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  • 4 libre

    adj.
    1 free.
    un taxi libre a free o empty taxi
    el puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacant
    ser libre de o para hacer algo to be free to do something
    2 external (pupil).
    estudiar por libre to be an external student
    3 floating.
    pres.subj.
    1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: librar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) free
    2 (asiento) free, vacant
    ■ ¿está libre? is this seat free?
    4 (exento) free
    5 (alumno) external
    6 (en natación) free-style
    \
    dejar libre a alguien to set somebody free
    ir por libre familiar to do one's own thing
    entrada libre free admittance
    * * *
    adj.
    1) free
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [gen] free (de from, of)

    ¿estás libre? — are you free?

    el martes estoy libre, así que podemos quedar — I'm free on Tuesday so we can meet up

    2) (=exento)
    3) (=sin ocupar) [plaza] vacant, unoccupied

    ¿está libre este asiento? — is this seat free?

    libre — [parking] spaces; [taxi] for hire

    4) [tiempo] spare, free
    5)
    6)

    • por libre (=por cuenta propia) —

    ir o funcionar por libre — to go it alone

    7) (Dep, Natación)
    saque 1., 1), tiro 3)
    8) [traducción, adaptación, verso] free
    9)

    libre a bordo — (Com) free on board

    10) † (=inmoral) loose, immoral

    de vida libre — loose-living, immoral

    2. SM
    1) (Dep) (=tiro) free kick
    2) Méx taxi
    3.
    SMF (Dep) (=jugador) sweeper
    * * *
    1) <país/pueblo> free

    libre de + inf — free to + inf

    2)
    a) <traducción/adaptación> free
    b) < estudiante> external

    ir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases

    3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free

    ¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?

    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?

    4) (exento, no sujeto)

    libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us

    * * *
    = free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.
    Ex. Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.
    Ex. Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex. The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex. Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.
    Ex. The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
    Ex. Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
    Ex. From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex. In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
    Ex. Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.
    Ex. This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
    Ex. The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.
    Ex. Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.
    Ex. Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.
    Ex. If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.
    Ex. The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.
    Ex. In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
    ----
    * actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.
    * al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.
    * barra libre = open bar.
    * biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.
    * búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.
    * campo de texto libre = free-text field.
    * comida al aire libre = cookout.
    * de espíritu libre = free-spirited.
    * definición libre = liberal definition.
    * dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.
    * dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.
    * dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.
    * día libre = day off.
    * disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.
    * en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.
    * escalada libre = free-climbing.
    * espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.
    * espíritu libre = free spirit.
    * esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.
    * esquí libre = freestyle skiing.
    * estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.
    * estar libre de = be free from.
    * estilo libre = freestyle.
    * fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.
    * fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.
    * fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.
    * frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.
    * horas libres = released time.
    * indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.
    * industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.
    * instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.
    * juego al aire libre = outdoor game.
    * lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.
    * lenguaje libre = free language.
    * libre albedrío = free will.
    * libre cambio = laissez-faire.
    * libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.
    * libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.
    * libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.
    * libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.
    * libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.
    * libre de censura = uncensored.
    * libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.
    * libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.
    * libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.
    * libre de drogas = drug-free.
    * libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.
    * libre de humo = smokeless.
    * libre de humos = smoke-free.
    * libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.
    * libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).
    * libre de peligro = free of danger.
    * libre de polvo = dust-free.
    * libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * libre de restricciones = unencumbered.
    * libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.
    * libre de servicio = off-duty.
    * libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.
    * libre de trabas = unencumbered.
    * libre mercado = free market.
    * libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.
    * manos libres = hands-free.
    * mantener libre de = keep + free of.
    * mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.
    * pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.
    * piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.
    * piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.
    * por libre = freelance.
    * pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.
    * programas de software libre = freeware.
    * puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.
    * quedar libre = become + vacant.
    * recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.
    * sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.
    * software libre = freeware, free software.
    * teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.
    * tener un rato libre = spare + time.
    * tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.
    * trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.
    * * *
    1) <país/pueblo> free

    libre de + inf — free to + inf

    2)
    a) <traducción/adaptación> free
    b) < estudiante> external

    ir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases

    3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free

    ¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?

    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?

    4) (exento, no sujeto)

    libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us

    * * *
    = free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.

    Ex: Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.

    Ex: Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex: The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex: Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.
    Ex: The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
    Ex: Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
    Ex: From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
    Ex: In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
    Ex: Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.
    Ex: This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
    Ex: The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.
    Ex: Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.
    Ex: Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.
    Ex: If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.
    Ex: The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.
    Ex: In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
    * actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.
    * al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.
    * barra libre = open bar.
    * biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.
    * búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.
    * campo de texto libre = free-text field.
    * comida al aire libre = cookout.
    * de espíritu libre = free-spirited.
    * definición libre = liberal definition.
    * dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.
    * dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.
    * dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.
    * día libre = day off.
    * disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.
    * en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.
    * escalada libre = free-climbing.
    * espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.
    * espíritu libre = free spirit.
    * esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.
    * esquí libre = freestyle skiing.
    * estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.
    * estar libre de = be free from.
    * estilo libre = freestyle.
    * fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.
    * fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.
    * fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.
    * frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.
    * horas libres = released time.
    * indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.
    * industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.
    * instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.
    * juego al aire libre = outdoor game.
    * lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.
    * lenguaje libre = free language.
    * libre albedrío = free will.
    * libre cambio = laissez-faire.
    * libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.
    * libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.
    * libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.
    * libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.
    * libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.
    * libre de censura = uncensored.
    * libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.
    * libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.
    * libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.
    * libre de drogas = drug-free.
    * libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.
    * libre de humo = smokeless.
    * libre de humos = smoke-free.
    * libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.
    * libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).
    * libre de peligro = free of danger.
    * libre de polvo = dust-free.
    * libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.
    * libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].
    * libre de restricciones = unencumbered.
    * libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.
    * libre de servicio = off-duty.
    * libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.
    * libre de trabas = unencumbered.
    * libre mercado = free market.
    * libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.
    * manos libres = hands-free.
    * mantener libre de = keep + free of.
    * mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.
    * mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.
    * pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.
    * piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.
    * piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.
    * por libre = freelance.
    * pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.
    * programas de software libre = freeware.
    * puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.
    * quedar libre = become + vacant.
    * recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.
    * sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.
    * software libre = freeware, free software.
    * teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.
    * tener un rato libre = spare + time.
    * tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.
    * trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.

    * * *
    A
    1 ‹país/pueblo› free
    lo dejaron libre they set him free
    2 libre DE + INF free to + INF
    eres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you want
    soy muy libre de ir vestida como se me antoje I'm perfectly entitled to dress however I like
    3
    (sin compromiso): me confesó que no era libre he admitted that he wasn't a free man
    Compuestos:
    masculine free will
    ● libre cambio or comercio
    masculine free trade
    feminine free market, free market system
    masculine free market
    B
    1 ‹traducción/adaptación› free
    una redacción sobre tema libre an essay on a theme of your choice, a free composition
    los 200 metros libres the 200 meters freestyle
    2 ‹estudiante› external
    trabajar por libre to work freelance
    hacer algo por libre ( Esp); to do sth one's own way
    ir por libre ( Esp fam); to do as one pleases
    1 ‹persona› free
    ¿estás libre esta noche? are you free tonight?
    2 ‹tiempo› free
    ¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?
    en sus ratos libres in her spare o free time
    hoy tengo el día libre I have the day off today
    cuando tengas un par de horas libres when you have a couple of hours free o to spare
    3 ‹asiento› free
    ¿ese asiento está libre? is that seat free?
    no pasó ni un taxi libre not a single empty taxi went by
    ¿está libre el cuarto de baño? is the bathroom free?
    [ S ] Parking: libre Parking Lot: spaces ( AmE), Car Park: spaces ( BrE)
    D (exento, no sujeto) libre DE algo:
    una propiedad libre de hipotecas an unmortgaged property
    la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility
    artículos libres de impuestos duty-free o tax-free goods
    nadie está libre de culpa nobody is blameless
    nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así something like that could happen to any of us
    libre de riesgo risk-free
    ( Méx)
    taxi
    * * *

     

    Del verbo librar: ( conjugate librar)

    libré es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    libre es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    librar    
    libre
    librar ( conjugate librar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( liberar) libre a algn de algo ‹ de peligro› to save sb from sth;
    ‹de obligación/responsabilidad› to free sb from sth;
    ◊ ¡Dios nos libre! God forbid!

    2 ‹batalla/combate› to fight
    librarse verbo pronominal:

    librese de algo ‹de tarea/obligación› to get out of sth;
    librese de un castigo to escape punishment;
    se libró de tener que ayudarlo she got out of having to help him;
    se libreon de morir asfixiados they escaped being suffocated;
    librese de algn to get rid of sb
    libre adjetivo
    1 ‹país/pueblo› free;

    eres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you want;
    libre albedrío free will;
    libre cambio or comercio free trade;
    libre mercado free market
    2 ‹traducción/adaptación› free;

    3 ( no ocupado) ‹persona/tiempo/asiento› free;
    ◊ ¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?;

    en sus ratos libres in her spare o free time;
    tengo el día libre I have the day off
    4 ( exento):

    librar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to free: me libró de un castigo, she let me off from a punishment
    2 (una orden de pago) to draw
    II vi (tener el día libre) libra los fines de semana, he has weekends off
    libre adjetivo free: está libre de sospecha, she's free from suspicion
    eres (muy) libre de hacerlo, you are quite free to do it
    libre de impuestos, tax-free
    ¡vía libre!, make way!
    ' libre' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aire
    - albedrío
    - bufé
    - carga
    - desocupada
    - desocupado
    - día
    - entrada
    - franca
    - franco
    - hueca
    - hueco
    - impuesta
    - impuesto
    - librar
    - lucha
    - perilla
    - plaza
    - radical
    - suelta
    - suelto
    - tiempo
    - tienda
    - Tiro
    - tomarse
    - traducción
    - vía
    - aduana
    - caída
    - despejado
    - dios
    - dueño
    - economía
    - estilo
    - falta
    - hora
    - lavadero
    - limpiar
    - limpio
    - lugar
    - melé
    - ocio
    - ocupar
    - paso
    - puerto
    - sacar
    - teatro
    - tiro
    - tomar
    - tranquilo
    English:
    all-in wrestling
    - available
    - buffet
    - clear
    - clearance
    - day off
    - door
    - duty-free
    - economy
    - equity
    - festival
    - free
    - free enterprise
    - free fall
    - free kick
    - free love
    - free rein
    - free trade
    - free-style
    - garden party
    - have off
    - hire
    - leisure time
    - liberal
    - liberty
    - off
    - open
    - open-air
    - outdoor
    - outdoors
    - outdoorsman
    - own
    - place
    - quit
    - sky-dive
    - sky-diver
    - sleep out
    - smokeless zone
    - spare
    - take off
    - tax free
    - unoccupied
    - vacancy
    - vacant
    - day
    - demand
    - duty
    - enterprise
    - foot
    - freelance
    * * *
    libre adj
    1. [sin limitaciones] free;
    el amor libre free love;
    ser libre de o [m5] para hacer algo to be free to do sth;
    eres libre de hacer lo que quieras you are free to do as you wish;
    es libre para casarse con quien quiera she is free to marry whoever she pleases;
    entrada libre [en letrero] entry free
    libre albedrío free will; Econ libre cambio free trade; [de divisas] floating exchange rates; Econ libre circulación de capitales free circulation of capital;
    libre circulación de mercancías free movement of goods;
    libre circulación de personas free movement of people;
    libre mercado free market
    2. [no encarcelado] free
    3. [país] free
    4. [sin novio, pareja] free, available
    5. [sin obstáculos] [camino, carretera] clear
    6.
    libre de [exento] exempt from;
    libre de culpa free from blame;
    libre de franqueo esp Br post-free, US postage-free;
    libre de impuestos [alcohol, cigarrillos] tax-free, duty-free
    7. [desocupado] [asiento] free;
    [retrete] vacant; [casa] empty;
    ¿estarás libre mañana? will you be free tomorrow?;
    el puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacant;
    un taxi libre a free o empty taxi;
    libre [en taxi] for hire;
    ahora no tengo las manos libres my hands are full at the moment;
    aparcamiento: libre [en letrero] parking: spaces
    8. [tiempo] free, spare;
    cuando tenga un rato libre, te llamo I'll call you when I've got a (spare) moment;
    en mis ratos libres me gusta tocar el piano in my spare o free time I like to play the piano;
    mañana tengo el día libre I've got the day off tomorrow;
    tengo dos horas libres I have two hours spare
    9. [independiente] independent;
    [alumno] external;
    trabajar por libre to work freelance;
    estudiar por libre to be an external student;
    Esp
    ir por libre to do things one's own way;
    Esp
    cuando viajo me gusta ir por libre más que ir en grupo I prefer travelling alone to travelling in a group
    10. [estilo, traducción] free;
    Dep
    200 metros libres 200 metres freestyle
    * * *
    adj free; tiempo spare, free;
    eres libre de you’re free to;
    trabajar por libre be self-employed;
    * * *
    libre adj
    1) : free
    un país libre: a free country
    libre de: free from, exempt from
    libre albedrío: free will
    2) desocupado: vacant
    3)
    día libre : day off
    * * *
    libre adj free
    libre de impuestos tax free / duty free

    Spanish-English dictionary > libre

  • 5 развитие развити·е

    development, evolution; (продвижение вперёд) advancement, progress; (расширение) extension; (распространение) spreading, expansion

    способствовать развитию — to facilitate / to promote the development

    тормозить экономическое развитие страны — to hold back / to hinder / to curb the economic growth / development of a country

    культурное / социальное развитие — cultural / social development

    независимое экономическое развитие молодых суверенных государств — independent reconstruction of the economics of the newly independent countries

    непрерывное развитие производства — continuous / uninterrupted development of production

    преимущественное / приоритетное развитие — priority development

    стабильное развитие — stable development / expansion

    добиться стабильного развития — to achieve a stable development / expansion

    развитие атомной энергетики — development of atomic / nuclear engineering

    развитие экономики — economic development, development of economy

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > развитие развити·е

  • 6 comunidad

    f.
    1 community (grupo).
    comunidad de propietarios o de vecinos residents' association
    la comunidad científica/internacional the scientific/international community
    comunidad Andina Andean Community
    comunidad autónoma (politics) autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers
    2 communion (cualidad de común) (de ideas, bienes).
    * * *
    1 community
    \
    en comunidad together
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region
    comunidad de propietarios owners' association
    Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [gen] community; (=sociedad) society, association; (Rel) community; And commune ( of free Indians)

    de o en comunidad — (Jur) jointly

    comunidad autónoma — Esp autonomous region

    2) (=pago) [de piso] service charge, charge for communal services
    COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA In Spain the comunidades autónomas are any of the 19 administrative regions consisting of one or more provinces and having political powers devolved from Madrid, as stipulated by the 1978 Constitution. They have their own democratically elected parliaments, form their own cabinets and legislate and execute policies in certain areas such as housing, infrastructure, health and education, though Madrid still retains jurisdiction for all matters affecting the country as a whole, such as defence, foreign affairs and justice. The Comunidades Autónomas are: Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Islas Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, País Vasco, La Rioja, Comunidad Valenciana, Ceuta and Melilla. The term Comunidades Históricas refers to Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, which for reasons of history and language consider themselves to some extent separate from the rest of Spain. They were given a measure of independence by the Second Republic (1931-1936), only to have it revoked by Franco in 1939. With the transition to democracy, these groups were the most vociferous and successful in their demand for home rule, partly because they already had experience of federalism and had established a precedent with autonomous institutions like the Catalan Generalitat.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
    * * *
    Ex. Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.
    ----
    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
    * * *

    Ex: Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.

    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.

    * * *
    comunidad comunidad autónoma (↑ comunidad a1)
    A
    1 (sociedad) community
    para el bien de la comunidad for the good of the community
    2 (grupo delimitado) community
    la comunidad polaca the Polish community
    vivir en comunidad to live with other people
    3 ( Relig) community
    4 (asociación) association
    Compuestos:
    (British) Commonwealth
    ( Hist) European Economic Community
    ( Hist) European Community
    European Coal and Steel Community
    B (coincidencia) community
    no existe comunidad de ideales/objetivos entre ambos grupos there is no community of ideals/objectives between the two groups, the two groups do not share common ideals/objectives
    la sublevación de las Comunidades the Revolt of the Comuneros
    * * *

     

    comunidad sustantivo femenino
    community;

    comunidad sustantivo femenino community
    comunidad autónoma, autonomous region
    comunidad de bienes, co-ownership
    Comunidad Europea, European Community

    ' comunidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bien
    - CE
    - CECA
    - CEE
    - consejería
    - depender
    - EURATOM
    - homologación
    - primar
    - pueblo
    - reintegrar
    - autonomía
    English:
    Commonwealth of Independent States
    - community
    - fraternity
    - homeowners assocation
    - integrate
    - scattered
    - service charge
    - European
    - general
    - pillar
    - service
    * * *
    1. [grupo] community;
    la comunidad científica/educativa/judía the scientific/education/Jewish community;
    vivir en comunidad to live in a community
    Comunidad Andina Andean Community, = organization for regional cooperation formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela;
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers;
    comunidad de base [religiosa] base community, = lay Catholic community independent of church hierarchy;
    Comunidad Británica de Naciones (British) Commonwealth;
    Antes Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community;
    la Comunidad Europea, las Comunidades Europeas the European Community;
    la comunidad internacional the international community;
    comunidad linguística speech community;
    comunidad de propietarios residents' association;
    comunidad de vecinos residents' association
    2. [de ideas, bienes] communion
    comunidad de bienes co-ownership [between spouses]
    3. Am [colectividad] commune;
    vive en una comunidad anarquista she lives in an anarchist commune
    COMUNIDAD ANDINA
    The Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) has its origins in the 1969 “Acuerdo de Cartagena”. Over subsequent decades the various institutions which now form the CAN were set up: the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1979, the Court of Justice in 1983, the Presidential Council in 1990, and the General Secretariat in 1997. The ultimate aim has been to create a Latin American common market. A free trade area was established in 1993, and a common external customs tariff in 1994. While all members have adopted a common foreign policy, more ambitious attempts at integration have been less successful. However, with a combined population of 122 million, and a GDP in 2004 of 300 billion dollars, the community is a significant economic group. In 2004, the leaders of the countries of South America decided to create the “Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones” (“South American Community of Nations”) or CSN by a gradual convergence between the CAN and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), plus Chile, Guyana and Surinam. This will create, in time, a vast free-trade area encompassing all of South America.
    * * *
    f community;
    hereditaria heirs pl
    * * *
    : community
    * * *
    comunidad n community [pl. communities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > comunidad

  • 7 frei

    I Adj.
    1. free; freier Bürger HIST. freeborn citizen, freeman; ein freier Mensch (der tun kann, was er will) a free agent; sie ist frei zu gehen, wenn sie will she is free to go if she wishes; ich bin so frei altm. oder hum. sich bedienend etc.: if I may; ich war so frei, Ihr Auto zu nehmen oder und nahm Ihr Auto I took the liberty of using your car, I helped myself to your car
    2. Wahl, Wille etc.: free; Zugang: unrestricted, unlimited; (unbehindert) unrestrained; „frei ab 16“ Film: 16 (= no admission to persons under 16 years), Am. etwa R(-rated); jetzt haben wir freie Fahrt mit Zug: the signal’s green now, the train can go now; mit Auto: the road’s clear now; fig. there’s nothing to stop us now; auf freiem Fuß sein be free; Verbrecher: be at large; jemanden auf freien Fuß setzen set s.o. free, let s.o. go; das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung the right of free speech ( oder of self-expression); aus freien Stücken oder freiem Willen of one’s own free will; die freie Wahl haben zwischen... und... be free to choose between... and...
    3. (unabhängig, selbstständig) Stadt etc.: free; Beruf, Tankstelle etc.: independent; (nicht gebunden) unattached; Journalist, Künstler etc.: freelance; die freien Künste the liberal arts; freier Mitarbeiter freelance(r); Freie2
    4. im Namen von Organisationen etc.: Freie Demokratische Partei (abgek. FDP) Free Democratic Party; Freie Deutsche Jugend (abgek. FDJ) HIST., ehem. DDR Free German Youth; Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (abgek. FDGB) HIST., ehem. DDR Free German Trade Union Organization; die Freie Hansestadt Bremen the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen; die Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg
    5. WIRTS.: im freien Handel available in the shops (Am. in stores); freier Markt open market; Börse: unofficial market; freie Marktwirtschaft free market economy; freier Wechselkurs floating exchange rate; ( die) freie Wirtschaft free enterprise; die Rechte an diesem Buchtitel werden bald frei the rights in this title will soon be free ( oder available)
    6. (unbesetzt) Stuhl, Raum etc.: free, available; Leitung: vacant; Stelle: vacant, open; Straße etc.: clear, empty; (unbeschrieben) Seite etc.: blank; frei am WC: vacant; am Taxi: for hire; freie Stelle vacancy; ist hier oder der Platz noch frei? is this seat taken?, is anyone sitting here?; der Stuhl / die Zeile muss frei bleiben the chair must be kept free / the line must be left blank; Platz frei lassen / machen für leave / make space for; jemandem den Weg frei machen clear the way for s.o.; zwei Zeilen frei lassen leave two blank lines; Bahn, Ring, Zimmer
    7. (unbedeckt) bare; der Rock lässt die Knie frei the skirt is above the knee; den Oberkörper frei machen strip to the waist
    8. Feld, Himmel, Sicht: open; aufs freie Meer hinaus out into the open sea; auf freier Strecke on an open stretch (EISENB. of line, Straße: of road); in freier Wildbahn in the wild; unter freiem Himmel in the open (air), outside
    9. Tag, Zeit etc.: free; nachgestellt: off; Person: free, not busy; freie Zeit free ( oder leisure) time; nächsten Dienstag ist frei next Tuesday is a holiday; hast du morgen frei? do you have tomorrow off?; seitdem habe ich keine freie Minute mehr since then I haven’t had a free moment ( oder a moment to myself); sind Sie ( gerade) frei? Taxi: are you taken?; Verkäufer: are you serving someone?
    10. (kostenlos) free (of charge); freier Eintritt admission free ( für to); Kinder unter sechs sind frei umg. von Eintritt, Fahrgeld: children under six are free, no charge for children under six; 20 kg Gepäck sind frei there is a baggage (bes. Am. luggage) allowance of 20kg; frei Haus carriage paid; Lieferung frei Haus free delivery, no delivery charge; dazu bekommt sie auch noch einen Job frei Haus fig. what’s more she gets a job handed to her on a plate; du hast noch zwei Versuche frei fig. you have two tries left
    11. frei von (ohne) free from ( oder of), without; von Eis, Schneeschicht etc.: clear of; von Steuern etc. befreit: exempt from; frei von Schmerzen free from pain; frei von Schulden free from debt; frei von Zusätzen free of additives; niemand ist frei von Fehlern / Vorurteilen nobody is perfect / free from prejudice
    12. sich frei machen von free o.s. of; (herauskommen aus) get out of; (loswerden) get rid of
    13. fig. (ungezwungen) free and easy; (offen) open; (moralisch großzügig) liberal; freie Liebe free love; sie ist schon viel freier geworden she has loosened up a great deal
    14. fig. Übersetzung: free; freie Hand haben have a free hand ( bei with); jemandem freie Hand lassen give s.o. a free hand ( bei with); aus oder mit der freien Hand zeichnen (ohne Hilfsmittel) draw s.th. freehand
    15. Sport (ungedeckt) unmarked; zum nächsten freien Mitspieler passen pass to the nearest unmarked player; der freie Mann ( vor der Abwehr) the sweeper
    16. POST. (frankiert) prepaid, post paid
    17. PHYS.; Elektron, Fall, Radikal etc.: free; CHEM. uncombined; im freien Fall in free fall; frei werden Energie etc.: be released; freie Valenzen CHEM. free valencies
    II Adv.
    1. atmen, herumlaufen etc.: freely; frei geboren freeborn; frei laufende Hühner free-range hens; Eier von frei laufenden Hühnern free-range eggs; frei lebende Tiere wildlife Sg., animals living in the wild ( oder out of captivity); frei praktizierender Arzt doctor in private practice
    2. herumliegen etc.: openly; frei zugänglich von allen Seiten: freely accessible; für alle: open to all; frei stehen Baum, Haus etc.: stand by itself; SPORT, Spieler: be unmarked; frei stehend Baum: solitary; Haus, nicht angebaut: detached; einzeln: isolated; SPORT, Spieler: unmarked
    3. WIRTS.: frei erhältlich freely available; frei finanziert privately financed; frei konvertierbar freely convertible; frei verkäuflich on general sale, freely available (to buy)
    4. TECH.: frei beweglich freely moving, mobile; frei hängend oder schwebend unsupported
    5. frei ( und offen) openly, frankly, freely; frank, freiheraus
    6. frei sprechen Redner: speak without notes; mit Handy im Auto: phone ( oder talk) hands-free, use the speaker phone; ich möchte den Vortrag frei halten I want to give the lecture without notes; einen Kreis frei zeichnen draw a circle freehand; das Kind kann schon frei laufen / stehen the child can walk / stand unaided
    7. frei erfunden (entirely) fictitious; das hat er frei erfunden he made that up; frei nach ( einem Stück von) X freely adapted from (a play by) X
    8. (liberal) liberally; frei erzogen sein have had a liberal upbringing
    * * *
    at liberty (Adv.);
    (freimütig) frank (Adj.);
    (nicht versklavt) unenslaved (Adj.);
    (unbefahren) clear (Adj.);
    (unbesetzt) vacant (Adj.);
    (unentgeltlich) gratis (Adj.); free (Adj.);
    (ungebunden) independent (Adj.); free (Adj.); unfettered (Adj.); unattached (Adj.); unengaged (Adj.)
    * * *
    [frai]
    1. ADJEKTIV
    1) = unbehindert free

    frei von etw — free of sth

    sich von etw frei halten — to avoid sth; von Vorurteilen etc to be free of sth; von Verpflichtungen to keep oneself free of sth

    die Straße frei geben/machen — to open/clear the road

    der Film ist frei ( für Jugendliche) ab 16 (Jahren) — this film is suitable for persons aged 16 years and over

    frei sein (Sport) — to be free or not marked

    ich bin so frei (form) — may I?diams; frei + SubstantivSiehe auch unter dem Eintrag für das jeweilige Substantiv.

    einem Zug freie Fahrt geben — to give a train the " go" signal

    jdm freie Hand lassen — to give sb free rein, to give sb a free hand

    das Recht der freien Rede or auf freie Rede — the right of free speech, the right to freedom of speech

    2) = unabhängig free; Schriftsteller, Journalist etc freelance; (= nicht staatlich) privatediams; frei + SubstantivSiehe auch unter dem Eintrag für das jeweilige Substantiv.

    Freie Deutsche Jugend (DDR) — youth wing of the former East German Socialist Unity Party

    Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DDR) — Trades Union Congress of the former East Germany

    Freie Hansestadt Bremen — Free Hansa Town of Bremen

    freier Mitarbeiter — freelance, freelancer

    freie Reichsstadt (Hist) — free city of the Empire

    freie Tankstelle — independent petrol (Brit) or gas (US) station

    3) = verfügbar Mittel, Geld available; Zeit free

    ich bin jetzt frei für ihn — I can see him now; (am Telefon) I can speak to him now

    4)

    = arbeitsfrei morgen/Mittwoch ist frei — tomorrow/Wednesday is a holiday

    See:
    5)

    = ohne Hilfsmittel etw aus freier Hand zeichnen — to draw sth freehand

    ein Vortrag in freier Rede — an extemporary talk

    6) = unbesetzt Zimmer, Toilette vacant; Taxi for hire

    ist hier noch frei?, ist dieser Platz noch frei? — is anyone sitting here?, is this seat free?

    im Kino/Flugzeug waren noch zehn freie Plätze — in the cinema/plane there were still ten seats free

    "frei" (an Taxi) — "for hire"; (an Toilettentür) "vacant"

    "Zimmer frei" — "vacancies"

    haben Sie noch etwas frei? (in Hotel) — do you have any vacancies?

    bei HarperCollins sind einige Stellen frei — there are some vacancies at HarperCollins

    "Ausfahrt/Einfahrt frei halten" — "keep clear"

    für etw Platz frei lassen/machen — to leave/make room for sth

    7)

    = offen unter freiem Himmel — in the open air

    eine Frage/Aussage im freien Raum stehen lassen — to leave a question/statement hanging in mid-air

    See:
    → Freie(s), Feld
    8) = kostenlos free

    frei Schiff — free on board

    9) = unkonventionell Sitten, Erziehung liberal
    10) = unbekleidet bare
    11) = ungeschützt Autor out of copyright
    2. ADVERB
    1) = ungehindert freely; sprechen openly

    frei beweglich —

    das ist frei wählbar — you can choose as you please, it's completely optional

    frei laufend (Hunde, Katzen) — feral; Huhn free-range

    frei herumlaufen (inf) — to be free, to be running around free (inf)

    der Verbrecher läuft immer noch frei herum — the criminal is still at largediams; frei lebend Wölfe, Mustangherden etc living in the wild; Katzen, Stadttauben feral; Mikroorganismen free-livingdiams; frei stehen (Haus) to stand by itself; (Sport) to be free or not marked

    ein frei stehendes Gebäude — a free-standing building → auch cdiams; frei nach based on

    frei nach Goethe (Zitat) — as Goethe didn't say

    2)

    = ungezwungen sich frei und ungezwungen verhalten, frei und locker auftreten — to have a relaxed manner, to be easy-going

    3) = ohne Hilfsmittel unaided, without help

    das Kind kann frei stehen — the child can stand on its own or without any help

    frei sprechen —

    * * *
    1) (free from difficulty or obstacles: a clear road ahead.) clear
    2) ((often with of) without (risk of) being touched, caught etc: Is the ship clear of the rocks? clear of danger.) clear
    3) ((often with of) free: clear of debt; clear of all infection.) clear
    4) (allowed to move where one wants; not shut in, tied, fastened etc: The prison door opened, and he was a free man.) free
    5) (not forced or persuaded to act, think, speak etc in a particular way: free speech; You are free to think what you like.) free
    6) (frank, open and ready to speak: a free manner.) free
    7) (not working or having another appointment; not busy: I shall be free at five o'clock.) free
    8) (not occupied, not in use: Is this table free?) free
    9) free
    10) (not tied; free: The horses are loose in the field.) loose
    11) (not at work: He's taking tomorrow off; He's off today.) off
    12) (empty or unoccupied: a vacant chair; Are there any rooms vacant in this hotel?) vacant
    13) (empty or vacant: The room/seat was unoccupied.) unoccupied
    14) (not busy: I paint in my unoccupied hours / when I'm otherwise unoccupied.) unoccupied
    * * *
    [frai]
    I. adj
    1. (nicht gefangen, unabhängig) free
    \freier Autor/Übersetzer freelance writer/translator
    die \freie Hansestadt Hamburg the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg
    \freie Kirche free church
    ein \freier Mann/eine \freie Frau a free man/woman
    ein \freier Gedanke free thought
    [Recht auf] \freie Meinungsäußerung [right to] freedom of speech
    ein \freier Mensch a free person
    \freier Mitarbeiter/ \freie Mitarbeiterin freelance[r]
    eine \freie Übersetzung a free translation
    etw zur \freien Verfügung haben to have sth at free disposal
    \freie Wahl haben to be free to choose
    aus \freiem Willen [o \freien Stücken] of one's own free will
    es war sein \freier Wille auszuwandern he emigrated of his own free will
    \frei und ungebunden footloose and fancy-free
    sich akk von etw dat \frei machen to free oneself from sth
    2. (freie Zeit) free
    ein \freier Tag a holiday; (von Schule, Job) a day off
    drei Tage/eine Woche \frei haben to have three days/a week off
    nächsten Donnerstag ist \frei, da ist Feiertag we've got next Thursday off - it's a holiday
    [sich dat] drei Tage/eine Woche \frei machen [o nehmen] to take three days/a week off
    er hat sich \frei genommen, da seine Tochter krank ist he's taken [some] time off because his daughter is ill
    \freie Zeit haben to have spare time
    3. (verfügbar) available
    es sind noch Mittel für kulturelle Veranstaltungen \frei there are still funds available for cultural events
    der Film ist ab 14 Jahren \frei the film is suitable for children from 14 years on
    sich akk [für jdn/etw] \frei machen to make oneself available [for sb/sth]
    ▪ \frei [für jdn] sein to be free [to see/speak to sb]
    4. (nicht besetzt/belegt) free; am WC vacant
    ist dieser Platz noch \frei? is this seat [already] taken?
    haben Sie noch ein Zimmer \frei? do you still have a room available?
    den Eingang \frei machen to clear the entrance
    einen Platz \frei lassen to keep a seat free
    einen Platz \frei machen to vacate a seat form
    eine \freie Stelle a vacant position
    ein \freies Zimmer a vacant room
    „Zimmer frei“ “rooms to rent”
    5. (kostenlos) free; Lieferung free [of charge]; Postsendung prepaid
    der Eintritt ist \frei entrance is free
    Kinder unter 6 Jahren sind \frei children below the age of six are admitted free
    20 kg Gepäck sind \frei 20 kg of luggage are allowed
    „Eintritt \frei“ “admission free”
    „Lieferung \frei Haus“ free home delivery
    ▪ \frei von etw dat sein to be free of sth
    die Straßen sind \frei von Eis the streets are clear of ice
    kein Mensch ist \frei von Fehlern nobody is perfect
    \frei von Konservierungsstoffen free from preservatives
    \frei von Schmerzen sein not to suffer any pain, to be free of pain
    \frei von Schuld blameless
    7. (ohne Hilfsmittel) off-the-cuff
    etw mit \freier Hand zeichnen to draw sth freehand
    \freie Rede/ \freier Vortrag impromptu speech/lecture
    eine \freie Rede halten to speak off-the-cut
    eine Zeile \frei lassen to leave a line free
    9. (offen) open
    der Zug hält auf \freier Strecke the train stops in the open country
    \freie Aussicht [o \freier Blick] unhampered view
    \freies Gelände open country
    unter \freiem Himmel open air
    das \freie Meer the open sea
    10. (ungezwungen) free and easy
    ihre Auffassungen sind mir doch etwas zu \frei her views are a little too liberal for me
    er ist viel \freier geworden he has loosened up a lot fam
    hier herrscht ein \freier Ton the atmosphere is very liberal here
    \freie Liebe free love
    ich bin so \frei (geh) if I may
    ich bin so \frei und nehme mir noch ein Stück I'll have another piece if I may
    11. (unbehindert) unhampered, unrestrained
    \freie Entwicklung free development
    12. (unbekleidet) bare
    machen Sie bitte Ihren Arm \frei please roll up your sleeve
    machen Sie bitte ihren Bauch \frei please uncover your stomach
    sich akk \frei machen to get undressed
    13. (unbeschrieben) blank
    ein \freies Blatt a blank sheet of paper
    Platz \frei lassen to leave a blank
    14. (nicht gebunden) free, single
    seit er sich von seiner Freundin getrennt hat, ist er wieder frei since he has split up with his girl-friend, he is single again
    15. ÖKON free
    \freier Kapital-/Warenverkehr free movement of capital/goods
    \freie Marktwirtschaft free market economy
    \freier Wechselkurs freely floating exchange rate
    16. CHEM, PHYS released
    Kräfte werden \frei forces are set free [or released]
    \freier Kohlenstoff/ \freie Wärme uncombined carbon/heat
    \freie Radikale free radicals
    17. (ungefähr)
    \frei nach... roughly quoting...
    II. adv
    1. (unbeeinträchtigt) freely
    das Haus steht ganz \frei the house stands completely on its own
    die Mörderin läuft immer noch \frei herum! the murderess is still on the loose!
    \frei atmen to breathe easy
    sich akk \frei entscheiden to decide freely
    \frei finanziert privately financed
    \frei stehen to stand alone [or by itself]
    \frei verkäuflich for sale without restrictions
    \frei zugänglich accessible from all sides
    2. (ungezwungen) freely, openly
    \frei erzogen liberally educated
    \frei heraus sprechen to speak frankly
    \frei improvisieren to improvise freely
    3. (uneingeschränkt) casually
    sich akk \frei bewegen können to be able to move in an uninhibited manner
    4. (nach eigenem Belieben)
    \frei erfunden to be completely made up
    5. (gratis) free
    Kinder unter 6 Jahren fahren \frei children below the age of six travel free
    etw \frei bekommen to get sth free
    ein Kabel \frei verlegen to lay a cable uncovered
    \frei in der Luft schweben to hover unsupported in the air
    \frei sprechen to speak off-the-cuff
    \frei laufend Tiere free-range
    Eier von \frei laufenden Hühnern eggs from free-range chickens
    \frei lebend living in the wild
    * * *
    1.
    1) free <man, will, life, people, decision, etc.>
    2) (nicht angestellt) freelance <writer, worker, etc.>
    3) (ungezwungen) free and easy; lax (derog.)
    4) (nicht eingesperrt, gefangen) free; at liberty pred.
    5) (offen) open

    unter freiem Himmel — in the open [air]; outdoors

    auf freier Strecke — (Straße) on the open road; (Eisenbahn) between stations

    frei herumlaufen — < person> run around scot-free

    6) (unbesetzt) vacant; unoccupied; free

    ein freier Stuhl/Platz — a vacant or free chair/seat

    Entschuldigung, ist hier noch frei? — excuse me, is this anyone's seat etc.?

    ein Bett ist [noch] frei — one bed is [still] free or not taken

    7) (kostenlos) free <food, admission>

    20 kg Gepäck frei haben — have or be allowed a 20 kilogram baggage allowance

    8) (ungenau)

    eine freie Übersetzung — a free or loose translation

    9) (ohne Vorlage) improvised

    der freie Fall — (Physik) free fall

    11)

    von etwas frei/frei von etwas sein — be free of something

    12) (verfügbar) spare; free

    ich habe heute frei/meinen freien Abend — I've got today off/this is my evening off

    sich (Dat.) frei nehmen — (ugs.) take some time off

    er ist noch/nicht mehr frei — he is still/no longer unattached

    13) (ohne Hilfsmittel)
    14) (unbekleidet) bare
    15) (bes. Fußball) unmarked
    16) (Chemie, Physik) free

    frei werden — (bei einer Reaktion) be given off

    freie Hand haben/jemandem freie Hand lassen — have/give somebody a free hand

    aus freien Stücken — (ugs.) of one's own accord; voluntarily

    auf freiem Fuß — (von Verbrechern etc.) at large

    2.
    adverbial <act, speak, choose> freely; < translate> freely, loosely
    * * *
    A. adj
    1. free;
    freier Bürger HIST freeborn citizen, freeman;
    ein freier Mensch (der tun kann, was er will) a free agent;
    sie ist frei zu gehen, wenn sie will she is free to go if she wishes;
    ich bin so frei obs oder hum sich bedienend etc: if I may;
    ich war so frei, Ihr Auto zu nehmen oder
    und nahm Ihr Auto I took the liberty of using your car, I helped myself to your car
    2. Wahl, Wille etc: free; Zugang: unrestricted, unlimited; (unbehindert) unrestrained;
    „frei ab 16“ FILM 16 (= no admission to persons under 16 years), US etwa R(-rated);
    jetzt haben wir freie Fahrt mit Zug: the signal’s green now, the train can go now; mit Auto: the road’s clear now; fig there’s nothing to stop us now;
    jemanden auf freien Fuß setzen set sb free, let sb go;
    das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung the right of free speech ( oder of self-expression);
    freiem Willen of one’s own free will;
    die freie Wahl haben zwischen … und … be free to choose between … and …
    3. (unabhängig, selbstständig) Stadt etc: free; Beruf, Tankstelle etc: independent; (nicht gebunden) unattached; Journalist, Künstler etc: freelance;
    die freien Künste the liberal arts;
    freier Mitarbeiter freelance(r); → Freie2
    4. im Namen von Organisationen etc:
    Freie Demokratische Partei (abk FDP) Free Democratic Party;
    Freie Deutsche Jugend (abk FDJ) hist DDR Free German Youth;
    Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (abk FDGB) hist DDR Free German Trade Union Organization;
    die Freie Hansestadt Bremen the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen;
    die Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg
    5. WIRTSCH:
    im freien Handel available in the shops (US in stores);
    freier Markt open market; BÖRSE unofficial market;
    freie Marktwirtschaft free market economy;
    freier Wechselkurs floating exchange rate;
    (die) freie Wirtschaft free enterprise;
    die Rechte an diesem Buchtitel werden bald frei the rights in this title will soon be free ( oder available)
    6. (unbesetzt) Stuhl, Raum etc: free, available; Leitung: vacant; Stelle: vacant, open; Straße etc: clear, empty; (unbeschrieben) Seite etc: blank;
    frei am WC: vacant; am Taxi: for hire;
    freie Stelle vacancy;
    der Platz noch frei? is this seat taken?, is anyone sitting here?;
    der Stuhl/die Zeile muss frei bleiben the chair must be kept free/the line must be left blank;
    Platz frei lassen/machen für leave/make space for;
    jemandem den Weg frei machen clear the way for sb;
    zwei Zeilen frei lassen leave two blank lines; → Bahn, Ring, Zimmer
    7. (unbedeckt) bare;
    der Rock lässt die Knie frei the skirt is above the knee;
    den Oberkörper frei machen strip to the waist; → auch freilassen
    8. Feld, Himmel, Sicht: open;
    aufs freie Meer hinaus out into the open sea;
    auf freier Strecke on an open stretch (BAHN of line, Straße: of road);
    in freier Wildbahn in the wild;
    unter freiem Himmel in the open (air), outside
    9. Tag, Zeit etc: free; nachgestellt: off; Person: free, not busy;
    freie Zeit free ( oder leisure) time;
    nächsten Dienstag ist frei next Tuesday is a holiday;
    hast du morgen frei? do you have tomorrow off?;
    seitdem habe ich keine freie Minute mehr since then I haven’t had a free moment ( oder a moment to myself);
    sind Sie (gerade) frei? Taxi: are you taken?; Verkäufer: are you serving someone?
    10. (kostenlos) free (of charge);
    freier Eintritt admission free (
    für to);
    Kinder unter sechs sind frei umg von Eintritt, Fahrgeld: children under six are free, no charge for children under six;
    20 kg Gepäck sind frei there is a baggage (besonders US luggage) allowance of 20kg;
    frei Haus carriage paid;
    Lieferung frei Haus free delivery, no delivery charge;
    dazu bekommt sie auch noch einen Job frei Haus fig what’s more she gets a job handed to her on a plate;
    du hast noch zwei Versuche frei fig you have two tries left
    11.
    frei von (ohne) free from ( oder of), without; von Eis, Schneeschicht etc: clear of; von Steuern etc befreit: exempt from;
    frei von Schmerzen free from pain;
    frei von Schulden free from debt;
    frei von Zusätzen free of additives;
    niemand ist frei von Fehlern/Vorurteilen nobody is perfect/free from prejudice
    12.
    sich frei machen von free o.s. of; (herauskommen aus) get out of; (loswerden) get rid of
    13. fig (ungezwungen) free and easy; (offen) open; (moralisch großzügig) liberal;
    freie Liebe free love;
    sie ist schon viel freier geworden she has loosened up a great deal
    14. fig Übersetzung: free;
    freie Hand haben have a free hand (
    bei with);
    jemandem freie Hand lassen give sb a free hand (
    bei with);
    15. Sport (ungedeckt) unmarked;
    zum nächsten freien Mitspieler passen pass to the nearest unmarked player;
    der freie Mann (vor der Abwehr) the sweeper
    16. Postwesen: (frankiert) prepaid, post paid
    17. PHYS; Elektron, Fall, Radikal etc: free; CHEM uncombined;
    im freien Fall in free fall;
    frei werden Energie etc: be released;
    freie Valenzen CHEM free valencies
    B. adv
    1. atmen, herumlaufen etc: freely;
    frei geboren freeborn;
    frei laufende Hühner free-range hens;
    frei lebende Tiere wildlife sg, animals living in the wild ( oder out of captivity);
    frei praktizierender Arzt doctor in private practice;
    frei halten (einen Platz) keep, save; (Straße, Einfahrt) keep clear; (Angebot, Stelle etc) keep open;
    „Eingang frei halten!“ keep clear;
    frei halten von keep free of; (Eingang, Straße etc) keep clear of;
    frei halten keep sb free ( oder protect sb) from colds etc, keep colds etc away from sb;
    sich frei halten keep o.s. free (
    für for);
    sich frei halten von ward off, avoid
    2. herumliegen etc: openly;
    frei zugänglich von allen Seiten: freely accessible; für alle: open to all;
    frei stehen Baum, Haus etc: stand by itself; (leer stehen) be unoccupied, be empty; SPORT, Spieler: be unmarked;
    frei stehend Baum: solitary; Haus, nicht angebaut: detached; einzeln: isolated; SPORT, Spieler: unmarked
    3. WIRTSCH:
    frei erhältlich freely available;
    frei finanziert privately financed;
    frei konvertierbar freely convertible;
    frei verkäuflich on general sale, freely available (to buy)
    4. TECH:
    frei beweglich freely moving, mobile;
    schwebend unsupported
    5.
    frei (und offen) openly, frankly, freely; → frank, freiheraus
    6.
    frei sprechen Redner: speak without notes; mit Handy im Auto: phone ( oder talk) hands-free, use the speaker phone;
    ich möchte den Vortrag frei halten I want to give the lecture without notes;
    einen Kreis frei zeichnen draw a circle freehand;
    das Kind kann schon frei laufen/stehen the child can walk/stand unaided
    7.
    frei erfunden (entirely) fictitious;
    das hat er frei erfunden he made that up;
    frei nach (einem Stück von) X freely adapted from (a play by) X
    8. (liberal) liberally;
    frei erzogen sein have had a liberal upbringing; → auch freibekommen, freigeben etc
    …frei im adj
    1. (ohne …) Inhalt: …-free; Krankheit: free from …;
    stickstofffrei nitrogen-free, non-nitrogenous;
    tuberkulosefrei free from tuberculosis
    2. nicht geschehend: non-…;
    blendfrei Beleuchtung: non-dazzle;
    repressionsfrei Erziehung: non-repressive;
    schrumpffrei Wäsche: non-shrink, shrink-free
    3. nicht verlangt: exempt from …, …-exempt;
    visumfrei not requiring a visa, visa-exempt;
    zuschlagfrei on which no supplement is payable, exempt from supplement
    4. nicht bedeckt: Person: with bare …; Kleid: leaving … bare;
    fesselfrei clear of the ankles;
    nabelfrei with a bare midriff;
    schulterfrei off-the-shoulder
    5. unabhängig: independent of …;
    bündnisfrei independent of any alliance, unallied;
    reichsfrei HIST under the direct rule of the Emperor;
    trustfrei non-trust
    * * *
    1.
    1) free <man, will, life, people, decision, etc.>
    2) (nicht angestellt) freelance <writer, worker, etc.>
    3) (ungezwungen) free and easy; lax (derog.)
    4) (nicht eingesperrt, gefangen) free; at liberty pred.
    5) (offen) open

    unter freiem Himmel — in the open [air]; outdoors

    auf freier Strecke — (Straße) on the open road; (Eisenbahn) between stations

    frei herumlaufen — < person> run around scot-free

    6) (unbesetzt) vacant; unoccupied; free

    ein freier Stuhl/Platz — a vacant or free chair/seat

    Entschuldigung, ist hier noch frei? — excuse me, is this anyone's seat etc.?

    ein Bett ist [noch] frei — one bed is [still] free or not taken

    7) (kostenlos) free <food, admission>

    20 kg Gepäck frei haben — have or be allowed a 20 kilogram baggage allowance

    eine freie Übersetzung — a free or loose translation

    9) (ohne Vorlage) improvised

    der freie Fall — (Physik) free fall

    11)

    von etwas frei/frei von etwas sein — be free of something

    12) (verfügbar) spare; free

    ich habe heute frei/meinen freien Abend — I've got today off/this is my evening off

    sich (Dat.) frei nehmen — (ugs.) take some time off

    er ist noch/nicht mehr frei — he is still/no longer unattached

    13) (ohne Hilfsmittel)
    14) (unbekleidet) bare
    15) (bes. Fußball) unmarked
    16) (Chemie, Physik) free

    freie Hand haben/jemandem freie Hand lassen — have/give somebody a free hand

    aus freien Stücken — (ugs.) of one's own accord; voluntarily

    auf freiem Fuß — (von Verbrechern etc.) at large

    2.
    adverbial <act, speak, choose> freely; < translate> freely, loosely
    * * *
    adj.
    clear adj.
    detached adj.
    free adj.
    spare adj.
    uncommitted adj.
    unengaged adj.
    unenslaved adj.
    unfettered adj.
    unrestricted adj.
    untrapped adj. adv.
    freely adv.

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  • 8 frei

    frei I adj 1. COMP, GEN free; 2. IMP/EXP fr. free, franco, fco.; 3. PERS free, idle; 4. LOGIS fr., free, franco, fco. • einen freien Beruf ausüben WIWI (AE) practice a profession, (BE) practise a profession frei II adv LOGIS ex
    * * *
    adj 1. <Comp, Geschäft> free; 2. <Imp/Exp> (fr.) free, franco (fco.) ; 3. < Person> free, idle; 4. < Transp> (fr.) free, franco (fco.) ; 5. < Verwalt> idle ■ einen freien Beruf ausüben <Vw> practice a profession (AE), practise a profession (BE)
    adv < Transp> ex
    * * *
    frei
    (befreit) exempt, (Stellung) vacant, open, void, (Taxi) for hire, (Telefonleitung) disengaged, (überzählig) spare, (umsonst) gratis, gratuitous, (unabhängig) independent, unbound, (unbewirtschaftet) decontrolled, (unbewohnt) vacant, (uneingeschränkt) without control, (ungehindert) unhampered;
    • frei ab hier delivered here;
    • frei Abgangsbahnhof free station of departure;
    • frei durch Ablösung on Her (His) Majesty’s Service (Br.), franking privilege (US);
    • frei von Abzügen free from all deductions;
    • frei für Anlieger open to residents only;
    • frei von Aufbringung und Beschlagnahme free of capture and seizure;
    • frei Bahnhof free station;
    • frei Bahnwagen free on rail;
    • frei Baustelle free at building site;
    • frei von Belastungen free from encumbrances;
    • frei Bestimmungsbahnhof free station of destination;
    • frei an Bord free (delivered) on board, fob, f.o.b., free of steamer;
    • frei an Bord des Flugzeugs free on aircraft, free on plane;
    • frei an Bord zu liefern deliverable free on board, to be delivered on board free of charge;
    • frei von Bruch und Beschädigung free from break and damage;
    • frei Eisenbahngleis free on platform;
    • frei Empfangshafen inklusive Provision cost, insurance, freight and commission (cifc);
    • frei bis zur Entladung free overside;
    • frei erhältlich unrationed;
    • frei finanziert privately financed;
    • frei Flugzeug free on aircraft;
    • frei geliefert free delivered;
    • frei ein und aus und gestaut free in and out and stowed;
    • frei [ins] Haus free to the door, carriage- (delivery-) free, no charge for delivery;
    • frei von Havarie free of average;
    • frei Kai (Ufer) free docks (on quay);
    • frei für Kinder (Film) suitable for children;
    • frei konvertierbar convertible;
    • frei von allen Kosten cost-free;
    • frei LKW ab Lager free on truck;
    • frei von Leerfracht (Charterunternehmen) free of deadweight;
    • frei gegen Lieferschein free against documents;
    • frei einschließlich Löschung im Ankunftshafen free overside;
    • frei von Rechten Dritter (Nachlass) free and clear;
    • frei von bekannten Schäden free of reported casualty;
    • frei Schiff free on steamer, free overside (overboard);
    • frei längseitig Schiff free alongside ship (vessel);
    • frei von Schulden clear of debt, unencumbered;
    • frei und unbelastet (Grundstück) free and clear;
    • frei und ungebunden free and easy, fancy-free;
    • frei Waggon free on rail;
    • frei Warenlager delivered in store;
    • frei von Zusätzen without admixtures;
    • 20 Pfund Gepäck frei haben to be allowed 20 pounds luggage (Br.) (baggage, US);
    • über sein Vermögen frei verfügen können to have entire disposal of one’s estate;
    • frei lassen to leave blank;
    • sich frei nehmen to take time off;
    • sich einen Tag frei nehmen [to arrange] to take a day off (a holiday);
    • frei und offen reden to speak candidly;
    • frei werden (Posten) to fall void (vacant);
    • frei Bahnsteig geliefert werden to be delivered free railway station;
    • von der Haftung frei werden to be exonerated;
    • freie Berufswahl free choice of profession;
    • frei verfügbares Einkommen spendable (discretionary) income;
    • freier Eintritt free admission;
    • nach freiem Ermessen at one’s own discretion;
    • freier Frachtraum surplus cargo space;
    • freier Geldumlauf free circulation of money;
    • freies Geleit safe conduct;
    • freie Gewerkschaftsbewegung free union movement;
    • freier Grenzübertritt free entry;
    • freier Grundbesitz freehold;
    • frei verfügbare Guthaben available assets;
    • freie Hand free scope, (ungebunden) noncommittal;
    • frei Hand lassen to give free run, to allow s. o. free rein;
    • im freien Handel in the shops;
    • freier Journalist free-lance writer;
    • freie Kapazität spare capacity;
    • frei verfügbare Kaufkraft discretionary buying power;
    • freie Kost und Station board and lodging;
    • freie Liegezeit free time;
    • freier Makler outside (street, Br.) broker;
    • freier Markt open market, (Börse) outside (unofficial, open, street, Br., curb, kerb, Br.) market;
    • freie Marktwirtschaft free-enterprise system [economy], free-market (laissez-faire) economy;
    • freier Mitarbeiter (Werbung) outside artist, (Zeitung) free-lancer;
    • frei verfügbare Mittel loose funds;
    • freier Nachmittag half holiday, afternoon off;
    • freier Personen-, Dienst- und Kapitalverkehr (EU) free movement of persons, services and capital;
    • frei verkaufte Produkte over-the-counter products;
    • freier Raum blank space;
    • freie Rücklagen available (voluntary) reserve, reserve at disposal, discretionary appropriations (US), (Versicherung) free surplus;
    • frei vereinbarte Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit voluntary arbitration;
    • freie Seite blank page;
    • freier Sender independent broadcasting station;
    • freie Stelle vacancy, vacant office;
    • sich um eine freie Stelle bewerben to apply for a vacant position;
    • freie Strecke (Bahn) open track;
    • freie Stücke (Börse) negotiable securities;
    • aus freien Stücken of one’s own accord, voluntarily;
    • freier Tag holiday, day off, open (free) day;
    • freie Übersetzung (Übertragung) free (loose) translation;
    • freies Unternehmertum free enterprise;
    • im Wege freier Vereinbarung by private treaty;
    • zu jds. freier Verfügung stehend free;
    • freies Verfügungsrecht right to dispose;
    • freier Verkehr open market;
    • freies Vermögen unencumbered assets;
    • frei verfügbarer Vermögensanteil (Erblasser) disposable portion of property;
    • frei verfügbare Vermögenswerte liquid assets;
    • freie Wahl haben to have the liberty of choice;
    • frei konvertierbare Währung freely convertible currency;
    • freier Währungsraum free-currency area;
    • frei eingeführte Waren freely imported goods;
    • freie Wareneinfuhr free import of goods;
    • freie Wechselkurse fluctuating exchange rates;
    • freier Wettbewerb free (freedom of) competition;
    • freie Wirtschaft uncontrolled economy;
    • freier Wohnraum unrestricted (uncontrolled) dwelling space;
    • frei finanzierter Wohnungsbau privately financed dwellings;
    • freie Zustellung delivery free.

    Business german-english dictionary > frei

  • 9 beziehen

    (unreg.)
    I v/t
    1. (Sessel, Schirm) cover; (Bett) put clean sheets on; (Kopfkissen) put a new pillowcase on; mit Saiten: string; das Sofa neu beziehen reupholster the sofa
    2. (Haus, Wohnung) move into
    3. (Ware) get; (kaufen) auch buy; (Zeitung) take, subscribe to; (Informationen) get (hold of); Prügel beziehen get beaten up
    4. (Gelder, Gehalt etc.) receive; sie bezieht einen Teil i-s Einkommens aus Mieteinkünften some of her income is from rent ( oder rental payments)
    5. etw. auf jemanden / etw. beziehen (in Zusammenhang bringen) relate s.th to s.o. / s.th, (anwenden auf) apply s.th. to s.o. / s.th; er bezog es auf sich he took it personally
    6.
    a) MIL. (Stellung) take up (a position);
    b) einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen take a (firm) stand
    II v/refl
    1. Himmel: cloud over, become overcast
    2. sich beziehen auf (+ Akk) refer to; (in Verbindung stehen mit) relate to; (betreffen) concern, apply to; wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom... with reference to your letter of...(, we...); diese Beschreibung bezieht sich nicht auf dich / nicht auf hiesige Verhältnisse this description has nothing to do with you / is independent of local conditions
    * * *
    (Bett machen) to put clean sheets on;
    (abonniert haben) to subscribe to;
    (bespannen) to cover;
    (einziehen in) to move into
    * * *
    be|zie|hen ptp bezogen [bə'tsoːgn] irreg
    1. vt
    1) (= überziehen) Polster, Regenschirm to (re)cover; Bettdecke, Kissen to put a cover on; (mit Saiten) Geige etc to string

    die Betten frisch bezíéhen — to put clean sheets on the beds, to change the beds

    2) (= einziehen in) Wohnung to move into
    3) (ESP MIL = einnehmen) Posten, Position, Stellung to take up; (old ) Universität to enter, to go up to; (fig ) Standpunkt to take up, to adopt

    ein Lager bezíéhen — to encamp

    Wache bezíéhen — to mount guard, to go on guard

    4) (= sich beschaffen) to get, to obtain; Zeitungen etc to take, to get
    5) (= erhalten) to get, to receive; Einkommen, Rente to get, to draw; Prügel etc to get
    6)

    (= in Beziehung setzen) etw auf jdn/etw bezíéhen — to apply sth to sb/sth

    warum bezieht er ( bloß) immer alles auf sich? — why does he always take everything personally?

    auf jdn/etw bezogen — referring to sb/sth

    7) (Sw = einfordern) Steuern to collect
    2. vr
    1) (=sich bedecken Himmel) to cloud over, to darken
    2)

    (= betreffen) sich auf jdn/etw bezíéhen — to refer to sb/sth

    3)

    (= sich berufen) sich bezíéhen auf (+acc) — to refer to

    * * *
    (to live in: The family occupied a small flat.) occupy
    * * *
    be·zie·hen *
    I. vt
    1. (mit Bezug versehen)
    ▪ etw [mit etw dat] \beziehen to cover sth [with sth]
    die Bettwäsche neu \beziehen to change the bed[linen] [or sheets]
    etw neu \beziehen to re-cover sth; MUS (bespannen) to string
    ▪ etw \beziehen to move into sth
    ▪ etw \beziehen to take up sth
    einen Standpunkt \beziehen to adopt a point of view
    ▪ etw [von jdm] \beziehen to obtain [or get] sth [from sb]
    eine Zeitschrift \beziehen to take [or subscribe to] a magazine
    ▪ etw [von jdm/etw] \beziehen to receive [or draw] sth [from sb/sth]
    6. SCHWEIZ (einziehen) to collect
    7. (fam: bekommen) to get
    du beziehst gleich eine Ohrfeige, wenn du nicht mit dem Blödsinn aufhörst! I'll box your ears in a minute if you don't stop messing around!
    ▪ etw auf jdn/etw \beziehen to apply sth to sb/sth
    warum bezieht er [bloß] immer alles auf sich? why does he always [have to] take everything personally?
    II. vr
    ▪ sich akk \beziehen to cloud over, to become overcast
    mit Wolken bezogen clouded over
    ▪ sich akk auf jdn/etw \beziehen to refer to sb/sth
    ▪ sich akk auf jdn/etw \beziehen to refer to sb/sth
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) cover, put a cover/covers on <seat, cushion, umbrella, etc.>

    das Sofa ist mit Leder bezogen — the sofa is upholstered in leather

    2) (einziehen in) move into < house, office>
    3) (Milit.) take up < position, post>

    einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen — (fig.) adopt a clear position; take a definite stand

    4) (erhalten) receive, obtain [one's supply of] < goods>; take < newspaper>; draw, receive < pension, salary>

    Prügel beziehen — (ugs.) get a hiding (coll.)

    5) (in Beziehung setzen) apply (auf + Akk. to)

    etwas auf sich (Akk.) beziehen — take something personally

    bezogen auf jemanden/etwas — [seen] in relation to somebody/something

    2.
    1)

    es/der Himmel bezieht sich — it/the sky is clouding over or becoming overcast

    2)

    sich auf jemanden/etwas beziehen — < person, letter, etc.> refer to somebody/something; <question, statement, etc.> relate to somebody/something

    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom 28. 8., und... — with reference to your letter of 28 August, we...

    * * *
    beziehen (irr)
    A. v/t
    1. (Sessel, Schirm) cover; (Bett) put clean sheets on; (Kopfkissen) put a new pillowcase on; mit Saiten: string;
    das Sofa neu beziehen reupholster the sofa
    2. (Haus, Wohnung) move into
    3. (Ware) get; (kaufen) auch buy; (Zeitung) take, subscribe to; (Informationen) get (hold of);
    Prügel beziehen get beaten up
    4. (Gelder, Gehalt etc) receive;
    sie bezieht einen Teil i-s Einkommens aus Mieteinkünften some of her income is from rent ( oder rental payments)
    5.
    etwas auf jemanden/etwas beziehen (in Zusammenhang bringen) relate s.th to sb/s.th, (anwenden auf) apply sth to sb/s.th;
    er bezog es auf sich he took it personally
    6. MIL (Stellung) take up (a position);
    B. v/r
    1. Himmel: cloud over, become overcast
    2.
    sich beziehen auf (+akk) refer to; (in Verbindung stehen mit) relate to; (betreffen) concern, apply to;
    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom … with reference to your letter of …(, we …);
    diese Beschreibung bezieht sich nicht auf dich/nicht auf hiesige Verhältnisse this description has nothing to do with you/is independent of local conditions
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) cover, put a cover/covers on <seat, cushion, umbrella, etc.>
    2) (einziehen in) move into <house, office>
    3) (Milit.) take up <position, post>

    einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen — (fig.) adopt a clear position; take a definite stand

    4) (erhalten) receive, obtain [one's supply of] < goods>; take < newspaper>; draw, receive <pension, salary>

    Prügel beziehen — (ugs.) get a hiding (coll.)

    5) (in Beziehung setzen) apply (auf + Akk. to)

    etwas auf sich (Akk.) beziehen — take something personally

    bezogen auf jemanden/etwas — [seen] in relation to somebody/something

    2.
    1)

    es/der Himmel bezieht sich — it/the sky is clouding over or becoming overcast

    2)

    sich auf jemanden/etwas beziehen — <person, letter, etc.> refer to somebody/something; <question, statement, etc.> relate to somebody/something

    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom 28. 8., und... — with reference to your letter of 28 August, we...

    * * *
    v.
    to correlate v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > beziehen

  • 10 barato

    adj.
    1 cheap, inexpensive, low in price, cheaply.
    2 bad-quality, bad-taste, tacky, brassy.
    adv.
    cheaply, at a low price, low.
    * * *
    1 cheap
    1 cheaply, cheap
    ————————
    1 cheaply, cheap
    * * *
    (f. - barata)
    adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=económico) cheap
    2) (=de mala calidad) [música, imitación] cheap; [novela] trashy
    3) (=indigno) [demagogia, electoralismo] cheap
    2.
    ADV cheap, cheaply
    3.
    SM (=mercadillo) street market
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    a) <vestido/restaurante/viaje> cheap, low-priced
    b) < periodismo> cheap; < música> commercial
    c) ( como adv) <costar/comprar>
    II
    adverbio <comer/vivir> cheaply
    * * *
    = cheap [cheaper -comp., cheapest -sup.], low-cost, low-priced, lower-cost, pulp, inexpensively, on the cheap, cheapo, low-budget, no-frills, cut-price, cut-rate, a dime a dozen.
    Ex. These indexes are both cheap and quick to produce.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS is designed to give fast efficient, and low-cost assistance to librarians.
    Ex. Permission has been granted to introduce a system of surveillance licensing for the purpose of monitoring imports of low-priced goods, such as clothing and footwear originating in non-EC countries.
    Ex. Following our examples, the neighbors decide that they can provide the lower-cost food service to the wider community by buying in even larger quantities, and in the process make a profit for themselves.
    Ex. There are pulp detective novels and 'Simenon'; there are pulp Western films and 'High Noon'.
    Ex. This has enabled libraries to acquire materials more quickly and almost as inexpensively as in the past.
    Ex. The author provides a selected list of Internet sites covering various aspects of travel and tourism such as accommodation, restaurants, entertainment, travelling abroad, and touring on the cheap.
    Ex. I just put the DVD in my cheapo DVD player connected to my TV and it played without a hitch.
    Ex. Lodge Kerrigan's 'Clean, Shaven' is a blistering piece of cinematic inventiveness and a young director's low-budget first feature.
    Ex. This is a good guide for independent travellers looking for cheap, no-frills intercity transport around the country.
    Ex. Turkey is heavily promoted by tour operators as an idyllic holiday destination, the cut-price alternative to Greece or Cyprus.
    Ex. Most of these cut-rate laptops include a one-year parts and labor warranty.
    Ex. The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    ----
    * alojamiento barato = budget accommodation.
    * barato pero sin avergonzarse de ello = cheap and cheerful.
    * compañía aérea barata = low-cost airline.
    * de novela barata = novelettish.
    * de un modo barato = inexpensively, thriftily.
    * edición barata = trade paperback.
    * el ser barato = cheapness.
    * escritura barata = hack writing.
    * hotel barato = budget hotel.
    * humor barato = cheap laughs.
    * literatura barata = pulp fiction.
    * lo barato = inexpensiveness.
    * novela barata = novelette.
    * oratoria barata = soapbox.
    * rollo barato = soapbox.
    * tarifa especial más barata = discount charge.
    * vender a un precio más barato que = undercut.
    * vender más barato = undercut.
    * venta a un precio más barato = undercutting.
    * vuelo barato = budget flight.
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    a) <vestido/restaurante/viaje> cheap, low-priced
    b) < periodismo> cheap; < música> commercial
    c) ( como adv) <costar/comprar>
    II
    adverbio <comer/vivir> cheaply
    * * *
    = cheap [cheaper -comp., cheapest -sup.], low-cost, low-priced, lower-cost, pulp, inexpensively, on the cheap, cheapo, low-budget, no-frills, cut-price, cut-rate, a dime a dozen.

    Ex: These indexes are both cheap and quick to produce.

    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS is designed to give fast efficient, and low-cost assistance to librarians.
    Ex: Permission has been granted to introduce a system of surveillance licensing for the purpose of monitoring imports of low-priced goods, such as clothing and footwear originating in non-EC countries.
    Ex: Following our examples, the neighbors decide that they can provide the lower-cost food service to the wider community by buying in even larger quantities, and in the process make a profit for themselves.
    Ex: There are pulp detective novels and 'Simenon'; there are pulp Western films and 'High Noon'.
    Ex: This has enabled libraries to acquire materials more quickly and almost as inexpensively as in the past.
    Ex: The author provides a selected list of Internet sites covering various aspects of travel and tourism such as accommodation, restaurants, entertainment, travelling abroad, and touring on the cheap.
    Ex: I just put the DVD in my cheapo DVD player connected to my TV and it played without a hitch.
    Ex: Lodge Kerrigan's 'Clean, Shaven' is a blistering piece of cinematic inventiveness and a young director's low-budget first feature.
    Ex: This is a good guide for independent travellers looking for cheap, no-frills intercity transport around the country.
    Ex: Turkey is heavily promoted by tour operators as an idyllic holiday destination, the cut-price alternative to Greece or Cyprus.
    Ex: Most of these cut-rate laptops include a one-year parts and labor warranty.
    Ex: The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
    * alojamiento barato = budget accommodation.
    * barato pero sin avergonzarse de ello = cheap and cheerful.
    * compañía aérea barata = low-cost airline.
    * de novela barata = novelettish.
    * de un modo barato = inexpensively, thriftily.
    * edición barata = trade paperback.
    * el ser barato = cheapness.
    * escritura barata = hack writing.
    * hotel barato = budget hotel.
    * humor barato = cheap laughs.
    * literatura barata = pulp fiction.
    * lo barato = inexpensiveness.
    * novela barata = novelette.
    * oratoria barata = soapbox.
    * rollo barato = soapbox.
    * tarifa especial más barata = discount charge.
    * vender a un precio más barato que = undercut.
    * vender más barato = undercut.
    * venta a un precio más barato = undercutting.
    * vuelo barato = budget flight.

    * * *
    barato1 -ta
    1 ‹vestido/restaurante/viaje› cheap
    lo barato sale caro if you buy cheaply, you pay dearly, cheap things work out expensive in the long run
    2 ‹periodismo› cheap; ‹música› commercial
    3 ( como adv) ‹costar/comprar›
    el viaje no costó tan barato como pensaba the trip wasn't as cheap as I thought it would be, the trip cost me more than I thought it would
    las compré baratísimas en una liquidación I got them really cheap in a clearance sale
    al final, el coche me salió baratísimo I got the car really cheap in the end
    ‹comer/vivir› cheaply
    en esa tienda venden muy barato things are very cheap in that shop
    se compra más barato en el mercado prices are lower o things are cheaper in the market, you can get things cheaper in the market
    ver tb barato1 adj 3. (↑ barato (1))
    * * *

     

    barato 1
    ◊ -ta adjetivo

    a) ‹vestido/restaurante/viaje› cheap, low-priced

    b) ( como adv) ‹costar/comprar› cheap

    barato 2 adverbio ‹comer/vivir› cheaply;

    barato,-a
    I adjetivo cheap: necesito comprar un piso barato, I need to buy an inexpensive flat
    II adverbio cheaply: ¡hija mía, qué barato compras!, my dear, what a bargain!

    ' barato' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    asequible
    - barata
    - económica
    - económico
    - flete
    - más
    - obcecarse
    - salir
    - tirada
    - tirado
    - botado
    - regalado
    - regalar
    - resultar
    English:
    but
    - cheap
    - cheaply
    - cut-rate
    - dirt-cheap
    - down-market
    - inexpensive
    - low-cost
    - popular
    - deal
    - downmarket
    - trashy
    - under
    - whichever
    * * *
    barato, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [objeto] cheap;
    ser muy barato to be very cheap;
    los tomates están muy baratos tomatoes are very cheap at the moment;
    lo barato sale caro buying cheap is a false economy
    2. [sentimentalismo] cheap;
    [literatura] trashy;
    déjate de filosofía barata cut the half-baked philosophizing
    ♦ adv
    cheap, cheaply;
    me costó barato it was cheap, I got it cheap;
    vender algo barato to sell sth cheaply;
    en este bar se come muy barato you can eat very cheaply in this bar, the food's very cheap in this bar
    * * *
    adj cheap
    * * *
    barato adv
    : cheap, cheaply
    te lo vendo barato: I'll sell it to you cheap
    barato, -ta adj
    : cheap, inexpensive
    * * *
    barato1 adj cheap
    es bueno, bonito y barato it's nice, pretty and cheap
    barato2 adv cheaply

    Spanish-English dictionary > barato

  • 11 nacional

    adj.
    national (equipo, moneda, monumento).
    f. & m.
    national, citizen.
    * * *
    1 national
    2 (producto, mercado) domestic
    3 (vuelo) domestic; (noticias) national
    * * *
    1. adj. 2. noun mf.
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ (=de la nación) national; (Econ, Com) domestic, home antes de s

    páginas de nacional — (Prensa) home news pages

    carretera, fiesta 2), moneda 2)
    2. SMF
    1) LAm (=ciudadano) national
    2)

    los nacionales — [en la guerra civil española] the Franco forces

    * * *
    I
    a) ( de la nación) <deuda/reservas> national
    b) ( no internacional) < vuelo> domestic
    c) ( no extranjero) < industria> national

    compre productos nacionales — ≈buy Spanish (o Argentinian etc)

    la ginebra nacional es muy buena — Spanish (o Argentinian etc) gin is very good

    II
    masculino y femenino (frml) ( ciudadano) national
    * * *
    = countrywide [country-wide], domestic, home, national, state-owned, nationwide [nation-wide], all-nation, state-operated, state-run.
    Ex. There is an urgent need for a survey of private libraries on a countrywide scale.
    Ex. Results indicate that bibliographers at these libraries depend on inadequate reviewing sources and domestic approval plans for developing these literatures.
    Ex. Exports of school texts seem to do well, with a total contribution of 7.34 per cent to total turnover compared to 9.21 per cent from the home sales.
    Ex. National agencies creating MARC records use national standards within their own country, and re-format records to UNIMARC for international exchange.
    Ex. We are state-owned and in a monopolistic situation because of our size, status and/or the uniqueness of our collection.
    Ex. Most of the packaging for cassettes provided by commercial vendors that are known nationwide is lousy, falls apart, looks bad, and so on.
    Ex. The article 'New Czechoslovak database centres on the first all-nation level' describes the services offered by these centres and presents the results of a survey.
    Ex. All state-operated colleges of arts and science in New York state were given funds in fiscal year 1987-88 for collection preparation and barcoding.
    Ex. The nucleus of the system is composed of state-run information centres.
    ----
    * agencia nacional bibliográfica = national bibliographic agency.
    * a nivel nacional = nationally, countrywide [country-wide].
    * Archivo Nacional Americano = United States National Archives.
    * Asociación Nacional para Adquisiciones (NAG) = National Acquisitions Group (NAG).
    * Audiencia Nacional, la = High Court, the.
    * bibliografía nacional = national bibliography.
    * Bibliografía Nacional Británica (BNB) = British National Bibliography (BNB).
    * biblioteca nacional = national library.
    * Biblioteca Nacional Central = National Central Library.
    * Biblioteca Nacional de Alemania = Deutsche Bibliothek.
    * Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) = National Library of Medicine (NLM).
    * Biblioteca Nacional Francesa = Bibliotheque Nationale.
    * Catálogo Colectivo Nacional = National Union Catalog, NUC.
    * catálogo nacional = national catalogue.
    * catástrofe nacional = national disaster.
    * Centro Nacional de Préstamos = National Lending Centre.
    * Comité Nacional de Asesoramiento (NACO) = National Advisory Committee (NACO).
    * Consejo Nacional de Profesores de Inglés = National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
    * de alcance nacional = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * desarrollo de la identidad nacional = nation building.
    * deuda nacional, la = national debt, the.
    * Federación Nacional de Asesorías Independientes (FIAC) = National Federation of Independent Advice Centres (FIAC).
    * Fundación Nacional para las Humanidades (NEH) = National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * himno nacional = national anthem.
    * idiosincracia nacional = national ethos.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * intercambio nacional = national exchange.
    * liberación nacional = national liberation.
    * MARC de la Bibliografía Nacional Británica = BNB MARC.
    * Matica Slovenca (Biblioteca Nacional de Yugoslavia) = Matica Slovenska.
    * mercado nacional = home market, domestic market.
    * moneda nacional = local currency.
    * monumento nacional = heritage site, national monument.
    * movimiento de liberación nacional = national liberation movement.
    * nacional socialista = National Socialist.
    * NASA (Administración Nacional para la Aeronáutica y el Espacio) = NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
    * NISTF (Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la A = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).
    * número de bibliografía nacional = national record number.
    * número de la bibliografía nacional = national bibliographic record number.
    * número nacional de identificación bibliográfica = national bibliography number.
    * orgullo nacional = national pride.
    * Partido Socialista Nacional, el = National Socialist Party, the.
    * patrimonio nacional = cultural heritage, heritage site.
    * política de información nacional = national information policy.
    * política nacional = national politics.
    * prioridad nacional = national priority.
    * SCONUL (Sociedad de Bibliotecas Nacionales y Universitarias) = SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries).
    * seguridad nacional = homeland security.
    * servicio nacional = domestic service.
    * Sindicato Nacional de Agricultores (NFU) = National Farmers' Union (NFU).
    * tesoro nacional = national treasure.
    * universidad nacional de educación a distancia (UNED) = open university.
    * vuelo nacional = domestic flight.
    * * *
    I
    a) ( de la nación) <deuda/reservas> national
    b) ( no internacional) < vuelo> domestic
    c) ( no extranjero) < industria> national

    compre productos nacionales — ≈buy Spanish (o Argentinian etc)

    la ginebra nacional es muy buena — Spanish (o Argentinian etc) gin is very good

    II
    masculino y femenino (frml) ( ciudadano) national
    * * *
    = countrywide [country-wide], domestic, home, national, state-owned, nationwide [nation-wide], all-nation, state-operated, state-run.

    Ex: There is an urgent need for a survey of private libraries on a countrywide scale.

    Ex: Results indicate that bibliographers at these libraries depend on inadequate reviewing sources and domestic approval plans for developing these literatures.
    Ex: Exports of school texts seem to do well, with a total contribution of 7.34 per cent to total turnover compared to 9.21 per cent from the home sales.
    Ex: National agencies creating MARC records use national standards within their own country, and re-format records to UNIMARC for international exchange.
    Ex: We are state-owned and in a monopolistic situation because of our size, status and/or the uniqueness of our collection.
    Ex: Most of the packaging for cassettes provided by commercial vendors that are known nationwide is lousy, falls apart, looks bad, and so on.
    Ex: The article 'New Czechoslovak database centres on the first all-nation level' describes the services offered by these centres and presents the results of a survey.
    Ex: All state-operated colleges of arts and science in New York state were given funds in fiscal year 1987-88 for collection preparation and barcoding.
    Ex: The nucleus of the system is composed of state-run information centres.
    * agencia nacional bibliográfica = national bibliographic agency.
    * a nivel nacional = nationally, countrywide [country-wide].
    * Archivo Nacional Americano = United States National Archives.
    * Asociación Nacional para Adquisiciones (NAG) = National Acquisitions Group (NAG).
    * Audiencia Nacional, la = High Court, the.
    * bibliografía nacional = national bibliography.
    * Bibliografía Nacional Británica (BNB) = British National Bibliography (BNB).
    * biblioteca nacional = national library.
    * Biblioteca Nacional Central = National Central Library.
    * Biblioteca Nacional de Alemania = Deutsche Bibliothek.
    * Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) = National Library of Medicine (NLM).
    * Biblioteca Nacional Francesa = Bibliotheque Nationale.
    * Catálogo Colectivo Nacional = National Union Catalog, NUC.
    * catálogo nacional = national catalogue.
    * catástrofe nacional = national disaster.
    * Centro Nacional de Préstamos = National Lending Centre.
    * Comité Nacional de Asesoramiento (NACO) = National Advisory Committee (NACO).
    * Consejo Nacional de Profesores de Inglés = National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
    * de alcance nacional = nationwide [nation-wide].
    * desarrollo de la identidad nacional = nation building.
    * deuda nacional, la = national debt, the.
    * Federación Nacional de Asesorías Independientes (FIAC) = National Federation of Independent Advice Centres (FIAC).
    * Fundación Nacional para las Humanidades (NEH) = National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * himno nacional = national anthem.
    * idiosincracia nacional = national ethos.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * intercambio nacional = national exchange.
    * liberación nacional = national liberation.
    * MARC de la Bibliografía Nacional Británica = BNB MARC.
    * Matica Slovenca (Biblioteca Nacional de Yugoslavia) = Matica Slovenska.
    * mercado nacional = home market, domestic market.
    * moneda nacional = local currency.
    * monumento nacional = heritage site, national monument.
    * movimiento de liberación nacional = national liberation movement.
    * nacional socialista = National Socialist.
    * NASA (Administración Nacional para la Aeronáutica y el Espacio) = NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).
    * NISTF (Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la A = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).
    * número de bibliografía nacional = national record number.
    * número de la bibliografía nacional = national bibliographic record number.
    * número nacional de identificación bibliográfica = national bibliography number.
    * orgullo nacional = national pride.
    * Partido Socialista Nacional, el = National Socialist Party, the.
    * patrimonio nacional = cultural heritage, heritage site.
    * política de información nacional = national information policy.
    * política nacional = national politics.
    * prioridad nacional = national priority.
    * SCONUL (Sociedad de Bibliotecas Nacionales y Universitarias) = SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries).
    * seguridad nacional = homeland security.
    * servicio nacional = domestic service.
    * Sindicato Nacional de Agricultores (NFU) = National Farmers' Union (NFU).
    * tesoro nacional = national treasure.
    * universidad nacional de educación a distancia (UNED) = open university.
    * vuelo nacional = domestic flight.

    * * *
    1 (de la nación) ‹deuda/reservas› national
    en todo el territorio nacional throughout the country
    la bandera nacional the national flag
    el entrenador de la selección nacional the national team's coach, the Spanish ( o Colombian etc) team's coach
    2 (no regional) ‹prensa/comité› national
    carretera nacional ≈ Interstate (highway) ( AmE), ≈ A-road ( BrE)
    un programa de difusión nacional a program broadcast nationwide
    una campaña a nivel nacional a nationwide o countrywide o national campaign
    a escala nacional on a national scale
    3 (no internacional) ‹vuelo› domestic, internal; ‹mercado› home ( before n), domestic
    [ S ] salidas nacionales domestic departures
    4 (no extranjero) national
    proteger la industria nacional to protect national industry
    compre productos nacionales ≈ buy British ( o American etc)
    la ginebra nacional es muy buena Spanish ( o Argentinian etc) gin is very good
    1 ( frml) (ciudadano) national
    2
    * * *

    nacional adjetivo
    a) ( de la nación) ‹deuda/reservas/industria› national;


    un programa de difusión nacional a program broadcast nationwide
    b) ‹ vuelo› domestic

    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (frml) ( ciudadano) national
    nacional
    I adjetivo
    1 national
    un coche de fabricación nacional, a home-produced car
    2 (interior, no internacional) domestic: la nueva empresa está ganando terreno en el mercado nacional, the new company is gaining ground in the home market
    llegadas nacionales, domestic arrivals
    3 Hist el frente nacional, the national front
    II m pl los nacionales, the Nationalists
    dos nacionales vinieron en busca de reclutas, two Nationalists came looking for recruits
    ' nacional' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ámbito
    - carretera
    - CNMV
    - dicotomía
    - DNI
    - documento
    - fiesta
    - himno
    - INEM
    - Insalud
    - INSERSO
    - mercado
    - parador
    - PNB
    - policía
    - salud
    - sanear
    - selección
    - territorio
    - UNED
    - canción
    - ejecutar
    - guardabosque
    - herencia
    - instituto
    - monumento
    - ONCE
    - patrimonio
    - RENFE
    - vuelo
    English:
    advertise
    - anthem
    - bank holiday
    - domestic
    - edge
    - GNP
    - Gross National Product
    - holiday
    - home
    - ID
    - legal holiday
    - NASA
    - national
    - national costume
    - National Health Service
    - national park
    - National Trust
    - nationally
    - nationwide
    - preclude
    - route
    - state-owned
    - country
    - gross
    - involve
    - major
    - star
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [de la nación] national;
    el equipo nacional the national team;
    la moneda nacional the national currency;
    el ron es la bebida nacional rum is the national drink
    2. [del Estado] national;
    monumento/biblioteca nacional national monument/library
    3. [vuelo] domestic
    4. [mercado, noticias] domestic, home;
    una cadena de televisión de ámbito nacional a national television channel;
    consuma productos nacionales buy British/Spanish/ etc products
    5. Esp Hist
    las fuerzas nacionales the Nationalist forces
    ♦ nacionales nmpl
    Esp Hist
    los nacionales the Nationalists
    * * *
    adj national
    * * *
    : national
    ciudadano: national, citizen
    * * *
    1. (en general) national
    2. (producto, mercado, vuelo) domestic

    Spanish-English dictionary > nacional

  • 12 Vermögen

    Vermögen n 1. WIWI fortune, wealth (Reichtum); means, substance; property (Besitz, Eigentum); 2. FIN, RW assets (Aktiva, Vermögenswerte); net worth (Reinvermögen = Nettovermögen = Aktiva minus Schulden); capital (als konkretes Kapital Gegensatz zum abstrakten Kapital der Passivseite der Bilanz, Realvermögen); 3. GEN power, property; fortune (großer Geldbetrag); money (Geldvermögen) • durch bewegliches oder unbewegliches Vermögen dinglich gesichert RECHT secured by a charge on movable or immovable property • zu liquidierendes Vermögen RECHT assets to be realised
    * * *
    n 1. < Finanz> assets; 2. < Geschäft> power, property; 3. < Rechnung> assets, net worth, konkretes Kapital capital (Gegensatz zum abstrakten Kapital der Passivseite der Bilanz) ; 4. <Vw> Geldvermögen money
    * * *
    Vermögen
    property [and effects], fortune, (Aktiva) assets, (Fähigkeit) faculty, power, ability, capacity, (Gesellschaft) treasury, (Kapital) funds, means, (Nachlass) estate, (Reichtum) wealth, riches, money, substance;
    • im Vermögen der toten Hand in mortmain;
    • abgesondertes Vermögen (Ehefrau) separate property;
    • abgetretenes Vermögen assigned property;
    • Ertrag abwerfendes Vermögen income-producing property;
    • von der Versicherungsgesellschaft anerkanntes Vermögen net assets;
    • in Grundstücken angelegtes Vermögen capital invested in real property;
    • in Staatspapieren angelegtes Vermögen funded property;
    • in Wertpapieren angelegtes Vermögen property capital, (Kapitalanlagegesellschaft) total investments;
    • anmeldepflichtiges Vermögen property to be reported (declared);
    • ansehnliches Vermögen sizable property (fortune);
    • anständiges Vermögen sizable property;
    • ausländisches Vermögen alien (foreign-owned) property, foreign assets (ownership);
    • bares Vermögen liquid (cash) assets, stock, pecuniary property;
    • beachtliches Vermögen respectable competence;
    • hypothekarisch belastbares (verpfändbares) Vermögen mortgageable property;
    • belastetes Vermögen encumbered estate;
    • bescheidenes Vermögen modest fortune;
    • beschlagnahmtes Vermögen confiscated (requisitioned) property;
    • vom Feind beschlagnahmtes Vermögen enemy-controlled property;
    • zum persönlichen Gebrauch bestimmtes Vermögen personal chattels;
    • beträchtliches Vermögen handsome fortune;
    • bewegliches Vermögen personal chattels (property), goods and chattels, movables, movable goods (property, estate), personalty;
    • bewegliches und unbewegliches Vermögen mixed property;
    • blockiertes Vermögen frozen fund, blocked property;
    • brachliegendes Vermögen funds lying idle;
    • bei einer Bank deponiertes Vermögen property lodged with a bank;
    • eheliches Vermögen matrimonial assets;
    • eigenes Vermögen own property, independent means;
    • eingesetztes Vermögen venture;
    • einziehbares Vermögen divestible property;
    • elterliches Vermögen patrimony;
    • erbschaftssteuerfreies Vermögen free estate, property exempt from estate duty;
    • erbschaftssteuerpflichtiges Vermögen property liable to estate duty;
    • sofort erbschaftssteuerpflichtiges Vermögen property without the instal(l)ment option;
    • ererbtes Vermögen general (estate of) inheritance (US);
    • erhebliches Vermögen sizable fortune;
    • Ertrag bringendes Vermögen income-producing property;
    • zu erwartendes Vermögen fortune in reversion;
    • während der Ehe erworbenes Vermögen property acquired during marriage;
    • nach der Eheschließung erworbenes Vermögen after-acquired property;
    • vom Gemeinschuldner nach Konkurseröffnung erworbenes Vermögen property acquired after adjudication;
    • mühsam erworbenes Vermögen hardgot fortune;
    • unrechtmäßig erworbenes Vermögen ill-gotten property, property acquired by fraud;
    • feindliches Vermögen alien (enemy) property;
    • flüssiges Vermögen cash (liquid) property, quick (liquid) assets, money capital;
    • forstwirtschaftliches Vermögen commercial woodland;
    • freies Vermögen unencumbered assets;
    • wohl fundiertes Vermögen well-established fortune;
    • das ganze Vermögen all one’s belongings, the whole of one’s property;
    • gefährdetes Vermögen impaired fortune;
    • gegenwärtiges und zukünftiges Vermögen present and future property;
    • gemeinsames Vermögen (Gesellschafter) common (joint) property;
    • gepfändetes Vermögen seized assets;
    • gerettetes Vermögen salvaged property;
    • geringfügiges Vermögen (Steuerformular) unadmitted assets;
    • gesamtes Vermögen aggregate property, entire fortune;
    • gesperrtes Vermögen blocked property;
    • greifbares Vermögen tangible property;
    • großes Vermögen ample fortune;
    • grundsteuerpflichtiges Vermögen rat(e)able property (Br.);
    • hinterlegtes Vermögen bailed property;
    • treuhänderisch hinterlegtes sheltering trust (US);
    • immaterielles Vermögen intangible property;
    • investiertes Vermögen funds invested;
    • konkursfreies Vermögen unattachable property (assets), property exempt from distribution in bankruptcy;
    • landwirtschaftliches Vermögen agricultural property;
    • lastenfreies Vermögen unencumbered assets;
    • massefreies Vermögen (Konkursschuldner) distrainable property;
    • mütterliches Vermögen maternal property;
    • kein nennenswertes Vermögen no property worth mentioning;
    • persönliches Vermögen private property (means), (Gemeinschuldner) personal assets, (Gesellschafter) individual assets;
    • pfändungsfreies Vermögen exempt (unattachable) property, unattachable (exempt) assets;
    • leicht realisierbares Vermögen easily realizable assets;
    • nicht realisierbares Vermögen unrealizable property;
    • riskiertes Vermögen venture;
    • schuldenfreies Vermögen unencumbered estate;
    • im Eigentum neutraler Staatsangehöriger stehendes Vermögen neutral property;
    • für die Gläubiger [nicht] zur Verfügung stehendes Vermögen [non-]distributable property;
    • zur Schuldenbegleichung zur Verfügung stehendes Vermögen property available for payment of debts;
    • steuerfreies Vermögen tax-exempt property;
    • steuerpflichtiges Vermögen taxable (dutiable) property;
    • unangemeldetes Vermögen property not returned (reported);
    • unbewegliches Vermögen landed (real, immovable, US) property, immovables, real estate (assets), realty (US), (Bilanz) capital (fixed, permanent) assets;
    • der Zusammenveranlagung unterliegendes Vermögen (Einkommensteuer) aggregable property;
    • unübersehbares Vermögen fortune impossible to estimate;
    • väterliches Vermögen paternal property;
    • veranlagungspflichtiges Vermögen taxable property;
    • verbleibendes Vermögen remaining property;
    • vererbbares (vererbliches) Vermögen assets per descent;
    • nicht testamentarisch vermachtes Vermögen property undisposed by will;
    • vermögensteuerpflichtiges Vermögen property liable to wealth tax;
    • verpfändetes Vermögen pledged property;
    • als Sicherheit verpfändetes Vermögen assets pledged as collateral, property charged as security for a debt;
    • treuhänderisch verwaltetes Vermögen property held as trustee, trust estate (fund);
    • vollstreckungsfreies Vermögen exempt (mace-proof, US) property;
    • zinstragendes Vermögen income-producing property;
    • zukünftiges Vermögen future[-acquired] property, future estate;
    • zwangsverwaltetes Vermögen estate by elegit;
    • zweckgebundenes Vermögen restricted property;
    • Vermögen einer Aktiengesellschaft corporate assets (US), corporate funds, treasury;
    • Vermögen der Arbeitslosenversicherung Unemployment Trust Fund (US);
    • Vermögen im Ausland external property, assets held abroad;
    • Vermögen einer Bank bank assets;
    • Vermögen der Ehefrau wife’s estate, dotal (married woman’s) property;
    • persönliches Vermögen des Gemeinschuldners personal assets;
    • Vermögen der öffentlichen Hand social capital (wealth);
    • Vermögen einer Kommune general revenue fund;
    • Vermögen des Konkursschuldners bankrupt’s (bankruptcy) assets;
    • Vermögen einer Pensionskasse pension-fund assets;
    • Vermögen der Postsparkasse postal savings fund (US);
    • Vermögen in Sachform tangible property (assets);
    • Vermögen einschließlich der Verbindlichkeiten net assets;
    • Vermögen einer testamentarisch errichteten Vermögensverwaltung property in a will trust;
    • sein Vermögen angreifen to make a dent in one’s fortune (fam.);
    • sein ganzes Vermögen in Grundstücken anlegen to lock up all one’s capital in land;
    • sein Vermögen in einem Leibrentenvertrag anlegen to invest one’s money at life interest;
    • sein Vermögen in Wertpapieren anlegen to invest one’s money in stock;
    • Vermögen einer Pensionskasse in Aktien anderer Gesellschaften anlegen to diversify pension funds into other companies’ shares;
    • Vermögen anmelden to declare (report) property;
    • Vermögen ansammeln to amass a fortune, to hoard up a treasure;
    • sein Vermögen unter seine Erben aufteilen to divide one’s property among one’s heirs;
    • sein Vermögen aufzehren to get through one’s fortune, to live on one’s capital;
    • Vermögen ausgeben to spend a mint of money;
    • für jds. Erziehung (Ausbildung) ein Vermögen ausgeben to give up a fortune for s. one’s education;
    • jds. Vermögen beschlagnahmen to seize s. one’s property;
    • gesamtes Vermögen beschlagnahmen to levy on the entire property;
    • Vermögen besitzen to be a man of means;
    • großes Vermögen besitzen to be in possession of a large fortune;
    • sein [ganzes] Vermögen für wohltätige (karitative) Zwecke bestimmen to dispose of one’s fortune in (leave one’s fortune to, leave all one’s money to) charity;
    • Pfändung in das bewegliche Vermögen wegen nicht bezahlter Pacht betreiben to distrain chattels for non-payment of rent;
    • Vermögen [steuerlich] bewerten to assess a property [for taxation];
    • Vermögen bilden to create wealth;
    • j. um sein Vermögen bringen to trick (cut) s. o. out of his fortune;
    • sein Vermögen durchbringen to muddle away with (spend, consume) one’s fortune, to run out a fortune;
    • sein Vermögen in die Gütergemeinschaft einbringen to bring one’s property into the communal estate;
    • sein Vermögen einsetzen to risk one’s fortune;
    • Vermögen erben to succeed to (come into possession of) a fortune, to fall heir to a (into) property, to come into property;
    • beträchtliches Vermögen erben to come in for a pretty penny;
    • glänzendes Vermögen erben to be heir to a splendid fortune;
    • Vermögen steuerlich erfassen to list property for taxation (US);
    • großes Vermögen erwerben to acquire (amass) great wealth, to amass great riches;
    • sein Vermögen nach dem Kriege erwerben to make one’s fortune after the war;
    • zu Vermögen gelangen to come to wealth (into property), to rise to affluence;
    • bedeutendes Vermögen haben to have considerable means;
    • eigenes Vermögen haben to have a little independence of one’s own;
    • kein Vermögen haben to have nothing to depend upon (of one’s own), to have no resources of one’s own;
    • sein ganzes Vermögen in Aktien angelegt haben to have all one’s fortune in stocks (US);
    • mit seinem ganzen Vermögen haften to be liable without limitation (to the extent of one’s property);
    • Vermögen des Konkursschuldners nicht zur Masse heranziehen to disclaim property of a bankrupt;
    • großes Vermögen hinterlassen to cut up well (fat);
    • seiner Ehefrau sein ganzes Vermögen hinterlassen to settle (leave) all one’s property on one’s wife;
    • zu Vermögen kommen to get forward in the world;
    • spielend zu einem Vermögen kommen to step into a fortune;
    • gut von seinem Vermögen leben können to have plenty to live upon;
    • völlig frei über sein Vermögen verfügen können to be entire master of one’s property, to have entire disposal of one’s estate;
    • von seinem Vermögen leben to live on prior (one’s private) means;
    • Grundlage für ein Vermögen legen to found a fortune;
    • Vermögen machen to make (carve out) a fortune;
    • aus kleinen Gewinnen ein großes Vermögen machen to raise a great estate out of small profits;
    • sein Vermögen flüssig machen to realize one’s property (assets);
    • Vermögen für seine privaten Zwecke missbrauchen to funnel funds to one’s own use;
    • Vermögen in Besitz nehmen to enter upon property;
    • sein Vermögen in einem Unternehmen riskieren to venture one’s fortune in an enterprise;
    • Reste seines Vermögens sammeln to collect the wrecks of one’s fortune;
    • ohne pfändbares Vermögen sein to be judgment- (mace-, US) proof;
    • sein Vermögen aufs Spiel setzen to cast one’s bread upon the waters;
    • sein Vermögen als Sicherheit stellen to pledge one’s property;
    • jds. Vermögen auf... taxieren to rate s. one’s fortune at...;
    • sich von seinem ganzen Vermögen trennen to give up all one’s possessions;
    • Vermögen übertragen to assign (alienate, transfer) property, to deed one’s estate;
    • Vermögen auf j. übertragen to devolve property upon s. o., to vest property in s. o., to hand over one’s property to s. o.;
    • sein Vermögen auf seine Gläubiger übertragen to surrender one’s goods to one’s creditors; sein
    • Vermögen auf den Konkursverwalter übertragen to put one’s property under the control of a trustee in bankruptcy;
    • sein unbewegliches in bewegliches Vermögen umwandeln to convert one’s realty into personalty;
    • Vermögen einer Treuhandverwaltung unterstellen to put property into a trust;
    • Vermögen bei einem Geschäft verdienen to make a fortune out of a business;
    • über ein großes Vermögen verfügen to have a large capital at hand;
    • über kein eigenes Vermögen verfügen to have no resources of one’s own;
    • Vermögen vergeuden (verjubeln) to dilapidate (run through) a fortune;
    • sich an fremden Vermögen vergreifen to take liberties with another person’s property;
    • fast sein ganzes Vermögen verlieren to lose the bulk of one’s goods;
    • jem. sein Vermögen vermachen to make over one’s estate to s. o.;
    • jem. sein ganzes Vermögen vermachen to bequeath s. o. the whole of one’s estate, to will a fortune upon s. o.;
    • sein Vermögen testamentarisch vermachen to transmit one’s property by will;
    • sein Vermögen vermehren to enlarge one’s fortune;
    • sein Vermögen verprassen (verschleudern) to dissipate one’s fortune, to waste one’s property (substance);
    • sein halbes Vermögen verspekulieren to gamble away half one’s wealth;
    • sein Vermögen [beim Würfeln] verspielen to gamble (dice) away one’s money (fortune), to spend one’s estate in gaming;
    • sein Vermögen unter seine Erben verteilen to divide one’s property among one’s heirs;
    • Vermögen verwalten to be in charge of an estate, to administer property;
    • jds. Vermögen verwalten to act as trustee for s. one’s property, to take charge of s. one’s property;
    • Vermögen treuhänderisch verwalten to hold property on a fiduciary basis;
    • sein Vermögen verwetten to spend one’s estate in gaming;
    • auf sein Vermögen verzichten to renounce one’s property;
    • ins Vermögen vollstrecken to levy execution on the property;
    • sein verlorenes Vermögen wiederbekommen to recover one’s fallen fortunes;
    • beschlagnahmtes Vermögen zurückgeben to restore confiscated property;
    • Vermögen zusammenscharren to rake together wealth;
    • zu versteuerndes Vermögen zusammenstellen to list assets (US).

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  • 13 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

  • 14 Ausschuss

    Ausschuss m 1. GEN commission, comm., committee, comm., panel; 2. IND bad work (fehlerhafte Arbeit); rejects, defective units, lost units, wastage, spoilage (Produktion) • einem Ausschuss einen Antrag vorlegen GEN lay a proposal before a committee
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    m 1. < Geschäft> commission (comm.), committee (comm.), panel; 2. < Ind> fehlerhafte Arbeit bad work; Produktion rejects, defective units, lost units, wastage, spoilage ■ einem Ausschuss einen Antrag vorlegen < Geschäft> lay a proposal before a committee
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    Ausschuss
    commission, committee, board, panel, (Produktion) waste, wastage, scrap, refuse, reject[s], junk, rummage, (Waren) substandard goods, cull, rejection;
    • an einen Ausschuss verwiesen committed;
    • auswärtiger Ausschuss foreign-relations committee;
    • beratender Ausschuss advisory council (panel, board, committee), (EU) advisory committee;
    • engerer Ausschuss select (Br.) (small) committee;
    • erweiterter Ausschuss enlarged committee (US);
    • gemeinsamer Ausschuss joint committee;
    • gemischter Ausschuss joint commission (committee, Br.), hybrid committee;
    • geschäftsführender Ausschuss executive (managing, management) committee, board of management;
    • informeller Ausschuss informal commission;
    • Institutioneller Ausschuss (Europaparlament) Institutional Affairs Committee;
    • interministerieller Ausschuss interagency group (committee), interdepartmental committee;
    • nachgeordneter Ausschuss subordinate committee;
    • paritätischer Ausschuss joint committee;
    • politischer beratender Ausschuss Political Advisory (Consultative) Committee;
    • städtischer Ausschuss city commission;
    • ständiger Ausschuss standing (permanent) committee;
    • nicht ständiger Ausschuss temporary committee;
    • vorbereitender Ausschuss preparatory committee;
    • wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss scientific committee;
    • Ausschuss für Abwässerbeseitigung sewerage committee;
    • Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten, Sicherheit und Verteidigungspolitik (Europaparlament) Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices;
    • Ausschuss zur Bekämpfung des unlauteren Wettbewerbs Federal Trade Commission (US);
    • Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Entwicklungsfragen economic development committee (Br.);
    • wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss unabhängiger Experten a special scientific committee of independent scientific experts;
    • Ausschuss zur Festlegung der Geschäftspolitik policy committee;
    • Ausschuss für Fragen des Industrieschutzes safety committee;
    • Ausschuss für Fragen des Umweltschutzes council on environmental quality;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Futtermittel'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition;
    • Ausschuss für Haushaltskontrolle Committe on Budgetary Control;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Lebensmittel'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Food;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss Veterinärmedizinischer Maßnahmen im Zusammenhang mit der öffentlichen Gesundheit (EU) Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to Public Health;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Kosmetische Mittel und für den Verbraucher bestimmte Non-Food-Erzeugnisse'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Cosmetic Products and Non-Food Products intended for Consumers;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Pflanzen'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Plants;
    • Ausschuss der Präsidenten (EU) Presidential Committee;
    • Ausschuss der Regionen (EU) Committee of the Regions;
    • örtlicher Ausschuss für Schankkonzessionen excise commission (US);
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Tiergesundheit und artgerechte Tierhaltung'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare;
    • Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss ''Toxizität, Ökotoxizität und Umwelt'' (EU) Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment;
    • Ausschuss für Umweltfragen, Volksgesundheit und Verbraucherschutz (Europaparlament) Committe on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection;
    • Ausschuss der ständigen Vertreter der Mitgliedsstaaten (AStV) Committee of Permanent Representatives of the member states (Coreper);
    • Ausschuss der Ständigen Vertreter der nationalen Regierungen bei der EG (AStV) (Europaparlament) Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper);
    • Ausschuss zur Wahrung von Arbeitnehmerrechten employee rights committee;
    • Ausschuss für Wirtschaft und Finanzen (UNO) Economic and Financial Committee;
    • Ausschuss der gewerblichen Wirtschaft trade[s] council;
    • Ausschuss für Wirtschaft, Währung und Industriepolitik (Europaparlament) Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy;
    • internationaler Ausschuss für Wirtschaftsprüferrichtlinien International Accounting Standards Committee;
    • einem Ausschuss angehören to be (serve, sit) on a committee, to form part of a commission;
    • Ausschuss auflösen to put a committee out of business, to disband a committee;
    • aus einem Ausschuss ausscheiden to cease to form part of a commission;
    • aus einem Ausschuss ausschließen to throw off a committee;
    • in einen Ausschuss berufen to appoint to a committee;
    • Ausschuss bilden to constitute (resolve itself into) a committee;
    • Ausschuss einsetzen to constitute a committee, to appoint a commission;
    • sich zu einem Ausschuss konstituieren (parl.) to form themselves into a committee;
    • in einem Ausschuss sitzen to serve on a committee;
    • einem Ausschuss zur Verfügung stehen to attend upon a committee;
    • an einen Ausschuss überweisen to refer to a committee, (Gesetzesvorlage) to commit a bill;
    • seinen Fall einem Ausschuss vorlegen to lay one’s case before a commission;
    • dem Ausschuss vorliegen to be in the committee stage;
    • mit geheimen Ausschussabstimmungen aufräumen to sweep away secrecy from committee votes;
    • Ausschussakten committee files;
    • durchschnittlicher Ausschussanteil beim Produktionsprozess process average fraction defective;
    • tolerierte Ausschussanzahl tolerance number of defectives;
    • Ausschussarbeit leisten to serve on a commission;
    • Ausschussberater committee council;
    • Ausschussberatungen committee discussions (consultations);
    • Ausschussberatungen beschleunigen to expedite the business of a committee;
    • Ausschussbericht committee (panel) report;
    • Ausschussbesetzung committee assignment;
    • Ausschussbogen (drucktechn.) waste sheet;
    • Ausschussdokument (EU) committee document;
    • Ausschusseinsetzung setting up a committee;
    • Ausschussempfehlungen committee’s recommendations (proposals);
    • Ausschussernennung committee appointment;
    • Ausschussfunktion function of a committee;
    • Ausschussfunktionen wahrnehmen to serve on a panel;
    • Ausschusslager junk pile;
    • Ausschussmehrheit majority of a committee;
    • Ausschussmeldung scrap report;
    • Ausschussmitglied member of the board, committee (commission, board, panel) member;
    • Ausschusspapier waste paper, broke;
    • Ausschussprotokoll committee record;
    • Ausschussprotokoll veröffentlichen to publish the commission’s proceedings;
    • Ausschussquote percentage of rejects;
    • Ausschusssitz seat on a committee;
    • Ausschusssitzung conference of a committee, committee meeting;
    • an einer Ausschusssitzung teilnehmen to attend a committee meeting;
    • Ausschussstadium committee stage;
    • noch nicht im Ausschussstadium (Gesetz) uncommitted;
    • unbesetzte Ausschussstelle commission vacancy;
    • Ausschussstück waste[r];
    • Ausschusssystem (EU) committee system;
    • Ausschussverfahren comitology procedure;
    • übliches Ausschussverfahren usual procedure at committee meetings;
    • Ausschussvollmachten powers of a committee;
    • Ausschussvorschlag committee’s proposal;
    • Ausschussvorsitz committee chairmanship;
    • Ausschussvorsitzender chairman of a committee;
    • Ausschussware job (damaged, rummage, substandard) goods, trumpery wares, junk, [manufacturing] rejects, as-is merchandise;
    • Ausschusszimmer committee room;
    • Ausschusszugehörigkeit committeeship.

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  • 15 AT

    I) prep.
    A. with dative.
    I. Of motion;
    1) towards, against;
    Otkell laut at Skamkatli, bowed down to S.;
    hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge against A.;
    Brynjólfr gengr alit at honum, quite up to him;
    þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters with him;
    3) to, at;
    koma at landi, to come to land;
    ganga at dómi, to go into court;
    4) along (= eptir);
    ganga at stræti, to walk along the street;
    dreki er niðr fór at ánni (went down the river) fyrir strauminum;
    refr dró hörpu at ísi, on the ice;
    5) denoting hostility;
    renna (sœkja) at e-m, to rush at, assault;
    gerði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog;
    6) around;
    vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a veil round one’s head;
    bera grjót at e-m, to heap stones upon the body;
    7) denoting business, engagement;
    ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after horses, watching sheep;
    fara at landskuldum, to go collecting rents.
    II. Of position, &c.;
    1) denoting presence at, near, by, upon;
    at kirkju, at church;
    at dómi, in court;
    at lögbergi, at the hill of laws;
    2) denoting participation in;
    vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, wedding;
    3) ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at;
    kvalararnir, er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him;
    var þar at kona nökkur at binda (was there busy dressing) sár manna;
    4) with proper names of places (farms);
    konungr at Danmörku ok Noregi, king of;
    biskup at Hólum, bishop of Holar;
    at Helgafelli, at Bergþórshváli;
    5) used ellipt. with a genitive, at (a person’s) house;
    at hans (at his house) gisti fjölmenni mikit;
    at Marðar, at Mara’s home;
    at hins beilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church;
    at Ránar, at Ran’s (abode).
    III. Of time;
    1) at, in;
    at upphafi, at first, in the beginning;
    at skilnaði, at parting, when they parted;
    at páskum, at Easter;
    at kveldi, at eventide;
    at fjöru, at the ebb;
    at flœðum, at the floodtide;
    2) adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr’;
    at ári komanda, next year;
    at vári, er kemr, next spring;
    generally with ‘komanda’ understood;
    at sumri, hausti, vetri, vári, next summer, &c.;
    3) used with an absolute dative and present or past part.;
    at sér lifanda, duing his lifetime;
    at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all;
    at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the hearing of the chief;
    at upprennandi sólu, at sunrise;
    at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks are past;
    at honum önduðum, after his death;
    4) denoting uninterrupted succession, after;
    hverr at öðrum, annarr at öðrum, one after another;
    skildu menn at þessu, thereupon, after this;
    at því (thereafter) kómu aðrar meyjar.
    IV. fig. and in various uses;
    1) to, into, with the notion of destruction or change;
    brenna (borgina) at ösku, to burn to ashes;
    verða at ormi, to become a snake;
    2) for, as;
    gefa e-t at gjöf, as a present;
    eiga e-n at vin, to have one as friend;
    3) by;
    taka sverð at hjöltum, by the hilt;
    draga út björninn at hlustunum, by the ears;
    kjósa at afli, álitum, by strength, appearrance;
    auðigr at fé, wealthy in goods;
    vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face;
    5) as a law term, on the grounds of, by reason of;
    ryðja ( to challenge) dóm at mægðum, kvið at frændsemi;
    6) as a paraphrase of a genitive;
    faðir, móðir at barni (= barns, of a child);
    aðili at sök = aðili sakar;
    7) with adjectives denoting colour, size, age, of;
    hvítr, svartr, rauðr at lit, while, black, red of colour;
    mikill, lítill at stœrð, vexti, tall, small of stature;
    tvítugr at aldri, twenty years of age;
    kýr at fyrsta, öðrum kálfi, a cow that has calved once, twice;
    8) determining the source from which anything comes, of, from;
    Ari nam ok marga frœði at Þuríði (from her);
    þiggja, kaupa, geta, leigja e-t at e-m, to receive, buy, obtain, borrow a thing from one;
    hafa veg (virðing) styrk at e-m, to derive honour, power, from one;
    9) according, to, after (heygðr at fornum sið);
    at ráði allra vitrustu manna, by the advice of;
    at landslögum, by the law of the land;
    at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave;
    10) in adverbial phrases;
    gróa (vera grœddr) at heilu, to be quite healed;
    bíta af allt gras at snøggu, quite bare;
    at fullu, fully;
    at vísu, surely;
    at frjálsu, freely;
    at eilífu, for ever and ever;
    at röngu, at réttu, wrongly, rightly;
    at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same;
    at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent.
    B. with acc., after, upon (= eptir);
    sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, to take the inheritance after his father;
    at þat (= eptir þat), after that, thereafter;
    connected with a past part. or a., at Gamla fallinn, after the fall of Gamli;
    at Hrungni dauðan, upon the death of Hrungnir.
    1) as the simple mark of the infinitive, to;
    at ganga, at ríða, at hlaupa, to walk, to ride, to run;
    2) in an objective sense;
    hann bauð þeim at fara, sitja, he bade (ordered) them to go, sit;
    gefa e-m at eta, at drekka, to give one to eat, to drink;
    3) denoting design or purpose, in order to (hann gekk í borg at kaupa silfr).
    1) demonstrative particle before a comparative, the, all the, so much the;
    hón grét at meir, she wept the more;
    þykkir oss at líkara, all the more likely;
    þú ert maðr at verri (so much the worse), er þú hefir þetta mælt;
    2) rel. pron., who, which, that (= er);
    þeir allir, at þau tíðindi heyrðu, all those who heard;
    sem þeim er títt, at ( as is the custom of those who) kaupferðir reka.
    conj., that;
    1) introducing a subjective or objective clause;
    þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, it happened once that H.;
    vilda ek, at þú réðist austr í fjörðu, I should like you to go;
    2) relative to svá, denoting proportion, degree;
    svá mikill lagamaðr, at, so great a lawyer, that;
    3) with subj., denoting end or purpose, in order that (skáru þeir fyrir þá (viz. hestana) melinn, at þeir dœi eigi af sulti);
    4) since, because, as (= því at);
    5) connected with þó, því, svá;
    þó at (with subj.), though, although;
    því at, because, for;
    svá at, so that;
    6) temp., þá at (= þá er), when;
    þegar at (= þegar er), as soon as;
    þar til at (= þar til er), until, till;
    áðr at (= á. en), before;
    7) used superfluously after an int. pron. or adv.;
    Ólafr spurði, hvern styrk at hann mundi fá honum, what help he was likely to give him;
    in a relative sense; með fullkomnum ávexti, hverr at (which) þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða.
    V)
    negative verbal suffix, = ata; var-at, was not.
    odda at, Yggs at, battle.
    * * *
    1.
    and að, prep., often used ellipt. dropping the case and even merely as an adverb, [Lat. ad; Ulf. at = πρός and παρά, A. S. ät; Engl. at; Hel. ad = apud; O. H. G. az; lost in mod. Germ., and rare in Swed. and Dan.; in more freq. use in Engl. than any other kindred language, Icel. only excepted]:—the mod. pronunciation and spelling is að (aþ); this form is very old, and is found in Icel. vellum MSS. of the 12th century, e. g. aþ, 623. 60; yet in earlier times it was sounded with a tenuis, as we may infer from rhymes, e. g. jöfurr hyggi at | hve ek yrkja fat, Egill: Sighvat also makes it rhyme with a t. The verse by Thorodd—þar vastu at er fjáðr klæðið þvat (Skálda 162)—is hardly intelligible unless we accept the spelling with an aspirate (að), and say that þvað is = þvá = þváði, lavabat; it may be that by the time of Thorodd and Ari the pure old pronunciation was lost, or is ‘þvat’ simply the A. S. þvât, secuit? The Icelanders still, however, keep the tenuis in compounds before a vowel, or before h, v, or the liquids l, r, thus—atyrða, atorka, athöfn, athugi, athvarf, athlægi; atvinna, atvik; atlaga, atlíðanði ( slope), atriði, atreið, atróðr: but aðdjúpr, aðfinsla (critic), aðferð, aðkoma, aðsókn, aðsúgr (crowding), aðgæzla. In some words the pronunciation is irregular, e. g. atkvæði not aðkv-; atburðr, but aðbúnaðr; aðhjúkran not athjúkran; atgörvi not aðgörfi. At, to, towards; into; against; along, by; in regard to; after.
    Mostly with dat.; rarely with acc.; and sometimes ellipt.—by dropping the words ‘home,’ ‘house,’ or the like—with gen.
    WITH DAT.
    A. LOC.
    I. WITH MOTION; gener. the motion to the borders, limits of an object, and thus opp. to frá:
    1. towards, against, with or without the notion of arrival, esp. connected with verbs denoting motion (verba movendi et eundi), e. g. fara, ganga, koma, lúta, snúa, rétta at…; Otkell laut at Skamkatli, O. louted (i. e. bowed down) towards S., Nj. 77, Fms. xi. 102; sendimaðrinn sneri ( turned) hjöltum sverðsins at konungi, towards the king, i. 15; hann sneri egginni at Ásgrími, turned the edge towards A., Nj. 220; rétta e-t at e-m, to reach, hand over, Ld. 132; ganga at, to step towards, Ísl. ii. 259.
    2. denoting proximity, close up to, up to; Brynjólfr gengr … allt at honum, B. goes quite up to him, Nj. 58; Gunnarr kom þangat at þeim örunum, G. reached them even there with his arrows, 115; þeir kómust aldri at honum, they could never get near him, to close quarters, id.; reið maðr at þeim (up to them), 274; þeir höfðu rakit sporin allt at ( right up to) gammanum, Fms. i. 9; komu þeir at sjó fram, came down to the sea, Bárð. 180.
    3. without reference to the space traversed, to or at; koma at landi, to land, Ld. 38, Fms. viii. 358; ríða at dyrum, Boll. 344; hlaupa at e-m, to run up to, run at, Fms. vii. 218, viii. 358; af sjáfarganginum er hann gekk at landinu, of the surf dashing against the shore, xi. 6; vísa ólmum hundi at manni, to set a fierce hound at a man, Grág. ii. 118; leggja e-n at velli, to lay low, Eg. 426, Nj. 117; hníga at jörðu, at grasi, at moldu, to bite the dust, to die, Njarð. 378; ganga at dómi, a law term, to go into court, of a plaintiff, defendant, or bystander, Nj. 87 (freq.)
    4. denoting a motion along, into, upon; ganga at stræti, to walk along the street, Korm. 228, Fms. vii. 39; at ísi, on the ice, Skálda 198, Fms. vii. 19, 246, viii. 168, Eb. 112 new Ed. (á is perh. wrong); máttu menn ganga bar yfir at skipum einum, of ships alone used as a bridge, Fas. i. 378; at höfðum, at nám, to trample on the slain on the battle-field, Lex. Poët.; at ám, along the rivers; at merkiósum, at the river’s mouth, Grág. ii. 355; at endilöngu baki, all along its back, Sks. 100.
    5. denoting hostility, to rush at, assault; renna at, hlaupa at, ganga, fara, ríða, sækja, at e-m, (v. those words), whence the nouns atrenna, athlaup, atgangr, atför, atreið, atsókn, etc.
    β. metaph., kom at þeim svefnhöfgi, deep sleep fell on them, Nj. 104. Esp. of weather, in the impers. phrase, hríð, veðr, vind, storm görir at e-m, to be overtaken by a snow storm, gale, or the like; görði þá at þeim þoku mikla, they were overtaken by a thick fog, Bárð. 171.
    6. denoting around, of clothing or the like; bregða skikkju at höfði sér, to wrap his cloak over his head, Ld. 62; vefja motri at höfði sér, to wrap a snood round her head, 188; sauma at, to stick, cling close, as though sewn on; sauma at höndum sér, of tight gloves, Bs. i. 453; kyrtill svá þröngr sem saumaðr væri at honum, as though it were stitched to him, Nj. 214; vafit at vándum dreglum, tight laced with sorry tags, id.; hosa strengd fast at beini, of tight hose, Eg. 602; hann sveipar at sér iðrunum ok skyrtunni, he gathers up the entrails close to him and the skirt too, Gísl. 71; laz at síðu, a lace on the side, to keep the clothes tight, Eg. 602.
    β. of burying; bera grjót at einum, to heap stones upon the body, Eg. 719; var gör at þeim dys or grjóti, Ld. 152; gora kistu at líki, to make a coffin for a body, Eb. 264, Landn. 56, Ld. 142.
    γ. of summoning troops or followers; stefna at sér mönnum, to summon men to him, Nj. 104; stefna at sér liði, Eg. 270; kippa mönnum at sér, to gather men in haste, Ld. 64.
    7. denoting a business, engagement; ríða at hrossum, at sauðum, to go looking after after horses, watching sheep, Glúm. 362, Nj. 75; fara at fé, to go to seek for sheep, Ld. 240; fara at heyi, to go a-haymaking, Dropl. 10; at veiðum, a-hunting; at fuglum, a-fowling; at dýrum, a-sbooting; at fiski, a-fishing; at veiðiskap, Landn. 154, Orkn. 416 (in a verse), Nj. 25; fara at landskuldum, to go a-collecling rents, Eg. 516; at Finnkaupum, a-marketing with Finns, 41; at féföngum, a-plundering, Fms. vii. 78; ganga at beina, to wait on guests, Nj. 50; starfa at matseld, to serve at table, Eb. 266; hitta e-n at nauðsynjum, on matters of business; at máli, to speak with one, etc., Fms. xi. 101; rekast at e-m, to pursue one, ix. 404; ganga at liði sér, to go suing for help, Grág. ii. 384.
    β. of festivals; snúa, fá at blóti, veizlu, brullaupi, to prepare for a sacrificial banquet, wedding, or the like, hence at-fangadagr, Eb. 6, Ld. 70; koma at hendi, to happen, befall; ganga at sínu, to come by one’s own, to take it, Ld. 208; Egill drakk hvert full er at honum kom, drained every horn that came to him, Eg. 210; komast at keyptu, to purchase dearly, Húv. 46.
    8. denoting imaginary motion, esp. of places, cp. Lat. spectare, vergere ad…, to look or lie towards; horfði botninn at höfðanum, the bight of the bay looked toward the headland, Fms. i. 340, Landn. 35; also, skeiðgata liggr at læknum, leads to the brook, Ísl. ii. 339; á þann arminn er vissi at sjánum, on that wing which looked toward the sea, Fms. viii. 115; sár þau er horft höfðu at Knúti konungi, xi. 309.
    β. even connected with verbs denoting motion; Gilsáreyrr gengr austan at Fljótinu, G. extends, projects to F. from the east, Hrafh. 25; hjá sundi því, er at gengr þingstöðinni, Fms. xi. 85.
    II. WITHOUT MOTION; denoting presence at, near, by, at the side of, in, upon; connected with verbs like sitja, standa, vera…; at kirkju, at church, Fms. vii. 251, K. f). K. 16, Ld. 328, Ísl. ii. 270, Sks. 36; vera at skála, at húsi, to be in, at home, Landn. 154; at landi, Fms. i. 82; at skipi, on shipboard, Grág. i. 209, 215; at oldri, at a banquet, inter pocula; at áti, at dinner, at a feast, inter edendum, ii. 169, 170; at samförum ok samvistum, at public meetings, id.; at dómi, in a court; standa (to take one’s stand) norðan, sunnan, austan, vestan at dómi, freq. in the proceedings at trials in lawsuits, Nj.; at þingi, present at the parliament, Grág. i. 142; at lögbergi, o n the hill of laws, 17, Nj.; at baki e-m, at the back of.
    2. denoting presence, partaking in; sitja at mat, to sit at meat, Fms. i. 241; vera at veizlu, brullaupi, to be at a banquet, nuptials, Nj. 51, Ld. 70: a law term, vera at vígi, to be an accessory in manslaying, Nj. 89, 100; vera at e-u simply means to be about, be busy in, Fms. iv. 237; standa at máli, to stand by one in a case, Grág. ii. 165, Nj. 214; vera at fóstri, to be fostered, Fms. i. 2; sitja at hégóma, to listen to nonsense, Ld. 322; vera at smíð, to be at one’s work, Þórð. 62: now absol., vera at, to go on with, be busy at.
    3. the law term vinna eið at e-u has a double meaning:
    α. vinna eið at bók, at baugi, to make an oath upon the book by laying the band upon it, Landn. 258, Grág., Nj.; cp. Vkv. 31, Gkv. 3. 3, Hkv. 2. 29, etc.: ‘við’ is now used in this sense.
    β. to confirm a fact (or the like) by an oath, to swear to, Grág. i. 9, 327.
    γ. the law phrase, nefna vátta at e-u, of summoning witnesses to a deed, fact, or the like; nefna vátta at benjum, to produce evidence, witnesses as to the wounds, Nj., Grág.; at görð, Eg. 738; at svörum, Grág. i. 19: this summoning of witnesses served in old lawsuits the same purpose as modern pleadings and depositions; every step in a suit to be lawful must be followed by such a summoning or declaration.
    4. used ellipt., vera at, to be about, to be busy at; kvalararnir er at vóru at pína hann, who were tormenting him; þar varstu at, you were there present, Skálda 162; at várum þar, Gísl. (in a verse): as a law term ‘vera at’ means to be guilty, Glúm. 388; vartattu at þar, Eg. (in a verse); hence the ambiguity of Glum’s oath, vask at þar, I was there present: var þar at kona nokkur ( was there busy) at binda sár manna, Fms. v. 91; hann var at ok smíðaði skot, Rd. 313; voru Varbelgir at ( about) at taka af, þau lög …, Fms. ix. 512; ek var at ok vafk, I was about weaving, xi. 49; þeir höfðu verit at þrjú sumur, they had been busy at it for three summers, x. 186 (now very freq.); koma at, come in, to arrive unexpectedly; Gunnarr kom at í því, G. came in at that moment; hvaðan komtú nú at, whence did you come? Nj. 68, Fms. iii. 200.
    5. denoting the kingdom or residence of a king or princely person; konungr at Danmörk ok Noregi, king of…, Fms. i. 119, xi. 281; konungr, jarl, at öllum Noregi, king, earl, over all N., íb. 3, 13, Landn. 25; konungr at Dyflinni, king of Dublin, 25; but í or yfir England!, Eg. 263: cp. the phrase, sitja at landi, to reside, of a king when at home, Hkr. i. 34; at Joini, Fms. xi. 74: used of a bishop; biskup at Hólum, bishop of Hólar, Íb. 18, 19; but biskup í Skálaholti, 19: at Rómi, at Rome, Fbr. 198.
    6. in denoting a man’s abode (vide p. 5, col. 1, l. 27), the prep. ‘at’ is used where the local name implies the notion of by the side of, and is therefore esp. applied to words denoting a river, brook, rock, mountain, grove, or the like, and in some other instances, by, at, e. g. at Hofi (a temple), Landn. 198; at Borg ( a castle), 57; at Helgafelli (a mountain), Eb. constantly so; at Mosfelli, Landn. 190; at Hálsi (a hill), Fms. xi. 22; at Bjargi, Grett. 90; Hálsum, Landn. 143; at Á ( river), 296, 268; at Bægisá, 212; Giljá, 332; Myrká, 211; Vatnsá, id.; þverá, Glúm. 323; at Fossi (a ‘force’ or waterfall), Landn. 73; at Lækjamoti (waters-meeting), 332; at Hlíðarenda ( end of the lithe or hill), at Bergþórshváli, Nj.; at Lundi (a grove), at Melum (sandhill), Landn. 70: the prep. ‘á’ is now used in most of these cases, e. g. á Á, á Hofi, Helgafelli, Felli, Hálsi, etc.
    β. particularly, and without any regard to etymology, used of the abode of kings or princes, to reside at; at Uppsölum, at Haugi, Alreksstöðum, at Hlöðum, Landn., Fms.
    γ. konungr lét kalla at stofudyrum, the king made a call at the hall door, Eg. 88; þeir kölluðu at herberginu, they called at the inn, Fms. ix. 475.
    7. used ellipt. with a gen., esp. if connected with such words as gista, to be a guest, lodge, dine, sup (of festivals or the like) at one’s home; at Marðar, Nj. 4; at hans, 74; þingfesti at þess bóanda, Grág. i. 152; at sín, at one’s own home, Eg. 371, K. Þ. K. 62; hafa náttstað at Freyju, at the abode of goddess Freyja, Eg. 603; at Ránar, at Ran’s, i. e. at Ran’s house, of drowned men who belong to the queen of the sea, Ran, Eb. 274; at hins heilaga Ólafs konungs, at St. Olave’s church, Fms. vi. 63: cp. ad Veneris, εις Κίμωνος.
    B. TEMP.
    I. at, denoting a point or period of time; at upphafi, at first, in the beginning, Ld. 104; at lyktum, at síðustu, at lokum, at last; at lesti, at last, Lex. Poët., more freq. á lesti; at skilnaði, at parting, at last, Band. 3; at fornu, in times of yore, formerly, Eg. 267, D. I. i. 635; at sinni, as yet, at present; at nýju, anew, of present time; at eilífu, for ever and ever; at skömmu, soon, shortly, Ísl. ii. 272, v. l.
    II. of the very moment when anything happens, the beginning of a term; denoting the seasons of the year, months, weeks, the hours of the day; at Jólum, at Yule, Nj. 46; at Pálmadegi, on Palm Sunday, 273; at Páskum, at Easter; at Ólafsvöku, on St. Olave’s eve, 29th of July, Fms.; at vetri, at the beginning of the winter, on the day when winter sets in, Grág. 1. 151; at sumarmálum, at vetrnáttum; at Tvímánaði, when the Double month (August) begins, Ld. 256, Grág. i. 152; at kveldi, at eventide, Eg. 3; at því meli, at that time; at eindaga, at the term, 395; at eykð, at 4 o’clock p. m., 198; at öndverðri æfi Abra hams, Ver. II; at sinni, now at once, Fms. vi. 71; at öðruhverju, every now and then.
    β. where the point of time is marked by some event; at þingi, at the meeting of parliament (18th to the 24th of June), Ld. 182; at féránsdómi, at the court of execution, Grág. i. 132, 133; at þinglausnum, at the close of the parliament (beginning of July), 140; at festarmálum, eðr at eiginorði, at betrothal or nuptials, 174; at skilnaði, when they parted, Nj. 106 (above); at öllum minnum, at the general drinking of the toasts, Eg. 253; at fjöru, at the ebb; at flæðum, at flood tide, Fms. viii. 306, Orkn. 428; at hrörum, at an inquest, Grág. i. 50 (cp. ii. 141, 389); at sökum, at prosecutions, 30; at sinni, now, as yet, v. that word.
    III. ellipt., or adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr,’ of the future time:
    1. ellipt., komanda or the like being understood, with reference to the seasons of the year; at sumri, at vetri, at hausti, at vári, next summer, winter…, Ísl. ii. 242; at miðju sumri, at ári, at Midsummer, next year, Fas. i. 516; at miðjum vetri, Fms. iv. 237,
    2. adding ‘komanda’ or ‘er kemr;’ at ári komanda, Bárð. 177; at vári er kemr, Dipl. iii. 6.
    IV. used with an absolute dat. and with a pres. part.:
    1. with pres. part.; at morni komanda, on the coming morrow, Fms. i. 263; at sér lifanda, in vivo, in his life time, Grág. ii. 202; at þeim sofundum, illis dormientibus, Hkr. i. 234; at öllum ásjándum, in the sight of all, Fms. x. 329; at úvitanda konungi, illo nesciente, without his knowledge, 227; at áheyranda höfðingjanum, in the chief’s bearing, 235.
    2. of past time with a past part. (Lat. abl. absol.); at hræjum fundnum, on the bodies being found, Grág. ii. 87; at háðum dómum ok föstu þingi, during the session, the courts being set, i. 484; at liðnum sex vikum, after six weeks past, Band. 13; at svá búnu, so goru, svá komnu, svá mæltu (Lat. quibus rebus gestis, dictis, quo facto, dicto, etc.), v. those words; at úreyndu, without trial, without put ting one to the test, Ld. 76; at honum önduðum, illo mortuo.
    3. ellipt. without ‘at;’ en þessum hlutum fram komnum, when all this has been done, Eb. 132.
    V. in some phrases with a slight temp, notion; at görðum gildum, the fences being strong, Gþl. 387; at vörmu spori, at once, whilst the trail is warm; at úvörum, unawares, suddenly, Nj. 95, Ld. 132; at þessu, at this cost, on that condition, Eb. 38, Nj. 55; at illum leiki, to have a narrow escape, now við illan leik, Fms. ix. 473; at því, that granted, Grág. ii. 33: at því, at pessu, thereafter, thereupon, Nj. 76.
    2. denoting succession, without interruption, one after another; hverr at öðrum, annarr maðr at öðrum, aðrir at öðrum; eina konu at annarri, Eg. 91, Fms. ii. 236, vi. 25, Bs. i. 22, 625. 80, H. E. i. 522.
    C. METAPH. and in various cases:
    I. denoting a transformation or change into, to, with the notion of destruction; brenna at ösku, at köldum kolum, to burn to ashes, to be quite destroyed, Fms. i. 105, Edda 3, Sturl. ii. 51: with the notion of transformation or transfiguration, in such phrases as, verða at e-u, göra e-t at e-u, to turn it into:
    α. by a spell; verða at ormi, to become a snake, Fms. xi. 158; at flugdrekum, Gullþ. 7; urðu þau bönd at járni, Edda 40.
    β. by a natural process it can often be translated by an acc. or by as; göra e-n at urðarmanni, to make him an outlaw, Eg. 728; græða e-n at orkumlamanni, to heal him so as to maim him for life, of bad treatment by a leech, Eb. 244: in the law terms, sár görist at ben, a wound turning into a ben, proving to be mortal, Grág., Nj.; verða at ljúgvætti, to prove to be a false evidence, Grág. i. 44; verða at sætt, to turn into reconciliation, Fms. i. 13; göra e-t at reiði málum, to take offence at, Fs. 20; at nýjum tíðindum, to tell as news, Nj. 14; verða fátt at orðum, to be sparing of words, 18; kveðr (svá) at orði, to speak, utter, 10; verða at þrifnaði, to geton well, Fms. vii. 196: at liði, at skaða, to be a help or hurt to one; at bana, to cause one’s death, Nj. 223, Eg. 21, Grág. ii. 29: at undrum, at hlátri, to become a wonder, a laughing-stock, 623. 35, Eg. 553.
    II. denoting capacity, where it may be translated merely by as or for; gefa at Jólagjöf, to give for a Christmas-box, Eg. 516; at gjöf, for a present; at erfð, at láni, launum, as an inheritance, a loan; at kaupum ok sökum, for buying and selling, Ísl. ii. 223, Grág. i. 423; at solum, ii. 204; at herfangi, as spoil or plunder; at sakbótum, at niðgjöldum, as a compensation, weregeld, i. 339, ii. 171, Hkr. ii. 168; taka at gíslingu, to take as an hostage, Edda 15; eiga e-n at vin, at óvin, to have one as friend or foe, illt er at eiga þræl at eingavin, ‘tis ill to have a thrall for one’s bosom friend (a proverb), Nj. 77; fæða, eiga, at sonum (syni), to beget a son, Edda 8, Bs. i. 60 (but eiga at dóttur cannot be said); hafa möttul at yfirhöfn, Fms. vii. 201; verða nökkut at manni (mönnum), to turn out to be a worthy man; verða ekki at manni, to turn out a worthless person, xi. 79, 268.
    2. in such phrases as, verða at orðum, to come towards, Nj. 26; var þat at erindum, Eg. 148; hafa at veizlum, to draw veizlur ( dues) from, Fms. iv. 275, Eg. 647; gora e-t at álitum, to take it into consideration, Nj. 3.
    III. denoting belonging to, fitting, of parts of the whole or the like; vóru at honum (viz. the sword) hjölt gullbúin, the sword was ornamented with a hilt of gold, Ld. 330; umgörð at ( belonging to) sverði, Fs. 97 (Hs.) in a verse; en ef mór er eigi at landinu, if there be no turf moor belonging to the land, Grág. ii. 338; svá at eigi brotnaði nokkuð at Orminum, so that no harm happened to the ship Worm, Fms. x. 356; hvatki er meiðir at skipinu eðr at reiðinu eðr at viðum, damage done t o …, Grág. ii. 403; lesta ( to injure) hús at lásum, við eðr torfi, 110; ef land hefir batnað at húsum, if the land has been bettered as to its buildings, 210; cp. the phrase, göra at e-u, to repair: hamlaðr at höndum eðr fótum, maimed as to hands or feet, Eg. 14; heill at höndum en hrumr at fótum, sound in band, palsied in foot, Fms. vii. 12; lykill at skrá, a key belonging, fitting, to the latch; hurð at húsi; a key ‘gengr at’ ( fits) skrá; and many other phrases. 2. denoting the part by which a thing is held or to which it belongs, by; fá, taka at…, to grasp by …; þú tókt við sverði hans at hjöltunum, you took it by the bill, Fms. i. 15; draga út björninn at hlustum, to pull out the bear by the ears, Fas. ii. 237; at fótum, by the feet, Fms. viii. 363; mæla ( to measure) at hrygg ok at jaðri, by the edge or middle of the stuff, Grág. i. 498; kasta e-m at höfði, head foremost, Nj. 84; kjósa e-n at fótum, by the feet alone, Edda 46; hefja frændsemi at bræðrum, eða at systkynum, to reckon kinship by the brother’s or the sister’s side, Grág. i. 28; kjósa at afli, at álitum, by strength, sight, Gs. 8, belongs rather to the following.
    IV. in respect of, as regards, in regard to, as to; auðigr at fé, wealthy of goods, Nj. 16, 30, 51; beztir hestar at reið, the best racehorses, 186; spekingr at viti, a man of great intellect, Ld. 124; vænn (fagr) at áliti, fair of face, Nj. 30, Bs. i. 61; kvenna vænst at ásjónu ok vits munum, of surpassing beauty and intellect, Ld. 122; fullkominn at hyggju, 18; um fram aðra menn at vinsældum ok harðfengi, of surpassing popularity and hardihood, Eb. 30.
    2. a law term, of challenging jurors, judges, or the like, on account of, by reason of; ryðja ( to challenge) at mægðum, guðsifjum, frændsemi, hrörum …; at leiðarlengd, on account of distance, Grág. i. 30, 50, Nj. (freq.)
    3. in arithm. denoting proportion; at helmingi, þriðjungi, fjórðungi, tíunda hluta, cp. Lat. ex asse, quadrante, for the half, third… part; máttr skal at magni (a proverb), might and main go together, Hkr. ii. 236; þú munt vera at því mikill fræðimaðr á kvæði, in the same proportion, as great, Fms. vi. 391, iii. 41; at e-s hluta, at… leiti, for one’s part, in turn, as far as one is con cerned, Grág. i. 322, Eg. 309, Fms. iii. 26 (freq.): at öðrum kosti, in the other case, otherwise (freq.) More gener., at öllu, öngu, in all (no) respects; at sumu, einhverju, nokkru, partly; at flestu, mestu, chiefly.
    4. as a paraphrase of a genitive; faðir, móðir at barni (= barns); aðili at sök (= sakar a.); morðingi at barni (= barns), faðerni at barni (barns); illvirki at fé manna (cp. Lat. felo de se), niðrfall at sökum (saka), land gangr at fiskum (fiska), Fms. iv. 274, Grág. i. 277, 416, N. G. L. i. 340, K. Þ. K. 112, Nj. 21.
    5. the phrase ‘at sér,’ of himself or in himself, either ellipt. or by adding the participle görr, and with the adverbs vel, ilia, or the like; denoting breeding, bearing, endowments, character …; væn kona, kurteis ok vel at sér, an accomplished, well-bred, gifted lady, Nj. I; vitr maðr ok vel at sér, a wise man and thoroughly good in feeling and bearing, 5; þú ert maðr vaskr ok vel at þér, 49; gerr at sér, accomplished, 51; bezt at sér görr, the finest, best bred man, 39, Ld. 124; en þó er hann svá vel at sér, so generous, Nj. 77; þeir höfðingjar er svá vóru vel at sér, so noble-minded, 198, Fms. i. 160: the phrase ‘at sér’ is now only used of knowledge, thus maðr vel að sér means clever, a man of great knowledge; illa að sér, a blockhead.
    6. denoting relations to colour, size, value, age, and the like; hvitr, svartr, grár, rauðr … at lit, white, swarthy, gray, red … of colour, Bjarn. 55, 28, Ísl. ii. 213, etc.; mikill, lítill, at stærð, vexti, tall, small of size, etc.; ungr, gamall, barn, at aldri, young, old, a child of age; tvítugr, þrítugr … at aldri, twenty, thirty … years of age (freq.): of animals; kyr at fyrsta, öðrum … kálfi, a cow having calved once, twice…, Jb. 346: value, amount, currency of money, kaupa e-t at mörk, at a mark, N. G. L. 1. 352; ok er eyririnn at mörk, amounts to a mark, of the value of money, Grág. i. 392; verðr þá at hálfri murk vaðmála eyrir, amounts to a half a mark, 500.
    β. metaph. of value, connected with verbs denoting to esteem, hold; meta, hafa, halda at miklu, litlu, vettugi, engu, or the like, to hold in high or low esteem, to care or not to care for (freq.): geta e-s at góðu, illu, öngu, to mention one favourably, unfavourably, indifferently … (freq.), prop. in connection with. In many cases it may be translated by in; ekki er mark at draumum, there is no meaning in dreams, no heed is to be paid to dreams, Sturl. ii. 217; bragð er at þá barnið finnr, it goes too far, when even a child takes offence (a proverb): hvat er at því, what does it mean? Nj. 11; hvert þat skip er vöxtr er at, any ship of mark, i. e. however small, Fms. xi. 20.
    V. denoting the source of a thing:
    1. source of infor mation, to learn, perceive, get information from; Ari nam ok marga fræði at Þuríði, learnt as her pupil, at her hands, as St. Paul at the feet of Gamaliel, (just as the Scotch say to speer or ask at a person); Ari nam at Þorgeiri afraðskoll, Hkr. (pref.); nema kunnáttu at e-m, used of a pupil, Fms. i. 8; nema fræði at e-m, xi. 396.
    2. of receiving, acquiring, buying, from; þiggja e-t at e-m, to receive a thing at his hands, Nj. 51; líf, to be pardoned, Fms. x. 173; kaupa land at e-m, to buy it from, Landn. 72, Íb. II, (now af is more freq. in this sense); geta e-t at e-m, to obtain, procure at one’s hands, impetrare; þeirra manna er þeir megu þat geta at, who are willing to do that, Grág. i. I; heimta e-t at e-m (now af), to call in, demand (a debt, money), 279; fala e-t at e-m (now af), to chaffer for or cheapen anything, Nj. 73; sækja e-t at e-m, to ask, seek for; sækja heilræði ok traust at e-m, 98; leiga e-t at e-m (now af), to borrow, Grág. ii. 334; eiga e-t (fé, skuld) at e-m, to be owed money by any one, i. 399: metaph. to deserve of one, Nj. 113; eiga mikit at e-m, to have much to do with, 138; hafa veg, virðing, styrk, at, to derive honour, power from, Fms. vi. 71, Eg. 44, Bárð. 174; gagn, to be of use, Ld. 216; mein, tálma, mischief, disadvantage, 158, 216, cp. Eg. 546; ótta, awe, Nj. 68.
    VI. denoting conformity, according to, Lat. secundum, ex, after; at fornum sið, Fms. i. 112; at sögn Ara prests, as Ari relates, on his authority, 55; at ráði allra vitrustu manna, at the advice of, Ísl. ii. 259, Ld. 62; at lögum, at landslögum, by the law of the land, Grág., Nj.; at líkindum, in all likelihood, Ld. 272; at sköpum, in due course (poet.); at hinum sama hætti, in the very same manner, Grág. i. 90; at vánum, as was to be expected, Nj. 255; at leyfi e-s, by one’s leave, Eg. 35; úlofi, Grág. ii. 215; at ósk, vilja e-s, as one likes…; at mun, id. (poet.); at sólu, happily (following the course of the sun), Bs. i. 70, 137; at því sem …, as to infer from …, Nj. 124: ‘fara, láta, ganga at’ denotes to yield, agree to, to comply with, give in, Ld. 168, Eg. 18, Fms. x. 368.
    VII. in phrases nearly or quite adverbial; gróa, vera græddr, at heilu, to be quite healed, Bárð. 167, Eb. 148; bíta at snöggu, to bite it bare, Fms. xi. 6; at þurru, till it becomes dry, Eb. 276; at endilöngu, all along, Fas. ii; vinnast at litlu, to avail little, 655 x. 14; at fullu, fully, Nj. 257, Hkr. i. 171; at vísu, of a surety, surely, Ld. 40; at frjálsu, freely, 308; at líku, at sömu, equally, all the same, Hom. 80, Nj. 267; at röngu, wrongly, 686 B. 2; at hófi, temperately, Lex. Poët.; at mun, at ráði, at marki, to a great extent; at hringum, utterly, all round, (rare), Fms. x. 389; at einu, yet, Orkn. 358; svá at einu, því at einu, allt at einu, yet, however, nevertheless.
    VIII. connected with comparatives of adverbs and adjectives, and strengthening the sense, as in Engl. ‘the,’ so much the more, all the more; ‘at’ heldr tveimr, at ek munda gjarna veita yðr öllum, where it may be translated by so much the more to two, as I would willingly grant it to all of you; hon grét at meir, she grat (wept) the more, Eg. 483; þykir oss at líkara, all the more likely, Fms. viii. 6; þess at harðari, all the harder, Sturl. iii. 202 C; svá at hinn sé bana at nær, Grág. ii. 117; at auðnara, at hólpnara, the more happy, Al. 19, Grett. 116 B; þess at meiri, Fms. v. 64; auvirðismaðr at meiri, Sturl. ii. 139; maðr at vaskari, id.; at feigri, any the more fey, Km. 22; maðr at verri, all the worse, Nj. 168; ok er ‘at’ firr…, at ek vil miklu heldr, cp. Lat. tantum abest… ut, Eg. 60.
    β. following after a negation; eigi at síðr, no less, Nj. 160, Ld. 146; eigi… at meiri maðr, any better, Eg. 425, 489; erat héra at borgnara, any the better off for that, Fms. vii. 116; eigi at minni, no less for that, Edda (pref.) 146; eigi at minna, Ld. 216, Fms. ix. 50; ekki at verri drengr, not a bit worse for that, Ld. 42; er mér ekki son minn at bættari, þótt…, 216; at eigi vissi at nær, any more, Fas. iii. 74.
    IX. following many words:
    1. verbs, esp. those denoting, a. to ask, enquire, attend, seek, e. g. spyrja at, to speer (ask) for; leita at, to seek for; gæta, geyma at, to pay attention to; huga, hyggja at; hence atspurn, to enquire, aðgæzla, athugi, attention, etc.
    β. verbs denoting laughter, play, joy, game, cp. the Engl. to play at …, to laugh at …; hlæja, brosa at e-u, to laugh, smile at it; leika (sér) at e-u, to play at; þykja gaman at, to enjoy; hæða, göra gys at …, to make sport at …
    γ. verbs denoting assistance, help; standa, veita, vinna, hjálpa at; hence atstoð, atvinna, atverk:—mode, proceeding; fara at, to proceed, hence atför and atferli:—compliance; láta, fara at e-u, v. above:— fault; e-t er at e-u, there is some fault in it, Fms. x. 418; skorta at e-u, to fall short of, xi. 98:—care, attendance; hjúkra at, hlýja at, v. these words:—gathering, collecting; draga, reiða, flytja, fá at, congerere:—engagement, arrival, etc.; sækja at, to attack; ganga at, vera at, to be about; koma at, ellipt. to arrive: göra at, to repair: lesta at, to impair (v. above); finna at, to criticise (mod.); telja at, id.: bera at, to happen; kveða at e-m, to address one, 625. 15, (kveða at (ellipt.) now means to pronounce, and of a child to utter (read) whole syllables); falla at, of the flood-tide (ellipt.): metaph. of pains or straits surrounding one; þreyngja, herða at, to press hard: of frost and cold, with regard to the seasons; frjósa at, kólna at, to get really cold (SI. 44), as it were from the cold stiffening all things: also of the seasons themselves; hausta, vetra að, when the season really sets in; esp. the cold seasons, ‘sumra at’ cannot be used, yet we may say ‘vára að’ when the spring sets in, and the air gets mild.
    δ. in numberless other cases which may partly be seen below.
    2. connected ellipt. with adverbs denoting motion from a place; norðan, austan, sunnan, vestan at, those from the north, east…; utan at, innan at, from the outside or inside.
    3. with adjectives (but rarely), e. g. kærr, elskr, virkr (affectionate), vandr (zealous), at e-m; v. these words.
    WITH ACC.
    TEMP.: Lat. post, after, upon, esp. freq. in poetry, but rare in prose writers, who use eptir; nema reisi niðr at nið (= maðr eptir mann), in succession, of erecting a monument, Hm. 71; in prose, at þat. posthac, deinde, Fms. x. 323, cp. Rm., where it occurs several times, 2, 6, 9, 14, 18, 24, 28, 30, 35; sonr á at taka arf at föður sinn, has to take the inheritance after his father, Grág. i. 170 new Ed.; eiga féránsdóm at e-n, Grág. i. 89; at Gamla fallinn, after the death of G., Fms. x. 382; in Edda (Gl.) 113 ought to be restored, grét ok at Oð, gulli Freyja, she grat (wept) tears of gold for her lost husband Od. It is doubtful if it is ever used in a purely loc. sense; at land, Grág. (Sb.)ii. 211, is probably corrupt; at hönd = á hönd, Grág. (Sb.) i. 135; at mót = at móti, v. this word.
    ☞ In compounds (v. below) at- or að- answers in turn to Lat. ad- or in- or con-; atdráttr e. g. denotes collecting; atkoma is adventus: it may also answer to Lat. ob-, in atburðr = accidence, but might also be compared with Lat. occurrere.
    2.
    and að, the mark of the infinitive [cp. Goth. du; A. S. and Engl. to; Germ. zu]. Except in the case of a few verbs ‘at’ is always placed immediately before the infinitive, so as to be almost an inseparable part of the verb.
    I. it is used either,
    1. as, a simple mark of the infinitive, only denoting an action and independent of the subject, e. g. at ganga, at hlaupa, at vita, to go, to run, to know; or,
    2. in an objective sense when following such verbs as bjóða segja…, to invite, command …; hann bauð þeim at ganga, at sitja, be bade, ordered them to go, sit, or the like; or as gefa and fá; gefa e-m at drekka, at eta, to give one to drink or to eat, etc. etc.
    β. with the additional notion of intention, esp. when following verba cogitandi; hann ætlaði, hafði í hyggju at fara, he had it in his mind to go (where ‘to go’ is the real object to ætlaði and hafði í hyggju).
    3. answering to the Gr. ινα, denoting intention, design, in order to; hann gékk í borg at kaupa silfr, in order to buy, Nj. 280; hann sendi riddara sína með þeim at varðveita þær, 623. 45: in order to make the phrase more plain, ‘svá’ and ‘til’ are frequently added, esp. in mod. writers, ‘svá at’ and contr. ‘svát’ (the last however is rare), ‘til at’ and ‘til þess at,’ etc.
    II. in the earlier times the infin., as in Greek and Lat., had no such mark; and some verbs remain that cannot be followed by ‘at;’ these verbs are almost the same in Icel. as in Engl.:
    α. the auxiliary verbs vil, mun ( μέλλω), skal; as in Engl. to is never used after the auxiliaries shall, will, must; ek vil ganga, I will go; ek mun fara, (as in North. E.) I mun go; ek skal göra þat, I shall do that, etc.
    β. the verbs kunna, mega, as in Engl. I can or may do, I dare say; svá hygginn at hann kunni fyrir sökum ráða, Grág. ii. 75; í öllu er prýða má góðan höfðingja, Nj. 90; vera má, it may be; vera kann þat, id.: kunnu, however, takes ‘at’ whenever it means to know, and esp. in common language in phrases such as, það kann að vera, but vera kann þat, v. above.
    γ. lata, biðja, as in Engl. to let, to bid; hann lét (bað) þá fara, he let (bade) them go.
    δ. þykkja, þykjast, to seem; hann þykir vera, he is thought to be: reflex., hann þykist vera, sibi videtur: impers., mér þykir vera, mibi videtur, in all cases without ‘at.’ So also freq. the verbs hugsa, hyggja, ætla, halda, to think, when denoting merely the act of thinking; but if there be any notion of intention or purpose, they assume the ‘at;’ thus hann ætlaði, hugði, þá vera góða menn, he thought them to be, acc. c. inf.; but ætlaði at fara, meant to go, etc.
    ε. the verbs denoting to see, bear; sjá, líta, horfa á … ( videre); heyra, audire, as in Engl. I saw them come, I heard him tell, ek sá þá koma, ek heyrði hann tala.
    ζ. sometimes after the verbs eiga and ganga; hann gékk steikja, be went to roast, Vkv. 9; eiga, esp. when a mere periphrasis instead of skal, móður sína á maðr fyrst fram færa (better at færa), Grág. i. 232; á þann kvið einskis meta, 59; but at meta, id. l. 24; ráða, nema, göra …, freq. in poetry, when they are used as simple auxiliary verbs, e. g. nam hann sér Högna hvetja at rúnum, Skv. 3. 43.
    η. hljóta and verða, when used in the sense of must (as in Engl. he must go), and when placed after the infin.of another verb; hér muntu vera hljóta, Nj. 129; but hljóta at vera: fara hlýtr þú, Fms. 1. 159; but þú hlýtr at fara: verða vita, ii. 146; but verða at vita: hann man verða sækja, þó verðr (= skal) maðr eptir mann lifa, Fms. viii. 19, Fas. ii. 552, are exceptional cases.
    θ. in poetry, verbs with the verbal neg. suffix ‘-at,’ freq. for the case of euphony, take no mark of the infinitive, where it would be indispensable with the simple verb, vide Lex. Poët. Exceptional cases; hvárt sem hann vill ‘at’ verja þá sök, eða, whatever he chooses, either, Grág. i. 64; fyrr viljum vér enga kórónu at bera, en nokkut ófrelsi á oss at taka, we would rather bear no crown than …, Fms. x. 12; the context is peculiar, and the ‘at’ purposely added. It may be left out ellipt.; e. g. þá er guð gefr oss finnast (= at finnast), Dipl. ii. 14; gef honum drekka (= at drekka), Pr. 470; but mostly in unclassical writers, in deeds, or the like, written nastily and in an abrupt style.
    3.
    and að, conj. [Goth. þatei = οτι; A. S. þät; Engl. that; Germ, dass; the Ormul. and Scot. at, see the quotations sub voce in Jamieson; in all South-Teutonic idioms with an initial dental: the Scandinavian idioms form an exception, having all dropped this consonant; Swed. åt, Dan. at]. In Icel. the Bible translation (of the 16th century) was chiefly based upon that of Luther; the hymns and the great bulk of theol. translations of that time were also derived from Germany; therefore the germanised form það frequently appears in the Bible, and was often employed by theol. authors in sermons since the time of the Reformation. Jón Vidalin, the greatest modern Icel. preacher, who died in 1720, in spite of his thoroughly classical style, abounds in the use of this form; but it never took root in the language, and has never passed into the spoken dialect. After a relative or demonstr. pronoun, it freq. in mod. writers assumes the form eð, hver eð, hverir eð, hvað eð, þar eð. Before the prep. þú (tu), þ changes into t, and is spelt in a single word attú, which is freq. in some MS.;—now, however, pronounced aððú, aððeir, aððið …, = að þú…, with the soft Engl. th sound. It gener. answers to Lat. ut, or to the relat. pron. qui.
    I. that, relative to svá, to denote proportion, degree, so…, that, Lat. tam, tantus, tot…, ut; svá mikill lagamaðr, at…, so great a lawyer, that…, Nj. 1; hárið svá mikit, at þat…, 2; svá kom um síðir því máli, at Sigvaldi, it came so far, that…, Fms. xi. 95, Edda 33. Rarely and unclass., ellipt. without svá; Bæringr var til seinn eptir honum, at hann … (= svá at), Bær. 15; hlífði honum, at hann sakaði ekki, Fas. iii. 441.
    II. it is used,
    1. with indic, in a narrative sense, answering partly to Gr. οτι, Lat. quod, ut, in such phrases as, it came to pass, happened that …; þat var einhverju sinni, at Höskuldr hafði vinaboð, Nj. 2; þat var á palmdrottinsdag, at Ólafr konungr gékk út um stræti, Fms. ii. 244.
    2. with subj. answering to Lat. acc. with infin., to mark the relation of an object to the chief verb, e. g. vilda ek at þú réðist, I wished that you would, Nj. 57.
    β. or in an oblique sentence, answering to ita ut…; ef svá kann verða at þeir láti…, if it may be so that they might…, Fms. xi. 94.
    γ. with a subj. denoting design, answering to ϊνα or Lat. ut with subj., in order that; at öll veraldar bygðin viti, ut sciat totus orbis, Stj.; þeir skáru fyrir þá melinn, at þeir dæi eigi af sulti, ut ne fame perirent, Nj. 265; fyrsti hlutr bókarinnar er Kristindómsbálkr, at menn skili, in order that men may understand, Gþl. p. viii.
    III. used in connection with conjunctions,
    1. esp. þó, því, svá; þó at freq. contr. þótt; svát is rare and obsolete.
    α. þóat, þótt (North. E. ‘thof’), followed by a subjunctive, though, although, Lat. etsi, quamquam (very freq.); þóat nokkurum mönnum sýnist þetta með freku sett… þá viljum vér, Fms. vi. 21: phrases as, gef þú mér þó at úverðugri, etsi indignae (dat.), Stj. MS. col. 315, are unclass., and influenced by the Latin: sometimes ellipt. without ‘þó,’ eigi mundi hón þá meir hvata göngu sinni, at (= þóat) hon hraeddist bana sinn, Edda 7, Nj. 64: ‘þó’ and ‘at’ separated, svarar hann þó rétt, at hann svari svá, Grág. i. 23; þó er rétt at nýta, at hann sé fyrr skorinn, answering to Engl. yet—though, Lat. attamen —etsi, K. Þ. K.
    β. því at, because, Lat. nam, quia, with indic.; því at allir vóru gerfiligir synir hans, Ld. 68; því at af íþróttum verðr maðr fróðr, Sks. 16: separated, því þegi ek, at ek undrumst, Fms. iii. 201; því er þessa getið, at þat þótti, it i s mentioned because …, Ld. 68.
    γ. svá at, so that, Lat. ut, ita ut; grátrinn kom upp, svá at eingi mátti öðrum segja, Edda 37: separated, so … that, svá úsvúst at …, so bad weather, that, Bs. i. 339, etc.
    2. it is freq. used superfluously, esp. after relatives; hver at = hverr, quis; því at = því, igitur; hverr at þekkr ok þægiligr mun verða, Fms. v. 159; hvern stvrk at hann mundi fá, 44; ek undrumst hvé mikil ógnarraust at liggr í þér, iii. 201; því at ek mátti eigi þar vera elligar, því at þar var kristni vel haldin, Fas. i. 340.
    IV. as a relat. conj.:
    1. temp, when, Lat. quum; jafnan er ( est) mér þá verra er ( quum) ek fer á braut þaðan, en þá at ( quum) ek kem, Grett. 150 A; þar til at vér vitum, till we know, Fms. v. 52; þá at ek lýsta (= þá er), when, Nj. 233.
    2. since, because; ek færi yðr (hann), at þér eruð í einum hrepp allir, because of your being all of the same Rape, Grág. i. 260; eigi er kynlegt at ( though) Skarphéðinn sé hraustr, at þat er mælt at…, because (since) it is a saying that…, Nj. 64.
    V. in mod. writers it is also freq. superfluously joined to the conjunctions, ef að = ef, si, (Lv. 45 is from a paper MS.), meðan að = meðan, dum; nema að, nisi; fyrst að = fyrst, quoniam; eptir að, síðan að, postquam; hvárt að = hvárt, Lat. an. In the law we find passages such as, þá er um er dæmt eina sök, at þá eigu þeir aptr at ganga í dóminn, Grág. i. 79; ef þing ber á hina helgu viku, at þat á eigi fyrir þeim málum at standa, 106; þat er ok, at þeir skulu reifa mál manna, 64; at þeir skulu með váttorð þá sök sækja, 65: in all these cases ‘at’ is either superfluous or, which is more likely, of an ellipt. nature, ‘the law decrees’ or ‘it is decreed’ being understood. The passages Sks. 551, 552, 568, 718 B, at lokit (= at ek hefi lokit), at hugleitt (= at ek hefi h.), at sent (= at ek hefi sent) are quite exceptional.
    4.
    and að, an indecl. relat. pronoun [Ulf. þatei = ος, ος αν, οστις, οσπερ, οιος, etc.; Engl. that, Ormul. at], with the initial letter dropped, as in the conj. at, (cp. also the Old Engl. at, which is both a conj. and a pronoun, e. g. Barbour vi. 24 in Jamieson: ‘I drede that his gret wassalage, | And his travail may bring till end, | That at men quhilc full litil wend.’ | ‘His mestyr speryt quhat tithings a t he saw.’—Wyntoun v. 3. 89.) In Icel. ‘er’ (the relat. pronoun) and ‘at’ are used indifferently, so that where one MS. reads ‘er,’ another reads ‘at,’ and vice versâ; this may easily be seen by looking at the MSS.; yet as a rule ‘er’ is much more freq. used. In mod. writers ‘at’ is freq. turned into ‘eð,’ esp. as a superfluous particle after the relative pron. hverr (hver eð, hvað eð, hverir eð, etc.), or the demonstr. sá (sá eð, þeir eð, hinir eð, etc.):—who, which, that, enn bezta grip at ( which) hafði til Íslands komið, Ld. 202; en engi mun sá at ( cui) minnisamara mun vera, 242; sem blótnaut at ( quae) stærst verða, Fms. iii. 214; þau tiðendi, at mér þætti verri, Nj. 64, etc. etc.
    5.
    n. collision (poët.); odda at, crossing of spears, crash of spears, Höfuðl. 8.
    β. a fight or bait of wild animals, esp. of horses, v. hesta-at and etja.
    6.
    the negative verbal suffix, v. -a.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > AT

  • 16 компромиссное решение

    Второе значимое предположение затрагивает компромиссные решения, на которые потребитель готов пойти при выборе из различных товаров. — A second significant assumption concerns the trade-offs that the consumer is willing to make among different goods.

    решение, кооперативное, независимое от истоков полезности и общих изменений единиц полезности — cooperative solution, independent of utility origins and of common changes of utility units

    решение, кооперативное, нестрого линейное — weakly linear cooperative solution

    решение, кооперативное, симметричное — symmetric cooperative solution

    решения, независимые от истоков (происхождения, возникновения) полезности, переговорные — bargaining solutions that are independent of utility origins (IUO)

    Russian-English Dictionary "Microeconomics" > компромиссное решение

  • 17 Einzelhandel

    Einzelhandel m 1. IND retail trade, retailing; 2. V&M retail business electronic retailing, e-tailing (elektronisch)
    * * *
    m 1. < Ind> retail trade, retailing; 2. <V&M> retail business elektronisch electronic retailing, e-tailing
    in cpds <V&M> retail
    * * *
    Einzelhandel
    retail[ing] [trade];
    • im Groß- und Einzelhandel wholesale and retail;
    • vom Einzelhandel gefördert retailer-sponsored;
    • stationärer Einzelhandel fixed-shop retailing (Br.);
    • ungebundener Einzelhandel independent retail trade;
    • Einzelhandel durch Aufgabe von Rabattmarken zum Wanken bringen to rock the retail trade by dropping trade stamps;
    • im Einzelhandel führend sein to lead the retail sector;
    • den Einzelhandel vergraulen to scare off retailers;
    • Waren im Einzelhandel verkaufen to sell goods [by] retail.

    Business german-english dictionary > Einzelhandel

  • 18 Verpflichtung

    Verpflichtung f 1. GEN liability, obligation; 2. RECHT commitment, engagement, undertaking • eine Verpflichtung eingehen GEN undertake a commitment • eine Verpflichtung übernehmen GEN undertake a commitment • ohne jegliche Verpflichtung unsererseits GEN, RECHT without any liability on our part • ohne Verpflichtung V&M without obligation
    * * *
    f 1. < Geschäft> liability, obligation; 2. < Recht> commitment, engagement, undertaking ■ eine Verpflichtung eingehen < Geschäft> undertake a commitment ■ eine Verpflichtung übernehmen < Geschäft> undertake a commitment ■ ohne jegliche Verpflichtung unsererseits <Geschäft, Recht> without any liability on our part ■ ohne Verpflichtung <V&M> without obligation
    * * *
    Verpflichtung
    obligation, liability, bond, responsibility, commitment, debt, engagement, sponsion, tie, (Pflicht) duty;
    • angesichts der eingegangenen Verpflichtungen given the made commitments;
    • aufgrund früherer Verpflichtungen owing to previous engagements;
    • ohne Verpflichtungen unbound;
    • Verpflichtungen liabilities, indebtedness;
    • abstrakte Verpflichtung independent covenant;
    • akzessorische Verpflichtung accessory contract;
    • aufgelaufene, aber noch nicht fällige Verpflichtungen accrued liabilities;
    • ausdrückliche Verpflichtung express obligation;
    • bankinterne Verpflichtungen interbank obligations;
    • bedingte und spätere Verpflichtungen existing liabilities;
    • beiderseitige Verpflichtungen reciprocal commitments;
    • bestehende Verpflichtung existing liability;
    • bindende Verpflichtung binding commitment;
    • alle Vertragspartner bindende Verpflichtung obligation binding on all parties;
    • dienstbarkeitsähnliche Verpflichtung equitable easement;
    • vorher eingegangene Verpflichtung pre-engagement;
    • für wohltätige Zwecke eingegangene Verpflichtungen deeds of covenant in favo(u)r of charities;
    • einseitige Verpflichtung imperfect obligation, naked bond;
    • entstandene Verpflichtung liability accrued;
    • finanzielle Verpflichtungen pecuniary obligations, commitments;
    • freiwillige Verpflichtung voluntary undertaking;
    • gegenseitige Verpflichtungen mutual demands (covenants);
    • gesamtschuldnerische Verpflichtung joint and several liability, joint and several obligation (US);
    • geschäftliche Verpflichtungen business commitments;
    • gesellschaftliche Verpflichtung social engagement;
    • mit dem Diplomatenleben verbundene gesellschaftliche Verpflichtungen social obligations incident to life in the diplomatic service;
    • gesetzliche Verpflichtungen statutory obligations, legal liabilities;
    • durch Konventionalklausel gesicherte Verpflichtung penal obligation;
    • handelsvertragliche Verpflichtungen obligations under a trade agreement;
    • hypothekarische Verpflichtungen mortgage obligations, (Bilanz) mortgage payable (US);
    • laufende kaufmännische Verpflichtungen ordinary business engagements;
    • kurzfristige Verpflichtungen current (quick) liabilities, short-term obligation;
    • langfristige Verpflichtungen long-term obligations (engagements);
    • laufende Verpflichtungen running engagements, financial debts, trade liabilities;
    • mögliche Verpflichtungen contingent liabilities;
    • moralische Verpflichtung moral consideration;
    • obligatorische Verpflichtung equitable obligation;
    • öffentlich-rechtliche Verpflichtung obligation under public law;
    • persönliche Verpflichtung personal obligation (liability);
    • satzungsgemäße Verpflichtung liability created by statute;
    • bindende schriftliche Verpflichtung obligatory writing;
    • schuldrechtliche Verpflichtung general covenant, civil obligation;
    • sonstige Verpflichtungen (Bilanz) other liabilities;
    • steuerliche Verpflichtungen tax liabilities;
    • stillschweigende (mit übernommene, stillschweigend übernommene, stillschweigend eingegangene) Verpflichtung implied engagement (obligation);
    • finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit übersteigende Verpflichtungen overcommitments;
    • unabdingbare Verpflichtung absolute obligation;
    • unbedingte Verpflichtung absolute liability;
    • vertragliche Verpflichtung obligation under a contract, privity in deed, contractual commitment, treaty obligation;
    • wechselrechtliche Verpflichtungen liabilities upon bills;
    • Verpflichtung zur Abnahme der Ware obligation to accept the goods;
    • Verpflichtungen aus geleisteten Akzepten (Bilanz) contingent liabilities in respect of acceptances;
    • Verpflichtungen aus abgetretenen Debitoren accounts receivable discounted (US);
    • Verpflichtungen gegenüber Dritten (konsolidierte Bilanz) liabilities to outsiders;
    • Verpflichtungen bei anderen Etatstiteln due to other funds;
    • Verpflichtungen des Käufers buyer’s obligations (duties);
    • Verpflichtungen der Kundschaft customers’ liabilities;
    • Verpflichtungen der Kundschaft aus dokumentarischen Krediten und Rembourskrediten customers’ liabilities due to documentary and commercial credits;
    • Verpflichtungen der Kundschaft aus Wechsel- und Garantieverbindlichkeiten (Bilanz) customers’ liabilities for acceptances and guarantees;
    • Verpflichtung zu zukünftigen Leistungen affirmative covenant;
    • Verpflichtungen der Öffentlichkeit gegenüber public engagements;
    • Verpflichtung zur Preisstabilität price pledge;
    • Verpflichtung zur Sicherheitsleistung injunction bond;
    • Verpflichtungen des Sterlingblocks sterling liabilities;
    • Verpflichtungen gegenüber Tochtergesellschaften (Bilanz) owing to subsidiaries;
    • Verpflichtungen des Verkäufers buyer’s obligations;
    • Verpflichtungen aus einem Vertrag obligations pursuant to a treaty;
    • Verpflichtungen aus diskontierten Wechseln contingent liabilities on account of endorsements on bills discounted;
    • Verpflichtungen aus noch nicht eingelösten Wechseln liabilities upon bills;
    • Verpflichtungen anerkennen to acknowledge liabilities;
    • Verpflichtung annullieren to deface a bond;
    • sich Verpflichtungen aufladen to incur liabilities;
    • von Verpflichtungen befreien to release from obligations;
    • von der Verpflichtung zur Leistung befreien to discharge from performance;
    • Verpflichtung begründen to create an obligation;
    • sich um seine Verpflichtungen drücken to get out of one’s duties;
    • Verpflichtung eingehen to incur a liability (commitment), to enter into a bond (an obligation), to contract a liability;
    • betriebliche Verpflichtungen eingehen to make corporate commitments;
    • seine Verpflichtungen einhalten to keep one’s engagements;
    • j. aus einer Verpflichtung entlassen to discharge s. o. from an obligation;
    • j. aus einer vertraglichen Verpflichtung entlassen to release s. o. from a contract;
    • sich seiner Verpflichtung entledigen to acquit s. o. of a duty;
    • sich einer Verpflichtung entziehen to back out of (elude) an obligation;
    • sich seinen Verpflichtungen entziehen to withdraw from one’s engagements;
    • sich finanziellen Verpflichtungen entziehen to repudiate financial obligations;
    • sich einer Verpflichtung durch Vertragsabschluss entziehen to contract o. s. out of an obligation;
    • Verpflichtung erfüllen to discharge (redeem) an obligation;
    • seine Verpflichtungen erfüllen to discharge one’s liabilities, to carry out one’s obligations, to meet one’s commitments (engagements);
    • seine schriftlichen Verpflichtungen erledigen to attend to the correspondence, to do one’s mail (US);
    • verschiedene [finanzielle] Verpflichtungen haben to have various commitments;
    • alle Verpflichtungen loswerden to free o. s. from one’s commitments;
    • seinen Verpflichtungen nachkommen to meet one’s commitments, to meet (discharge) one’s obligations (liabilities);
    • seinen Verpflichtungen nicht nachkommen to fail to meet one’s obligations (commitments), to avoid one’s obligations, to [make] default;
    • seinen Verpflichtungen pünktlich nachkommen to meet one’s obligations punctually;
    • seinen laufenden kaufmännischen Verpflichtungen stets nachkommen to be good for one’s ordinary business engagements;
    • den Verpflichtungen gegenüber externen Partnern nachkommen (EU) to fulfil the obligations to the external parties;
    • seine Verpflichtungen als Verkäufer nachkommen to fulfil(l) one’s obligations under a contract of sale;
    • durch Verpflichtungen gebunden sein to be under bond;
    • Verpflichtung übernehmen [für] to incur an obligation;
    • finanzielle Verpflichtungen übernehmen to enter into pecuniary obligations;
    • Verpflichtungen unterliegen to be liable;
    • seine Verpflichtungen aus einem Vertrag wahrnehmen to fulfil one’s obligations under a treaty;
    • Verpflichtungen nach sich ziehen to involve liabilities.

    Business german-english dictionary > Verpflichtung

  • 19 Zwischenbilanz

    Zwischenbilanz f ADMIN interim balance sheet
    * * *
    f < Verwalt> interim balance sheet
    * * *
    Zwischenbilanz
    interim balance sheet, interim [financial] statement, struck balance (Br.), interim earnings statement (US);
    • Zwischenbilanz für Kontrollzwecke cutoff statement (US);
    • Zwischenbilanzierung interim financial reporting;
    • Zwischenblatt (Anzeigenwesen) interleaf;
    • Zwischenbuchhandel intermediary bookseller;
    • Zwischendeck (Schiff) lower deck;
    • Zwischendeckpassagier steerage passenger;
    • Zwischendividende interim dividend;
    • Zwischeneintragung intervening (suspense) entry;
    • Zwischenentscheidung interlocutory decision (judgment);
    • Zwischenergebnis interim result;
    • Zwischenfinanzierung interim (intermediate) financing;
    • Zwischenfruchtanbau catch-crop growing (US);
    • Zwischengewinn middleman’s profit;
    • Zwischengirant intermediate indorser;
    • Zwischenhandel transit, transient (middleman’s) business, intermediary (intermediate, entrepot) trade, jobbing (US);
    • Zwischenhandel ausschalten to eliminate the middleman;
    • Zwischenhändler transient vendor, in-between, intermediary, purchasing agent, independent middleman, jobber (US);
    • Zwischenhersteller downstream firm;
    • kurzfristige Zwischenhilfe short-term interim;
    • Zwischenholding intermediate (interposed) holding company;
    • Zwischenkalkulation interim calculation;
    • Zwischenkonto interim (suspense, deferred) account;
    • Zwischenkosten interlocutory costs;
    • Zwischenkredit intermediate (interim, temporary) credit;
    • Zwischenlager für Halbfabrikate intermediate store, bank (US);
    • Zwischenlagerung storage in transit;
    • Zwischenlandung (Flugzeug, Schiff) stopover (US);
    • Zwischenmakler intermediate broker;
    • Zwischennutzung intervening use;
    • Zwischenprodukte intermediate goods (products);
    • Zwischenprüfung intermediate examination;
    • Zwischenquittung interim (accountable, provisional, temporary) receipt;
    • Zwischenraum (drucktechn.) blind space, spacing;
    • zu großer Zwischenraum white gap;
    • zeitlicher Zwischenraum time interval;
    • Zwischenrechnung interim bill, provisional;
    • Zwischenregelung provisional arrangement;
    • Zwischenschein provisional bond (certificate, scrip), scrip (Br.) (interim, US) certificate;
    • Zwischenspediteur intermediate carrier, subagent, transit agent;
    • schneller Zwischenspeicher auf der Festplatte (Computer) cache.

    Business german-english dictionary > Zwischenbilanz

  • 20 Unternehmer

    m; -s, -; WIRTS. entrepreneur, (big umg.) businessman; umg. (Eigentümer einer Firma) owner; (Arbeitgeber) employer; (Industrieller) industrialist; die Unternehmer Koll. the business community Sg.; Arbeiter und Unternehmer workers and bosses
    * * *
    der Unternehmer
    entrepreneur; mercantilist; contractor
    * * *
    Un|ter|neh|mer(in)
    m(f)
    employer; (alten Stils) entrepreneur; (= Industrieller) industrialist

    die Unternéhmer — the employers

    * * *
    der
    1) (a person or firm that promises to do work or supply goods at a fixed rate: a building contractor.) contractor
    2) (a person who starts or organizes a business company, especially one involving risk: What this company needs is a real entrepreneur.) entrepreneur
    * * *
    Un·ter·neh·mer(in)
    <-s, ->
    [ʊntɐˈne:mɐ]
    m(f) employer, entrepreneur
    privater/selbständiger \Unternehmer private/independent trader
    * * *
    der; Unternehmers, Unternehmer: employer; (in der Industrie) industrialist
    * * *
    Unternehmer m; -s, -; WIRTSCH entrepreneur, (big umg) businessman; umg (Eigentümer einer Firma) owner; (Arbeitgeber) employer; (Industrieller) industrialist;
    die Unternehmer koll the business community sg;
    Arbeiter und Unternehmer workers and bosses
    * * *
    der; Unternehmers, Unternehmer: employer; (in der Industrie) industrialist
    * * *
    m.
    contractor n.
    entrepreneur n.
    mercantilist n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Unternehmer

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