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2 cargo
m.1 charge (cuidado).los niños han quedado a mi cargo the children have been left in my careestar a cargo de algo, tener algo a su cargo to be in charge of somethinghacerse cargo de to take charge of; (asumir el control de) to take care of; (ocuparse de) to understand (comprender)me hago cargo de la difícil situación I am aware of o I realize the difficulty of the situationme da cargo de conciencia dejarle pagar I feel bad about letting him pay2 post, position (empleo).ocupa un cargo muy importante she holds a very important position o postcargo público public office3 charge (finance).con cargo a charged tocorrer a cargo de to be borne byhacerse cargo de to pay for4 charge (law) (acusación).formular graves cargos contra alguien to bring serious charges against somebody5 debit, fee, debit charge.6 freight, loading.7 office.pres.indicat.1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: cargar.* * *1 (peso) load, weight2 (empleo) post, position3 (gobierno, custodia) charge, responsibility4 FINANZAS charge, debit\correr a cargo de alguien to be the responsibility of somebody■ el discurso de inauguración correrá a cargo del Sr. Torres Sr. Torres will make the opening speechdesempeñar el cargo de / ocupar el cargo de to occupy the post ofestar al cargo de to be in charge ofjurar el cargo to take an oathalto cargo top job, high-ranking positioncargo de conciencia figurado weight on one's conscience* * *noun m.1) load, burden2) charge3) post, office* * *SM1) (=puesto) postocupa el cargo de comisario europeo desde hace tres años — he has held the office o post of European Commissioner for three years
ha dimitido un alto cargo directivo — a top o senior official has resigned
han quedado vacantes tres altos cargos — three high-ranking positions o top posts have become vacant
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desempeñar un cargo — to hold a position•
jurar el cargo — to be sworn in•
poner el cargo a disposición de algn — euf to offer up one's post to sbcargo público — (=puesto) public office; (=persona) person in public office
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a cargo de —a) (=responsable de) in charge of, responsible forlas tropas a cargo de los refugiados — the troops in charge of o responsible for the refugees
los detectives a cargo de la investigación — the detectives in charge of o heading the investigation
b) (=bajo la responsabilidad de)la presentación del programa estuvo a cargo de una actriz desconocida — the programme was presented by an unknown actress
"formación a cargo de la empresa" — "training will be provided"
la clausura del festival estará a cargo de Plácido Domingo — Plácido Domingo will be the main attraction of the festival's closing ceremony
un concierto a cargo de la orquesta de cámara de la ciudad — a concert performed by the city's chamber orchestra
las reparaciones correrán a cargo del dueño — the cost of repairs will be met by the owner, repairs will be paid for by the owner
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tener algo a su cargo — to be in charge of sth, be responsible for sth20 policías tenían a su cargo la seguridad del monarca — 20 policemen were in charge of o responsible for the king's security
los niños que tengo a mi cargo — the children in my care o charge frm
3)• hacerse cargo de — (=encargarse) to take charge of; (=pagar) to pay for; (=entender) to realize
cuando él murió, su hijo se hizo cargo del negocio — when he died, his son took charge of o took over the business
el ejército se hizo cargo del poder — the army took over power o took control
deben hacerse cargo de los daños causados a los muebles — they should pay for breakages to the furniture
la empresa no quiso hacerse cargo de la reparación — the company refused to meet the costs of repair
me hago cargo de la importancia de estas conversaciones — I am aware of o realize how important these talks are
-estamos pasando unos momentos difíciles -sí, ya me hago cargo — "we're going through difficult times" - "yes, I understand o realize"
4) (Com) chargepaga siempre con cargo a su cuenta corriente — he always charges payments directly to his current account
cargo por gestión — [de un billete electrónico] administration fee
5) (Jur) chargeel fiscal retiró los cargos contra el acusado — the prosecution dropped all the charges against the defendant
pliego, testigo 1., 1)cargo de conciencia, tengo cargo de conciencia por el tiempo perdido — I feel guilty about all that wasted time
* * *1) ( puesto) post, position (frml)2) (responsabilidad, cuidado)a)a cargo de alguien: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o (frml) charge; el negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the business; dejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of sales; tiene cuatro hijos a su cargo or (Col) a cargo he has four children to support; tiene a su cargo la división comercial — she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department
b)c)correr a cargo de alguien: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company; la organización del concierto corre a mi cargo — I'm responsible for organizing the concert
d)hacerse cargo de algo — ( hacerse responsable) de puesto/tarea to take charge of something; de gastos to take care of something; ( comprender) (Esp) to undertand something, to appreciate something
3) (Com, Fin) chargecon cargo a mi cuenta — to be debited against o charged to my account
4) (Der) charge5) (Chi, Per) date-and-time stamp for documents* * *1) ( puesto) post, position (frml)2) (responsabilidad, cuidado)a)a cargo de alguien: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o (frml) charge; el negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the business; dejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of sales; tiene cuatro hijos a su cargo or (Col) a cargo he has four children to support; tiene a su cargo la división comercial — she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department
b)c)correr a cargo de alguien: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company; la organización del concierto corre a mi cargo — I'm responsible for organizing the concert
d)hacerse cargo de algo — ( hacerse responsable) de puesto/tarea to take charge of something; de gastos to take care of something; ( comprender) (Esp) to undertand something, to appreciate something
3) (Com, Fin) chargecon cargo a mi cuenta — to be debited against o charged to my account
4) (Der) charge5) (Chi, Per) date-and-time stamp for documents* * *cargo11 = officer, official, position, post, office, job title, incumbent.Nota: Nombre.Ex: Thus, sometimes the information does not reach those officers who would benefit most from access to it.
Ex: See also reference tracings include related headings such as personal and corporate headings for officials, pseudonyms used as uniform headings, etc.Ex: He has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility.Ex: The chief librarian or director of libraries, by which title the post is sometimes now known, will in general be fully occupied with making decisions on internal professional policy.Ex: Until Groome appeared, city officials were chosen not so much for their ability to administer the affairs of their offices as for who they knew; hence, old-style machine politics with its accompanying corruption found a congenial atmosphere in which to operate.Ex: The job title is designed to indicate the group (professional, associate, technician, or clerk) to which the job belongs and the level of the job within that grouping.Ex: This practice of having the former incumbent of the job train the new employee is risky, particularly if that departing employee has in any way been a problem.* alto cargo = senior post, senior manager, senior executive, high official, top manager, senior official.* alto cargo público = senior public official.* altos cargos = people in high office.* ascender a un cargo = rise to + position.* aspirar a un cargo = aspire to + position.* beneficios del cargo, los = spoils of office, the.* cargo de director = directorship.* cargo directivo = senior post, top official, senior position, managerial position, executive position, top position.* cargo ejecutivo = managerial position, executive position.* cargo ejecutivo del gobierno = government executive.* cargo ministerial = ministry official.* cargo oficial = officer.* cargo político = government official.* cargo público = public official, federal official, elected official, public office.* dejar un cargo = resign + office, step down from + Posesivo + position, leave + office.* dimitir de un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.* en el cargo = in the saddle, in office.* en virtud del cargo que ocupa = ex officio.* en virtud de su cargo = ex officio.* jurar un cargo = swear in.* ocupar el cargo = be in the position.* ocupar un cargo = hold + position.* ocupar un cargo de dirección = hold + a chair.* persona designada para un cargo = appointee.* prebendas del cargo, las = spoils of office, the.* relevar de un cargo = relieve of + duty.* renunciar a un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.* titular del cargo = incumbent.* tomar posesión de un cargo = swear in, take + office.cargo22 = responsibility.Ex: The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.
* a cargo = in the saddle.* a cargo (de) = charged with, in charge (of).* a cargo de Alguien = under supervision.* a cargo de las riendas = in the saddle.* a cargo del ayuntamiento = local authority-run.* a cargo del gobierno = government-operated, government-run.* a cargo de una sola persona = one-man band.* a cargo de voluntarios = volunteer-run.* Algo a cargo de una sola persona = one-person operation.* bajo el cargo de = on charges of.* cargo de conciencia = guilty conscience.* con cargo a = to be debited to, to be charged to.* con cargo de conciencia = remorseful.* correr a cargo de = be the responsibility of.* estar a cargo de = man, be the responsibility of.* familiar a cargo = dependent.* hacerse cargo = take over, assume + role.* hacerse cargo de = take + charge of, take + Nombre + under + Posesivo + wings.* hacerse cargo de Algo = take (+ Nombre) + on board (+ Nombre), hold + the fort, hold + the fortress.* persona a cargo = dependent.* poner a Alguien al cargo de = put + Nombre + in charge of.* poner a cargo de = put in + charge of.* tener a cargo de uno = have + as + Posesivo + charge.* tener a + Posesivo + cargo = have + in + Posesivo + charge.cargo33 = charge, indictment.Ex: No less prestigious an authority than a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the man principally responsible for that volume.
Ex: Enter indictments as instructed in rule 21.36C1.* absolver a Alguien de todos los cargos = acquit + Nombre + on all counts.* cargos criminales = criminal charges.* formular cargos contra = bring + charges against.* formular cargos contra Alguien = press + charges.* libertad sin cargos = unconditional discharge.cargo4* culto al cargo = cargo cult.* nota de cargo = credit note.* * *desempeña un cargo importante en la empresa he has o holds an important position in the firmtiene un cargo de mucha responsabilidad she has a very responsible job o post o positionhoy toma posesión de su cargo he takes up his post o position today, he takes up office todayCompuesto:los que ostentan cargos públicos those who hold public officeB (responsabilidad, cuidado)1a cargo de algn: los niños están a mi cargo the children are in my care o ( frml) chargeun concierto a cargo de la Orquesta Nacional ( frml); a concert performed by the National Orchestrael negocio quedó a su cargo he was left in charge of the businessdejé/puse las ventas a cargo de Luque I left/put Luque in charge of salestiene cuatro hijos a su cargoor ( Col) a cargo he has four children to supporttiene a su cargo la división comercial she is responsible for o in charge of the sales department2al cargo de algo in charge of sthquedó/lo pusieron al cargo del departamento he was left/they put him in charge of the department3correr a cargo de algn: los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the companyla organización del concierto corre a cargo de su ayudante her assistant is responsible for organizing the concertel papel principal corre a cargo de Fernando Arias the main part o the leading role is played by Fernando Arias4hacerse cargo de algo (hacerse responsable) ‹de un puesto/una tarea› to take charge of sth;‹de gastos› to take care of sth; (entender) ( Esp) to be aware of sth¿podría hacerse cargo de nuestra sucursal en Panamá? could you take charge of o head our branch in Panama?mi abuela se hizo cargo de mí my grandmother took care of meme hago cargo de la gravedad de la situación I am aware of the gravity of the situationes un problema difícil — sí, me hago cargo it's a difficult problem — yes, I realize that o I am aware of thatCompuesto:no tengo ningún cargo de conciencia por no haber ido a visitarlo I don't feel at all guilty for not having been to visit him, I feel no remorse at not having been to visit himme da/quedó un cargo de conciencia horrible I feel/felt terribly guiltysin cargo adicional at no additional cost, at no extra chargesin cargo free of chargepidió unos cheques de viaje con cargo a su cuenta she ordered some traveler's checks to be debited against o charged to her accountD ( Der) chargeniega todos los cargos que se le imputan he denies all the charges against him* * *
Del verbo cargar: ( conjugate cargar)
cargo es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo
cargó es:
3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo
Multiple Entries:
cargar
cargo
cargar ( conjugate cargar) verbo transitivo
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no cargues tanto el coche don't put so much in the car
‹pluma/encendedor› to fill;
‹ cámara› to load, put a film inc) (Elec) to charge
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◊ tengo que cargo nafta (RPl) I have to fill up with gasoline (AmE) o (BrE) petrolc) (Inf) to load
3 ( de obligaciones) cargo a algn de algo to burden sb with sth;◊ me cargoon la culpa they put o laid the blame on me
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‹ niño› (AmL) to carry
( tener consigo):
5 ( a una cuenta) to charge
6 (Méx fam) ( matar) to kill
verbo intransitivo
1 cargo con algo ‹ con bulto› to carry sth;◊ tiene que cargo con todo el peso de la casa she has to shoulder all the responsibility for the household
2 cargo contra algn [tropas/policía] to charge on o at sb
3 [ batería] to charge
4 (fam) ( fastidiar):
cargarse verbo pronominal
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[ partícula] to become chargedb) cargose de algo ‹de bolsas/equipaje› to load oneself down with sth;
‹ de responsabilidades› to take on a lot of sth;
‹ de deudas› to saddle oneself with sth
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‹ jarrón› to smash
cargo sustantivo masculino
1 ( puesto) post, position (frml);
(de presidente, ministro) office;
un cargo de responsabilidad a responsible job o post
2 (responsabilidad, cuidado):
estar a cargo de algo to be in charge of sth;
los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa expenses will be paid o met by the company;
hacerse cargo de algo ‹de puesto/tarea› to take charge of sth;
‹ de gastos› to take care of sth;
3a) (Com, Fin) charge;
b) (Der) charge
cargar
I verbo transitivo
1 to load: cargó al niño en brazos, she took the boy in her arms
2 (un mechero, una pluma) to fill
3 (poner carga eléctrica) to charge
4 (atribuir algo negativo) cargar a alguien con las culpas, to put the blame on sb
le cargan la responsabilidad a su padre, they put the blame on his father
5 Com to charge: cárguelo a mi cuenta, charge it to my account
6 familiar Educ to fail
II verbo intransitivo
1 (soportar, hacerse cargo) to lumber [con, with]: carga con la casa y con la suegra, she has to do all the housework as well as having to take care of her mother-in-law
figurado cargar con las consecuencias, to suffer the consequences
2 (llevar un peso) to carry: siempre carga con lo más pesado, he always takes the heaviest
3 (arremeter, atacar) to charge [contra, against]
cargo sustantivo masculino
1 (puesto) post, position
2 (cuidado, responsabilidad) charge
estar al cargo de, to be in charge of
3 Jur charge, accusation
4 Fin charge, debit 5 cargo de conciencia, weight on one's conscience, remorse
♦ Locuciones: correr a cargo de, (gastos) to be met by
hacerse cargo de, to take charge of: en seguida se hizo cargo de mi situación, he understood my situation immediately
' cargo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acceder
- acusación
- adscribir
- alcaldía
- antecesor
- antecesora
- antigua
- antiguo
- candidata
- candidato
- candidatura
- carga
- cargar
- cargamento
- cargarse
- censor
- censora
- cesar
- consejería
- correr
- cuidada
- cuidado
- dimitir
- dirección
- disputarse
- educación
- flete
- función
- inhabilitar
- jefatura
- jurar
- juramentar
- lamentarse
- minoritaria
- minoritario
- nombrar
- ostentar
- permanencia
- poltrona
- posesión
- presentarse
- pretendienta
- pretendiente
- regentar
- rehabilitación
- reintegrar
- relevar
- relumbrón
- renuncia
- renunciar
English:
appointment
- assume
- backbencher
- band
- bump off
- by-election
- cargo
- charge
- count
- denial
- deny
- drop
- ex
- foreman
- handle
- impression
- incitement
- inflict
- lay on
- office
- outrank
- resign
- set down
- shed
- stand down
- succeed
- toss about
- toss around
- vessel
- back
- commission
- dean
- debit
- dependant
- discharge
- dock
- extra
- fly
- front
- handling
- impeach
- incumbent
- land
- landing
- lay
- load
- meet
- reinstate
- relieve
- seize
* * *cargo nm1. [empleo] post, position;desempeña un cargo de ministro he is a minister;tomar posesión del cargo to take up officecargo directivo manager;varios cargos públicos se han visto involucrados en el escándalo several people holding public office have been implicated in the scandal2. [cuidado] charge;los niños han quedado a mi cargo the children have been left in my care;una producción a cargo del Teatro Nacional a National Theatre production;está a cargo de o [m5] tiene a su cargo la seguridad de la empresa he is in charge of o responsible for company security;hacerse cargo de [asumir el control de] to take charge of;[ocuparse de] to take care of; [comprender] to understand;se hizo cargo de la gestión de la empresa she took over the running of the company;el ejército se hizo cargo del poder the army took power o took over;no te preocupes, yo me hago cargo de los niños don't worry, I'll look after the children;me hago cargo de la difícil situación I am aware of o I realize the difficulty of the situation;tenemos que ir al entierro y llegaremos tarde – sí, me hago cargo we have to go to the funeral, so we'll be late – OK, I understand3. Econ charge;con cargo a charged to;han asignado una nueva partida con cargo a los presupuestos del estado they have created a new budget heading;correr a cargo de to be borne by;todos los gastos corren a cargo de la empresa all expenses will be borne by the company;la comida corre a cargo de la empresa the meal is on the company;la organización corre a cargo del Municipio the organization will be carried out by the town council, the town council will be organizing the event;sin cargo adicional for o at no extra charge4. [acusación] charge;formular graves cargos contra alguien to bring serious charges against sb;se declaró inocente de todos los cargos que se le imputaban he said he was innocent on all countscargo de conciencia:tener cargo de conciencia to feel pangs of conscience, to feel remorse;me da cargo de conciencia dejarle pagar I feel bad about letting him pay;comprar productos de este país me representa un cargo de conciencia I feel guilty about buying this country's products5. [buque de carga] cargo ship, freighter* * *m1 position;alto cargo high-ranking position; persona high-ranking official;cargo ministerial ministerial post2 JUR charge3:a cargo de la madre in the mother’s care;tener algo a su cargo, estar a cargo de algo be in charge of sth;está a cargo de Gómez Gómez is in charge of it;hacerse cargo de algo take charge of sth;tomar a su cargo take charge of4 COM:con cargo a nosotros on our account5:me da cargo de conciencia it makes me feel guilty* * *cargo nm1) : burden, load2) : chargea cargo de: in charge of3) : position, office* * *cargo n1. (empleo) post2. (delito) chargeestar a cargo de / tener a su cargo (ser la responsabilidad de) to be your responsibility (ser responsable de) to be in charge ofhacerse cargo (encargarse de) to take charge of [pt. took; pp. taken] (comprender) to understand [pt. & pp. understood] -
3 cargo público
m.public office.* * *tener un cargo cargo to hold public office; los que ostentan cargos públicos those who hold public office* * *(n.) = public official, federal official, elected official, public officeEx. Some public officials treat public documents as personal property.Ex. Self-government became self-correctable and federal officials accountable largely thanks to the First Amendment guarantees.Ex. The author argues that the elected officials should allocate adequate funding for the educative process.Ex. Other wrongdoers in public office have reprehensibly blamed the legal system or tampered with incriminating evidence.* * *tener un cargo cargo to hold public office; los que ostentan cargos públicos those who hold public office* * *(n.) = public official, federal official, elected official, public officeEx: Some public officials treat public documents as personal property.
Ex: Self-government became self-correctable and federal officials accountable largely thanks to the First Amendment guarantees.Ex: The author argues that the elected officials should allocate adequate funding for the educative process.Ex: Other wrongdoers in public office have reprehensibly blamed the legal system or tampered with incriminating evidence. -
4 carica
f (pl -che) ( incarico) officefig (slancio, energia) drivetechnology loadsports tacklein carica in officedurata f della carica term of officetornare alla carica insist* * *carica s.f.1 ( pubblico ufficio) office, position, appointment: dimettersi da una carica, to resign office; entrare in carica, to take (o to come into) office; essere in carica, to be in (o to hold) office; occupare una carica pubblica, to hold public office; restare in carica, to continue in office; uscire di carica, to leave office; carica di revisore ( dei conti), di sindaco ( di società), auditorship; carica di ispettore, inspectorship; carica di tesoriere, treasurership; è una carica di responsabilità, it's a responsible position; le alte cariche dello Stato, the high offices of state; accettare una carica onorifica, to accept an honorary appointment2 (mil.) charge, attack: carica alla baionetta, bayonet charge; carica di cavalleria, cavalry charge; ritornare alla carica, to return to the charge; (fig.) to persist (o to insist); suonare la carica, to sound the charge4 ( di arma da fuoco) charge: carica di lancio, propelling (o powder) charge; carica di profondità, depth charge; carica di scoppio, blasting charge5 (elettr.) charge: carica a corrente costante, constant current charge; carica elettrica, electric charge; carica spaziale, space charge; entità di carica, charging rate; potenziale di carica, charging potential6 (metall.) charge: carica del minerale e del fondente, charge of ores and fluxes; carica solida, cold charge; prima carica di metallo, bed charge7 ( di orologio) winding up: dare la carica a un orologio, to wind up a clock; ( da polso) to wind up a watch8 (fig.) charge, drive, boost, lift: questo nuovo lavoro mi ha dato la carica, this new job has given me a lift; ha una grande carica di entusiasmo, he has a large store of enthusiasm; carica emotiva, emotional potential // dare la carica a qlcu., to encourage s.o. // perdere la carica, to run out of steam.* * *1) (funzione) office, postil presidente in carica — the incumbent president, the president in office
essere in carica — to be in o to hold office
entrare in carica — to take o come into office
rivestire una carica — to have o fill a post
restare in carica — to remain in office, to stay on
2) tecn. el. fis. chargemettere sotto carica — to put [sth.] on charge [ batteria]
dare la carica a — to wind (up) [ orologio]
4) fig. charge, drivedare la carica a qcn. — to encourage sb., to give sb. a lift o a boost
5) mil. (assalto) charge(ri)tornare alla carica — to return to the charge; fig. to try again, to insist
6) sport•carica onorifica — honorary position o appointment
* * *caricapl. - che /'karika, ke/sostantivo f.1 (funzione) office, post; il presidente in carica the incumbent president, the president in office; essere in carica to be in o to hold office; entrare in carica to take o come into office; rivestire una carica to have o fill a post; restare in carica to remain in office, to stay on; la sua carica di leader del partito her position as party leader2 tecn. el. fis. charge; essere sotto carica to be charging up; mettere sotto carica to put [sth.] on charge [ batteria]4 fig. charge, drive; dare la carica a qcn. to encourage sb., to give sb. a lift o a boost5 mil. (assalto) charge; (alla) carica! charge! andare alla carica to charge; (ri)tornare alla carica to return to the charge; fig. to try again, to insist6 sport il campione in carica the reigning championcarica elettrica electric charge; carica emotiva emotional charge; carica onorifica honorary position o appointment. -
5 staatsdienst
♦voorbeelden:in staatsdienst treden • enter public service -
6 πολιτεύω
A- σω Th.1.19
, X.HG2.3.2:— to be a citizen or freeman, live in a free state, Th.2.46, 3.34,4.114, X.An.3.2.26;οἴκοι π. SIG306.21
(Tegea, iv B. C.);π. παρά τισι X.HG1.5.19
; πεπολιτευκὼρ πὰρ ἁμέ, = μετοικῶν, Schwyzer 425.5 (Elis, iii/ii B.C.); κατὰ νόμους π., opp. monarchy, Plb.4.76.2: more freq. in [voice] Med., v. infr.2 have a certain form of government, administer the state,κατ' ὀλιγαρχίαν π. Th.1.19
, 3.62;π. ὥσπερ εἰώθεσαν Id.4.130
;κατὰ τὰ ἴδια κέρδη π. Id.2.65
;πρὸς τὸ ἴδιον κέρδος X.HG1.4.13
;ἐλευθέρως τὰ πρὸς τὸ κοινὸν π. Th.2.37
:—[voice] Pass., of the state, to be governed,τὰς εὖ -ευομένας πόλεις Isoc.6.35
, cf. Pl.R. 427a, etc.;ἄνευ ὁμονοίας οὔτ' ἂν πόλις εὖ -ευθείη X. Mem.4.4.16
; τὰ πεπολιτευμένα αὐτοῖς the measures of their administration, D.1.28;τὰ κοινῇ πεπ. Id.18.8
, cf. Isoc.16.45, etc.b [voice] Pass., in Law, to be customary,τὸ μέχρι νῦν -ευόμενον Just.Nov.73.8.2
, cf. 52 Praef.; ἡ -ευομένη τῆς ἀρτάβης (sc. τιμή) customary price, PGiss. 105.7 (v A.D.).3 [voice] Pass., to be made a citizen,τοὺς ἐπὶ Τέλωνος πολιτευθέντας D.S.11.72
.B most freq. in [voice] Med., [tense] fut.πολιτεύσομαι Ar.Eq. 1365
, X.Ath. 3.9: [tense] aor.ἐπολιτευσάμην And.2.10
, D.18.207; also [voice] Pass.ἐπολιτεύθην Th.6.92
, Lys.26.5, ([etym.] ἐν-) Isoc.5.5, etc.: [tense] pf.πεπολίτευμαι Lys.25.10
, D.13.35, etc.:—like the [voice] Act., live as a free citizen, chiefly in Prose (once in E. (v. infr.), twice in Ar. (v. infr.));π. μεθ' ὑμῶν And.
l. c.;ἐν δημοκρατίᾳ X.Cyr.1.1.1
, etc.; ; opp. μετοικέω, Lys.12.20;ἐν εἰρήνῃ X.HG2.4.22
;ἀδίκως πρὸς τοὺς ἄλλους π. Lys.14.42
;εἰ πένης.. λαὸς πολιτεύοιτο πλουσίων ἄτερ E.Fr.21
.II take part in the government, Critias 45 D., Th.2.15 (as v.l.), Nausiph.2, Hyp.Eux.27, D.18.18; meddle with politics, Pl.R. 561d; opp. ἰδιωτεύειν, Aeschin.1.195; hold public office, show public spirit, IG4.858 (Methana, cf. Glotta14.78), SIG850.14 (Epist. Antonini Pii), etc.2 c. acc., administer, govern, ;τὰ καθ' αὑτοὺς πολιτεύεσθαι D.10.74
;ἃ καὶ πεποίηκα καὶ πεπολίτευμαι Id.18.4
; οὐ τὰ βέλτιστα π. ib.207; π. πόλεμον ἐκ πολέμου make perpetual war the principle of government, Aeschin.2.177: abs., conduct the government, Ar.Eq. 1365;κατὰ συμμορίας D. 2.29
;διὰ τοὺς ἀδίκως -ομένους ἐν τῇ ὀλιγαρχίᾳ δημοκρατία γίγνεται Lys.25.27
; ; οἱ πολιτευόμενοι the ministers, Id.3.30, 24.157.III have a certain form of government,τοὺς ἄριστα τῶν ἄλλων πολιτευομένους Isoc.3.24
;ἡμῶν ἐγγὺς π. Pl.R. 568b
; κατὰ τὰ πάτρια π. Decr. ap. And.1.83; οἱ τὴν ἄνισον πολιτείαν πολιτευόμενοι, i. e. those living in an oligarchy or a tyranny, Aeschin.1.5.IV serve as curialis, Mitteis Chr. 97i18 (iv A. D.), PLips. 62i2 (iv A. D.), POxy.2106.19 (iv A.D.), etc.V in Law, execute according to custom,διαθήκας Just.Nou.66.1
Intr.VI deal with, in private affairs,ἀλλήλοις PHib.1.63.11
(iii B. C.);πρὸς [τοὺς θεοὺς] ὁσίως καὶ δικαίως UPZ144.14
, cf. 110.78 (ii B.C.), LXX 2 Ma.11.25, Aristeas 31, Act.Ap.23.1;π. πᾶσαν πολιτείαν κατὰ τὸν ἰουδαϊσμόν BCH56.293
(Stobi, i/ii A. D.); behave, Ep.Phil.1.27.b metaph., arrange, bring about, συνοδίαν, γάμον, Charito 1.1, 2.2.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > πολιτεύω
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7 in staatsdienst zijn
in staatsdienst zijnVan Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > in staatsdienst zijn
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8 συμπολιτεύω
A live as fellow-citizens or members of one state, τισι with others, Th.6.4, 8.47,73; νόμοις τοῖς αὐτοῖς Χρῆσθαι καὶ ς. X.HG 5.2.12, cf. IG9(1).32.6 (Stiris, ii B.C.):—[voice] Med. συμπολιτεύομαι, Lys. 9.21, IG42(1).59.12 (Epid., iii B.C., prob.), Epicur.Sent.38, etc.;θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις Phld.Piet.14
; μηδενί with no one, D.Prooem.21;μετὰ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν Plb.22.8.9
; οἱ συμπολιτευόμενοι one's fellow-citizens, Isoc.3.4, 12.29;ὁ δῆμος καὶ οἱ -πολιτευόμενοι Ῥωμαῖοι Supp.Epigr.6.646
(Adalia, i B.C.), cf. OGI143.6 (Cyprus, ii B.C.);σ. καὶ κοινωνεῖν πόλεως Arist.Pol. 1324a15
: metaph.,τὰ σύντροφα καὶ συμπολιτευόμενα ἀδικήματα Plu.Cat.Mi.47
.2 hold public office jointly with, IG42(1).642 (Epid.):—[voice] Med., c. dat., ib.5(1).551.6 (Sparta, iii A.D.).Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > συμπολιτεύω
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9 ἐντελής
A complete, full,τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδώσω 'ντελῆ Ar.Eq. 1367
, cf. Th.8.45; δώσειν ἐ. τὴν δραχμήν ib.29; τροφὴν ἐ. δοῦναι ib.78;δεῖπνον ἐ. καὶ μηδὲν ἐλλιπές Euang.1.2
(but τὸ ἐ. ὀνομαζόμενον δεῖπνον the last course, Luc.Symp. 38); ἵν' ἐ. ὦσι [οἱ λόγοι] Phld.Herc.1251.13; opp. ἐλλιπής, A.D. Synt.38.9, al.: [comp] Sup.-έστατος, βάσανος Ael.Tact.21.3
; ἐντελὲς τρίγωνον <*> Luc.Vit.Auct.4.2 of victims, perfect, unblemished,δώδεκ' ἐντελεῖς ἔχων βοῦς S.Tr. 760
, cf. Luc.Sacr.12.3 of military equipment, in good condition, Th.6.45;τριήρεις Aeschin.2.175
.4 of men, οὐ γὰρ ἐντελὴς.. προσφέρειν full-grown so as to offer, A.Ch. 250;ἐ. τὴν ἡλικίαν Ael.NA3.40
; finished, accomplished,ἐ. καὶ ἔνδοξοι Artem.2.35
, cf.Sch.Hes.Th. 242; alsoἐντελῆ τὴν ἀνδρείαν εἰσφέρονται Onos.4.2
: [comp] Comp.- έστερος Hsch.
: [comp] Sup., Id.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > ἐντελής
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11 Amt
Amt n 1. GEN office; 2. PAT authority (Dienststelle, Behörde); 3. PERS position, post; 4. RECHT agency, agcy; 5. ADMIN (AE) bureau (Dienststelle, Behörde) • Amt niederlegen PERS resign • Amt übernehmen PERS assume an office • aus dem Amt ausscheiden PERS leave office, retire • das Amt des PA ausüben PERS perform the office of PA • ein Amt antreten POL accede to an office, enter upon an office, take up office • ein Amt bekleiden 1. PERS hold an office, hold a position; 2. POL hold office • ein Amt innehaben PERS hold an office, hold a position • im Amt sein 1. PERS be in office; 2. POL hold office • jmdn. seines Amtes entheben PERS, POL remove sb from office • von Amts wegen POL, RECHT ex officio, officially • von Amts wegen prüfen PERS consider officially (Arbeit)* * *n 1. < Geschäft> office; 2. < Patent> authority; 3. < Person> position; 4. < Recht> agency (agcy) ; 5. < Verwalt> bureau (AE) ■ Amt antreten < Person> take office ■ Amt niederlegen < Person> resign ■ aus dem Amt ausscheiden v < Person> leave office, retire ■ das Amt des PA ausüben < Person> perform the office of PA ■ ein Amt antreten < Pol> accede to an office, enter upon an office ■ ein Amt bekleiden 1. < Person> hold an office, hold a position; 2. < Pol> hold office ■ ein Amt innehaben < Person> hold an office, hold a position ■ im Amt sein 1. < Person> be in office; 2. < Pol> hold office ■ von Amts wegen prüfen < Person> Arbeit consider officially, ex officio* * *Amt
(Amtspflicht) duty, public function, (Anstellung) appointment, (Aufgabe) business, charge, function, part, task, (Aufgabenbereich) province, (Auftrag) commission, (Behörde) magistracy, board, agency (US), bureau, department, office, (Beschäftigung) employment, (Geschäftsstelle) department, bureau (US), (telecom.) exchange, operator, central (US);
• im Amt [befindlich] in office (power), in the saddle;
• kraft seines Amtes by virtue of his office;
• nicht mehr im Amt out;
• von Amts wegen officially, ex officio (lat.), in ordinary;
• Auswärtiges Amt Foreign Office (Br.), State Department (US);
• besoldetes Amt salaried (paid, lucrative) office;
• einträgliches Amt lucrative office (business);
• hohes Amt high position;
• öffentliches Amt government office;
• Statistisches Amt Bureau of the Census (US);
• Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung Anti-Fraud-Office;
• Amt für Internationale Entwicklung Agency for International Development (AID);
• Amt für Familienförderung [etwa] Department of Family and Children’s Services;
• Amt eines Liquidators liquidatorship;
• Amt eines Rechnungsführers accountantship;
• Amt eines Revisors auditorship;
• Amt des Steuereinnehmers receivership;
• Amt für die Tierkörperverwertungsindustrie Bureau of Animal Industry (US);
• Amt für Amtliche Veröffentlichungen Office for Official Publications;
• Amt für internationale Zusammenarbeit International Cooperation Administration (ICA) (US);
• sein Amt abgeben to give up one’s appointment;
• Amt nicht annehmen to refuse an office;
• Amt antreten to enter upon (accede, succeed to) an office;
• Amt aufgeben to relinquish (resign, vacate) office;
• Amt zur Zufriedenheit ausfüllen to fill an office satisfactorily;
• Amt ausschlagen to disclaim an office;
• ein Amt ausüben to exercise an office;
• öffentliches Amt bekleiden to hold (occupy) a public office (position);
• sich um ein Amt bemühen to figure for office (coll.);
• j. in ein Amt berufen to appoint s. o. to an office;
• sich um ein Amt bewerben to run (stand) for an office, to apply for a post;
• lange im Amt bleiben to have a long run;
• über die festgelegte Zeit im Amt bleiben to hold over;
• j. in ein Amt einsetzen to institute (establish) s. o. in an office;
• j. seines Amtes vorläufig entheben to suspend s. o. from his office;
• Amt innehaben to fill a post, to hold (keep, bear) an office;
• Amt zeitweilig innehaben to be in charge of an office pro tempore;
• öffentliches Amt in gewinnsüchtiger Weise missbrauchen to job;
• sein Amt niederlegen to give up one’s appointment, to resign the seals;
• mit einem Amt verbunden sein (Gehalt) to go with an office;
• in Amt und Würden sein to be in an established position;
• Amt übernehmen to assume an office;
• jem. aufgrund seiner Beziehungen zu einem Amt verhelfen to jockey s. o. into office;
• aus dem Amt vertreiben to boot out of office;
• seines Amtes walten to officiate;
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12 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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Stelle f 1. COMP digit; 2. PERS job, post, position, situation • an die Stelle treten von 1. GEN replace sb; 2. RECHT supersede • die Stelle wechseln PERS change one’s job, (infrml) switch jobs • eine Stelle ablehnen PERS turn down a job offer, to refuse a job offer • eine Stelle annehmen PERS take employment, take a job, accept a job • eine Stelle bekleiden PERS hold a post, hold a position, hold an office (Amt) • eine Stelle besetzen PERS fill a vacancy, fill a job, fill a post • eine Stelle höher einstufen PERS upgrade a post • eine Stelle innehaben PERS hold a position, hold a job • eine Stelle suchen PERS look for a job, seek a job • seine Stelle aufgeben PERS quit one’s job • seine Stelle verlieren PERS lose one’s job • sich nach einer Stelle umsehen PERS look for a job, seek a job • sich um eine Stelle bewerben PERS apply for a job, apply for a post (Arbeitsmarkt) • Stelle finden PERS find a job • Stellen abbauen PERS cut jobs • Stellen streichen PERS cut jobs* * *f 1. < Comp> digit; 2. < Person> job, post, position, situation ■ an die Stelle treten von 1. < Geschäft> replace sb; 2. < Recht> supersede ■ eine Stelle besetzen < Person> fill a vacancy, fill a job, fill a post ■ eine Stelle höher einstufen < Person> upgrade a post ■ eine Stelle suchen < Person> look for a job ■ seine Stelle verlieren < Person> lose one's job ■ seine Stelle wechseln < Person> change one's job ■ sich um eine Stelle bewerben < Person> Arbeitsmarkt apply for a job, apply for a post ■ eine Stelle ablehnen < Person> turn down a job ■ eine Stelle annehmen < Person> take employment, take a job, accept a job ■ eine Stelle innehaben < Person> hold a position, hold a job ■ Stellen abbauen < Person> cut jobs* * *Stelle
place, stead, piece, site, (Beruf) position, post, appointment, situation, place, berth (Br.), quarter, spot (US sl.), (Computer) column, (Dienststelle) agency, authority, charge, office;
• an Stelle von in place of, in substitution for;
• an erster Stelle in the first instance;
• an oberster Stelle topside;
• an zuständiger Stelle in responsible quarters;
• in ungekündigter Stelle not under notice;
• von amtlichen Stellen from official quarters;
• von kompetenter (zuständiger) Stelle on good authority;
• Stellen gesucht (Inserat) situations wanted;
• amtliche Stellen official authorities;
• auftragvergebende Stelle tenderee;
• ausfertigende Stelle drafting office;
• ausführende Stelle enforcement agency;
• ausgeschriebene Stelle advertised post;
• außerplanmäßige Stelle supernumerary post;
• begünstigende Stelle benefiting body;
• beratende Stelle advisory body;
• im Ernennungswege zu besetzende Stelle appointive office;
• sofort zu besetzende Stelle immediate opening;
• nicht am Postscheckverkehr beteiligte Stellen non-Giro outlets;
• gut bezahlte Stelle plum (coll.);
• schlecht bezahlte Stelle badly paid job;
• gut dotierte Stelle well-paid position;
• einträgliche Stelle good berth (situation);
• entscheidende Stelle decision-making unit;
• erledigte (freie) Stelle opening, vacancy, vacant office (position);
• Zoll festsetzende Stelle tariff maker;
• freie Stellen (Zeitung) unfilled vacancies;
• von der Zensur gestrichene Stelle censored passage;
• Kredit gewährende Stelle lending institution;
• durch Pensionierung frei gewordene Stelle retirement vacancy;
• informierte Stellen informed sources (quarters);
• kurspflegende (kursstützende) Stelle price-supporting agency;
• gleich lautende Stelle parallel passage;
• leere Stelle vacancy;
• leitende Stelle managerial post;
• lohnsteuerabzugspflichtige Stelle withholding agency;
• maßgebende Stelle powers that be;
• nachgeordnete Stellen subsidiary bodies;
• offene Stelle [job] vacancy (opening), vacant situation (post), (Inserat) help wanted, unfilled vacancies, jobs offered;
• öffentliche Stelle public authority;
• nicht staatliche Stelle non-governmental body;
• unbesetzte Stelle vacant position (vacant situation), vacancy;
• undichte Stelle (fig.) leak;
• untergeordnete Stellen subordinate bodies;
• zuständige Stelle proper quarter, competent office;
• Stelle im kommunikationstechnischen Bereich job in the communication technology sector;
• Stelle als Buchhalter accountantship;
• zentralle Stelle für Finanzkontrolle central financial control department;
• freie Stelle in einem Werbebüro opening in an advertising agency;
• Stellen abstreichen to point off places;
• Stelle annehmen to take a post;
• an gut sichtbarer Stelle anschlagen to post in a conspicuous place;
• Stelle antreten to take up one’s duties, to enter a post, to start on a job;
• Stelle aufgeben to throw up a situation (one’s job), to vacate an office, to leave one’s job;
• in eine höhere Stelle aufrücken to rise to a better position;
• leere Stellen ausfüllen to fill in blank spaces;
• Stelle in unberechtigter Weise auslegen to strain the meaning of a passage;
• [freie] Stelle ausschreiben to advertise a post (vacancy), to invite applications for a position;
• eine Stelle in Vollzeitform ausschreiben to advertise a position in full-time form;
• sich in seiner Stelle behaupten to hold one’s position;
• Stelle bekleiden to occupy a post;
• Stelle bekommen to get an appointment;
• freie Stelle [neu] besetzen to fill [up] (supply) a vacancy;
• sich um eine freie Stelle bewerben to seek employment, to apply for a vacant position (a job);
• jds. Stelle einnehmen to step into s. one’s shoes, to take s. one’s place, to replace s. o.;
• hervorragende Stelle einnehmen to fill the bill (coll.);
• an Ort und Stelle erledigen to do it now;
• gute Stelle haben to be in a good position, to have a good berth (Br.);
• Stelle innehaben to hold a job (an appointment);
• bedeutende Stelle innehaben to take a prominent place;
• Stelle auf Lebenszeit innehaben to hold a post for life;
• Stelle zeitweilig innehaben to be in office pro tempore;
• nicht von der Stelle kommen (Verhandlungen) to be at a deadlock, to make no headway;
• an letzter Stelle auf eine Liste kommen to rank last on a list;
• von dieser Stelle auf keinen Pfennig hoffen können to expect no help from that quarter;
• j. in eine Stelle aufrücken lassen to promote s. o. to an office;
• pünktlich zur Stelle sein to arrive on the dot;
• seinen Namen an die freigelassene Stelle setzen to write one’s name in the space indicated;
• an erster Stelle stehen to rank (come) first, to take precedence;
• Stelle streichen to abolish a post;
• nach einer passenden Stelle für eine Fabrik suchen to look for a suitable site for a factory;
• auf der Stelle treten (mil.) to mark time;
• Stelle übernehmen to undertake a post;
• sich um eine Stelle umtun to apply for a situation;
• sich an die zuständige Stelle wenden to apply to the proper quarter. -
14 Stellung
Stellung f 1. BÖRSE position, rank, standing, status; 2. PERS job, position, post, situation, sit.; 3. ADMIN position, status • jmdn. aus seiner Stellung verdrängen PERS oust sb from their job • sich um eine Stellung bewerben PERS apply for a job, apply for a post, put in a job application (Arbeitsmarkt)* * *f 1. < Börse> position, rank, standing, status; 2. < Person> job, position, post, situation (sit.) ; 3. < Verwalt> position, status ■ jmdn. aus seiner Stellung verdrängen < Person> oust sb from their job ■ sich um eine Stellung bewerben < Person> Arbeitsmarkt apply for a job, apply for a post, put in a job application* * *Stellung
position, post, place, job, employ[ment], engagement, station, occupation, level, berth (Br.), assignment, (Anordnung) arrangement, (Ansehen) [social] standing, position, rank, status, state, walk, (Funktion) character, capacity, (Platz) place, position, location;
• für eine Stellung qualifiziert qualified for an appointment;
• in amtlicher Stellung in commission;
• in angesehener Stellung of good position;
• in Aufsicht führender Stellung in supervisory capacity;
• in einflussreicher Stellung in the saddle;
• in führender Stellung at executive level, in the highest flight;
• in einer guten Stellung well-positioned, in good bread;
• in einer hohen Stellung in a high position;
• in leitender Stellung in a managerial capacity, at executive level;
• in meiner Stellung als Botschafter in my capacity as ambassador;
• in seiner Stellung als... in his character of...;
• in ungekündigter Stellung not under notice;
• in unsicherer Stellung unsettled;
• ohne Stellung unplaced, out-of-situation (Br.), out of a job, unemployed;
• unter Missbrauch seiner amtlichen Stellung under colo(u)r of one’s office;
• Stellung gesucht (Zeitung) [situations] wanted;
• amtliche Stellung official position, public function;
• angesehene Stellung reputable employment, well-established position;
• ausbaufähige Stellung position with good prospects, developable position;
• ausschlaggebende Stellung post of commanding importance;
• aussichtsreiche Stellung job with good prospects;
• beamtenähnliche Stellung quasi-official position;
• beruflich bedeutsame Stellung career position;
• begehrenswerte Stellung plum;
• mit besonderen Risiken behaftete Stellung sensitive position;
• beherrschende Stellung (mil.) commanding (dominating) position, controlling power;
• bequeme Stellung fat job;
• berufliche Stellung business standing (position);
• besoldete Stellung salaried position;
• gut bezahlte Stellung well-paid position;
• schlecht bezahlte Stellung badly paid situation;
• voll bezahlte Stellung full-time job;
• hoch dotierte (hoch bezahlte) Stellung high-paying position, highly paid job;
• einflussreiche Stellung post of authority, position of influence;
• einträgliche Stellung snug job;
• feste Stellung stable position, permanent position (job), perch;
• finanzielle Stellung capital rating;
• führende Stellung managerial occupation, head;
• geachtete Stellung respectability;
• gehobene Stellung advanced position;
• gehobenere Stellung elevated (senior) position, high-level job (US);
• gesellschaftliche Stellung social standing (position), [social] status, station of life, position [in society], conditions;
• gesicherte Stellung permanent position;
• günstige Stellung advantageous position;
• gute Stellung good place (billet);
• hohe Stellung high position;
• höhere Stellung eminence;
• leitende Stellung key position (post), policymaking (senior, executive, leading, managerial, US, management, managing) position, administrative post;
• marktbeherrschende Stellung [dominant] market power;
• uneingeschränkt marktbeherrschende Stellung absolute monopoly;
• niedrige Stellung inferior (subordinate) position, juniority;
• obrigkeitliche Stellung magisterial rank;
• passende Stellung suitable employment;
• pensionsberechtigte Stellung pensionable employment (post);
• rechtliche Stellung [legal] status;
• schlechtere Stellung inferior position;
• selbstständige Stellung occupation of a professional nature;
• sichere Stellung sound position, foothold;
• soziale Stellung social station (position, standing), status, walk of life, rank, class;
• unbedeutende Stellung inferior position;
• unkündbare Stellung permanent tenure (appointment, assignment, position);
• untergeordnete Stellung subordinated (lower, inferior) position, juniority;
• verantwortungsvolle Stellung responsible position, position of responsibility (authority);
• gesellschaftlich verbesserte Stellung improvement in one’s social condition;
• vorübergehende Stellung temporary position (post);
• Stellung eines Antrags filing of an application;
• Stellung als ungelernter Arbeiter labo(u)ring job;
• Stellung ohne Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten blind-alley job;
• Stellung im Beruf occupational position;
• höchste Stellungen in einer Berufssparte prizes of a profession;
• Stellung in der Betriebshierarchie relative position within the organizational chart;
• führende Stellung in der Gemeinde position of community leadership;
• Stellung mit Härtezulage hardship post;
• Stellung des Verbrauchers consumer’s role;
• Stellung ablehnen to turn down a job;
• pensionsberechtigte Stellung anbieten to offer employment on a pensionable basis;
• Stellung annehmen to accept (take) a position, to take a job;
• Stellung antreten to enter upon (take) office, to start on a job, to take up one’s post (a position);
• neue Stellung antreten to take a new situation (position);
• seine Stellung aufgeben to leave (give up) one’s position (job), to relinquish one’s appointment, to throw up (quit, US) one’s job, to turn one’s job in, to fling (pack) up one’s job, to step out;
• Stellung wieder aufnehmen to re-enter an employment;
• seine Stellung befestigen to strengthen one’s position;
• seine Stellung behalten to retain one’s position, to hold down a job (US);
• seine Stellung behaupten to hold one’s own;
• seine Stellung im technologischen Wettbewerb behaupten to keep up in the technology race;
• Stellung beibehalten to stay on the job;
• Stellung bekleiden to fill a position, to hold an office (a place);
• in einem Unternehmen eine einflussreiche Stellung bekleiden to play an influential rôle at corporate level;
• hohe Stellung bekleiden to be high in office;
• Stellung bekommen to obtain a position;
• gute Stellung bekommen to drop into a position;
• Stellung durch Beziehungen bekommen to secure an office through one’s pull;
• j. in seiner Stellung belassen to maintain s. o. in a position;
• sich mit allen Mitteln um eine Stellung bemühen to make every effort to get a job;
• j. in eine Stellung berufen to appoint s. o. to an office;
• Stellung besetzen to man a position;
• Stellung für j. besorgen to find a post for s. o. (s. o. a job), to land s. o. a job, to fix s. o. up with a job;
• sich um eine Stellung bewerben to try (apply) for a [vacant] post (position), to put in for a job (post), to run for an office;
• j. um seine Stellung bringen to do (kick) s. o. out of his job;
• sich für eine Stellung in Vorschlag bringen to offer o. s. for a post;
• führende Stellung einnehmen to hold a high-level position;
• j. wieder in seine frühere Stellung einsetzen to reinstate s. o. in his former office;
• j. seiner Stellung entheben to dismiss s. o. from a post;
• Stellung erhalten to get a situation;
• gute Stellung erlangen to drop into a position;
• jds. Stellung festigen to assure s. one’s position;
• seine Stellung festigen to consolidate one’s position, to raise one’s reputation;
• Stellung finden to find work, to land a job;
• Stellung im Ausland finden to find a situation abroad;
• vorteilhafte Stellung finden to find a lodgment;
• in eine führende Stellung gelangen to move up to an executive position;
• erstklassige (glänzende) Stellung haben to have a first-rate position (fine job);
• gute Stellung haben to be in good position, to have a snug berth (Br.);
• keine Stellung haben to be out of a situation;
• Stellung im Ausland haben to work on assignment;
• Stellung in Aussicht haben to have a job in prospect;
• seine Stellung als Handelsplatz eingebüßt haben to have lost its dominating position as a trading center (centre, Br.);
• seine Stellung halten to hold the pass (down a job, US);
• Stellung offen halten to keep a job open;
• sich in eine Stellung hineindrängen to edge one’s way into a job;
• sich in eine gute Stellung hineinmogeln to manoeuvre for position (fam.);
• bedeutsame Stellung innehaben to hold a prominent position;
• seine Stellung kündigen to give notice to one’s employer;
• den Erfordernissen einer Stellung Genüge leisten to have the necessary qualifications for a post;
• Stellung nehmen to adopt an attitude;
• zu einer Frage Stellung nehmen to take position on a question;
• zu einer Mietkündigung ordnungsgemäß Stellung nehmen to serve an appropriate counternotice;
• zu einem Problem als Steuerzahler Stellung nehmen to view a matter from the taxpayer’s standpoint;
• in abhängiger Stellung sein to be in a subordinate position;
• in beamteter Stellung sein to hold an office;
• ohne Stellung sein to be out of a job, to be thrown out of employment;
• in untergeordneter Stellung sein to be in inferior position;
• für seine Stellung geeignet sein to be fit for one’s job, to be fitted for a post;
• Stellung suchen to want a situation;
• Stellung mit guten Aufstiegsmöglichkeiten suchen to seek a situation with a future;
• sich nach einer Stellung umsehen to look for a job;
• j. in einer Stellung unterbringen to find a situation for s. o.;
• sich in seiner Stellung verbessern to improve one’s situation;
• seine Stellung Beziehungen (Protektion) verdanken to owe one’s position to influence, to get a job by push;
• j. aus seiner Stellung verdrängen to edge s. o. out of his job;
• jem. zu einer besseren Stellung verhelfen to assist s. o. in advancing his position;
• seine Stellung verlieren to lose (fall from) one’s position (job), to be thrown out of employment, to forfeit one’s place;
• jem. eine Stellung verschaffen to put s. o. onto a job;
• sich durch Beziehungen eine Stellung verschaffen to pull the wires for office;
• sich die für eine Stellung notwendigen Kenntnisse verschaffen to fit o. s. out for a post;
• sich mit List und Tücke eine Stellung verschaffen to push one’s way into a job;
• jem. durch unlautere (unsaubere) Machenschaften (Schiebung) eine gute Stellung verschaffen to create a job for s. o.;
• jem. eine gute Stellung versprechen to ensure s. o. a good post;
• seine Stellung wechseln to change one’s position;
• in eine Stellung mit höherem Verantwortungsbereich befördert werden to be promoted to heavier responsibilities;
• einem Angestellten seine alte Stellung wiedergeben to restore an employee to his old post. -
15 cargo1
1 = officer, official, position, post, office, job title, incumbent.Nota: Nombre.Ex. Thus, sometimes the information does not reach those officers who would benefit most from access to it.Ex. See also reference tracings include related headings such as personal and corporate headings for officials, pseudonyms used as uniform headings, etc.Ex. He has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility.Ex. The chief librarian or director of libraries, by which title the post is sometimes now known, will in general be fully occupied with making decisions on internal professional policy.Ex. Until Groome appeared, city officials were chosen not so much for their ability to administer the affairs of their offices as for who they knew; hence, old-style machine politics with its accompanying corruption found a congenial atmosphere in which to operate.Ex. The job title is designed to indicate the group (professional, associate, technician, or clerk) to which the job belongs and the level of the job within that grouping.Ex. This practice of having the former incumbent of the job train the new employee is risky, particularly if that departing employee has in any way been a problem.----* alto cargo = senior post, senior manager, senior executive, high official, top manager, senior official.* alto cargo público = senior public official.* altos cargos = people in high office.* ascender a un cargo = rise to + position.* aspirar a un cargo = aspire to + position.* beneficios del cargo, los = spoils of office, the.* cargo de director = directorship.* cargo directivo = senior post, top official, senior position, managerial position, executive position, top position.* cargo ejecutivo = managerial position, executive position.* cargo ejecutivo del gobierno = government executive.* cargo ministerial = ministry official.* cargo oficial = officer.* cargo político = government official.* cargo público = public official, federal official, elected official, public office.* dejar un cargo = resign + office, step down from + Posesivo + position, leave + office.* dimitir de un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.* en el cargo = in the saddle, in office.* en virtud del cargo que ocupa = ex officio.* en virtud de su cargo = ex officio.* jurar un cargo = swear in.* ocupar el cargo = be in the position.* ocupar un cargo = hold + position.* ocupar un cargo de dirección = hold + a chair.* persona designada para un cargo = appointee.* prebendas del cargo, las = spoils of office, the.* relevar de un cargo = relieve of + duty.* renunciar a un cargo = step down from + Posesivo + position, stand down.* titular del cargo = incumbent.* tomar posesión de un cargo = swear in, take + office. -
16 fonction
c black fonction [fɔ̃ksjɔ̃]feminine nouna. functionc black b. ( = métier) office━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ Le mot anglais s'écrit avec - un- au début.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The term la fonction publique has great cultural significance in France, and covers a much broader range of activities than the English term « civil service ». There are almost three million « fonctionnaires » (also known as « agents de l'État ») in France. They include teachers, social services staff, post office workers and employees of the French rail service.Because this status theoretically guarantees total job security, « fonctionnaires » are sometimes stereotyped as being unfairly privileged compared to private sector employees. → CONCOURS* * *fɔ̃ksjɔ̃prendre ses fonctions, entrer en fonctions — to take up one's post
2) ( dépendance)3) ( rôle) function4) Mathématique, Informatique, Chimie, Biologie function5) ( secteur) profession6) Technologie function7) Linguistique function•Phrasal Verbs:* * *fɔ̃ksjɔ̃1. nf1) (= rôle) function2) (= emploi, poste) post, positionvoiture de fonction [salarié] — company car, [ministre] official car
3) MATHÉMATIQUE, LINGUISTIQUE function4) (locutions)être fonction de (= dépendre de) — to depend on
en fonction de (= selon) — according to
2. fonctions nfpl(professionnelles) dutiesentrer en fonctions (entreprise, administration) — to take up one's post, to take up one's duties, POLITIQUEto take up office
* * *fonction nf1 Admin, Entr ( poste) post; ( activité) duties (pl); prendre ses fonctions, entrer en fonctions to take up one's post; depuis votre prise de or entrée en fonctions since you took up your post; se démettre/être démis de ses fonctions gén to resign/to be dismissed from one's post; [membre du gouvernement] to resign/to be dismissed from office; dans le cadre de mes fonctions as part of my duties; dans l'exercice de leurs fonctions while carrying out their duties; la formation n'entre pas dans leurs fonctions training is not part of their duties; occuper la fonction de secrétaire to hold the position of secretary; quitter ses fonctions to leave one's job; être/rester en fonction(s) to be/stay in office; logement de fonction accommodation provided with the job; voiture de fonction company car; occuper d'importantes fonctions to hold important office; être appelé à de hautes fonctions to be called to high office;2 ( dépendance) en fonction de according to; être fonction de to vary according to; réagir en fonction de cinq paramètres to react according to five parameters; le salaire est fonction des diplômes the salary varies according to qualifications;3 ( rôle) function; fonction d'une machine/un produit function of a machine/a product; avoir pour fonction de faire to be designed to do; faire fonction de to serve as; faire fonction de dessert/levier to serve as dessert/a lever;4 Biol function; les fonctions hépatiques liver functions; la fonction crée l'organe the organ is shaped by its function;5 Math, Ordinat function; fonction du deuxième degré second degree function; fonction continue/dérivée/exponentielle/périodique continuous/derived/exponential/periodic function;6 ( secteur) profession; fonction enseignante/médicale teaching/medical profession;7 Tech function; la fonction avance rapide est en panne the fast forward function does not work;8 Chimie function; fonction acide/base acid/base function;9 Ling function; fonctionsujet/complément subject/complement function; fonction connotative/dénotative connotative/denotative function.fonction de fonctions Math functional; fonction primitive Ordinat primitive; fonction publique Admin civil service; entrer dans la fonction publique to join the civil service.[fɔ̃ksjɔ̃] nom féminin1. [emploi] officeentrer en fonction ou fonctions to take up one's postremplir ses fonctions to carry out one's job ou functionsse démettre de ses fonctions to resign one's post ou from one's duties2. [rôle] functionla pièce a pour fonction de maintenir l'équilibre de la balance the part serves to keep the scales balanced3. [dépendre de]————————de fonction locution adjectivale————————en fonction de locution prépositionnelle————————fonction publique nom fémininla fonction publique the civil ou public service -
17 öffentlich
öffentlich I adj GEN public öffentlich II adv GEN publicly • öffentlich bekannt machen RECHT disclose publicly • öffentlich finanziert WIWI financed out of public funds • öffentlich gefördert GEN publicly funded • öffentlich nutzbar RECHT public domain • öffentlich verfügbar RECHT public domain • öffentlich versteigern GEN sell by auction • öffentlich zum Ausdruck bringen GEN express publicly (Meinung)* * *adj < Geschäft> public ■ durch öffentliche Mittel finanziert <Vw> financed out of public funds ■ in öffentlichem Eigentum sein <Pol, Vw> be under public ownershipadv < Geschäft> publicly ■ öffentlich finanziert <Vw> financed out of public funds ■ öffentlich gefördert < Geschäft> publicly funded ■ öffentlich nutzbar < Recht> public domain ■ öffentlich verfügbar < Recht> public domain ■ öffentlich versteigern < Geschäft> sell by auction ■ öffentlich zum Ausdruck bringen < Geschäft> Meinung express publicly--------: nicht öffentlich* * *öffentlich
[in] public, open, popular;
• nicht öffentlich private, close[d], exclusive, intramural, intra muros (lat.);
• teilweise öffentlich semi-public;
• öffentlich beglaubigt certified, notarized, legalized;
• öffentlich verhandelt tried in open court;
• nicht öffentlich [aber frei zugänglich] semi-public;
• öffentlich anbieten to put up for auction;
• öffentlich anschlagen to post, to placard;
• Stelle öffentlich ausschreiben to advertise a post;
• öffentlich beglaubigen to certify, to notarize, to legalize;
• öffentlich bekannt geben to announce publicly (to the public);
• Gesetz öffentlich bekannt machen to promulgate a law;
• öffentlich bekannt sein to be a matter of common knowledge (known to the public);
• öffentlich versteigern to sell at (by, put up for) auction;
• öffentliche Abgaben rates and taxes;
• öffentliches Amt bekleiden to hold a public office;
• öffentliches Angebot offer to the public;
• öffentliche Angelegenheiten matters of public concern, state affairs;
• öffentliche Ankündigung public announcement, proclamation;
• öffentliche Anlagen public parks (gardens);
• öffentliche Anleihe public (government[al]) loan;
• öffentliche Ansprache public speaking;
• öffentliche Arbeiten public works;
• öffentliches Ärgernis public nuisance;
• öffentliche Ausschreibung public tender, bid invitation (US);
• öffentliches Bedürfnis public necessity (want);
• öffentliche Bedürfnisanstalt public lavatory (convenience, Br.), comfort station (US);
• öffentliche Bekanntmachung public notice, proclamation;
• öffentliche Belange public policy;
• Verkehrsweg zur öffentlichen Benutzung freigeben to open (dedicate, US) a highway;
• öffentlicher Bereich public sector;
• öffentliche Berufsausübung common calling;
• öffentlicher Betrieb public undertaking;
• öffentlicher Bücherrevisor professional (public) auditor, chartered (Br.) (certified public, US) accountant;
• öffentlicher Dienst civil (public) service, public-service business;
• 30.000 Stellen im öffentlichen Dienst streichen to eliminate 30,000 public-service jobs;
• öffentliche Dienststelle public office;
• öffentliches Eigentum public property;
• öffentliche Einrichtungen public facilities;
• öffentliche Erklärung public statement;
• öffentlicher Feiertag public (legal, bank, Br.) holiday;
• öffentliche Fernsprechzelle telephone booth, public call-box (Br.);
• öffentliche Finanzen public finance;
• öffentliche Fürsorge national (Br.) (public, social, US) assistance;
• öffentliches Gebäude public building;
• öffentliche Gelder public funds (Br.) (money);
• öffentliche Gelder bestimmungsgemäß ausgeben (verwenden) to use public money only for public purposes;
• öffentliche Hand public authorities, mortmain;
• öffentliche Hinterlegungsstelle public trustee office (Br.), legal custodian;
• öffentliches Interesse public policy (interest);
• öffentliches Krankenhaus public hospital;
• öffentlicher Kredit public loan;
• öffentliches Leben public life;
• ins öffentliche Leben eintreten to enter public life;
• öffentliche Meinung public opinion;
• sich die öffentliche Meinung dienstbar machen to exploit public opinion;
• öffentliche Mittel public funds;
• öffentlicher Parkplatz public parking place;
• gegen die öffentliche Ordnung verstoßen to break the peace, to violate law and order;
• öffentlicher Platz public place;
• öffentliches Rechnungswesen public accounts;
• öffentliches Recht public law;
• öffentliche Ruhe (Sicherheit) und Ordnung stören to break the peace;
• öffentliche Ruhe und Sicherheit peace of the state;
• öffentliche Schuld National Debt, government (public, US) debt;
• öffentliche Schulen state (public, US, Scot.) schools;
• in öffentlicher Sitzung (Gericht) in open court;
• öffentlicher Speicher public warehouse (US);
• öffentliches Transportunternehmen common carrier;
• öffentliche Urkunde public (legal) document;
• öffentliche Verhandlung hearing in open court, public trial;
• öffentliches Verkehrsmittel public vehicle (transportation, US);
• öffentliche Verkehrsmittel benutzen to ride in public transport;
• öffentliche Verlautbarung public announcement;
• öffentliche Versammlung open meeting;
• öffentlicher Versorgungsbetrieb public utility [undertaking];
• öffentliche Versteigerung public auction;
• öffentliche Verwaltung public administration;
• öffentliches Wohl public welfare;
• öffentlicher Wohnungsbau public-sector housing. -
18 chargé
charge [∫aʀʒ]1. feminine nound. ( = obligation financière) charges expenses ; [de locataire] maintenance charges ; [d'employeur] contributionsf. ( = attaque) chargeh. [d'explosifs, électrique] chargei. (locutions)• être à la charge de qn [frais, réparations] to be payable by sb ; [personne] to be dependent upon sb► en charge• être en charge de [+ dossier, problème, département] to be in charge of• prise en charge (par un taxi) ( = prix) minimum fare ; (par la Sécurité sociale) reimbursement of medical expenses2. compounds* * *ʃaʀʒ
1.
1) ( fardeau) lit, fig burden, load; ( cargaison) ( de véhicule) load; ( de navire) cargo, freight; Nautisme ( fait de charger) loadingprendre quelqu'un en charge — [taxi] to take somebody as a passenger ou fare
prise en charge — ( dans un taxi) minimum fare
2) Architecture, Construction, Bâtiment load3) ( responsabilité) responsibilityavoir la charge de quelqu'un/quelque chose — to be responsible for somebody/something
prendre en charge — [tuteur] to take charge of [enfant]; [services sociaux] to take [somebody] into care [enfant]; [sécurité sociale] to accept financial responsibility for [malade]; to take care of [frais, dépenses]
prise en charge — ( par la sécurité sociale) agreement to bear medical costs
la prise en charge des réfugiés/dépenses sera assurée par... — the refugees/expenses will be taken care of ou looked after by...
4) Administration ( fonction) office5) ( preuve) evidence7) Électrotechnique, Physique chargecharge positive/négative — positive/negative charge
8) ( contenu)
2.
charges nom féminin pluriel gén expenses, costs; (de locataire, copropriétaire) service charge (sg)les charges de l'État — government expenditure [U]
Phrasal Verbs:••* * *ʃaʀʒ1. nf1) (= fardeau, capacité de transport) load2) (explosive) charge3) ÉLECTRICITÉ, ÉLECTRONIQUE charge4) MILITAIRE charge5) DROIT charge6) (= rôle, mission) responsibilityavoir des enfants à charge — to have dependent children, to have children to support
Elle a trois enfants à charge. — She has three dependent children., She has three children to support.
à la charge de (= dépendant de) — dependent on, supported by, (= aux frais de) chargeable to, payable by
Les frais de transport sont à votre charge. — Transport is payable by you.
j'accepte, à charge de revanche — I accept, provided I can do the same for you one day, I accept, provided I can do the same for you in return one day
prendre en charge [groupe, mission] — to take charge of, [dépenses] to take care of
prendre en charge des passagers [véhicule, chauffeur] — to take on passengers
la prise en charge de qch MÉDECINE (= traitement) — the management of sth, (financiers) agreement to pay medical costs of sth
7) (= lourde responsabilité) burden2. charges nfpl[loyer] service charges* * *charge nfA1 ( fardeau) lit, fig burden, load; ( cargaison) ( de véhicule) load; ( de navire) cargo, freight; Naut ( fait de charger) loading; le mulet peinait sous la charge the mule labouredGB under its load; sept enfants, quelle lourde charge! seven children, what a burden!; prendre qn en charge [taxi] to take sb as a passenger ou fare; prise en charge ( dans un taxi) minimum fare;3 ( responsabilité) responsibility; avoir la charge de qn/qch to be responsible for sb/sth; avoir qn à charge to be responsible for sb; avoir trois enfants à charge to have three dependent children; il a la charge de faire, il a pour charge de faire he's responsible for doing; c'est à vous que revient la charge de le mettre au courant it's up to you ou it's your duty to let him know; il s'est bien acquitté de sa charge he carried out his task well; prendre en charge [tuteur] to take charge of [enfant]; [services sociaux] to take [sb] into care [enfant]; [sécurité sociale] to accept financial responsibility for [malade]; to take care of [frais, dépenses]; les enfants sont entièrement pris en charge all the expenses for the children will be paid for; prise en charge ( par la sécurité sociale) agreement to bear medical costs; prise en charge à 100% agreement to bear full medical costs; prise en charge (de personnes, frais) undertaking to accept responsibility; la prise en charge des réfugiés/dépenses sera assurée par… the refugees/expenses will be taken care of ou looked after by…; se prendre en charge to take care of oneself; être à la charge de qn [frais] to be payable by sb; [personne] to be dependent upon sb; mes neveux sont à ma charge I support my nephews, I have my nephews to support; ces frais sont à la charge du client these expenses are payable by the customer, the customer is liable for these expenses; à charge pour lui de faire but it's up to him to do; avoir charge d'âmes Relig to have the cure of souls; ⇒ revanche;4 Admin ( fonction) office; charge élective elective office; occuper de hautes charges to hold high office; charge de notaire notary's office;5 ( preuve) evidence; il n'y a aucune charge contre lui there's no evidence against him;7 Électrotech, Phys charge; charge positive/négative positive/negative charge; être en charge to be charging up; mettre en charge to put [sth] on charge [batterie, accumulateur]; conducteur en charge live conductor;9 ( caricature) caricature; ce rôle demande à être joué en charge this role needs to be overacted.B charges nfpl gén expenses, costs; (de locataire, copropriétaire) service charge (sg); les charges de l'État government expenditure ¢; charges directes direct costs; charges d'exploitation running costs ou expenses.charge d'amorçage Mil primer; charge creuse Mil hollow charge; charge de famille Fisc dependent; charge inerte Mil inert filling; charge limite maximum load; charge nucléaire nuclear warhead; charge de rupture Constr breaking stress; charge de travail workload; charge utile Transp payload; charges fiscales tax expenses; charges locatives maintenance costs (payable by a tenant); charges patronales employer's social security contributions; charges sociales welfare costs.retourner or revenir à la charge to try again.2. [alourdi] intricatetissu/motif trop chargé overelaborate material/pattern3. (figuré)4. MÉDECINEchargé nom masculin[responsable]chargé de cours ≃ part-time lecturerchargé de mission ≃ (official) representativeIn French universities, chargés de cours supervise courses, though they do not hold full-time positions. -
19 urząd
( organ władzy) department; ( biuro) office; ( stanowisko) postUrząd Skarbowy — ≈Internal Revenue (BRIT), ≈the IRS (US)
urząd stanu cywilnego — register lub registry (BRIT) office
obrońca z urzędu — public defender (US), court-appointed lawyer (BRIT)
* * *mi-ę-1. (= organ władzy) office; agency; department; Urząd Bezpieczeństwa hist. the Security Service ( in communist Poland); urząd celny customhouse, customs-house; Urząd Ochrony Państwa the State Security Office; Urząd Patentowy Patent Office; US the Patent and Trademark Office; urząd pocztowy post office; Urząd Rady Ministrów the Office of the Council of Ministers; urząd skarbowy US the Internal Revenue Service, IRS; Br. Inland Revenue; urząd stanu cywilnego (civil) registry office; urząd wojewódzki the Province Governor's Office; urząd zatrudnienia employment agency; z urzędu ex officio; obrońca z urzędu prawn. court-appointed attorney, assigned counsel.2. (= biuro) office.3. (= oficjalna funkcja, stanowisko) office, post; piastować l. sprawować urząd hold office; pozostać na urzędzie remain in office; powołać kogoś na stanowisko dyrektora appoint sb (to serve) as director, appoint sb director; złożyć urząd resign l. step down from office.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > urząd
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20 sich
abkühlen, sich
(Konjunktur) to cool off.
abmelden, sich
to notify one’s departure.
absprechen, sich
to come to an arrangement, to agree;
• sich mit seinen Mitarbeitern absprechen to consult with one’s fellow workers;
• Schadenersatz absprechen to disallow damages.
abwechseln, sich
to take turns, to alternate;
• jährlich abwechseln (Vorsitz) to rotate every year;
• in Schichten abwechseln to rotate shifts.
aneignen, sich
to acquire, to appropriate, to adopt;
• sich Geld aneignen to embezzle funds, to misappropriate (convert) money;
• sich einen Namen aneignen to adopt a name.
auspendeln, sich
(Zinssätze) to stabilize at a certain level.
auswirken, sich
to bear upon, to take effect;
• sich auf das Betriebsergebnis auswirken to come through into the results;
• sich kostenmäßig auswirken to make a showing on costs;
• sich in einer Preiserhöhung auswirken to result in a price increase;
• sich schnell auswirken (Investitionen) to pick up quickly;
• sich ungünstig auswirken to have an unfavo(u)rable effect;
• sich voll auswirken to be in full swing;
• sich als Vorteil auswirken to turn out to be an advantage.
behaupten, sich
to stand one’s ground, (Kurse) to hold their ground, to keep its head, to keep (remain) steady, to remain firm;
• sich gut behaupten (Wechselkurs) to hold fairly steady;
• weiterhin hohe Kurse behaupten to continue to rule high;
• seine Rechte behaupten to safeguard one’s rights;
• sich am Schluss behaupten oder leicht abschwächen (Börse) to close steady to slightly lower;
• sich in seiner Stellung behaupten to hold one’s position;
• seine Stellung im technologischen Wettbewerb behaupten to keep up in the technology race.
behauptend, sich
(Preis) steady.
behelfen, sich
to make shift, to manage, to resort to expedients;
• sich ohne Sekretärin behelfen to do without the services of a secretary.
belaufen, sich
to come (mount up, run) to, to reach, to rise, to run into, to make;
• sich auf 10.000 Euro belaufen to foot up (figure out) to euro 10,000 debts;
• sich auf das Doppelte des Voranschlags belaufen to come to double the estimate;
• insgesamt belaufen to aggregate, to total;
• sich ungefähr belaufen to come near to.
bereichern, sich
to line one’s pockets, to make one’s pile;
• sich an Kinderarbeit bereichern to exploit child labo(u)r;
• sich öffentlich bereichern to enrich o. s. from public office.
beruhigen, sich
(Börse) to settle down, (politische Lage) to become stable, to ease;
• Gläubiger mit einer Ratenzahlung beruhigen to put off a dun with an instal(l)ment.
bewegen, sich
(Preise) to range (vary) from... to...;
• sich abwärts bewegen to be on the downgrade (skids, US);
• sich fast einheitlich um die 20% bewegen to cluster around the 20 per cent mark;
• sich entsprechend der Preisindexziffern bewegen to move in sympathy with the index figures of prices.
bewerben, sich
to apply for, to stand as a candidate for (Br.), to run, to [run as a] candidate, to seek, to go up (Br.), (um Lieferungen) to make a bid for, to tender, (um einen Preis) to compete for;
• sich um ein Amt bewerben to run (stand) for an office (US);
• sich um einen Auftrag bewerben to make a tender;
• sich persönlich bewerben to make a personal application;
• sich um eine Stelle (Stellung) bewerben to apply (run) for a position, to put in for a post (job, fam.), to compete for a job.
bewähren, sich
(Artikel) to stand the strain (test);
• sich nicht bewähren to prove a failure.
drehen, sich
(Börse) to turn;
• sich um ein Thema drehen to run on a subject.
durchschlagen, sich
to shift for a living;
• kostenmäßig durchschlagen to make a showing on cost;
• auf die Ladenverkaufspreise durchschlagen to work through to prices in the shops;
• direkt auf die Preise durchschlagen to feed straight through into the prices.
eignen, sich
to qualify, to be suitable (qualified);
• sich als Kapitalanlage eignen to be suitable for investment.
einbürgern, sich
to become established;
• teilweise einbürgern to denizen;
• wieder einbürgern to repatriate.
einigen, sich
to agree, to come to terms, to settle an issue (Br.);
• sich über die Bedingungen einigen to agree upon the terms;
• sich mit seinen Gläubigern einigen to compound with one’s creditors;
• sich auf die Gründung einer Gesellschaft einigen to agree to form a company;
• sich gütlich einigen to settle a matter amicably, to come to an amicable arrangement;
• sich auf einen bestimmten Preis einigen to agree on a certain price;
• sich vergleichsweise einigen to reach a settlement.
einmischen, sich
to intervene, to interfere, to meddle, to barge in (fam.);
• sich in die Angelegenheiten eines Nachbarlandes einmischen to intervene in the affairs of a neighbo(u)ring country;
• sich unaufgefordert (ungefragt) einmischen to meddle.
einpendeln, sich
(Kurse) to even out, to settle down.
einschiffen, sich
to embark, to get (go) aboard, to join one’s ship, to go on board, to [take] ship.
einwählen, sich
(Computer) to plug into.
emporarbeiten, sich
to work one’s way up, to win one’s way from poverty.
entschließen, sich
to determine, to decide, to make up one’s mind, to resolve;
• sich zu einem Kauf entschließen to decide on buying.
ereignen, sich
to occur, to happen, to take place.
erholen, sich
to recreate, to convalesce, to recuperate, to pick up, (Industrie) to be reviving, (Kurse) to look (pick, prick) up, to recover, to revive, to rally, to rise, to improve, (Markt) to improve, (sich schadlos halten) to make up for one’s losses, to repay (reimburse, recoup) o. s.;
• sich bei jem. erholen to draw (reimburse o. s.) upon s. o.;
• sich von einem geschäftlichen Fehlschlag erholen to recover from a business setback;
• sich beim Giranten erholen to have recourse to the endorser of a note;
• sich von den Nachwirkungen des Krieges erholen to recover from the effects of the war;
• sich bei den Schlusskursen erholen to be improving at the close;
• sich schnell erholen (Kurse) to brisk up;
• sich wieder erholen (Kurse) to be picking up again, to experience a recovery;
• sich finanziell wieder erholen to recover financially (one’s strength), to recuperate;
• sich für eine Zahlung erholen to cover o. s.
etablieren, sich
to establish o. s., to set up shop for o. s., to start a business.
festigen, sich
to consolidate, (Börse, Kurse, Preise) to [become] firm, to steady, to stiffen, to strengthen, to harden, to stabilize;
• Dollarkurs festigen to strengthen the dollar price;
• seine Stellung festigen to strengthen one’s position, to solidify one’s place;
• Währung festigen to stabilize the currency;
• sich erneut im Vergleich mit anderen harten Währungen festigen to strengthen again against other major currencies;
• Wechselkurse festigen to stabilize exchange rates.
freizeichnen, sich
to contract out, to exempt o. s. from a liability.
gesundschrumpfen, sich
to shrink to profitable size;
• sich gesundstoßen to make a packet (fam.).
heraufarbeiten, sich
to work one’s way (o. s.) up (o. s. into a good position).
herauskristallisieren, sich
to crystallize, to take shape;
• sich herausmachen (Firma) to make good progress;
• sein Kapital herausnehmen to withdraw one’s capital;
• Gehälter aus dem Preisindexsystem herausnehmen to disindex salaries from the price index;
• Geld aus jem. herauspressen to squeeze money out of s. o.;
• weitere Steuern aus dem Volk herauspressen to screw more taxes out of the people;
• Gewinne aus einem fallenden und überbesetzten Markt herausprügeln müssen to be forced to slug it out in a slumping and overcrowded market;
• Geld herausrücken to cough up (US sl.), to fork out (sl.);
• Zahlungen herausschieben to postpone payment;
• herausschinden to eke out;
• Geld aus jem. herausschinden to extract money from s. o.;
• zusätzliche Urlaubswoche herausschinden to wangle an extra week’s holiday;
• Geld aus einer Sache herausschlagen to get one’s money’s worth;
• allerlei Vorteile herausschlagen to gain all kinds of advantages;
• Unfähige herausschmeißen to weed out the incompetents;
• heraussetzen (Mieter) to evict, to eject, to turn out.
herausstellen, sich
to turn out, to prove;
• besonders herausstellen (Presse) to feature (US coll.), to highlight (US);
• sich als Fälschung herausstellen to prove to be a forgery;
• groß herausstellen to give a build-up;
• sich als sehr hoch herausstellen (Kosten) to come rather high;
• sich als missglückt herausstellen (Anlage) to turn sour;
• sich als Vorteil herausstellen to turn out to be an advantage.
hinschleppen, sich
to drag on.
konkretisieren, sich
(Forderung) to crystallize.
konstituieren, sich
(parl.) to assemble;
• Ausschuss konstituieren to appoint a committee;
• sich als eingetragene Gesellschaft konstituieren to form themselves into a registered corporation.
kreuzen, sich
to intersect, (Interessen) to clash, to run counter, (Straße) to cross.
kristallisieren, sich
to crystallize.
kräftigen, sich
(Kurs) to improve, to recover, (Markt) to strengthen;
• Dollarkurs kräftigen to strengthen the dollar price.
lebensversichern, sich
to assure one’s life with a company (Br.);
• sich für 20.000 L lebensversichern to insure (assure, Br.) o. s. for L 20,000;
• sich gegenseitig lebensversichern to insure one’s own life for the benefit of the other;
• seine Schlüsselkräfte lebensversichern to take out life policies on one’s key man.
liieren, sich
(Gesellschafter) to unite, to join, to associate, to become a partner.
massieren, sich
(Aufträge) to pile up.
niederlassen, sich
to set up for o. s., to take up one’s abode (domicile, residence), to locate, (Wohnsitz) to settle down;
• sich als Anwalt niederlassen to settle down in the practice of law;
• sich als Arzt niederlassen to put up (hang out) one’s shingle;
• sich als Buchhändler niederlassen to establish o. s. (set up business) as a bookseller;
• sich für dauernd niederlassen to settle down for good;
• sich geschäftlich niederlassen to establish o. s. as a businessman, to set up for o. s., to set up shop, to set o. s. up in business;
• sich im Hauptgeschäftsviertel niederlassen to fix one’s residence in the city;
• sich widerrechtlich niederlassen to abate.
rentieren, sich
to pay [its way (for costs)], to pay well, to bring a return, (Betrieb) to be profitable, (Ware) to leave a margin;
• sich gut rentieren to yield good profits;
• sich nicht rentieren not to be worthwhile;
• sich noch rentieren to break even;
• sich gerade noch rentieren to wash its face (Br. sl.);
• sich in zehn Jahren rentieren to pay its way in ten years.
stabilisieren, sich
to become stable;
• Preise stabilisieren to stabilize (peg) prices.
treffen, sich
to meet, to gather, to assemble;
• Abkommen treffen to come to an agreement (terms);
• Anordnungen treffen to prescribe;
• Auslese treffen to cull;
• Buchung treffen to pass (effect) an entry;
• Freigabeverfügungen für die Wirtschaftshilfe treffen to loosen its grip on the economic-aid purse strings;
• auf Öl treffen to strike oil;
• Steuerzahler heftig treffen to clobber the taxpayers;
• Übereinkommen treffen to compact;
• Übereinkunft treffen to come to an arrangement;
• Verabredung treffen to make (fix) an appointment;
• Verbraucher unmittelbar treffen to fall directly onto the consumer;
• vorläufige Vereinbarung treffen to make a provisional arrangement;
• Vorbereitungen (Vorkehrungen) treffen to make preparations;
• Vorsichtsmaßregeln treffen to take precautionary measures.
unterordnen, sich
to subordinate o. s.
verausgaben, sich
to spend beyond one’s means, to run short of money.
verbürgen, sich
to [a]vouch, to undertake, to warrant, to guarantee, to stand surety, to bail;
• sich für einen Bericht verbürgen to warrant a report;
• sich für jds. Ehrlichkeit und Zuverlässigkeit verbürgen to warrant s. o. an honest and reliable person;
• sich für eine Schuld verbürgen to answer for a debt;
• sich für jds. Zahlungsfähigkeit verbürgen to vouch for s. one's ability to pay.
verkalkulieren, sich
to miscalculate, to overshoot.
vermehren, sich
to multiply;
• sein Vermögen vermehren to enlarge one’s fortune;
• Zahlungsmittelumlauf vermehren to expand the currency.
verschulden, sich
to run into debt, to take on debts, to involve o. s. (get into) debt, to outrun the constable (Br.), to run up a score (Br.);
• sich kurzfristig erheblich verschulden to borrow heavily on a short-term basis;
• sich erneut verschulden to run into debt again;
• sich total verschulden (Staat) to plunge into debt;
• sich ungewöhnlich verschulden to go into debt at a record chip (US).
verschätzen, sich
to be out in one’s calculation[s] (estimate).
verspekulieren, sich
to lose money by bad investment.
verspäten, sich
(Schiff, Zug) to be overdue (behind schedule, US).
versteifen, sich
(Markt) to tighten [up].
verzweigen, sich
to branch out.
zurückhalten, sich
to keep a low profile, (Börse) to stay on the sidelines, (Verbraucher) to hold back, to resist;
• Aktien in Erwartung von Kurssteigerungen zurückhalten to hold stocks for a rise;
• Informationsmaterial zurückhalten to hold back information;
• Mittel zurückhalten to bottle up funds;
• sich mit der Verwirklichung geplanter Kapazitätsausweitungen zurückhalten to hold back on bringing in planned new capacity;
• restliche Ware zurückhalten to hold over the rest of the goods;
• Waren unberechtigt zurückhalten to wrongfully detain goods.
zurückmelden, sich
to report one’s return;
• sich vom Urlaub zurückmelden to report back from leave (one’s return).
zusammenschließen, sich
to amalgamate, to merge, to combine, to consolidate (US), (pol.) to unite, to fuse;
• Arbeiter in einer Gewerkschaft zusammenschließen to unite workers in a trade union;
• Firmen (Gesellschaften) zusammenschließen to consolidate business companies;
• sich zu einem Kartell zusammenschließen to join a cartel;
• sich in einem großen Unternehmen zusammenschließen to merge into one large organization;
• sich zu einem Verein zusammenschließen to club.
ändern, sich
to vary;
• Eintragung ändern to rectify (alter) an entry;
• nachträglich ändern (Wechsel) to alter materially;
• zweckentsprechend ändern to adapt.
überschneiden, sich
to overlap, to intersect, (Ereignisse) to clash;
• sich mit einem anderen Termin überschneiden to clash with another date.
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