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  • 1 giro postal internacional

    Ex. A lot has been written about how fraudulent international money orders can look real, where even banks accept them as genuine.
    * * *

    Ex: A lot has been written about how fraudulent international money orders can look real, where even banks accept them as genuine.

    Spanish-English dictionary > giro postal internacional

  • 2 сбор на денежные переводы за границу

    Banks. Exchanges. Accounting. (Russian-English) > сбор на денежные переводы за границу

  • 3 денежный перевод

    1. cash remittance
    2. commercial remittance

    перевод денег; денежный перевод — money remittance

    3. money remittance
    4. remittance
    5. money order
    6. money orders
    7. money-order

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > денежный перевод

  • 4 военные заказы за границей

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > военные заказы за границей

  • 5 orden

    f.
    1 order (mandato).
    ¡a la orden!, ¡a sus órdenes! (military) (yes) sir!
    dar órdenes to give orders
    estar a la orden del día to be the order of the day
    hasta nueva orden until further notice
    por orden de by order of
    orden de busca y captura warrant for search and arrest
    2 order.
    orden de caballería order of knighthood
    orden militar military order
    ¿ya les tomaron la orden? have you ordered yet?
    4 kind, class, order.
    Un nuevo orden de dificultad A new kind of difficulty.
    5 religious order, order.
    6 writ.
    7 command line.
    m.
    1 order.
    en o por orden alfabético/cronológico in alphabetical/chronological order
    llamar al orden a alguien to call somebody to order
    poner en orden algo to tidy something up
    por orden in order
    sin orden ni concierto in a haphazard way
    las fuerzas del orden the forces of law and order
    el orden establecido the established order
    orden público law and order
    2 type, order (tipo).
    del orden de around, approximately, of o in the order of
    en otro orden de cosas on the other hand
    * * *
    2 BIOLOGÍA order
    3 ARQUITECTURA order
    4 field, sphere
    1 (mandato) order
    ■ ¡es una orden! that's an order!
    ■ ¡a la orden mi comandante! right away sir!
    2 RELIGIÓN order
    \
    del orden de of the order of, US on the order of
    de primer orden first-rate
    estar algo a la orden del día to be the done thing
    por orden de aparición in order of appearance
    por orden de by order of
    el orden del día the agenda
    la orden del día MILITAR the order of the day
    las fuerzas del orden the security forces
    orden de búsqueda y captura→ link=ordenorden de detención
    orden de caballería order of knighthood
    orden de detención arrest warrant
    orden de pago order of payment
    orden de registro search warrant
    orden judicial court order
    orden público public order, the peace, law and order
    * * *
    1. noun m. 2. noun f.
    order, command
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) [en colocación, sucesión]
    a) [con objetos, personas] order

    • poner orden en algo — to sort sth out

    b)

    • en orden — in order

    todo en orden, mi capitán — everything is in order, captain

    • poner en orden — [+ papeles, documentos] to sort out

    2) (tb: orden social) order

    • llamar al orden — to call to order

    • mantener el orden — to keep order

    • restablecer el orden — to restore o reestablish order

    orden público — public order, law and order

    3) (=tipo) nature

    • en otro orden de cosas... — at the same time..., meanwhile...

    • de primer orden — [figura] leading; [factor] of prime importance, prime

    • en todos los órdenes — on all fronts

    4)

    • del orden de — in the order of, in the region of

    necesitamos del orden de 1.500 euros para comprarlo — we need approximately 1,500 euros to buy it

    5)

    • en orden a — (=con miras a) with a view to; (=en cuanto a) with regard to

    • en orden a hacer algo — in order to do sth

    6) (Arquit) order
    7) (Bio) order
    8) (Rel) (tb: orden sacerdotal) ordination
    2. SF
    1) (=mandato) order

    ¡es una orden! — (and) that's an order!

    • dar una orden a algn — to give sb an order, order sb

    • hasta nueva orden — until further notice

    • por orden de — by order of

    estar a la orden del día —

    orden de allanamiento — LAm search warrant

    orden de arresto, orden de búsqueda y captura — arrest warrant

    orden de comparación — Méx summons, subpoena (EEUU)

    orden del día — (Mil) order of the day

    orden ministerial — ministerial order, ministerial decree

    2)

    • a la orden —

    a) (Mil) yes, sir!
    b) LAm [en tienda] what can I get you?; (=no hay de qué) you're welcome, don't mention it!

    estoy a la orden para lo que necesites — if there is anything you need, just ask

    c)

    • a las órdenes de algn — (Mil) at sb's command; [en la policía] under sb's instructions o orders; [en otros trabajos] under sb

    ¡a sus órdenes! — (Mil) yes sir; esp LAm at your service

    3) (Mil, Hist, Rel) (=institución) order
    4) pl órdenes (Rel) orders
    5) (Com, Econ) order; Méx (=pedido) order

    • cheques a la orden de Suárez — cheques (to be made) payable to Suárez

    6) Méx (=ración) dish
    * * *
    I
    1) ( mandato) order

    por orden del Sr Alcalde — by order of His Honour (AmE) o (BrE) Worship the Mayor

    estamos a la orden para lo que necesite — (AmL) just let us know if there's anything we can do for you

    a sus órdenes! — yes, sir!

    a la orden! — (Mil) yes, sir!; ( fórmula de cortesía) (Andes, Méx, Ven) you're welcome, not at all

    2) (Fin) order
    3) (Hist, Mil, Relig) order
    4) (AmL) (Com) ( pedido) order
    II
    1)
    a) (indicando colocación, jerarquía) order

    en or por orden alfabético — in alphabetical order

    b) (armonía, concierto) order

    llamar a alguien al orden — to call somebody to order

    sin orden ni concierto — without rhyme or reason

    c) ( disciplina) order
    d) (de curas/monjas order; ( fraternidad) order
    2)
    a) (frml) (carácter, índole) nature
    b) ( cantidad)

    del orden de — (frml) on the order of (AmE), in o of the order of (BrE)

    c) (period) ( ámbito)

    en otro orden de cosas ¿qué opina de...? — moving on to something else, what do you think about...?

    3)
    a) (Arquit) order
    b) (Biol, Zool) order
    * * *
    I
    1) ( mandato) order

    por orden del Sr Alcalde — by order of His Honour (AmE) o (BrE) Worship the Mayor

    estamos a la orden para lo que necesite — (AmL) just let us know if there's anything we can do for you

    a sus órdenes! — yes, sir!

    a la orden! — (Mil) yes, sir!; ( fórmula de cortesía) (Andes, Méx, Ven) you're welcome, not at all

    2) (Fin) order
    3) (Hist, Mil, Relig) order
    4) (AmL) (Com) ( pedido) order
    II
    1)
    a) (indicando colocación, jerarquía) order

    en or por orden alfabético — in alphabetical order

    b) (armonía, concierto) order

    llamar a alguien al orden — to call somebody to order

    sin orden ni concierto — without rhyme or reason

    c) ( disciplina) order
    d) (de curas/monjas order; ( fraternidad) order
    2)
    a) (frml) (carácter, índole) nature
    b) ( cantidad)

    del orden de — (frml) on the order of (AmE), in o of the order of (BrE)

    c) (period) ( ámbito)

    en otro orden de cosas ¿qué opina de...? — moving on to something else, what do you think about...?

    3)
    a) (Arquit) order
    b) (Biol, Zool) order
    * * *
    orden1
    1 = command, commandment, directive, instruction, injunction, command function, edict.

    Ex: The first half of the command looks for words hit by 'FIB?' immediately followed by a word hit by 'OPTIC?'.

    Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.
    Ex: This directive is not an instruction and does not prevent adherence to the citation order.
    Ex: A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.
    Ex: Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.
    Ex: The command function 'BASE' is used to identify the data base to be searched.
    Ex: A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.
    * acatar + Posesivo + órdenes = march to + Posesivo + orders.
    * búsqueda por medio de órdenes = command search.
    * cadena de órdenes = command chain.
    * dar una orden = issue + command, issue + instruction.
    * de consulta mediante órdenes = command-based.
    * dictar órdenes = hand down + decisions.
    * ejecutar una orden = execute + command, execute + instruction.
    * encadenamiento de órdenes = command chaining.
    * estar a la orden del día = be the order of the day.
    * interfaz de consulta mediante órdenes = command-based interface.
    * intérprete de órdenes = command interpreter.
    * lenguaje de órdenes = command language.
    * llevar a cabo una orden = execute + command.
    * modalidad por órdenes = command mode.
    * orden bancaria = standing order, direct debit, direct billing.
    * orden de ampliar la búsqueda a los términos relacionados = explode command.
    * orden de arresto = warrant for + Posesivo + arrest, arrest warrant.
    * orden de comparecencia = subpoena, summons, judicial summons.
    * orden de compra = purchase order.
    * orden de desalojo = eviction order.
    * orden de deshaucio = eviction order.
    * orden de detención = arrest warrant, warrant for + Posesivo + arrest.
    * orden de funcionamiento del disco = disc operating command.
    * orden de mostrar los términos relacionados = expand command.
    * orden de pedido = order.
    * órdenes = command line operation.
    * orden judicial = warrant, court order, writ.
    * orden judicial de alejamiento = protection order.
    * orden judicial de distanciamiento = restraining order.
    * orden permanente de pago = standing account.
    * orden por comportamiento antisocial = ASBO (Antisocial Behaviour Order).
    * por orden de = mandated.
    * por orden del congreso = congressionally mandated.
    * que funciona a base de órdenes = command-driven.

    orden2
    2 = array, order, sequence, ranking, tidiness.

    Ex: A microopaque is a sheet of opaque material bearing a number of microimages in a two-dimensional array.

    Ex: A catalogue is a list of the materials or items in a library, with the entries representing the items arranged in some systematic order.
    Ex: A classified catalogue is a catalogue with three or four separate sequences: an author/title catalogue or index (or separate author and title catalogues), a classified subject catalogue, and a subject index to the classified catalogue.
    Ex: Those documents with sufficiently high rankings will be deemed relevant and eventually retrieved.
    Ex: The physical qualities that make a difference as to whether people visit woodlands or not include directional signs, good information boards and tidiness of appearance.
    * agente del orden = law enforcement officer, law-enforcement official, law enforcer.
    * alteración del orden = breach of the peace.
    * alteración del orden público = disorderly conduct, public order offence, breach of the peace.
    * alterar el orden público = breach + the peace, disturb + the peace.
    * clasificar en orden de importancia = rank + in order of importance.
    * del orden de = by the order of + Expresión Numérica.
    * de orden inferior = lower-order.
    * de orden superior = higher-order.
    * de primer orden = world-class, blue chip [blue-chip], first-order [1st-order].
    * de segundo orden = minor, second-order [2nd-order].
    * de tercer orden = tertiary.
    * en circuitos de segundo orden = in the provinces.
    * en cualquier orden = either way round.
    * en el mismo orden que = in sync with.
    * en el orden del día = on the agenda.
    * en orden de importancia = in rank order, in order.
    * en orden jerárquico = in ranked order.
    * en otro orden de cosas = on another topic, as for, as regards, meanwhile, on another matter, on another note, on other matters.
    * falto de orden = unordered.
    * fuerzas del orden = police force.
    * fuerzas del orden público = police force.
    * imponer orden = impose + order, bring + order.
    * imponer orden en donde hay caos = bring + order out of chaos.
    * mantener Algo en orden = keep + Nombre + in order.
    * mantener el orden = keep + order, police.
    * mantener el orden público = maintain + public order.
    * Norma Británica 1749: Recomendaciones para la ordenación alfabética y el ord = BS (British Standard) 1749: Recommendations for alphabetical arrangement and the filing order of numerals and symbols.
    * número de orden = rank number.
    * orden alfabético = alphabetical order, alphabetic order.
    * orden alfanumérico = alphanumeric order.
    * ordenar por orden de importancia = rank + in order.
    * orden ascendente = ascending order, ascending sequence.
    * orden cronológico = chronological order.
    * orden de cita = citation order, combination order.
    * orden de coautoría = co-authorship order.
    * orden de combinación de encabezamientos = citation order.
    * orden decreciente de importancia = decreasing order of importance.
    * orden de firma = co-authorship order.
    * orden de importancia = pecking order, significance order.
    * orden de importancia de los conceptos = significance order of terms.
    * orden del día = agenda.
    * orden de precedencia = order of precedence.
    * orden de preferencia = order of preference.
    * orden de prioridad = order of preference, priority order, pecking order, order of precedence.
    * orden de registro = search warrant.
    * orden descendente = descending order, descending sequence.
    * orden de sucesión = order of succession.
    * orden directo = direct order.
    * orden geográfico = geographical order.
    * orden integrado = integrated sequence.
    * orden inverso = reverse order.
    * orden inverso de palabras = indirect word order.
    * orden mundial = world order.
    * orden numérico = numerical order, numeric order.
    * orden preferido = preferred order.
    * orden público = public order.
    * orden secuencial = sequential order.
    * orden semiintegrado = semi-integrated sequence.
    * orden separado = separate sequence.
    * orden sistemático = classified order, systematic order.
    * orden social = social order.
    * orden topográfico = shelf order.
    * organizar según un orden específico = organise in + Adjetivo + order.
    * pensamiento de orden superior = higher-order thinking.
    * poner en orden = tidy up, put in + order, clear up.
    * poner orden = bring + order, tidying (up), create + order, clear out, clear up.
    * poner orden en el caos = create + order out of chaos.
    * por orden numérico = in numerical order.
    * punto del orden del día = agenda item.
    * ser del orden de + Número = be of the order of + Número.
    * sin orden = unordered.
    * sin orden ni concierto = higgledy-piggledy, without rhyme or reason.
    * turbar el orden público = disturb + the peace, breach + the peace.

    orden3
    3 = order.

    Ex: The taxonomic subclass of acari (mites and ticks) comprises tens of thousands of species, grouped in many families and several orders.

    * ingresar en una orden religiosa = join + religious order.
    * orden de caballería = knighthood.
    * orden de los Agustinos = Augustinian order.
    * orden de los franciscanos, la = Franciscan order, the.
    * orden de los Jesuitas = Jesuit order.
    * orden monástica = monastic order.
    * orden religiosa = religious order.

    * * *
    A
    1 (mandato) order; ( Mil) order
    recibieron órdenes de desalojar el local they received orders to clear the premises
    acatar una orden to obey an order
    está siempre dando órdenes he's always giving orders
    deja de darme órdenes stop ordering me about
    por orden del Sr Alcalde se hace saber que … by order of His Worship the Mayor it is announced that …
    hasta nueva orden until further notice
    quedo a sus órdenes para … ( Corresp) ( frml); I am at your service for … ( frml)
    el coche/la casa está a sus órdenes the car/house is at your disposal
    por aquí estamos a la orden para cualquier cosa que necesite ( AmL); just let us know if there's anything we can do for you o we can do to help
    ¡a sus órdenes! yes, sir!
    2
    ¡a la orden! ( Mil) yes, sir!; (fórmula de cortesía) (Andes, Méx, Ven) you're welcome, not at all, it's a pleasure
    Compuestos:
    restraining order,protective order ( AmE)
    arrest warrant
    ● orden de busca y captura or de búsqueda y captura
    arrest warrant
    (Chi, Méx) search warrant
    notice to quit
    arrest warrant
    ( Mil) order of the day
    estar a la orden del día to be the order of the day
    los atracos están a la orden del día muggings are the order of the day (at the moment)
    estos ordenadores están a la orden del día these computers are all the rage ( colloq)
    ver tb orden2 (↑ orden (2))
    travel warrant
    court order
    ministerial order o decree
    B ( Fin) order
    orden bancaria banker's order
    orden de pago order to pay
    páguese a la orden de … pay to the order of …
    Compuesto:
    standing order
    1 ( Hist, Mil) order
    orden militar military order
    orden de caballería order of knighthood
    la Orden de Calatrava/Santiago the Order of Calatrava/Santiago
    2 ( Relig) order
    una orden religiosa a religious order
    E ( Relig) (grado) order
    Compuestos:
    ● órdenes menores/mayores
    fpl minor/major orders (pl)
    fpl holy orders (pl)
    F ( AmL) ( Com) (pedido) order
    A
    1 (indicando colocación, jerarquía) order
    las fichas están en or por orden alfabético the cards are in alphabetical order
    el orden de las palabras the order of the words
    pónganse por orden de estatura line up according to height
    reparto por orden de aparición cast in order of appearance
    por orden cronológico in chronological order
    por orden de antigüedad in order of seniority
    vayamos por orden let's begin at the beginning
    2 (armonía, concierto) order
    pon un poco de orden en la habitación straighten your room up a little ( AmE), tidy your room up a bit ( BrE)
    puso orden en las cuentas she sorted the accounts out, she got the accounts straight
    puso las páginas en orden she sorted out the pages, she put the pages in order
    tengo que poner mis ideas en orden I have to sort my ideas out
    no tenía los papeles en orden his documents weren't in order
    ¿falta algo? — no, está todo en orden is anything missing? — no, everything is in order
    el nuevo orden mundial the new world order
    llamar a algn al orden to call sb to order
    sin orden ni concierto without rhyme or reason
    3 (disciplina) order
    para mantener el orden en la clase to keep order in the classroom
    ¡orden en la sala! order in court!
    la policía restableció el orden the police reestablished order
    Compuestos:
    battle formation
    agenda
    el primer tema del orden del día the first item on the agenda
    natural order
    el orden natural de las cosas the natural order of things
    public order
    mantener el orden público to keep the peace
    lo detuvieron por alterar el orden público he was arrested for causing a breach of the peace
    ● orden sacerdotal or sagrado
    ordination
    B
    1 ( frml) (carácter, índole) nature
    problemas de orden económico problems of an economic nature
    2
    (cantidad): del orden de ( frml); on the order of ( AmE), in o of the order of ( BrE)
    ingresos del orden de los 150.000 dólares receipts on o in o of the order of 150,000 dollars
    3 ( period)
    (ámbito): en el orden internacional on the international front
    en este orden de cosas in this respect
    4
    en orden a ( frml); with a view to
    C
    1 ( Arquit) order
    orden dórico/jónico/corintio Doric/Ionic/Corinthian order
    2 ( Biol, Zool) order
    * * *

     

    orden 1 sustantivo femenino
    1 ( mandato) order;

    hasta nueva orden until further notice;
    estamos a la orden para lo que necesite (AmL) just let us know if there's anything we can do for you;
    ¡a la orden! (Mil) yes, sir!;

    ( fórmula de cortesía) (Andes, Méx, Ven) you're welcome, not at all;
    orden de arresto or de busca y captura arrest warrant;
    orden de registro or (Chi, Méx) de cateo search warrant;

    2 (Fin) order;

    3 (Hist, Mil, Relig) order
    4 (AmL) ( pedido) order
    orden 2 sustantivo masculino
    1 ( en general) order;
    en or por orden alfabético in alphabetical order;

    vayamos por orden let's begin at the beginning;
    poner algo en orden ‹habitación/armario/juguetes› to straight sth (up) (esp AmE), to tidy sth up (esp BrE);

    ‹asuntos/papeles› to sort sth up;
    ‹ fichas› to put sth in order;

    orden del día agenda;
    orden público public order;
    alterar el orden público to cause a breach of the peace
    2
    a) (frml) (carácter, índole) nature;


    b) ( cantidad):

    ◊ del orden de (frml) on the order of (AmE), in o of the order of (BrE)

    orden
    I sustantivo masculino
    1 (colocación, disciplina) order: hace falta un poco de orden, we need a bit of order here
    orden del día, agenda
    2 Arquit & Biol order
    3 (tipo) nature: es un problema de orden moral, it's a moral issue
    II sustantivo femenino
    1 (mandato) order: no obedecimos sus órdenes, we failed to obey his orders
    Jur warrant, order
    orden de arresto, arrest warrant
    2 Rel Mil order
    la orden de los benedictinos, the Benedictine order
    ♦ Locuciones: Mil ¡a la orden/a sus órdenes!, yes, sir!
    estar a la orden del día, to be common
    llamar al orden, to call sb to order
    poner en orden, to put in order: tengo que poner en orden mis ideas, I have to organize my ideas
    del orden de, approximately: en el cine había del orden de mil personas, there were about one thousand people at the movies
    sin orden ni concierto, without rhyme or reason
    ' orden' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alteración
    - atenerse
    - auto
    - bastante
    - consigna
    - desorden
    - desordenar
    - desordenada
    - desordenado
    - después
    - disposición
    - ejecutar
    - excarcelar
    - incumplir
    - incumplimiento
    - inversa
    - inverso
    - invertir
    - librar
    - mandamiento
    - mandato
    - marear
    - mendicante
    - perturbar
    - primera
    - primero
    - recoger
    - replicar
    - respetar
    - restablecer
    - restablecimiento
    - revolucionar
    - transmitir
    - trastocar
    - acatar
    - allanamiento
    - alterar
    - alzar
    - anterior
    - antes
    - anular
    - ausencia
    - cumplir
    - disturbio
    - ejecución
    - fuerza
    - invertido
    - lanzamiento
    - llamada
    - luego
    English:
    after
    - agenda
    - alphabetically
    - antisocial
    - arrange
    - before
    - bottom
    - breach
    - collect
    - command
    - comply
    - court order
    - disorder
    - disturb
    - enforce
    - execute
    - execution
    - first
    - gather
    - in
    - item
    - keep
    - next
    - numerical
    - obey
    - order
    - order of the day
    - place
    - prioritize
    - reverse
    - right
    - sequence
    - shall
    - shipshape
    - should
    - sort out
    - standing order
    - straight
    - system
    - third
    - thousandth
    - tidiness
    - to
    - warrant
    - writ
    - alphabetical
    - bark
    - descend
    - disorderly
    - drunk
    * * *
    orden1 nm
    1. [secuencia, colocación correcta] order;
    un orden jerárquico a hierarchy;
    le gusta el orden y la limpieza she likes order and cleanliness;
    Mat
    el orden de los factores no altera el producto the order of the factors does not affect the product;
    en orden [bien colocado] tidy, in its place;
    [como debe ser] in order;
    poner en orden algo, poner orden en algo [cosas, habitación] to tidy sth up;
    tengo que poner mis ideas/mi vida en orden I have to put my ideas/life in order, I have to sort out my ideas/life;
    en o [m5]por orden alfabético/cronológico in alphabetical/chronological order;
    por orden in order;
    por orden de antigüedad/de tamaños in order of seniority/size;
    Cine & Teatro
    por orden de aparición in order of appearance;
    orden del día agenda
    2. [normalidad, disciplina] order;
    acatar el orden establecido to respect the established order;
    llamar al orden a alguien to call sb to order;
    el orden natural de las cosas the natural order of things;
    mantener/restablecer el orden to keep/restore order;
    ¡orden en la sala! order! order!
    el orden público law and order
    3. [tipo] order, type;
    dilemas de orden filosófico philosophical dilemmas;
    problemas de orden financiero economic problems;
    es una universidad de primer(ísimo) orden it's a first-rate university;
    del orden de around, approximately, of o in the order of;
    en otro orden de cosas on the other hand
    orden de magnitud order of magnitude
    4. Biol order
    5. Arquit order
    orden corintio Corinthian order;
    orden dórico Doric order;
    orden jónico Ionic order
    6. Rel el orden sacerdotal [sacramento] holy orders
    orden2 nf
    1. [mandato] order;
    ¡es una orden! that's an order!;
    Mil
    ¡a la orden!, ¡a sus órdenes! (yes) sir!;
    Am
    estoy a las/sus órdenes I am at your service;
    Am
    si no me queda bien, ¿la puedo cambiar? – cómo no, a sus o [m5] las órdenes if it's not right, can I change it? – of course you can, we're at your disposal;
    Am
    mi auto/casa está a la orden my car/house is at your disposal;
    cumplir órdenes to obey orders;
    dar órdenes (a alguien) to give (sb) orders;
    a mí nadie me da órdenes I don't take orders from anyone;
    hasta nueva orden until further notice;
    por orden de by order of;
    el local fue cerrado por orden del ayuntamiento the premises were closed by order of o on the orders of the town council;
    obedecer órdenes to obey orders;
    recibimos órdenes del jefe we received orders from the boss;
    sólo recibo órdenes de mis superiores I only take orders from my superiors;
    tener órdenes de hacer algo to have orders to do sth
    Der orden de arresto arrest warrant; Der orden de busca y captura warrant for search and arrest; Der orden de comparecencia summons;
    orden de desahucio eviction order;
    orden de desalojo eviction order;
    Der orden de detención arrest warrant; Der orden de detención europea European arrest warrant;
    la orden del día Mil the order of the day;
    Am [de reunión] the agenda;
    estar a la orden del día [muy habitual] to be the order of the day;
    orden de embargo order for seizure;
    Der orden judicial court order; CSur Der orden de lanzamiento eviction order; Der orden de registro search warrant
    2. Com order
    orden de compra purchase order; Bolsa buy order; Bolsa orden al mercado market order;
    orden de pago payment order;
    Bolsa orden de venta sell order
    3. [institución] order
    orden de caballería order of knighthood;
    orden mendicante mendicant order;
    orden militar military order;
    orden monástica monastic order
    4. Rel órdenes sagradas holy orders
    5. Am [pedido] order;
    ¿ya les tomaron la orden? have you ordered yet?;
    ¿tiene la orden del médico? have you got the form from your doctor?
    * * *
    1 m
    1 order;
    por orden alfabético in alphabetical order;
    por orden de altura in order of height;
    poner en orden tidy up, straighten up;
    sin orden ni concierto without rhyme or reason
    2 ( clase)
    :
    de todo orden of all kinds o types;
    de primer orden top-ranking, leading
    3
    :
    llamar al orden call to order
    4 ARQUI order
    2 f ( mandamiento) order;
    por orden de by order of, on the orders of;
    hasta nueva orden until further notice;
    ¡a la orden! yes, sir
    * * *
    orden nm, pl órdenes
    1) : order
    todo está en orden: everything's in order
    por orden cronológico: in chronological order
    2)
    orden del día : agenda (at a meeting)
    3)
    orden público : law and order
    orden nf, pl órdenes
    1) : order
    una orden religiosa: a religious order
    una orden de tacos: an order of tacos
    2)
    orden de compra : purchase order
    3)
    estar a la orden del día : to be the order of the day, to be prevalent
    * * *
    1. (en general) order
    2. (clase, tipo) nature
    ¡a la orden! yes, sir!
    orden público law and order / the peace

    Spanish-English dictionary > orden

  • 6 saldo

    m.
    1 balance.
    saldo acreedor/deudor credit/debit balance
    saldo medio average (bank) balance
    saldo negativo overdraft
    la iniciativa tuvo un saldo positivo on balance, the outcome of the initiative was positive
    2 settlement.
    3 leftover.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: saldar.
    * * *
    1 (de una cuenta) balance
    2 (pago) liquidation, settlement
    3 (resto de mercancía) remnant, leftover, remainder
    \
    a precios de saldo at bargain prices
    saldo acreedor credit balance
    saldo deudor debit balance
    saldo negativo / saldo en contra negative balance, overdraft
    saldo positivo / saldo a favor positive balance, surplus
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) [de cuenta] balance

    saldo en contra — debit balance, adverse balance

    saldo negativo — debit balance, adverse balance

    2) (=liquidación) sale
    3) (=pago) settlement, payment
    4) [de móvil] credit
    5) (=resultado final)
    6)

    ser un saldo — * [cosa muy usada] to have had it *; [persona inútil] to be hopeless, be a dead loss *

    cómprate otro abrigo, el que llevas es un auténtico saldo — you should get yourself another coat, the one you're wearing has had it *

    eres un auténtico saldo, no sabes ni freír un huevo — you're hopeless o you're a dead loss, you can't even boil an egg *

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de cuenta) balance

    saldo a (su favor/nuestro) favor — credit/debit balance

    el saldo es de $4.000 a nuestro favor — we are $4,000 in credit

    b) (period) (de incidente, confrontación)
    2)
    a) ( artículo)
    b) saldos masculino plural ( rebajas) sales (pl)
    * * *
    = balance, remainder, short sell, credit, account balance.
    Ex. So far as possible the international traders exchanged books, but sometimes the balance was unequal and accounts were settled in money.
    Ex. The article 'Bargains or bummers? remainders' suggests that despite problems attaching to buying remainders, judicious purchasing of this stock can add valuable books to a library's collection at a very reasonable cost.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Publishing abroad: fair trade or short sell for non English speaking authors?'.
    Ex. Orders placed with a vendor as well as any credit or debit notes for the vendor are displayed by entering the number '9'.
    Ex. If your account balance is less than $1000, you will generally not be charged administration fees in excess of interest earned on your account.
    ----
    * con saldo = prepaid [pre-paid].
    * saldo de cuenta bancaria = bank balance.
    * saldo del libro de cuentas = account book balance.
    * saldo, el = bottom line, the.
    * saldo negativo = debit.
    * saldo pendiente = outstanding balance.
    * saldo positivo = credit.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de cuenta) balance

    saldo a (su favor/nuestro) favor — credit/debit balance

    el saldo es de $4.000 a nuestro favor — we are $4,000 in credit

    b) (period) (de incidente, confrontación)
    2)
    a) ( artículo)
    b) saldos masculino plural ( rebajas) sales (pl)
    * * *
    el saldo
    = bottom line, the

    Ex: Publishers increasingly worried about the bottom line and hesitate to publish books that may be an invitation for backlash from groups opposed to homosexuality.

    = balance, remainder, short sell, credit, account balance.

    Ex: So far as possible the international traders exchanged books, but sometimes the balance was unequal and accounts were settled in money.

    Ex: The article 'Bargains or bummers? remainders' suggests that despite problems attaching to buying remainders, judicious purchasing of this stock can add valuable books to a library's collection at a very reasonable cost.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Publishing abroad: fair trade or short sell for non English speaking authors?'.
    Ex: Orders placed with a vendor as well as any credit or debit notes for the vendor are displayed by entering the number '9'.
    Ex: If your account balance is less than $1000, you will generally not be charged administration fees in excess of interest earned on your account.
    * con saldo = prepaid [pre-paid].
    * saldo de cuenta bancaria = bank balance.
    * saldo del libro de cuentas = account book balance.
    * saldo, el = bottom line, the.
    * saldo negativo = debit.
    * saldo pendiente = outstanding balance.
    * saldo positivo = credit.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de una cuenta) balance
    ¿me puede dar el saldo de mi cuenta? can you give o tell me the balance on my account?
    saldo a su favor/a nuestro favor credit/debit balance
    el saldo es de $400.000 a nuestro favor we are $400,000 in credit, we have a credit balance of $400,000
    2 ( period)
    (de un incidente, una confrontación): la pelea terminó con un saldo de tres heridos the fight resulted in three people being injured
    el avión se estrelló con un saldo de 133 personas muertas the plane crashed killing (a total of) 133 people
    el saldo de la noche fue muy positivo the evening turned out very well
    Compuestos:
    ● saldo acreedor or positivo
    credit balance
    ● saldo deudor or negativo
    debit balance
    B
    1
    (artículo): los saldos no se cambian sale goods cannot be exchanged
    precios de saldo sale prices
    [ S ] venta de saldos clearance sale
    2 saldos mpl (rebajas) sales (pl)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo saldar: ( conjugate saldar)

    saldo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    saldó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    saldar    
    saldo
    saldar ( conjugate saldar) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ cuenta› to settle;

    ‹ deuda› to settle, pay (off)
    b) ‹mercancías/productos› to sell off

    saldo sustantivo masculino
    1 ( de cuenta) balance;
    ◊ saldo a su/nuestro favor credit/debit balance

    2
    a) ( artículo):


    precios de saldo sale prices;

    ( on signs) venta de saldos clearance sale
    b)

    ◊ saldos sustantivo masculino plural ( rebajas) sales (pl)

    saldar verbo transitivo
    1 Fin (una deuda) to settle, pay (off)
    (una cuenta) to settle
    2 fig (un asunto, una discusión) to settle: las negociaciones se saldaron con un acuerdo, the negotiations ended with an agreement
    3 Com (liquidar una mercancía) to sell off
    (libros) to remainder
    saldo sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin (de una cuenta) balance
    saldo negativo, debit balance
    saldo positivo, credit balance
    2 (de una deuda, una factura) settlement
    3 Com saldos, sales
    precios de saldo, sale prices
    (resto, remanente) remainder, leftover
    4 fig (resultado de una acción) outcome: la colisión dejó un saldo de tres heridos, three people were injured in the crash
    ' saldo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    deudor
    - deudora
    English:
    balance
    - bank balance
    - credit
    - debit balance
    - giveaway
    - outstanding
    - bank
    - discount
    * * *
    saldo nm
    1. [de cuenta] balance;
    saldo a favor/en contra credit/debit balance;
    la balanza comercial entre los dos países arroja un saldo favorable a Japón the trade balance between the two countries is tipped in Japan's favour
    saldo acreedor credit balance;
    saldo anterior balance brought forward;
    saldo de caja cash balance;
    saldo deudor debit balance;
    saldo disponible balance available;
    saldo medio average (bank) balance;
    saldo negativo debit balance
    2. [de deudas] settlement
    3. [de partido, enfrentamiento] result, outcome;
    la iniciativa tuvo un saldo positivo on balance, the outcome of the initiative was positive;
    el accidente tuvo un saldo de cinco muertos the accident left five people dead;
    los incidentes arrojaron un saldo de cincuenta detenidos the incidents ended with fifty arrests
    4.
    saldos [restos de mercancías] remnants
    5.
    saldos [rebajas] sale;
    de saldo bargain
    * * *
    m
    1 COM balance
    2 ( resultado) result
    3
    :
    saldos pl clearance sale sg ;
    de saldo artículo reduced, on sale
    * * *
    saldo nm
    1) : settlement, payment
    2) : balance
    saldo de cuenta: account balance
    3) : remainder, leftover merchandise

    Spanish-English dictionary > saldo

  • 7 llamar

    v.
    1 to call.
    Lisa llamó a su madre Lisa called her mother.
    2 to call, to phone.
    llamar a los bomberos/al médico to call the fire brigade/doctor
    te ha llamado Luis Luis phoned (for you), there was a call from Luis for you
    3 to call (dar nombre, apelativo, apodo).
    me llamó mentiroso he called me a liar
    4 to summon, to call.
    llamar a la huelga to call out on strike
    5 to attract.
    están llamando there's somebody at the door
    7 to phone.
    8 to address as, to call by the title of, to call, to call by the name of.
    Lisa llamó a su madre Lisa called her mother.
    Lisa llamó a Ricardo padre Lisa addressed Richard as father.
    En un bar, un trago llama a otro. In a bar, one drink calls for another one.
    9 to hail.
    Ellos llamaron un taxi They hailed a cab.
    10 to call on the phone, to give a bell, to call, to phone.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to call
    ■ llámalo, creo que no te ha visto call him, I don't think he's seen you
    2 (convocar) to summon
    ■ llueve, mejor que llamemos un taxi it's raining, we'd better call a taxi
    3 (dar nombre) to name
    ■ ¿cómo vais a llamar al niño? what are you going to call the baby?
    4 (atraer) to appeal to
    1 (a la puerta) to knock; (al timbre) to ring; (al teléfono) to ring, call, phone
    ■ ¿quién llama? who's there?
    1 (tener nombre) to be called
    ■ me llamo Juan my name is Juan, I'm called Juan
    \
    llamar a alguien por señas to wave at somebody
    llamar a filas to call up
    llamar a alguien de todo familiar to call somebody everything under the sun
    llamar a la huelga to call out on strike
    llamar por teléfono to call, phone, GB ring, ring up
    * * *
    verb
    3) name
    •
    - llamarse
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=nombrar) to call

    ¿cómo van a llamar al niño? — what are they going to name o call the baby?

    hache
    2) (=considerar) to call

    lo que se dio en llamar la nueva generación — what became known as the new generation, what came to be called the new generation

    3) (=avisar) [+ médico, fontanero] to call; [+ taxi] [por teléfono] to call; [con la mano] to hail

    no te metas donde no te llaman — * don't poke your nose in where it's not wanted *

    • llamar a algn a escena — to call sb to the stage

    • llamar a algn al orden — to call sb to order

    mandar 1., 1)
    4) (Telec) (tb: llamar por teléfono) to call, ring, phone

    que me llamen a las siete — ask them to call o ring o phone me at seven

    te llaman desde París — they're calling you o they're on the phone from Paris

    ¿quién me llama? — who's on the phone?

    5) (=atraer)
    atención 1)
    6) (=convocar) to call, summon frm

    lo llamaron a palacio — he was called o summoned frm to the palace

    Dios lo ha llamado a su lado — euf he has been called to God

    • pronto seremos llamados a las urnas — an election/a referendum will soon be called

    llamado 1., 3)
    2. VI
    1) (Telec) [persona] to call, ring, phone; [teléfono] to ring

    ¿quién llama? — who's calling?

    ha llamado Maribel — Maribel called o rang o phoned

    2) [a la puerta] [con el puño] to knock; [al timbre] to ring

    ¿quién llama? — who's there?, who is it?

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( hacer venir) <bomberos/policía> to call; < médico> to call (out); <camarero/criada/ascensor> to call; <súbditos/servidores> to summon; < taxi> ( por teléfono) to call; ( en la calle) to hail

    Dios la llamó (a su lado) — (euf) God called her to him (euph)

    su madre lo mandó llamar — (AmL) his mother sent for him

    b) ( instar)

    me sentí llamada a hacerlo — I felt driven o compelled to do it

    2) ( por teléfono) to phone, to call
    3)
    a) ( dar el nombre de) to call, name; (dar el título, apodo de) to call

    lo que se ha dado en llamar... — what has come to be known as...

    b) ( considerar) to call
    2.
    llamar vi
    1) ( con los nudillos) to knock; ( tocar el timbre) to ring (the doorbell)
    2) (Telec) persona to telephone, phone, call; teléfono to ring

    ¿quién llama? — who's calling?

    3) ( gustar) to appeal

    no me/le llaman las pieles — fur coats don't appeal to me/her

    3.
    llamarse v pron to be called

    ¿cómo te llamas? — what's your name?

    ... como que (yo) me llamo Ana —... as sure as my name's Ana

    * * *
    = beckon, call, dub, label, summon, denominate, dial, baptise [baptize, -USA], beckon forth.
    Ex. Some hypnotism beckoned him in, and since he was in no hurry he submitted to it.
    Ex. The creation of a series of entries for inclusion in a catalogue or printed index is an indexing process which must involve some system, which we might call an indexing system.
    Ex. Carlyle Systems Inc has recently issued version 2.1 of their cataloguing input/edit module, dubbed CATIE.
    Ex. Its primer purpose is the finding of specific documents, and consequently this type of catalogue has been labelled a finding list catalogue or an inventory catalogue.
    Ex. All interested parties were summoned to further cooperate for the success of the show.
    Ex. The result of UNESCO's activity has been the growth of mass of international activity accompanied by a daunting array of jargon and initialese aptly denominated by P.J. Judge as 'alphabet soup'.
    Ex. This would herald the age of computer commuting, with customers dialling for bank statements and shopping orders.
    Ex. This article defines a user friendly micro-language, baptized MILAMU, that facilitates both access to these multimedia databases and formulation of multimedia queries = Este artículo explica un microlenguaje de programación, denominado MILAMU, que facilita tanto el acceso a estas bases de datos multimedia como la formulación de enunciados de búsqueda de documentos multimedia.
    Ex. Our academic curriculum and is designed to stimulate, challenge, and beckon forth the best from each student.
    ----
    * el éxito llama al éxito = success breeds success (SBS).
    * llamar a = call in.
    * llamar a cobro revertido = telephone collect, call collect.
    * llamar a filas = draft.
    * llamar a la puerta = knock on + door, rap at + door.
    * llamar al pan pan y al vino vino = call + a spade a spade.
    * llamar al trabajo para excusarse por enfermedad = call in + sick.
    * llamar la atención = call + attention to, conspicuousness, attract + attention, excite + attention, grab + Posesivo + attention, catch + Posesivo + eye, admonish, strike + Posesivo + fancy, capture + the attention, eye + catch, stand out, make + Reflexivo + conspicuous, cut + a dash, seek + attention, make + heads turn, catch + Posesivo + fancy, catch + Posesivo + attention, peak + Posesivo + interest, make + a splash, make + a big noise, hit + home.
    * llamar la atención a Alguien = rap + Nombre + knuckles, censure.
    * llamar la atención de = draw + the attention of.
    * llamar la atención de Alguien = hold + Posesivo + attention.
    * llamar la atención sobre = draw + attention to, pull + Nombre + to, bring + Nombre + into the public eye, raise + awareness, enhance + awareness.
    * llamar las cosas por su nombre = call + a spade a spade.
    * llamarle la atención a Alguien = reprimand, slap + Nombre + down, slap + Nombre + on the wrist.
    * llamar por el busca = bleep.
    * llamar por teléfono = call up.
    * llamarse = refer to as.
    * llamarse así = be so called.
    * llamarse así por = get + Posesivo + name from.
    * para llamar la atención = for effect.
    * que no llama la atención = inconspicuous.
    * sin llamar la atención = inconspicuously.
    * tratar de no llamar la atención = keep + a low profile, lie + low.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( hacer venir) <bomberos/policía> to call; < médico> to call (out); <camarero/criada/ascensor> to call; <súbditos/servidores> to summon; < taxi> ( por teléfono) to call; ( en la calle) to hail

    Dios la llamó (a su lado) — (euf) God called her to him (euph)

    su madre lo mandó llamar — (AmL) his mother sent for him

    b) ( instar)

    me sentí llamada a hacerlo — I felt driven o compelled to do it

    2) ( por teléfono) to phone, to call
    3)
    a) ( dar el nombre de) to call, name; (dar el título, apodo de) to call

    lo que se ha dado en llamar... — what has come to be known as...

    b) ( considerar) to call
    2.
    llamar vi
    1) ( con los nudillos) to knock; ( tocar el timbre) to ring (the doorbell)
    2) (Telec) persona to telephone, phone, call; teléfono to ring

    ¿quién llama? — who's calling?

    3) ( gustar) to appeal

    no me/le llaman las pieles — fur coats don't appeal to me/her

    3.
    llamarse v pron to be called

    ¿cómo te llamas? — what's your name?

    ... como que (yo) me llamo Ana —... as sure as my name's Ana

    * * *
    = beckon, call, dub, label, summon, denominate, dial, baptise [baptize, -USA], beckon forth.

    Ex: Some hypnotism beckoned him in, and since he was in no hurry he submitted to it.

    Ex: The creation of a series of entries for inclusion in a catalogue or printed index is an indexing process which must involve some system, which we might call an indexing system.
    Ex: Carlyle Systems Inc has recently issued version 2.1 of their cataloguing input/edit module, dubbed CATIE.
    Ex: Its primer purpose is the finding of specific documents, and consequently this type of catalogue has been labelled a finding list catalogue or an inventory catalogue.
    Ex: All interested parties were summoned to further cooperate for the success of the show.
    Ex: The result of UNESCO's activity has been the growth of mass of international activity accompanied by a daunting array of jargon and initialese aptly denominated by P.J. Judge as 'alphabet soup'.
    Ex: This would herald the age of computer commuting, with customers dialling for bank statements and shopping orders.
    Ex: This article defines a user friendly micro-language, baptized MILAMU, that facilitates both access to these multimedia databases and formulation of multimedia queries = Este artículo explica un microlenguaje de programación, denominado MILAMU, que facilita tanto el acceso a estas bases de datos multimedia como la formulación de enunciados de búsqueda de documentos multimedia.
    Ex: Our academic curriculum and is designed to stimulate, challenge, and beckon forth the best from each student.
    * el éxito llama al éxito = success breeds success (SBS).
    * llamar a = call in.
    * llamar a cobro revertido = telephone collect, call collect.
    * llamar a filas = draft.
    * llamar a la puerta = knock on + door, rap at + door.
    * llamar al pan pan y al vino vino = call + a spade a spade.
    * llamar al trabajo para excusarse por enfermedad = call in + sick.
    * llamar la atención = call + attention to, conspicuousness, attract + attention, excite + attention, grab + Posesivo + attention, catch + Posesivo + eye, admonish, strike + Posesivo + fancy, capture + the attention, eye + catch, stand out, make + Reflexivo + conspicuous, cut + a dash, seek + attention, make + heads turn, catch + Posesivo + fancy, catch + Posesivo + attention, peak + Posesivo + interest, make + a splash, make + a big noise, hit + home.
    * llamar la atención a Alguien = rap + Nombre + knuckles, censure.
    * llamar la atención de = draw + the attention of.
    * llamar la atención de Alguien = hold + Posesivo + attention.
    * llamar la atención sobre = draw + attention to, pull + Nombre + to, bring + Nombre + into the public eye, raise + awareness, enhance + awareness.
    * llamar las cosas por su nombre = call + a spade a spade.
    * llamarle la atención a Alguien = reprimand, slap + Nombre + down, slap + Nombre + on the wrist.
    * llamar por el busca = bleep.
    * llamar por teléfono = call up.
    * llamarse = refer to as.
    * llamarse así = be so called.
    * llamarse así por = get + Posesivo + name from.
    * para llamar la atención = for effect.
    * que no llama la atención = inconspicuous.
    * sin llamar la atención = inconspicuously.
    * tratar de no llamar la atención = keep + a low profile, lie + low.

    * * *
    llamar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (requerir, hacer venir) ‹bomberos/policía› to call; ‹médico› to call, call out; ‹camarero/criada› to call; ‹ascensor› to call; ‹súbditos/servidores› to summon
    llamé un taxi (por teléfono) I called a cab; (por la calle) I hailed a cab
    la llamó a gritos he shouted to her to come
    lo llamó por señas she beckoned to him, she beckoned him over
    Dios la llamó (a su lado) ( euf); God called her to him ( euph)
    el juez lo llamó a declarar the judge called on him to testify
    la madre lo mandó llamar ( AmL); his mother sent for him
    lo llamaron para hacer el servicio militar he was called up for military service
    2 (instar) llamar a algn A algo:
    el sindicato llamó a sus afiliados a la huelga the union called its members out on strike o called upon its members to strike
    se sintió llamado a hacerlo he felt driven o compelled to do it
    B [ Vocabulary notes (Spanish) ] ( Telec) (por teléfono) to phone, to call, to call up ( AmE), to ring ( BrE)
    la voy a llamar I'm going to call o phone o ring her, I'm going to call her up, I'm going to give her a call o ring ( BrE)
    te llamó Ernesto Ernesto phoned (for you), Ernesto called (you) o rang
    C
    1 (dar el nombre de) to call, name; (dar el título, apodo de) to call
    los amigos lo llaman Manolo his friends call him Manolo
    la llamó imbécil/de todo he called her an idiot/every name under the sun
    lo que se ha dado en llamar el movimiento postmodernista what has become known o what has come to be known as the postmodernist movement
    2 (considerar) to call
    eso es lo que yo llamo un amigo that's what I call a friend
    D (atraer) to draw
    los llama lo suyo they feel drawn to their roots
    el dinero lo llama mucho he is very interested in money
    ■ llamar
    vi
    A (con los nudillos) to knock; (tocar el timbre) to ring, ring the doorbell
    llaman a la puerta there's someone at the door
    ¿quién llama? who is it?, who's there?
    B ( Telec) «persona» to telephone, phone, call, ring ( BrE); «teléfono» to ring
    ¿quién llama? who's calling?, who's speaking?
    te llamo or te llamaré mañana I'll call you tomorrow
    llámame al celular ( AmL) or móvil ( Esp); call me on my ( AmE) cell phone o ( BrE) mobile
    para más información llame or llámenos al (teléfono) 111-12-20 for more information call us ON o AT 111 12 20
    C (gustar) to appeal
    a mí no me llaman las pieles fur coats don't appeal to me, I don't like fur coats
    to be called
    su padre se llama Pedro his father is called Pedro, his father's name is Pedro
    ¿cómo te llamas? what's your name?
    no sé cómo se llama el libro I don't know what the book's called
    ése acabará en la cárcel como que (yo) me llamo Beatriz he'll end up in prison as sure as my name's Beatriz
    * * *

     

    llamar ( conjugate llamar) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹bomberos/policía› to call;
    ‹ médico› to call (out);
    ‹camarero/criada/ascensor› to call;
    ‹súbditos/servidores› to summon;
    ‹ taxi› ( por teléfono) to call;
    ( en la calle) to hail;

    el sindicato los llamó a la huelga the union called them out on strike
    2 ( por teléfono) to phone, to call;

    llamar a algn al celular (AmL) or (Esp) al móvil to call sb on their cell phone (AmE) o mobile (BrE)
    3

    (dar el título, apodo de) to call


    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( con los nudillos) to knock;
    ( tocar el timbre) to ring (the doorbell);

    2 (Telec) [ persona] to telephone, phone, call;
    [ teléfono] to ring;
    ◊ ¿quién llama? who's calling?;

    ver tb cobro b
    llamarse verbo pronominal
    to be called;

    ¿cómo te llamas? what's your name?
    llamar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to call
    2 (telefonear) to call up, phone, ring: la llamé esta mañana, I rang her this morning
    3 (suscitar vocación, interés) to appeal
    llamar la atención, to attract attention
    4 (por un nombre de pila) to name
    (por un apodo, mote, diminutivo) to call
    II vi (con los nudillos) to knock
    (con el timbre) to ring

    ' llamar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atención
    - avisar
    - cantar
    - cobro
    - dejar
    - eh
    - encargarse
    - GEO
    - instancia
    - más
    - molestarse
    - nombre
    - ocurrirse
    - orden
    - palmada
    - pan
    - retraer
    - show
    - sin
    - sudaca
    - timbre
    - titular2
    - tratar
    - amenazar
    - bombero
    - golpear
    - intuir
    - licitar
    - mandar
    - oír
    - puerta
    - tal
    - teléfono
    - tocar
    English:
    alternatively
    - attention
    - attract
    - beckon
    - call
    - call in
    - call out
    - call up
    - collect
    - dispose
    - draw
    - engage
    - entitle
    - eye
    - for
    - get in
    - hail
    - have in
    - knock
    - name
    - ought
    - page
    - reverse
    - ring
    - ring back
    - ring up
    - send for
    - spade
    - telephone
    - certainly
    - conspicuous
    - draft
    - effect
    - get
    - good
    - kind
    - more
    - muster
    - phone
    - radio
    - recall
    - send
    - summon
    - use
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [dirigirse a, hacer venir] to call;
    [con gestos] to beckon;
    llamó por señas/con la mano al camarero she beckoned to the waiter;
    llamar a alguien a voces to shout to sb to come over;
    llamar al ascensor to call the Br lift o US elevator;
    llamar (a) un taxi [en la calle] to hail a cab;
    [por teléfono] to call for a taxi
    2. [por teléfono] to phone, to call, Br to ring;
    [con el buscapersonas] to page;
    llamar a los bomberos/al médico to call the fire brigade/doctor;
    te llamo mañana I'll call o Br ring you tomorrow;
    te ha llamado Luis Luis phoned (for you), there was a call from Luis for you;
    te han llamado de la oficina there was a call from the office for you;
    ¿quién lo/la llama, por favor? who's calling, please?
    3. [dar nombre, apelativo, apodo] to call;
    ¿ya sabes cómo vas a llamar al perro? have you decided what you're going to call the dog yet?;
    me llamó mentiroso she called me a liar;
    fue lo que se dio en llamar la Guerra de los Seis Días it was what came to be known as the Six Day War;
    ¿a eso llamas tú un jardín? do you call that a garden?;
    eso es lo que yo llamo un buen negocio that's what I call a good deal;
    es un aparato para el aire, un humidificador, que lo llaman it's a device for making the air more humid, a humidifier as they call it o as it is known
    4. [convocar] to summon, to call;
    el jefe me llamó a su despacho the boss summoned o called me to his office;
    la han llamado para una entrevista de trabajo she's got an interview for a job;
    lo llamaron a filas he was called up, US he got drafted;
    llamar a los trabajadores a la huelga to call the workers out (on strike);
    llamar a alguien a juicio to call sb to trial
    5. [atraer] to attract;
    nunca me han llamado los deportes de invierno I've never been attracted o drawn to winter sports
    ♦ vi
    1. [a la puerta] [con golpes] to knock;
    [con timbre] to ring;
    llamar a la puerta [con golpes] to knock on the door;
    están llamando there's somebody at the door;
    por favor, llamen antes de entrar [en letrero] please knock/ring before entering
    2. [por teléfono] to phone
    * * *
    I v/t call; TELEC call, Br tb
    ring
    II v/i TELEC call, Br tb
    ring;
    llamar a la puerta knock at the door; con timbre ring the bell;
    llaman (a la puerta) there’s someone at the door;
    el fútbol no me llama nada football doesn’t appeal to me in the slightest
    * * *
    llamar vt
    1) : to name, to call
    2) : to call, to summon
    3) : to phone, to call up
    * * *
    llamar vb
    1. (en general) to call
    ¿me has llamado? did you call me?
    si es niño, le llamarán Ignacio if it's a boy, they'll call him Ignacio
    2. (telefonear) to phone / to call
    3. (a la puerta) to knock
    4. (al timbre) to ring [pt. rang; pp. rung]

    Spanish-English dictionary > llamar

  • 8 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 9 Porter, Charles Talbot

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    b. 18 January 1826 Auburn, New York, USA
    d. 1910 USA
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    American inventor of a stone dressing machine, an improved centrifugal governor and a high-speed steam engine.
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    Porter graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1845, read law in his father's office, and in the autumn of 1847 was admitted to the Bar. He practised for six or seven years in Rochester, New York, and then in New York City. He was drawn into engineering when aged about 30, first through a client who claimed to have invented a revolutionary type of engine and offered Porter the rights to it as payment of a debt. Having lent more money, Porter saw neither the man nor the engine again. Porter followed this with a similar experience over a patent for a stone dressing machine, except this time the machine was built. It proved to be a failure, but Porter set about redesigning it and found that it was vastly improved when it ran faster. His improved machine went into production. It was while trying to get the steam engine that drove the stone dressing machine to run more smoothly that he made a discovery that formed the basis for his subsequent work.
    Porter took the ordinary Watt centrifugal governor and increased the speed by a factor of about ten; although he had to reduce the size of the weights, he gained a motion that was powerful. To make the device sufficiently responsive at the right speed, he balanced the centrifugal forces by a counterweight. This prevented the weights flying outwards until the optimum speed was reached, so that the steam valves remained fully open until that point and then the weights reacted more quickly to variations in speed. He took out a patent in 1858, and its importance was quickly recognized. At first he manufactured and sold the governors himself in a specially equipped factory, because this was the only way he felt he could get sufficient accuracy to ensure a perfect action. For marine use, the counterweight was replaced by a spring.
    Higher speed had brought the advantage of smoother running and so he thought that the same principles could be applied to the steam engine itself, but it was to take extensive design modifications over several years before his vision was realized. In the winter of 1860–1, J.F. Allen met Porter and sketched out his idea of a new type of steam inlet valve. Porter saw the potential of this for his high-speed engine and Allen took out patents for it in 1862. The valves were driven by a new valve gear designed by Pius Fink. Porter decided to display his engine at the International Exhibition in London in 1862, but it had to be assembled on site because the parts were finished in America only just in time to be shipped to meet the deadline. Running at 150 rpm, the engine caused a sensation, but as it was non-condensing there were few orders. Porter added condensing apparatus and, after the failure of Ormerod Grierson \& Co., entered into an agreement with Joseph Whitworth to build the engines. Four were exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, but Whitworth and Porter fell out and in 1868 Porter returned to America.
    Porter established another factory to build his engine in America, but he ran into all sorts of difficulties, both mechanical and financial. Some engines were built, and serious production was started c. 1874, but again there were further problems and Porter had to leave his firm. High-speed engines based on his designs continued to be made until after 1907 by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Philadelphia, so Porter's ideas were proved viable and led to many other high-speed designs.
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    Bibliography
    1908, Engineering Reminiscences, New York: J. Wiley \& Sons; reprinted 1985, Bradley, Ill.: Lindsay (autobiography; the main source of information about his life).
    Further Reading
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (examines his governor and steam engine).
    O.Mayr, 1974, "Yankee practice and engineering theory; Charles T.Porter and the dynamics of the high-speed engine", Technology and Culture 16 (4) (examines his governor and steam engine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Porter, Charles Talbot

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