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  • 81 maggiorazione

    "oversize;
    Übergrösse;
    Übermass;
    Aufmass;
    sobremedida"
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    1 (comm., econ.) (aumento) increase, rise, loading; (sovrapprezzo) surcharge, extra charge, additional charge: maggiorazione per spese postali, extra charge for postage; maggiorazione dei prezzi, increase in prices (o price rise); una maggiorazione del 20%, a twenty per cent rise; maggiorazione dello stipendio, increase in salary; maggiorazione delle tariffe, rise in rates (o increased rates); maggiorazione del nolo, freight surcharge
    2 ( Borsa) stagging.
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    [maddʒorat'tsjone]
    sostantivo femminile increase
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    maggiorazione
    /maddʒorat'tsjone/
    sostantivo f.
    increase.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > maggiorazione

  • 82 rate

    n
    1) норма, размер
    2) скорость, темп
    3) ставка, тариф; расценка; курс, цена; оценка
    4) показатель, степень, коэффициент; процент, доля
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  • 83 Erhöhung

    Erhöhung f 1. FIN increase, rise; raise (wages); 2. GEN boost, increase, advance; 3. PERS (AE) raise, (BE) rise; 4. V&M increase, rise, advance (Preis)
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    f 1. < Finanz> increase, raise (wages), rise; 2. < Geschäft> boost, increase, advance; 3. < Person> raise (AE), rise (BE) ; 4. <V&M> Preis increase, rise, advance
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    Erhöhung
    advance, increase, rise, levelling-up, (Gehälter) raise (US), rise (Br.), (Preise) enhancement, (Wert) improvement;
    • pauschale Erhöhung flat increase;
    • saisonbedingte Erhöhung seasonal increase;
    • spürbare Erhöhung appreciable increase;
    • stufenweise Erhöhung step-up;
    • Erhöhung der industriellen Abschreibungsbeträge increase in depreciation allowances for industry;
    • Erhöhung des Aktienkapitals stock capital increase;
    • Erhöhung der Aktienkurse improvement in stocks;
    • Erhöhung des Banknotenumlaufs increase of notes in circulation;
    • Erhöhung des Diskontsatzes increase in the discount (bank, Br., rediscount, US) rate;
    • Erhöhung des Einkommensteuerfreibetrages income-tax allowance increase;
    • Erhöhung der Eisenbahntarife raising of railway (Br.) (railroad, US) rates;
    • Erhöhung der durchschnittlichen Erdtemperatur increase in the globe’s average temperature;
    • Erhöhung der Freibetragsgrenze (Einkommensteuer) personal exemption increase;
    • Erhöhung der Fremdkapitalintensität high gearing;
    • Erhöhung des Kapitals capital increase, increase in capital;
    • Erhöhung der zurückgelegten Kilometer increase in mileage;
    • Erhöhung des Kredits increase of credit;
    • Erhöhung der Kreditvolumen increase in the amount of bank credit;
    • Erhöhung der Landegebühren increase in landing fees;
    • Erhöhung des Lebensstandards rise in the standard of living;
    • Erhöhung der Löhne wage increase;
    • Erhöhung der Mieten increase (raising) of rents;
    • Erhöhung um 3500 Pfund L 3500 plus increase;
    • Erhöhung der Portogebühren increase in (rise of, Br.) postal charges, postal increase;
    • Erhöhung der Preise rise in prices;
    • sprunghafte Erhöhung der Preise rapid enhancement of prices;
    • Erhöhung um einen Punkt one-point rise;
    • Erhöhung im Rang advancement;
    • Erhöhung des Risikos increase of the risk;
    • Erhöhung der Sondervergünstigungen fringe increase;
    • zur Arbeitsbeschaffung vorgenommene Erhöhung der Staatsausgaben make-work increase in government spending;
    • Erhöhung des Steueraufkommens revenue increase (raising);
    • Erhöhung des Steuerfreibetrages exemption increase (US);
    • Erhöhung der persönlichen Steuerfreibeträge raising personal allowances;
    • Erhöhung der indirekten Steuern indirect tax increase;
    • Erhöhung des Wertes increase (improvement in) value;
    • Erhöhung des Zahlungsmittelumlaufs monetization of the debt (US);
    • Erhöhung aufweisen to show an increase;
    • mehrprozentige Erhöhung aufweisen to rise several points;
    • Erhöhung der Staatsverschuldung auslösen (herbeiführen) to involve a great increase in the national debt;
    • Erhöhung des Verteidigungsetats beantragen to ask for more money for defence (defense, US);
    • Erhöhung im Kurs erfahren to experience a rise in prices.

    Business german-english dictionary > Erhöhung

  • 84 Tarif

    Tarif m 1. GEN tariff, rates, rate, scale of charges; 2. IMP/EXP customs, tariff
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    m 1. < Geschäft> tariff, rates, rate, scale of charges; 2. <Imp/Exp> customs, tariff
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    Tarif
    tariff, scale, rate, (Anzeigenwesen) advertising charges, space (advertisement, Br.) rate, rates, rate card (US), series rate, (Bahn) rates, rating, (el.) electricity tariff, rate (US), (Gas) gas tariff, rate (US), (Gebührenordnung) scale (list, schedule) of charges, (Gebührentarif für die Börse) schedule of commissions, (Löhne) scale of wages, wage scale (schedule), collective bargaining agreement, (individueller Lohntarif) pay scale, (Post) postal rates, (Steuern) scale of taxation, tax scale, (Transportgewerbe) freight tariff, [transportation] rate, (Versicherung) premium rate, (Zoll) customs rate (tariff);
    • laut Tarif according (as per) tarif;
    • tatsächlich abgerechneter Tarif (Anzeigenwesen) earned rate;
    • gesetzlich anerkannter Tarif (Bahn) lawful (legal) rate;
    • den Lebenshaltungskosten angepasster Tarif cost-of-living sliding scale;
    • anzuwendender Tarif tariff applicable, applicable (relevant) rate;
    • nach wissenschaftlichen Prinzipien aufgestellter Tarif scientific tariff;
    • ausgehandelter Tarif conventional tariff;
    • ausgehender Tarif (Seeschifffahrt) outward tariff;
    • autonomer Tarif (Zoll) single tariff;
    • besonderer Tarif exceptional tariff (Br.), (Bahn) class rate, (Versicherung) specific rate;
    • degressiver Tarif sliding-scale tariff;
    • einheitlicher Tarif standard rate, (Löhne) standard wage rate;
    • erhöhter Tarif advanced rate;
    • ermäßigter Tarif reduced tariff (rate, Br.), (Anzeigenwesen) short rate (US);
    • fehlender Tarif non-tariff;
    • wechselweise in Ansatz gebrachter Tarif alternative rate;
    • gekoppelter Tarif coupled rate (Br.);
    • geltender Tarif rate in force;
    • gemeinsamer Tarif (EU) common customs tariff;
    • gemischter Tarif mixed tariff;
    • genehmigter Tarif rate authorized;
    • staatlich genehmigter Tarif state-approved (official) rate;
    • gestaffelter Tarif differential (flexible, graduated) tariff, graduated rate, sliding scale, (Steuer) tapering rate, (Werbung) rate scale (US);
    • degressiv gestaffelter Tarif (Strom) block rate;
    • gleichmäßiger Tarif (Bahn) freight-of-all-kinds rate;
    • gleitender Tarif (Löhne) sliding wage scale;
    • gültiger Tarif applicable rate;
    • allgemein gültiger Tarif general purpose rate, general tariff, tariff (rates) in force;
    • örtlich gültiger Tarif local rate;
    • halber Tarif half rate;
    • hereinkommender Tarif (Seeschifffahrt) homeward tariff;
    • kombinierter Tarif combination tariff, (Anzeigenwesen) combined (combination) rate, (telecom.) two-part tariff;
    • kostengünstiger Tarif (tel.) low-price charge;
    • pauschaler Tarif flat (blanket, US) rate;
    • saisonbedingter Tarif seasonal tariff;
    • nur auf dem Papier stehender (überhöhter) Tarif (Bahn) paper rate (US);
    • übersetzter Tarif exorbitant rate;
    • von der Mengeneinheit unabhängiger Tarif any-quantity rate (US);
    • vom Verbrauch unabhängiger Tarif (el.) straight-line rate;
    • ungekürzter Tarif full tariff;
    • fest vereinbarter Tarif (Verkehr) arbitrary;
    • vergleichbarer Tarif comparable rate;
    • jahreszeitlich verschiedener (bedingter) Tarif (el.) seasonal tariff (Br.);
    • gesetzlich zulässiger Tarif lawful (legal) rate;
    • zweispaltiger Tarif two-column tariff;
    • zwischenstaatlicher Tarif intrastate tariff (US);
    • unterdurchschnittlicher Tarif für Behinderte substandard rate;
    • verbilligter Tarif für Durchgangsgüter transit rate;
    • Tarif für Einzelinsertion ohne Rabatt transient rate;
    • Tarif für Expressgüter spot rate;
    • ermäßigter Tarif bei beschränkter Haftpflicht des Spediteurs (Bahn) released rate (US);
    • Tarif für Mustersendungen sample rate;
    • Tarif für den Personenverkehr passenger rates, table of fares;
    • Tarife außerhalb der Saison off-season fares;
    • Tarif mit begrenztem Sonderangebot (Liniendienst) stand-by tariff;
    • Tarif für Stückgüter all-commodity rate, less-than-carload rate (US), mixed carload rate (US), mixed cargo rate (Br.);
    • Tarif nach normalem Verbrauch load-rate tariff, (el.) meter rate;
    • Tarif für Vorzugsplatzierung premium rate;
    • Tarif für Werbesendungen time charge;
    • Tarif aufstellen to tariff;
    • Tarif erheben to levy a rate;
    • Tarif erhöhen to raise a tariff;
    • Tarif festsetzen to [fix a] tariff, to list (schedule) the tariff value;
    • Tarif nach Teilstrecken festsetzen to zone;
    • Tarife freigeben to deregulate rates;
    • Tarif herabsetzen to cut rates;
    • Tarif senken to lower a tariff;
    • jem. einen günstigen Tarif zugestehen to accord s. o. a favo(u)rable rate;
    • Tarifabbau cut in rates, rate cutting;
    • Tarifabkommen (Lohnabkommen) trade (industrial, joint, collective bargaining, association) agreement, wage settlement, union contract, (Zollwesen) tariff treaty;
    • ganzen Industriezweig umfassendes Tarifabkommen collective labo(u)r agreement;
    • Tarifabkommen in der Autoindustrie auto wage settlement;
    • Tarifabschluss (Gewerkschaft) pay settlement, collective bargaining agreement;
    • neuer Tarifabschluss [settlement] package;
    • Tarifabschluss für Angestellte white-collar pay settlement;
    • Tarifabschlüsse im Rahmen einer zehnprozentigen Steigerung halten to keep pay settlements down to within the 10% margin;
    • Tarifabschlussvollmacht (Gewerkschaft) bargaining power;
    • nicht an Tarifabsprachen gebunden sein to be outside the trade-union system;
    • Tarifänderung (Bahn) exception to classification, (Löhne) modification of a bargaining agreement, (Zoll) duty (rate) change, change in rates, tariff revision;
    • Tarifänderungsbescheid exception sheet;
    • Tarifangebot pay offer;
    • gebündeltes Tarifangebot pay package;
    • der Belegschaft ein an die Produktivität gekoppeltes Tarifangebot zur Abstimmung vorlegen to ballot the workforce on a productivity deal;
    • Tarifangestellter standard wage earner;
    • Tarifangleichung (Löhne) wage adjustment, (Zoll) standardization of tariffs;
    • Tarifanhänger tariff advocate;
    • Tarifanhebung (Bahn) raising of railway rates (Br.), (Zoll) tariff increase (hike, raising);
    • Tarifanpassung (Zoll) adjustment of rates, tariff adjustment;
    • Tarifanpassung in Grenzfällen marginal adjustment;
    • Tarifanwendung application of rates;
    • Tarifanwendungsgebiet (Bahn) classification territory;
    • Tarifarbeit (Arbeiter) bargain work;
    • Tarifaufschlag surcharge on goods;
    • Tarifauseinandersetzung collective dispute;
    • harte Tarifauseinandersetzungen rough rounds of collective bargaining;
    • sich mit einer Tarifauseinandersetzung nach kurzer Stellungnahme nicht mehr beschäftigen to dismiss a tariff issue with a brief reference;
    • Tarifausgangspunkt (Spediteur) common (basing) point;
    • Tarifausnahme exemption;
    • Tarifausschuss tariff commission (committee), (Arbeitsplatzbewertung) merit-rating committee, (Arbeitsverträge) wages council;
    • Tarifautonomie (Löhne) wage autonomy, (Zoll) autonomous tariff system;
    • Tarifbegrenzung pay control;
    • Tarifbegünstigung (Verkehrspolitik) closed door, (Zollwesen) tariff (imperial, Br.) preference;
    • Tarifbehörde rate-making body;
    • Tarifberechner rate maker;
    • Tarifberechnung rate (tariff, US) making.

    Business german-english dictionary > Tarif

  • 85 contribución municipal

    f.
    municipal tax, local tax.
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    (n.) = council tax, local rates, real estate tax, real estate property tax
    Ex. Perhaps if the council used less money on laying the many many sleeping policeman on our roads, then there would be no need to increase our council and road tax each year.
    Ex. This act allowed for the establishment of town libraries, which were free and open to all ratepayers and provided by funds from local rates.
    Ex. In some states, it is permissible to separate the real estate tax into two separate taxes -- one the land value and one on the building value.
    Ex. Real estate property taxes are generally due in January and July of each calendar year.
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    (n.) = council tax, local rates, real estate tax, real estate property tax

    Ex: Perhaps if the council used less money on laying the many many sleeping policeman on our roads, then there would be no need to increase our council and road tax each year.

    Ex: This act allowed for the establishment of town libraries, which were free and open to all ratepayers and provided by funds from local rates.
    Ex: In some states, it is permissible to separate the real estate tax into two separate taxes -- one the land value and one on the building value.
    Ex: Real estate property taxes are generally due in January and July of each calendar year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > contribución municipal

  • 86 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 87 contractionary

    прил.
    эк. ограничительный
    Ant:
    tight fiscal policy, tight monetary policy Contractionary Tending to cause aggregate output (GDP) and/or the price level to fall. Term is typically applied to monetary policy (a decrease in the money supply or an increase in interest rates) and to fiscal policy (a decrease in government spending or a tax increase), but may also apply to other macroeconomic shocks. Contrasts expansionary.
    See:
    tight fiscal policy, tight monetary policy Contractionary Tending to cause aggregate output (GDP) and/or the price level to fall. Term is typically applied to monetary policy (a decrease in the money supply or an increase in interest rates) and to fiscal policy (a decrease in government spending or a tax increase), but may also apply to other macroeconomic shocks. Contrasts expansionary.

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > contractionary

  • 88 heraufsetzen

    v/t (trennb., hat -ge-) raise ( auf + Akk to), put up
    * * *
    he|rauf|set|zen sep
    1. vt
    Preise etc to increase, to raise
    2. vr

    komm setz dich zu mir herauf — come up here and sit with me, come and sit up here with me

    * * *
    he·rauf|set·zen
    vt
    ▪ etw \heraufsetzen to put up sep [or increase] sth
    * * *
    transitives Verb increase, raise, put up <prices, rents, interest rates, etc.>
    * * *
    heraufsetzen v/t (trennb, hat -ge-) raise (
    auf +akk to), put up
    * * *
    transitives Verb increase, raise, put up <prices, rents, interest rates, etc.>

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > heraufsetzen

  • 89 tasa

    f.
    1 rate.
    tasa de cambio exchange rate
    tasa de crecimiento growth rate
    tasa de desempleo (level of) unemployment
    tasa de interés interest rate
    tasa de mortalidad/natalidad death/birth rate
    tasa de paro (level of) unemployment
    2 tax (impuesto).
    tasas de aeropuerto airport tax
    4 valuation.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: tasar.
    * * *
    1 (valoración) valuation, appraisal
    2 (precio) fee, charge
    3 (impuesto) tax, levy
    4 (límite) limit; (medida) measure
    5 (índice) rate
    \
    sin tasa limitless, without limit
    tasa de crecimiento growth rate
    tasa de desempleo unemployment rate
    tasa de mortalidad death rate
    tasa de natalidad birth rate
    tasas académicas course fees
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=precio) rate

    tasa básica — (Com) basic rate

    tasa de basuras — refuse o (EEUU) garbage collection charge

    tasas locales, tasas municipales — local taxes

    2) (=índice) rate

    tasa de crecimiento, tasa de desarrollo — growth rate

    tasa de desempleo — level of unemployment, unemployment rate

    tasa de mortalidad — death rate, mortality rate

    tasa de nacimiento, tasa de natalidad — birth rate

    tasa de paro — level of unemployment, unemployment rate

    tasa de rendimiento — (Com) rate of return

    3) (=tasación) valuation, appraisal (EEUU)
    4) (=medida, regla) measure

    sin tasa — boundless, limitless

    * * *
    a) ( valoración) valuation
    b) ( impuesto) tax
    c) ( medida) moderation
    d) ( índice) rate
    * * *
    = rate, rate, rate, incidence.
    Ex. Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.
    Ex. Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.
    Ex. There will be special rates for additional services such as SDI or document delivery.
    Ex. The number of entries in pre-co-ordinate system will depend upon the incidence of references and multiple entries.
    ----
    * subida de las tasas = rate increase.
    * tasa anual = annual rate.
    * tasa bancaria = bank fee.
    * tasa de abandono escolar = dropout rate.
    * tasa de aceptación = adoption rate, acceptance rate.
    * tasa de acierto = hit rate.
    * tasa de actividad = activity rate.
    * tasa de adopción = adoption rate.
    * tasa de alcoholemia = blood alcohol level.
    * tasa de alcohol en sangre = blood alcohol level.
    * tasa de alfabetización = literacy rate.
    * tasa de aumento = growth rate, rate of growth, rate of increase.
    * tasa de citación = citation rate.
    * tasa de correos = postage rate.
    * tasa de crecimiento = growth allowance, growth rate, rate of growth.
    * tasa de criminalidad = crime rate.
    * tasa de dependencia = dependency ratio.
    * tasa de desempleo = unemployment rate, jobless rate.
    * tasa de deserción escolar = dropout rate.
    * tasa de devolución = rate of return, return rate.
    * tasa de error = error rate.
    * tasa de evaporación = evaporation rate.
    * tasa de exhaustividad = recall ratio.
    * tasa de fracaso escolar = dropout rate, failure rate.
    * tasa de incidencia = incidence rate.
    * tasa de inflación = inflation rate, rate of inflation.
    * tasa de inscripción = registration fee(s), enrolment fee.
    * tasa de irrelevancia = fallout ratio.
    * tasa de matrícula = enrolment fee, registration fee(s).
    * tasa de movimiento de mercancías = turnover rate, turnover rate.
    * tasa de movimiento de personal = turnover rate.
    * tasa de natalidad = birthrate [birth rate].
    * tasa de ocupación = bed occupancy rate, occupancy rate, room occupancy rate.
    * tasa de ocupación hotelera = hotel occupancy rate.
    * tasa de parados = jobless rate.
    * tasa de participación = participation rate.
    * tasa de pertinencia = precision ratio.
    * tasa de préstamo = lending rate, lending rate.
    * tasa de procesamiento = processing rate.
    * tasa de producción = production rate.
    * tasa de rendimiento = rate of return.
    * tasa de respuesta = response rate, rate of return, return rate, rate of response.
    * tasa de satisfacción = satisfaction rating.
    * tasa de suicidios = suicide rate.
    * tasa de suspensos = flunk-out rate.
    * tasa para cubrir gastos = cost-recovery fee.
    * tasa respiratoria = breathing rate.
    * tasas = dues.
    * * *
    a) ( valoración) valuation
    b) ( impuesto) tax
    c) ( medida) moderation
    d) ( índice) rate
    * * *
    = rate, rate, rate, incidence.

    Ex: Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.

    Ex: Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.
    Ex: There will be special rates for additional services such as SDI or document delivery.
    Ex: The number of entries in pre-co-ordinate system will depend upon the incidence of references and multiple entries.
    * subida de las tasas = rate increase.
    * tasa anual = annual rate.
    * tasa bancaria = bank fee.
    * tasa de abandono escolar = dropout rate.
    * tasa de aceptación = adoption rate, acceptance rate.
    * tasa de acierto = hit rate.
    * tasa de actividad = activity rate.
    * tasa de adopción = adoption rate.
    * tasa de alcoholemia = blood alcohol level.
    * tasa de alcohol en sangre = blood alcohol level.
    * tasa de alfabetización = literacy rate.
    * tasa de aumento = growth rate, rate of growth, rate of increase.
    * tasa de citación = citation rate.
    * tasa de correos = postage rate.
    * tasa de crecimiento = growth allowance, growth rate, rate of growth.
    * tasa de criminalidad = crime rate.
    * tasa de dependencia = dependency ratio.
    * tasa de desempleo = unemployment rate, jobless rate.
    * tasa de deserción escolar = dropout rate.
    * tasa de devolución = rate of return, return rate.
    * tasa de error = error rate.
    * tasa de evaporación = evaporation rate.
    * tasa de exhaustividad = recall ratio.
    * tasa de fracaso escolar = dropout rate, failure rate.
    * tasa de incidencia = incidence rate.
    * tasa de inflación = inflation rate, rate of inflation.
    * tasa de inscripción = registration fee(s), enrolment fee.
    * tasa de irrelevancia = fallout ratio.
    * tasa de matrícula = enrolment fee, registration fee(s).
    * tasa de movimiento de mercancías = turnover rate, turnover rate.
    * tasa de movimiento de personal = turnover rate.
    * tasa de natalidad = birthrate [birth rate].
    * tasa de ocupación = bed occupancy rate, occupancy rate, room occupancy rate.
    * tasa de ocupación hotelera = hotel occupancy rate.
    * tasa de parados = jobless rate.
    * tasa de participación = participation rate.
    * tasa de pertinencia = precision ratio.
    * tasa de préstamo = lending rate, lending rate.
    * tasa de procesamiento = processing rate.
    * tasa de producción = production rate.
    * tasa de rendimiento = rate of return.
    * tasa de respuesta = response rate, rate of return, return rate, rate of response.
    * tasa de satisfacción = satisfaction rating.
    * tasa de suicidios = suicide rate.
    * tasa de suspensos = flunk-out rate.
    * tasa para cubrir gastos = cost-recovery fee.
    * tasa respiratoria = breathing rate.
    * tasas = dues.

    * * *
    1 (valoración) valuation
    tasas municipales local o municipal taxes
    tasas de secretaría registration fees
    3 (medida) moderation
    sin tasa boundless
    tiene una desfachatez sin tasa she has an amazing nerve
    bebió sin tasa ni medida he drank like a fish
    4 (índice) rate
    Compuestos:
    bit rate
    rate o level of unemployment
    interest rate, rate of interest
    mortality rate
    birthrate
    * * *

     

    Del verbo tasar: ( conjugate tasar)

    tasa es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    tasa    
    tasar
    tasa sustantivo femenino


    c) ( índice) rate;


    tasa de mortalidad/natalidad mortality rate/birthrate
    tasar ( conjugate tasar) verbo transitivo ‹objeto/coche› to value
    tasa sustantivo femenino
    1 (proporción) rate
    tasa de desempleo, rate of unemployment
    tasa de natalidad/mortalidad, birth/ death rate
    2 (precio establecido) fee
    tasas académicas, course fees
    3 Econ (precio fijo, impuesto) tax
    4 (valoración) valuation
    tasar verbo transitivo
    1 (una casa, joya, etc) to value
    2 (fijar un precio máximo o mínimo) to set o fix the price of
    ' tasa' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    índice
    - TAE
    - rata
    English:
    APR
    - attrition rate
    - euro
    - rate
    - return
    - run
    - bank
    - entrance
    - exchange
    - fixed
    - flat
    - interest
    * * *
    tasa nf
    1. [índice] rate
    Fin tasa anual equivalente annual percentage rate; Fin tasa básica basic rate;
    tasa de cambio exchange rate;
    tasa de crecimiento growth rate;
    Fin tasa de descuento discount rate;
    tasa de desempleo unemployment rate;
    una tasa de desempleo del 10 por ciento 10 percent unemployment;
    tasa de fecundidad fertility rate;
    tasa de inflación rate of inflation, inflation rate;
    tasa de interés interest rate;
    tasa de interés fijo fixed interest rate;
    tasa de interés variable variable interest rate;
    tasa mínima basic rate;
    tasa de mortalidad death o mortality rate;
    tasa de natalidad birth rate;
    tasa de paro unemployment rate;
    Fin tasa preferencial prime (lending) rate; Fin tasa de rentabilidad rate of return
    2. [impuesto] tax
    tasas de aeropuerto airport tax;
    tasa municipal ≈ Br council tax, ≈ US municipal tax
    3. Educ
    tasas tuition fees
    4. [tasación] valuation
    5. [medida]
    gastar (dinero) sin tasa to spend (money) freely;
    beber sin tasa to drink heavily
    * * *
    f
    1 rate;
    tasa de crecimiento rate of growth, growth rate
    2 ( impuesto) tax
    * * *
    tasa nf
    1) : rate
    tasa de desempleo: unemployment rate
    2) : tax, fee
    3) : appraisal, valuation
    * * *
    tasa n
    1. (índice) rate
    2. (tributo) tax
    3. (cuota) fee

    Spanish-English dictionary > tasa

  • 90 rise

    I [raɪz]
    1) (increase) (in amount, number) crescita f. (in di); (in inflation) crescita f., salita f. (in di); (in rates, prices) aumento m., rialzo m., incremento m. (in di); (in pressure, temperature) aumento m. (in di); (in standards) miglioramento m. (in di)
    2) BE (anche pay

    rise —, wage

    rise —) aumento m. salariale, di stipendio

    3) (progress) (of person) ascesa f.; (of company, empire) ascesa f., progresso m.; (of ideology) affermazione f.
    4) (slope) salita f.
    5) (hill) collina f., altura f.
    6) fig.

    to give rise to — dare origine o adito a [rumours, speculation]; suscitare [resentment, frustration]; causare [problem, unemployment]

    ••

    to get a rise out of sb. — colloq. fare uscire qcn. dai gangheri

    II [raɪz]
    verbo intransitivo (pass. rose; p.pass. risen)
    1) (become higher) [ water] salire (di livello); [price, temperature] aumentare, salire; [ voice] alzarsi

    to rise above — [temperature, amount] superare

    2) fig. (intensify) [ pressure] aumentare; [ tension] salire; [frustration, hopes] crescere
    3) (get up) [ person] alzarsi; (after falling) tirarsi su, rialzarsi

    "rise and shine!" — "sveglia!"

    to rise to — essere o mostrarsi all'altezza di [occasion, challenge]

    5) (progress) [ person] fare carriera, farsi una posizione

    to rise to — diventare [director, manager]

    6) (slope upwards) [ road] salire; [ cliff] elevarsi, ergersi
    7) (appear over horizon) [sun, moon] sorgere, spuntare
    8) geogr. (have source)

    to rise in — [ river] nascere in [ area]

    9) gastr. [ cake] lievitare
    10) amm. pol. [committee, parliament] sciogliersi, sospendere la seduta
    •
    * * *
    1. past tense - rose; verb
    1) (to become greater, larger, higher etc; to increase: Food prices are still rising; His temperature rose; If the river rises much more, there will be a flood; Her voice rose to a scream; Bread rises when it is baked; His spirits rose at the good news.) aumentare; alzarsi; crescere
    2) (to move upwards: Smoke was rising from the chimney; The birds rose into the air; The curtain rose to reveal an empty stage.) alzarsi
    3) (to get up from bed: He rises every morning at six o'clock.) alzarsi
    4) (to stand up: The children all rose when the headmaster came in.) alzarsi
    5) ((of the sun etc) to appear above the horizon: The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.) sorgere
    6) (to slope upwards: Hills rose in the distance; The ground rises at this point.) ergersi; salire, alzarsi
    7) (to rebel: The people rose (up) in revolt against the dictator.) sollevarsi, ribellarsi
    8) (to move to a higher rank, a more important position etc: He rose to the rank of colonel.) elevarsi
    9) ((of a river) to begin or appear: The Rhône rises in the Alps.) sorgere, nascere
    10) ((of wind) to begin; to become stronger: Don't go out in the boat - the wind has risen.) alzarsi
    11) (to be built: Office blocks are rising all over the town.) sorgere, spuntare, nascere
    12) (to come back to life: Jesus has risen.) risuscitare
    2. noun
    1) ((the) act of rising: He had a rapid rise to fame; a rise in prices.) ascesa, salita
    2) (an increase in salary or wages: She asked her boss for a rise.) aumento
    3) (a slope or hill: The house is just beyond the next rise.) altura
    4) (the beginning and early development of something: the rise of the Roman Empire.) nascita
    •
    3. adjective
    the rising sun; rising prices; the rising generation; a rising young politician.) crescente, nascente
    - late riser
    - give rise to
    - rise to the occasion
    * * *
    I [raɪz]
    1) (increase) (in amount, number) crescita f. (in di); (in inflation) crescita f., salita f. (in di); (in rates, prices) aumento m., rialzo m., incremento m. (in di); (in pressure, temperature) aumento m. (in di); (in standards) miglioramento m. (in di)
    2) BE (anche pay

    rise —, wage

    rise —) aumento m. salariale, di stipendio

    3) (progress) (of person) ascesa f.; (of company, empire) ascesa f., progresso m.; (of ideology) affermazione f.
    4) (slope) salita f.
    5) (hill) collina f., altura f.
    6) fig.

    to give rise to — dare origine o adito a [rumours, speculation]; suscitare [resentment, frustration]; causare [problem, unemployment]

    ••

    to get a rise out of sb. — colloq. fare uscire qcn. dai gangheri

    II [raɪz]
    verbo intransitivo (pass. rose; p.pass. risen)
    1) (become higher) [ water] salire (di livello); [price, temperature] aumentare, salire; [ voice] alzarsi

    to rise above — [temperature, amount] superare

    2) fig. (intensify) [ pressure] aumentare; [ tension] salire; [frustration, hopes] crescere
    3) (get up) [ person] alzarsi; (after falling) tirarsi su, rialzarsi

    "rise and shine!" — "sveglia!"

    to rise to — essere o mostrarsi all'altezza di [occasion, challenge]

    5) (progress) [ person] fare carriera, farsi una posizione

    to rise to — diventare [director, manager]

    6) (slope upwards) [ road] salire; [ cliff] elevarsi, ergersi
    7) (appear over horizon) [sun, moon] sorgere, spuntare
    8) geogr. (have source)

    to rise in — [ river] nascere in [ area]

    9) gastr. [ cake] lievitare
    10) amm. pol. [committee, parliament] sciogliersi, sospendere la seduta
    •

    English-Italian dictionary > rise

  • 91 IBI

    * * *
    SM ABR Esp
    = Impuesto de {o}2} sobre Bienes Inmuebles rates, real estate tax (EEUU)
    * * *
    IBI (impuesto de bienes inmuebles)
    = local rates, council tax, local tax rates, tax rates, local taxes, property tax, rates, real estate tax, real estate property tax.

    Ex: This act allowed for the establishment of town libraries, which were free and open to all ratepayers and provided by funds from local rates.

    Ex: Perhaps if the council used less money on laying the many many sleeping policeman on our roads, then there would be no need to increase our council and road tax each year.
    Ex: The decision in Sweden not to raise local tax rates during the economic recession has hit all public services hard, including public libraries.
    Ex: The decision in Sweden not to raise local tax rates during the economic recession has hit all public services hard, including public libraries.
    Ex: Local taxes have been raised 10 percent, but library funding has not changed.
    Ex: Not unlike many municipalities in these inflationary times, Earnscliffe is feeling the pinch of a severely high general property tax -- i.e., the tax on real estate and personal property, both tangible and intangible.
    Ex: From the beginning it has been a local service, originally funded from the rates, but it needed Carnegie grants to really get off the ground.
    Ex: In some states, it is permissible to separate the real estate tax into two separate taxes -- one the land value and one on the building value.
    Ex: Real estate property taxes are generally due in January and July of each calendar year.

    * * *
    = impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles
    * * *
    m abr (= impuesto sobre bienes inmuebles) property tax, Br
    rates pl

    Spanish-English dictionary > IBI

  • 92 темп

    pace, rate, tempo

    замедлять темпы — to slacken the pace, to slow down

    снизить темпы инфляции — to bring down / to lower the inflation rate

    темпы прироста национального дохода — rates of increase in / of the national income

    темп развития — rate of development / growth

    темпы роста — growth rate; (экономики) expansion rate

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > темп

  • 93 rate

    A n
    1 ( speed) rythme m ; the rate of improvement/of production le rythme d'amélioration/de production ; the rate at which children learn le rythme auquel les enfants apprennent ; to work at a steady rate travailler à un rythme régulier ; at a rate of 50 an hour au rythme de 50 par heure ; at this rate we'll finish in no time à ce rythme nous aurons fini en moins de deux ; at this rate we'll never be able to afford a car fig à ce rythme-là nous n'aurons jamais les moyens d'acheter une voiture ; at the rate you're going… fig au train où tu vas… ; to drive/work at a terrific rate conduire/travailler à toute vitesse ;
    2 ( number of occurrences) taux m ; the divorce/birth/unemployment rate le taux de divorce/natalité/chômage ; the pass/failure rate for that exam is 60% le taux de réussite/d'échec à l'examen est de 60% ;
    3 ( level) the interest/mortgage rate le taux d'intérêt/de l'emprunt-logement ; the rate of growth/of inflation/of exchange le taux de croissance/d'inflation/de change ;
    4 ( charge) tarif m ; postal/advertising rates les tarifs postaux/publicitaires ; translator's rates les tarifs des traducteurs ; what is the rate for a small ad? quel est le tarif pour une petite annonce? ; telephone calls are charged at several rates il existe plusieurs tarifs pour les communications téléphoniques ; at a reduced rate à tarif réduit ; to get a reduced rate bénéficier d'un tarif réduit ; what's the going rate for a Picasso? quel est le prix moyen d'un Picasso? ;
    5 ( wage) tarif m ; his hourly rate is £12 son salaire horaire est de 12 livres sterling ; to pay sb the going rate for the job payer qn au tarif en vigueur ; what's the going rate for a babysitter? quel est le tarif actuel pour une babysitter? ; what is your hourly rate of pay? combien gagnez-vous de l'heure?, quel est votre salaire horaire? ;
    6 Fin ( in foreign exchange) cours m.
    B rates npl GB Tax impôts mpl locaux ; business rates ≈ taxe f professionnelle.
    C modif GB Econ Fin [increase, rebate] des impôts locaux.
    D vtr
    1 ( classify) I rate his new novel very highly j'admire beaucoup son nouveau roman ; how do you rate this restaurant/him as an actor? que pensez-vous de ce restaurant/de lui comme acteur? ; how do you rate the food in that restaurant? comment trouvez-vous la cuisine de ce restaurant? ; to rate sb as a great composer considérer qn comme un grand compositeur ; to rate sb among the best pianists in the world classer qn parmi les meilleurs pianistes du monde ; highly rated très coté ;
    2 ( deserve) mériter [medal, round of applause] this hotel rates three stars cet hôtel mérite trois étoiles ; the joke/the story hardly rates a mention la plaisanterie/l'histoire ne mérite pas qu'on en parle ;
    3 ( value) estimer [honesty, friendship, person] ; I rate courage very highly j'estime beaucoup le courage.
    E vi ( rank) how did our cheese/wine rate? où notre fromage/vin s'est-il classé? ; where do I rate compared to him? où est-ce que je me classe or situe par rapport à lui? ; she rates among the best sopranos in Europe elle compte parmi les meilleures sopranos européennes ; that rates as the best wine I've ever tasted c'est le meilleur vin que j'aie jamais goûté ; that doesn't rate high on my list of priorities cela ne figure pas très haut dans ma liste de priorités.
    F v refl how do you rate yourself as a driver? comment vous jugez-vous en tant que conducteur? ; she doesn't rate herself very highly elle n'a pas une très haute opinion d'elle-même.
    at any rate en tout cas.

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  • 94 steigen

    to climb; to arise; to rise; to prance; to ascend; to go up
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    stei|gen ['ʃtaign] pret stieg [ʃtiːk] ptp gestiegen [gə'ʃtiːgn] aux sein
    1. vi
    1) (= klettern) to climb

    auf einen Berg/Turm/Baum/eine Leiter stéígen — to climb (up) a mountain/tower/tree/ladder

    aufs Fahrrad stéígen — to get on(to) the/one's bicycle

    aufs Pferd stéígen — to get on(to) or mount the/one's horse

    ins Bett/in die Straßenbahn stéígen — to get into bed/on the tram

    in die Badewanne stéígen — to climb or get into the bath

    in die Kleider stéígen (inf) — to put on one's clothes

    vom Fahrrad/Pferd stéígen — to get off or dismount from the/one's bicycle/horse

    aus dem Wasser/der Badewanne/dem Bett stéígen — to get out of the water/the bath/bed

    aus dem Zug/Bus/Flugzeug stéígen — to get off the train/bus/plane

    in den Zug/Bus stéígen — to get on the train/bus

    wer hoch steigt, fällt tief (Prov) — the bigger they come the harder they fall (prov)

    2) (= sich aufwärtsbewegen) to rise; (Vogel) to rise, to soar; (Flugzeug, Straße) to climb; (= sich erhöhen) (Preis, Zahl, Gehalt etc) to increase, to go up, to rise; (Fieber) to go up; (= zunehmen) (Chancen, Misstrauen, Ungeduld etc) to increase; (Spannung) to increase, to mount; (= sich aufbäumen Pferd) to rear; (= sich auflösen Nebel) to lift

    Drachen stéígen lassen — to fly kites

    der Gestank/Duft stieg ihm in die Nase — the stench/smell reached his nostrils

    das Blut stieg ihm in den Kopf/das Gesicht — the blood rushed to his head/face

    stéígen — to rise in sb's estimation

    3) (inf = stattfinden) to be

    steigt die Demo/Prüfung oder nicht? — is the demo/exam on or not?

    2. vt
    Treppen, Stufen to climb (up)
    * * *
    1) (to rise or ascend.) climb
    2) ((of the tide) to rise: The boat left the harbour when the tide began to flow.) flow
    3) (to increase in size, value etc: The temperature/price has gone up.) go up
    4) (to rise in level: Prices are mounting steeply.) mount
    5) (to become greater, larger, higher etc; to increase: Food prices are still rising; His temperature rose; If the river rises much more, there will be a flood; Her voice rose to a scream; Bread rises when it is baked; His spirits rose at the good news.) rise
    6) (the act or rising: the rising of the sun.) rising
    7) ((the) act of rising: He had a rapid rise to fame; a rise in prices.) rise
    * * *
    stei·gen
    <stieg, gestiegen>
    [ˈʃtaign̩]
    I. vi Hilfsverb: sein
    1. (klettern) to climb
    ▪ auf etw akk \steigen to climb [up] sth
    durchs Fenster \steigen to climb through the window
    ▪ auf etw akk \steigen to get on[to] sth
    aufs Fahrrad \steigen to get on the bike
    auf ein Pferd \steigen to get on[to] [or mount] a horse
    ▪ von etw dat \steigen to get off sth
    vom Fahrrad \steigen to get off the bike
    von einer Leiter \steigen to come down off a ladder
    von einem Pferd \steigen to get off a horse, to dismount
    ▪ in etw akk \steigen to get [or step] into sth
    er stieg in seine Hose (fam) he put on his trousers
    in die Badewanne \steigen to climb [or get] into the bath
    in einen Zug \steigen to get on [or board] a train, to entrain liter
    ▪ aus etw dat \steigen to get [or step] out of sth
    aus dem Bett \steigen to get out of bed
    aus einem Bus \steigen to get off [or BRIT form alight from] a bus
    aus einem Zug \steigen to get off [or form alight from] a train, to detrain liter
    6. (fam: treten)
    auf die Bremse/aufs Gas \steigen to step on the brakes/on the accelerator [or fam gas]
    jdm auf den Fuß \steigen to tread on sb's foot
    7. (sich aufwärtsbewegen) to rise; Nebel to lift
    die Tränen stiegen ihr in die Augen her eyes welled up with tears
    das Blut stieg ihm ins Gesicht the blood rushed to his face, he blushed
    der Sekt ist mir zu Kopf gestiegen the sparkling wine has gone to my head
    der Duft stieg ihm in die Nase the smell reached his nostrils
    in die Luft \steigen to rise [up] [or soar] into the air; Flugzeug to climb [into the air]
    ▪ etw \steigen lassen to fly sth
    Drachen \steigen lassen to fly kites [or go kite-flying]
    Luftballons \steigen lassen to release balloons into the air
    8. (fam: sich begeben)
    ▪ in etw akk \steigen to get into sth
    ins Examen \steigen to take one's exam
    9. (sich erhöhen) to rise, to go up; Temperatur a. to climb; Popularität to grow; Preis, Wert to increase, to rise; Flut to swell, to rise
    der Preis dieses Artikels ist um 10% auf €22 gestiegen the price of this article has risen by 10% to €22
    in jds Achtung \steigen to rise in sb's estimation
    das S\steigen und Sinken der Kurse the rise and fall of prices [or rates
    10. (sich intensivieren) to increase, to grow; Spannung, Ungeduld, Unruhe a. to mount
    11. (sich bessern) Chancen, Stimmung to improve
    meine Stimmung stieg my spirits rose
    12. (fam: stattfinden)
    ▪ [bei jdm] \steigen to be [or fam go down] [at sb's place]
    heute Abend steigt das Fest des Sportvereins the sport club's having a party tonight
    II. vt Hilfsverb: sein
    Stufen/Treppen \steigen to climb [up] steps/stairs
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) <person, animal, aircraft, etc.> climb; <mist, smoke, sun, object> rise; < balloon> climb, rise

    auf eine Leiter/die Leiter steigen — climb a ladder/get on to the ladder

    aus der Wanne/in die Wanne steigen — get out of/into the bath

    in den/aus dem Zug steigen — board or get on/get off or out of the train

    ins/aus dem Flugzeug steigen — board/leave the aircraft

    der Duft steigt mir in die Nase — the scent gets up my nose; s. auch Kopf 1)

    2) (ansteigen, zunehmen) rise (auf + Akk. to, um by) <price, cost, salary, output> increase, rise; <debts, tension> increase, mount; < chances> improve

    in jemandes Achtung steigen — (fig.) go up or rise in somebody's estimation

    3) (ugs.): (stattfinden) be on
    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb; mit sein climb <stairs, steps>
    * * *
    steigen; steigt, stieg, ist gestiegen
    A. v/i
    1. hinauf: climb; in die Luft: auch rise; FLUG climb (
    auf +akk to); Ballon: auch ascend; Nebel: lift; Wasserspiegel: rise; Sonne: rise, come up;
    auf einen Baum/Berg etc
    steigen climb (up) a tree/mountain etc;
    in den Keller/die Schlucht steigen climb ( oder go) down into the cellar/ravine;
    aufs Pferd steigen mount ( oder get on) one’s horse;
    vom Pferd steigen dismount (from one’s horse), get off one’s horse;
    aufs Fahrrad steigen get on ( oder mount) one’s bicycle;
    vom Fahrrad steigen get off ( oder dismount from) one’s bicycle;
    aus dem Wasser steigen come out of the water;
    in die/aus der Wanne steigen climb ( oder get) into/out of the bath;
    ins/aus dem Bett steigen umg get into/out of bed;
    mit jemandem ins Bett steigen umg get into bed with sb;
    auf den Thron steigen ascend the throne;
    einen Drachen/Ballon steigen lassen fly a kite/send up a balloon;
    steigen in (+akk) → auch einsteigen
    2. umg (treten) step;
    auf die Bremse steigen slam the brakes on, step on the brakes;
    aufs Gas steigen step on the gas (Br auch accelerator);
    in die Hose steigen get ( oder step) into one’s trousers (US pants);
    ins Examen steigen fig take an exam
    3.
    das Blut stieg ihr ins Gesicht the blood rushed to her face;
    Tränen stiegen ihr in die Augen tears welled up in her eyes;
    etwas steigt jemandem in die Nase sth gets up ( oder into) sb’s nose
    4. (höher werden) auch Spannung: rise; Fieber, Temperatur, Thermometer: auch go up; (zunehmen) go up, increase; bedrohlich: escalate; WIRTSCH, Preise, Kurse etc: rise (
    bis zu to), go up;
    die Stimmung stieg merklich the general mood improved noticeably, everyone’s spirits rose markedly;
    die Ansprüche/Aussichten sind gestiegen demands have grown/prospects have improved
    5. Pferd: (sich aufbäumen) rear
    6. umg (stattfinden):
    heute Abend steigt eine Fete there’s a party (on) tonight, there’s going to be a party tonight;
    der Coup/Banküberfall steigt am Freitag the coup will happen/the bank heist is going down on Friday; → Achtung 2, Dach, Kopf 5, Wert etc
    B. v/t:
    Treppen steigen climb stairs
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) <person, animal, aircraft, etc.> climb; <mist, smoke, sun, object> rise; < balloon> climb, rise

    auf eine Leiter/die Leiter steigen — climb a ladder/get on to the ladder

    aus der Wanne/in die Wanne steigen — get out of/into the bath

    in den/aus dem Zug steigen — board or get on/get off or out of the train

    ins/aus dem Flugzeug steigen — board/leave the aircraft

    der Duft steigt mir in die Nase — the scent gets up my nose; s. auch Kopf 1)

    2) (ansteigen, zunehmen) rise (auf + Akk. to, um by) <price, cost, salary, output> increase, rise; <debts, tension> increase, mount; < chances> improve

    in jemandes Achtung steigen — (fig.) go up or rise in somebody's estimation

    3) (ugs.): (stattfinden) be on
    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb; mit sein climb <stairs, steps>
    * * *
    - n.
    rise n.

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  • 95 IBI (impuesto de bienes inmuebles)

    = local rates, council tax, local tax rates, tax rates, local taxes, property tax, rates, real estate tax, real estate property tax.
    Ex. This act allowed for the establishment of town libraries, which were free and open to all ratepayers and provided by funds from local rates.
    Ex. Perhaps if the council used less money on laying the many many sleeping policeman on our roads, then there would be no need to increase our council and road tax each year.
    Ex. The decision in Sweden not to raise local tax rates during the economic recession has hit all public services hard, including public libraries.
    Ex. The decision in Sweden not to raise local tax rates during the economic recession has hit all public services hard, including public libraries.
    Ex. Local taxes have been raised 10 percent, but library funding has not changed.
    Ex. Not unlike many municipalities in these inflationary times, Earnscliffe is feeling the pinch of a severely high general property tax -- i.e., the tax on real estate and personal property, both tangible and intangible.
    Ex. From the beginning it has been a local service, originally funded from the rates, but it needed Carnegie grants to really get off the ground.
    Ex. In some states, it is permissible to separate the real estate tax into two separate taxes -- one the land value and one on the building value.
    Ex. Real estate property taxes are generally due in January and July of each calendar year.

    Spanish-English dictionary > IBI (impuesto de bienes inmuebles)

  • 96 interés

    m.
    1 interest, concernment, regard, interestedness.
    2 interest, yield.
    * * *
    1 (gen) interest; (propio) self-interest
    2 FINANZAS interest
    \
    de gran interés very interesting
    ir en interés de to be in the interests of
    poner interés en algo to take an interest in something, put effort into something
    tener interés en to be interested in
    interés compuesto compound interest
    interés simple simple interest
    intereses creados vested interests
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=valor) interest
    2) (=curiosidad) interest

    el tema despertó o suscitó el interés del público — the topic aroused public interest

    • esperar algo con interés — to await sth with interest

    • mostrar interés en o por algo — to show (an) interest in sth

    • poner interés en algo — to take an interest in sth

    • sentir o tener interés por algo — to be interested in sth

    si tienes interés por el piso, todavía está a la venta — if you're interested in the flat, it's still for sale

    siento auténtico interés por los idiomas — I have a real interest o I am really interested in languages

    sentir o tener interés por hacer algo — to be interested in doing sth

    3) (=beneficio)
    a) [de persona, país] interest

    ¿qué interés tienes tú en que pierdan el partido? — what's your interest in their losing the match?

    b) (Econ) interest

    un préstamo a o con un interés del 9 por ciento — a loan at 9 per cent interest

    • dar interés — [capital, inversión] to yield interest; [banco, cuenta] to pay interest

    mi capital me da un interés del 5,3 por ciento — my capital yields an interest of 5.3 per cent

    • devengar interés — to accrue interest, earn interest

    • tasa LAm o tipo de interés — interest rate

    interés devengado — accrued interest, earned interest

    4) pl intereses
    a) (Com) interests

    • un conflicto de intereses — a conflict of interests

    • tener intereses en algo — to have interests o a stake in sth

    tiene intereses en varias compañías extranjeras — he has interests o a stake in several foreign companies

    b) (=aficiones) interests

    ¿qué intereses tienes? — what are your interests?

    * * *
    1)
    a) (importancia, valor) interest
    b) ( actitud) interest

    tengo especial interés en que... — I am particularly concerned o keen that...

    c) (afición, inquietud) interest
    2)
    a) (conveniencia, beneficio) interest

    por tu propio interés — in your own interest, for your own good

    b) intereses masculino plural ( objetivos) interests (pl)
    c) intereses masculino plural (bienes, capital)

    tiene intereses en esa empresa — he has a stake o an interest in that company

    3) (Fin) interest

    a or con un interés del 12% — at 12% interest o at an interest rate of 12%

    •
    * * *
    1)
    a) (importancia, valor) interest
    b) ( actitud) interest

    tengo especial interés en que... — I am particularly concerned o keen that...

    c) (afición, inquietud) interest
    2)
    a) (conveniencia, beneficio) interest

    por tu propio interés — in your own interest, for your own good

    b) intereses masculino plural ( objetivos) interests (pl)
    c) intereses masculino plural (bienes, capital)

    tiene intereses en esa empresa — he has a stake o an interest in that company

    3) (Fin) interest

    a or con un interés del 12% — at 12% interest o at an interest rate of 12%

    •
    * * *
    interés1
    1 = appeal, appetite, concern, focus, involvement, interest, knowledge interest, piquancy, penchant, pursuit, topicality.

    Ex: Indeed, if they are not successful in finding ways of renewing their original purpose and appeal, they are on their way to dissolution and displacement.

    Ex: We need to know what and how consumers' information appetites have changed.
    Ex: The use of agents is necessary but not ideal, because an agent often represents rival concerns, and aims for a quick turnover rather than long-term profitability.
    Ex: Our focus in this text is on the first stage in the following diagram.
    Ex: Clearly, anyone having any dealings at all with the CAP needs a general understanding of how the system works, at a level which is appropriate to their involvement.
    Ex: An abstracting bulletin is generally a weekly or monthly current-awareness service containing abstracts of all documents of interest that have passed into the library or information unit during that time.
    Ex: Phenomenography is an approach that builds on phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions; its knowledge interest is to describe the varying conceptions held within a specific group about a phenomenon = La fenomenografía es un método que parte de las tradicionaes fenomenológicas y hermenéuticas; su interés es describir las diversas concepciones que un grupo concreto tiene sobre un fenómeno.
    Ex: Young was a man of singular eccentricity and piquancy of character, a person who was very interesting in his own right.
    Ex: Our penchant to organize is perhaps as close to a biological imperative as any form of human behavior is likely to come.
    Ex: What is more arguable is whether or not it is a bibliographical pursuit at all since it bears little relationship to the physical nature of the book.
    Ex: This year, the event is gaining topicality because of the EU enlargement.
    * actuar en defensa de los intereses de las bibliotecas y bibliotec = library advocacy.
    * adaptarse a un interés = accommodate + interest.
    * ámbito de interés = sphere of interest.
    * ampliar el interés = broaden + interest.
    * aprovecharse del interés general por Algo = exploit + appeal.
    * área de interés = field of interest.
    * atraer el interés = capture + the imagination, capture + the interest, draw + interest.
    * atraer el interés de = catch + the imagination of.
    * caer fuera del interés de = lie outside + the scope of.
    * caer fuera del interés de uno = fall outside + Posesivo + interest.
    * campo de interés = sphere of interest.
    * captar el interés = capture + the imagination, capture + the interest.
    * captar el interés de = catch + the imagination of.
    * coincidir con los intereses de uno = match + interests.
    * combinar intereses = bridge + interests.
    * conflicto de intereses = conflict of interest(s), competing interests.
    * con intereses ocultos = agenda-laden.
    * con intereses propios = self-interested.
    * conjunto de intereses = set of interests.
    * Consejo Internacional de Museos y Lugares de Interés (ICOMS) = International Council of Museums and Sites (ICOMOS).
    * constatar el interés = gauge + interest.
    * con un interés en = with a stake in.
    * crear interés = build + interest.
    * dar interés = spice up, add + spice.
    * debate por tema de interés = breakout discussion.
    * defender los intereses = defend + interests, lobby for + interests.
    * defender los intereses de = go to + bat for, bat for.
    * defensa de intereses = lobbying.
    * defensa de los intereses de las bibliotecas y bibliotecarios = library advocacy.
    * defensor de los intereses del ciudadano = watchdog.
    * de interés especial = of particular concern, special-interest.
    * de intereses similares = of like interest.
    * de interés general = general-interest, of general interest.
    * de interés humano = human interest.
    * de interés periodístico = newsworthy.
    * despertar el interés = provoke + interest, stimulate + interest, stir + interest, whet + the appetite, heighten + interest, rouse + interest, capture + the imagination, capture + the interest, work up + an interest, pique + interest.
    * despertar el interés de = catch + the imagination of.
    * despertar interés = arouse + interest, attract + interest, raise + interest, spark + interest.
    * despertar interés por = kindle + interest in.
    * destinado a despertar el interés del usuario = highlight abstract.
    * dirigir los intereses de uno = break into.
    * el interés público = the public interest.
    * en interés de = in the interest(s) of.
    * esperar con interés (+ Infinitivo), = look forward to (+ Gerundio).
    * estar fuera del interés = lie outside + the scope of.
    * estar fuera del interés de uno = lie beyond + concern.
    * expresión de interés = application.
    * falta de interés por cooperar = unresponsiveness.
    * foco de interés = focus of interest, focus of concern, focus of attention.
    * fomentar el interés = raise + interest, foster + interest, foster + interest.
    * fomentar interés = build + interest.
    * generar interés = generate + interest.
    * grupo de interés = focus group, interest group.
    * grupo de trabajo por tema de interés = breakout group.
    * guiado por intereses propios = interest-determined.
    * hacer que pierda el interés = take + the shine off things.
    * institución de interés histórico = heritage institution.
    * institución de interés histórico y cultural = cultural heritage institution.
    * interés cada vez mayor = growing interest.
    * interés + centrarse en = interest + lie with.
    * interés comercial = business interest, commercial interest.
    * interés común = shared interest.
    * interés creado = vested interest.
    * interés + decaer = interest + flag.
    * interés económico = economic interest.
    * intereses = breadth of interests.
    * intereses comerciales = market forces, marketplace forces.
    * intereses comunes = common ground, community of interest.
    * intereses contrapuestos = conflicting interests.
    * intereses cotidianos = life interests.
    * intereses de lectura = reading interests.
    * intereses encontrados = competing interests.
    * intereses ocultos = hidden agenda.
    * interés general = public interest.
    * interés pasajero = passing interest.
    * interés periodístico = newsworthiness.
    * interés personal = vested interest, self-interest, axe + to grind, personal interest.
    * interés por ganar dinero = profit motive.
    * interés por los libros = awareness of books.
    * interés público = public interest.
    * interés renovado = renewed interest.
    * ir en detrimento de los intereses = prejudice + interests.
    * lleno de interés = solicitously.
    * lugar de interés = attraction, sight.
    * lugares de interés = sights.
    * mantener el interés = hold + the interest.
    * mantener un interés = pursue + interest.
    * material documental de interés para los vecinos del barrio = community literature.
    * máximo interés = maximum interest.
    * mostrar interés = mark + interest.
    * mostrar interés en = show + interest in.
    * mostrar interés por = express + interest in.
    * motivado por intereses propios = interest-based.
    * mucho interés = keen interest.
    * muestra de interés = expression of interest.
    * no tener ningún interés = can't/couldn't be bothered.
    * noticias diarias de interés = daily news alerts.
    * objeto de interés = object of interest.
    * ordenación topográfica según los intereses del lector = reader interest arrangement.
    * para personas con intereses similares = birds-of-a-feather.
    * perder el interés = pall.
    * perder interés = lapse, lose + interest.
    * perfil de interés = subject interest.
    * perfil de interés del usuario = subject profile, user interest profile.
    * perjudicar los intereses = prejudice + interests.
    * por interés = out of interest.
    * por interés personal = self-interested.
    * profundizar el interés = deepen + interest.
    * promover un interés = promote + interest.
    * proyección de cuestiones de interés = issues management.
    * punto de interés = point of interest.
    * quitar el interés = take + the shine off things.
    * renovado interés = upsurge.
    * resumen de interés = highlight abstract.
    * reunión por temas de interés = breakout session.
    * según los intereses personales de cada uno = interest-based.
    * ser de interés para = be of interest (to/for).
    * servir los intereses = serve + interests.
    * sesión por tema de interés = breakout session.
    * sin interés = unexciting, uninteresting, unmoving, vapid.
    * tarea falta de interés = chore.
    * tema de interés = area of concern, area of enquiry [area of inquiry], area of interest, focus area, issue of concern, topic of interest.
    * temas de interés de los usuarios = user interests.
    * temas de interés particular = particular concerns.
    * tenemos intereses en ambas partes = our feet are in both worlds.
    * tener intereses en juego = have + invested.
    * tener interés por = have + an interest in.
    * tener interés por = be interested in.
    * tener mucho interés en = have + a high stake in.
    * tener mucho interés por = be keen to.
    * tener un interés muy personal en = have + a stake in, hold + a stake in.
    * tomarse interés por = take + an interest in.

    interés2
    2 = interest, rate, interest charge.

    Ex: Repayments is normally by equal half-yearly payments of capital and interest after a moratorium on capital repayments of up to five years, depending on project completion date.

    Ex: The EIB is able to borrow money at the best possible rates, and as it is non-profit making it is able to offer loans at advantageous terms.
    Ex: And, most importantly, even if a company makes a loss, it still has to pay its interest charges.
    * interés bancario = interest rate.
    * interés compuesto = compound interest.
    * intereses del capital = capital charges.
    * interés fijo = fixed interest.
    * interés simple = simple interest.
    * pago de los intereses = interest payment.
    * recorte de los tipos de interés = rate cut, interest-rate cut.
    * reducción de los tipos de interés = rate cut, interest-rate cut.
    * subida de los tipos de interés = rate increase, interest-rate increase.
    * tipo de interés base = base rate, prime rate.
    * tipo de interés preferente = base rate, prime rate.

    * * *
    A
    1 (importancia, valor) interest
    de interés turístico of interest to tourists
    un tema de interés humano a human interest story
    un descubrimiento de enorme interés científico a discovery of enormous scientific significance o importance
    una anécdota sin ningún interés an anecdote of little or no interest
    2 (actitud) interest
    el anuncio despertó or suscitó el interés de todos the advertisement aroused everyone's interest
    con gran interés with great interest
    interés EN algo interest IN sth
    pon más interés en tus estudios take more interest in your schoolwork
    tengo especial interés en que esto se resuelva pronto I am particularly concerned o keen that this should be resolved quickly
    tienen gran interés en probarlo they are very interested in testing it
    3 (afición, inquietud) interest
    la fotografía se cuenta entre sus muchos intereses photography is one of her many interests
    B
    1 (conveniencia, beneficio) interest
    por tu propio interés in your own interest, for your own good o benefit
    las mejoras van en interés de todos the improvements are in everyone's interest
    actúa sólo por interés he acts purely out of self-interest o in his own interest
    2 intereses mpl (objetivos) interests (pl)
    había un conflicto de intereses there was a conflict of interests
    (bienes, capital): tiene intereses en varias empresas he has a stake o an interest in several companies
    un contable administra sus intereses an accountant looks after her investments
    Compuestos:
    mpl vested interests (pl)
    mpl private interests (pl)
    el interés público the public interest
    C ( Fin) interest
    un préstamo a or con un interés del 12% a loan at 12% interest o at an interest rate of 12%
    pagan unos intereses muy altos or un interés muy alto they pay very high interest o very high rates of interest
    devengar or ganar intereses to earn interest
    tipo de interés rate of interest
    Compuestos:
    compound interest
    simple interest
    * * *

     

    interés sustantivo masculino
    1 ( en general) interest;

    pon más interés en tus estudios take more interest in your schoolwork;
    tengo especial interés en que … I am particularly concerned o keen that …;
    tienen gran interés en verlo they are very interested in seeing it;
    por tu propio interés in your own interest, for your own good;
    actúa solo por interés he acts purely in his own interest o out of self-interest;
    conflicto de intereses conflict of interests
    2 (Fin) interest;
    a or con un interés del 12% at 12% interest o at an interest rate of 12%;

    tipo de interés rate of interest
    interés sustantivo masculino
    1 (curiosidad) interest: tienes que poner más interés en ello, you must take more interest in it
    tengo interés en/por viajar a Perú, I'm interested in travelling to Peru
    2 (importancia) esta película carece de interés, this movie lacks interest
    no ha sucedido nada de interés, nothing interesting has happened
    3 (provecho personal) self-interest: te llama solo por interés, he phones you out of self-interest
    (provecho, bien) in the interest of: lo haré en interés tuyo, I shall do it for your own good
    en interés de la ciencia, for the sake of science
    4 Fin interest
    con un interés del 15%, at an interest rate of 15%
    tipos de interés, interest rates
    ♦ Locuciones: perder el interés, to lose interest
    con intereses, (con creces, más de lo que se recibió) with interest
    ' interés' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amorfa
    - amorfo
    - candente
    - captar
    - carente
    - comodidad
    - común
    - conveniencia
    - dar
    - decir
    - deducirse
    - desgana
    - desganada
    - desganado
    - despertarse
    - desvivirse
    - devengar
    - entregarse
    - flojedad
    - hinchar
    - hipotecaria
    - hipotecario
    - importar
    - inquietud
    - interesar
    - interesada
    - interesado
    - lengua
    - llamar
    - menguante
    - morbosa
    - morboso
    - pasar
    - polarizar
    - revelar
    - solicitud
    - tinta
    - tipo
    - ver
    - abusivo
    - acaparar
    - anecdótico
    - anual
    - aparentar
    - aparente
    - apreciar
    - atractivo
    - atraer
    - auténtico
    - baja
    English:
    accrue
    - active
    - ax
    - axe
    - bear
    - benefit
    - capture
    - conflicting
    - deep
    - demolish
    - develop
    - fire
    - flag
    - flat
    - fluctuate
    - foster
    - interest
    - interest rate
    - keen
    - keenly
    - lack
    - lending
    - LIBOR
    - pall
    - pay
    - prime rate
    - really
    - reduction
    - revive
    - rising
    - self-interest
    - send down
    - show
    - sight
    - simple interest
    - stake
    - stimulate
    - sustain
    - vested
    - wane
    - yield
    - bank
    - concern
    - fixed
    - memorabilia
    - pique
    - purpose
    - rate
    - revival
    - secondary
    * * *
    1. [utilidad, valor] interest;
    de interés interesting;
    un descubrimiento de gran interés para los enfermos de sida a discovery of great signifiance to people with AIDS;
    una construcción de interés histórico a building of historical interest
    2. [curiosidad] interest;
    un tema de interés común a subject of interest to everyone;
    el hallazgo ha despertado el interés de los científicos the discovery has aroused scientists' interest;
    tener interés en o [m5] por to be interested in;
    tengo interés por recorrer el centro de la ciudad I'm interested in doing a tour of the town centre;
    sigo con interés la polémica I'm following the debate with interest
    3. [esfuerzo] interest;
    trabajó con mucho interés en el proyecto she was an enthusiastic worker on the project;
    poner interés en algo to take a real interest in sth;
    tienes que poner más interés en los estudios you must show a bit more interest in your schoolwork
    4. [conveniencia, provecho] interest;
    una obra de interés general o [m5] público a construction project that is in everyone's o the public interest;
    hacer algo por el interés de alguien, hacer algo en interés de alguien to do sth in sb's interest;
    tengo interés en que venga pronto it's in my interest that he should come soon;
    a todos nos mueve un interés común we are all motivated by a common interest
    5. [egoísmo] self-interest, selfishness;
    por interés out of selfishness;
    casarse por (el) interés to marry for money
    intereses creados vested interests
    6.
    intereses [aficiones] interests;
    entre sus intereses se cuentan el golf y la vela his interests include golf and sailing
    7.
    intereses [económicos] interests;
    los intereses españoles en Latinoamérica Spanish interests in Latin America;
    tiene intereses en una empresa del sector he has interests o a stake in a company in that sector;
    su hermana administra sus intereses her sister looks after her financial interests
    8. Fin interest;
    un préstamo con un interés del 5 por ciento a loan at 5 percent interest;
    interés a corto/largo plazo short-/long-term interest;
    tipo o [m5] tasa de interés interest rate
    interés acumulable cumulative interest;
    interés compuesto compound interest;
    intereses de demora penalty interest [for late payment];
    interés devengado accrued o earned interest;
    interés interbancario interbank deposit rate;
    interés de mora penalty interest [for late payment];
    interés preferencial preferential interest rate;
    interés simple simple interest;
    intereses vencidos interest due
    * * *
    m
    1 interest
    2 COM interest;
    sin interés interest free
    self-interest
    4
    :
    intereses pl ( bienes) interests
    * * *
    interés nm, pl - reses : interest
    * * *
    interés n interest
    en esta cuenta obtendrás un interés del 5% you'll get 5% interest from this account
    tener interés en/por hacer algo to be keen to do something

    Spanish-English dictionary > interés

  • 97 rate

    I 1. [reɪt]
    1) (speed) ritmo m., velocità f.

    at a terrific rate — [ drive] a tutta velocità; [ work] a ritmo indiavolato

    at this rate we'll never be able to afford a car — fig. di questo passo non potremo mai permetterci un'auto

    2) (number of occurrences) tasso m., percentuale f.

    the failure rate is 4% — la percentuale dei bocciati è del 4%

    4) (charge) tariffa f., costo m.; (wage) tariffa f.
    5) econ. (in foreign exchange) corso m.
    2.
    nome plurale rates BE imposta f.sing. locale, comunale

    business rates — = imposta sugli immobili adibiti a uso commerciale e/o industriale

    ••

    at any rate — in ogni caso, a ogni modo

    II 1. [reɪt]

    to rate sb. as a great composer — considerare qcn. un grande compositore

    to rate sb. among the best pianists — annoverare qcn. tra i migliori pianisti

    2) (deserve) meritare [medal, round of applause]
    3) (value) ammirare, stimare [person, honesty]; tenere in grande considerazione [ friendship]
    2. 3.
    * * *
    [reit] 1. noun
    1) (the number of occasions within a given period of time when something happens or is done: a high (monthly) accident rate in a factory.) tasso, percentuale
    2) (the number or amount of something (in relation to something else); a ratio: There was a failure rate of one pupil in ten in the exam.) percentuale
    3) (the speed with which something happens or is done: He works at a tremendous rate; the rate of increase/expansion.) ritmo, velocità
    4) (the level (of pay), cost etc (of or for something): What is the rate of pay for this job?) tariffa
    5) ((usually in plural) a tax, especially, in United Kingdom, paid by house-owners etc to help with the running of their town etc.) (imposta locale)
    2. verb
    (to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc: I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation.) valutare, giudicare
    - at this
    - at that rate
    - rate of exchange
    * * *
    I 1. [reɪt]
    1) (speed) ritmo m., velocità f.

    at a terrific rate — [ drive] a tutta velocità; [ work] a ritmo indiavolato

    at this rate we'll never be able to afford a car — fig. di questo passo non potremo mai permetterci un'auto

    2) (number of occurrences) tasso m., percentuale f.

    the failure rate is 4% — la percentuale dei bocciati è del 4%

    4) (charge) tariffa f., costo m.; (wage) tariffa f.
    5) econ. (in foreign exchange) corso m.
    2.
    nome plurale rates BE imposta f.sing. locale, comunale

    business rates — = imposta sugli immobili adibiti a uso commerciale e/o industriale

    ••

    at any rate — in ogni caso, a ogni modo

    II 1. [reɪt]

    to rate sb. as a great composer — considerare qcn. un grande compositore

    to rate sb. among the best pianists — annoverare qcn. tra i migliori pianisti

    2) (deserve) meritare [medal, round of applause]
    3) (value) ammirare, stimare [person, honesty]; tenere in grande considerazione [ friendship]
    2. 3.

    English-Italian dictionary > rate

  • 98 ставка ставк·а

    I
    (ориентация) reliance (on)

    делать ставку — to rely / to count (on), to put (one's) stakes (on)

    делать ставку на милитаризм / милитаристские планы — to employ militaristic schemes

    II
    воен.
    III
    1) эк. rate

    банковская учётная ставка, учётная ставка банка — bank rate

    тарифные ставки — tariff rates / schedule

    фрахтовые ставки — freight / cargo rates

    2) (оклад) wage rate
    IV
    юр.

    устроить очную ставку с кем-л. — to confront smb. with smb.

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > ставка ставк·а

  • 99 Porto

    Porto n KOMM postage • Porto bezahlt 1. KOMM postpaid, p.p., postage paid; 2. RECHT post paid
    * * *
    n < Komm> postage ■ Porto bezahlt < Komm> postpaid (p.p.), postage paid
    * * *
    Porto
    postage [rates, US], postal rate, (Pakete) carriage;
    • Porto bezahlt postage paid;
    • einschließlich Porto postage included;
    • zuzüglich Porto postage extra;
    • gewöhnliches (normales) Porto ordinary postage (rate);
    • ungenügendes Porto underpaid postage;
    • Porto für Auslandssendungen overseas postage;
    • Porto für Kontoauszüge statement postage;
    • Portoanstieg increase in postal charges, postal increase;
    • Portoauslagen postage incurred, postal (postage) expenses;
    • Portoauslagen vergüten to reimburse for postage incurred;
    • Portobuch stamp book, schedule of postage;
    • Portoeinnahmen postage and postal revenue;
    • Portoerhöhung raising of (increase in) postal (postage, Br.) rates;
    • Portoermäßigung reduction of the postal tariff.

    Business german-english dictionary > Porto

  • 100 gran aumento

    f.
    1 big increase.
    2 high magnification.
    * * *
    Ex. Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.
    * * *

    Ex: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.

    Spanish-English dictionary > gran aumento

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