] bufete m ; (US) [of doctor] consultorio m

2) (=part of organization) sección f, departamento m ; (=ministry) ministerio m ; (=branch) sucursal f ; foreign 2., head 4.

3) (=public position) cargo m ; (=duty, function) función f

it is my office to — + infin tengo el deber de + infin, me incumbe + infin

to perform the office of sb — hacer las veces de algn

to be in/hold office — [person] desempeñar or ocupar un cargo; [political party] ocupar el poder

to be out of office — no estar en el poder

to come into or take office — [person] tomar posesión del cargo (as de); [political party] acceder al poder

to leave office — [person] dejar el cargo; [government] salir del poder
remove 1., 6)
4) offices
frm
through his good offices — mediante sus buenos oficios

through the offices of — por mediación or medio de

5) (Rel) oficio m

Office for the Dead — oficio de difuntos

2.

CPD de oficina

office automation N — ofimática f, buromática f

office bearer N — titular mf (de una cartera)

office block N — (Brit) bloque m de oficinas

office boy N — recadero m, mandadero m (LAm)

office building N — = office block

office equipment N — mobiliario m de oficina

office furniture N — mobiliario m de oficina

office holder N — funcionario(-a) m / f

office hours NPL — (Brit) horas fpl de oficina; (US) horas fpl de consulta

office job N — trabajo m de oficina

office junior N — auxiliar m / f de oficina

office manager N — gerente mf

Office of Fair Trading N — (Brit) departamento encargado de mantener las normas comerciales establecidos

Office of Management and Budget N — (US) organismo encargado de elaborar el presupuesto del Estado

office party N — fiesta f de la oficina

office politics N — intrigas fpl de oficina

office staff N — personal m de oficina

office supplies NPL — material m de oficina

office work N — trabajo m de oficina

office worker N — (gen) oficinista mf ; (=civil servant etc) funcionario(-a) m / f

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['ɑːfəs, 'ɒfɪs]
noun

1) c ( room) oficina f, despacho m; (building, set of rooms) oficina f, oficinas fpl; ( staff) oficina f; ( lawyer's office) bufete m or despacho m (de abogado); ( doctor's office) (AmE) consultorio m, consulta f

the company's New York office — las oficinas de la compañía en Nueva York; (before n) <work, furniture> de oficina; <block, building> de oficinas

during office hours — en horas de oficina

office worker — oficinista mf, empleado, -da m,f de oficina, administrativo, -va m,f

2) u (post, position) cargo m

to take office — tomar posesión del cargo

he was in office for three years — ocupó el cargo durante tres años

the party was in/out of office — el partido estaba/ya no estaba en el poder

term of o (AmE also) in office — mandato m

3) c ( Relig) oficio m

English-spanish dictionary > office
13 Regierung

f POL. (Kabinett) government; (Regierungszeit) term of office; eines Königs etc.: reign; eine demokratisch gewählte Regierung a democratically elected government; die Regierung Clinton the Clinton administration; unter der Regierung von Thatcher oder unter Thatchers Regierung auch under Thatcher; an der Regierung in power; die Regierung übernehmen take power; Kanzler etc.: auch take office; Monarch: ascend the throne; an die Regierung kommen come to power; Kanzler etc.: auch come into office; Monarch: come to ( oder ascend) the throne; an der Regierung sein be in power; Kanzler etc.: auch be in office; die Regierung stürzen bring down the government; eine neue Regierung bilden form a new government

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die Regierung

government; administration; regimen

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Re|gie|rung [re'giːrʊŋ]
f -, -en

1) (= Kabinett) government

die Regíérung Blair — the Blair government

2) (= Herrschaft) government; (= Zeitabschnitt) period of government; (nicht demokratisch) rule; (von Monarch) reign; (= Führung) leadership

an die Regíérung kommen — to come to power; (durch Wahl auch) to come into or take office

jdn an die Regíérung bringen — to put sb into power; (durch Wahl auch) to put sb into office

die Regíérung antreten — to take power; (nach Wahl auch)

die Regíérung ausüben — to exercise power

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die

1) ((the people who carry on) the government of a country etc.) administration

2) (the people who rule a country or state: the British Government.) government

3) (the act or process of governing.) government

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Re·gie·rung

<-, -en>

[reˈgi:rʊŋ]

f POL

1. (Kabinett) government

2. (Herrschaftsgewalt) rule, reign

nach der \Regierung streben to strive for power

jdn an die \Regierung bringen to put sb into power [or office]

an der \Regierung sein to be in power [or office]

die \Regierung antreten to take power [or office]

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die; Regierung, Regierungen

1) o. Pl. (Herrschaft) rule; (eines Monarchen) reign

die Regierung übernehmen od. antreten — take over; come to power

2) (Kabinett) government

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Regierung f POL (Kabinett) government; (Regierungszeit) term of office; eines Königs etc: reign;

eine demokratisch gewählte Regierung a democratically elected government;

die Regierung Clinton the Clinton administration;

unter der Regierung von Thatcher oder

unter Thatchers Regierung auch under Thatcher;

an der Regierung in power;

die Regierung übernehmen take power; Kanzler etc: auch take office; Monarch: ascend the throne;

an die Regierung kommen come to power; Kanzler etc: auch come into office; Monarch: come to ( oder ascend) the throne;

an der Regierung sein be in power; Kanzler etc: auch be in office;

die Regierung stürzen bring down the government;

eine neue Regierung bilden form a new government

* * *

die; Regierung, Regierungen

1) o. Pl. (Herrschaft) rule; (eines Monarchen) reign

die Regierung übernehmen od. antreten — take over; come to power

2) (Kabinett) government

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f.

government n.

regimen n.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Regierung
14 срок полномочий

run (term) of office; ( губернатора) gubernatorial term of office (tenure); ( законодательного органа) term of legislature; ( правительства) government’s term of office; ( президента) presidential term of office (tenure); ( сенатора) senatorial term of office (tenure)

Юридический русско-английский словарь > срок полномочий
15 срок полномочий

run (term) of office; ( губернатора) gubernatorial term of office (tenure); ( законодательного органа) term of legislature; ( правительства) government's term of office; ( президента) presidential term of office (tenure); ( сенатора) senatorial term of office (tenure)

Русско-английский юридический словарь > срок полномочий
16 строк

ч; тж. термін

( певний момент часу) date, time; deadline; ( про платіж) term; ( проміжок часу) period

строк амортизації — depreciation period

строк виконання — date of performance, time for performance, time of execution, time of performance

строк виконання замовлень — timing of orders

строк виплати відсотків — days of interest, due date for interest

строк давності юр. — prescription; term of limitation, statute of limitation

строк доставки — date for delivery

строк експлуатації тех. — life (of machine, etc.)

строк зберігання (продукції) — shelf life; ( документів) retention period

гарантійний строк — ( service) guarantee, warranty period

строк дії — period of validity

строк дії договору — currency of contract, contract(ual) time

строк дії контракту — contract period, life of contract, term of contract, contract term

строк дії пароля комп. — password aging

строк навчання — apprenticeship

крайній строк — the latest date, closing date, deadline

намічений строк — the target date ( for)

у свій строк — in time

на строк — for a period

в найкоротший строк — in the shortest time

строк оренди — term of lease

строк платежу — date ( term) of payment

строк повноважень уряду — government's term of office

строк поставки — time of delivery, delivery date, delivery period, delivery time, date of delivery

строк сплати податків — due date for tax payment

до певного строку — at a fixed date, by the time fixed, to time

по закінченні строку — at the expiration of the period

Українсько-англійський словник > строк
17 срок правомочий правительства

Law: government's term of office

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > срок правомочий правительства
18 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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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19 Bundespräsident

m, Bundespräsidentin f

1. German / Austrian ( oder Federal) President

2. Schweiz: President of the Confederation

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The Bundespräsident, elected by the Bundesversammlung, is the head of state of the Federal Republic of Germany. The term of office is five years and the President can be re-elected only once. The Bundespräsident's main task is to represent Germany at home and abroad. Since the office is non-party political, presidents can make use of their status to draw attention to social problems and abuses of power. The Austrian Bundespräsident is also the head of state, but is elected by the people. The term of office is six years, with a possible second term. The President can dissolve the Nationalrat and appoints and dismisses the Bundeskanzler. In Switzerland the Bundespräsident is the chairman of the Bundesrat and is in office for a period of one year only. The President is not head of state, but he represents the country abroad. See: → Bundeskanzler, Bundesrat, Bundesversammlung, Nationalrat
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Bun·des·prä·si·dent(in)

m(f) BRD, ÖSTERR President [or Head of State] of the Federal Republic of Germany/Austria; SCHWEIZ President of the Confederation

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der

1) [Federal] President

2) (schweiz.) President of the Confederation
•• Cultural note:
Bundesminister

The Federal Government consists of the Bundeskanzler and the Bundesminister (Federal Ministers).The Chancellor appoints ministers and determines their number and responsibilities in the Cabinet. Ministers run their ministries independently but within the framework of the guidelines of the Chancellor's policy.

Bundespräsident

The President is the head of state in Germany and Austria. The German president is elected for five years by the MPs and delegates from the Länder. He (so far there have not been any women) acts mainly as a figurehead, representing Germany abroad, and does not get involved in party politics, although he often takes a moral lead in major issues and can exercise personal authority through his neutral mediating function. The Bundespräsident can only be re-elected once

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Bundespräsident m, Bundespräsidentin f

1. German/Austrian ( oder Federal) President

2. Schweiz: President of the Confederation

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der

1) [Federal] President

2) (schweiz.) President of the Confederation
•• Cultural note:
Bundesminister

The Federal Government consists of the Bundeskanzler and the Bundesminister (Federal Ministers).The Chancellor appoints ministers and determines their number and responsibilities in the Cabinet. Ministers run their ministries independently but within the framework of the guidelines of the Chancellor's policy.

Bundespräsident

The President is the head of state in Germany and Austria. The German president is elected for five years by the MPs and delegates from the Länder. He (so far there have not been any women) acts mainly as a figurehead, representing Germany abroad, and does not get involved in party politics, although he often takes a moral lead in major issues and can exercise personal authority through his neutral mediating function. The Bundespräsident can only be re-elected once

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20 governo

m government

nautical term steering

governo di coalizione coalition government

governo di minoranza minority government

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governo s.m.

1 government; administration; (dominio) rule: governo costituzionale, repubblicano, constitutional, republican government; governo tirannico, tyrannical rule; cattivo governo, bad government (o misgovernment); uomo di governo, (statista) statesman; essere al governo, to be in power; affidare il governo a qlcu., to entrust the government to s.o. // governo fantoccio, puppet government: creare un governo fantoccio, to set up a puppet government

2 (i membri di un gabinetto) government, cabinet: il governo si riunì, a cabinet meeting was held; formare un nuovo governo, to form a new government (o cabinet); far cadere il governo, to topple the government; una crisi di governo, a government crisis; governo dimissionario, outgoing government; governo provvisorio, provisional government // piove, governo ladro!, it's raining, it's the government's fault!

3 (direzione) direction; (comm.) management, running: governo della casa, the care of the home (o housekeeping); il governo di un'azienda non è oggi cosa facile, running (o the management of) a business is no easy task nowadays

4 (di animali) care

5 (mar.) steerage, steering; (aer.) control: (mar., aer.) in governo, under control; (aer.) superfici di governo, control surfaces; governo di una barca, di un'auto, steering of a boat, a car; governo di un aereo, piloting of a plane // essere al governo della barca, (fig.) to be at the helm

6 (inform.) control device.

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[go'vɛrno]
sostantivo maschile

1) (esercizio dell'autorità) government U

2) (organo) government + verbo sing. o pl.

essere al governo — to be in government

andare al governo — [ partito] to take office

capo del governo — head of government, premier

crisi di governo — cabinet crisis

3) (amministrazione) (di impresa) managing; (di casa) housekeeping

4) mar. (guida) steering

assumere il governo di una nave — to take the helm

5) (cura)

il governo del gregge — the tending of the flock

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governo di coalizione — coalition government

governo fantasma — phantom government

governo fantoccio — puppet government

governo ponte o di transizione — transitional government

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governo

/go'vεrno/

sostantivo m.

1 (esercizio dell'autorità) government U

2 (organo) government + verbo sing. o pl.; essere al governo to be in government; andare al governo [ partito] to take office; capo del governo head of government, premier; crisi di governo cabinet crisis

3 (amministrazione) (di impresa) managing; (di casa) housekeeping

4 mar. (guida) steering; assumere il governo di una nave to take the helm

5 (cura) il governo del gregge the tending of the flock

COMPOUNDS

governo di coalizione coalition government; governo fantasma phantom government; governo fantoccio puppet government; governo ponte o di transizione transitional government.

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