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1 leading world currency
soft currency — неконвертируемая валюта; неустойчивая валюта
currency used for payment — валюта, используемая для платежа
English-Russian big medical dictionary > leading world currency
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2 depreciation of currency
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3 stabilization of currency
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4 основная валюта
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5 валюта
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6 страна стран·а
country, land, state, nationвтянуть страну (во что-л.) — to entangle a country (in smth.)
выехать из страны, покинуть страну — to leave a country
выслать из страны — to expel / to deport (smb.) from a country
освобождать страну (от оккупации) — to liberate a country (from occupation)
ужесточить курс в отношении страны — to harden the line toward a country, to toughen (one's) stand toward a country
эта страна составляет исключение / занимает другую позицию — the country is outside the fold
аграрные страны — agricultural / agrarian countries
беднейшие / наиболее нуждающиеся страны — poorest countries
граничащий с какой-л. страной (особ. враждебной) — front-line
густонаселённая страна — densely peopled / thickly inhabited country
дружественная страна — friendly nation / country
индустриальные страны — industrial / industrialized countries
ведущие индустриальные страны мира — world's leading industrial / industrialized states
недопредставленные страны (в Секретариате ООН и других международных организациях) — underrepresented countries
неизменно / постоянно нейтральная страна — permanent neutral country
неприсоединившаяся страна — nonaligned / uncommitted nation / country
недавно освободившиеся страны — newly free / independent / liberated countries
перепредставленные страны (в Секретариате ООН и других международных организациях) — overrepresented countries
прибрежные страны — littoral / coastal countries
принимающая страна — host / receiving country
развитые страны — industrial / industrially developed countries, advanced nations, mature economies
наименее развитые страны — the least developed countries, hard-core developingcountries
ядерные страны, страны, обладающие ядерным оружием — nuclear / nuclear-weapon states, haves
страна, бедная энергетическими ресурсами — energy-poor country
страна, в которой действует золотой стандарт — gold-standard country
страна, в которой царит беспорядок — rackety country
страна, воздержавшаяся при голосовании — abstaining country
страна, входящая в стерлинговую зону — sterling country
страна, вступившая на путь самостоятельного развития — country taking the path of independent development
страна, гражданином которой является человек — country of origin
страна, дающая приют беженцам — country of refuge
страна, импортирующая зерно — grain-importing country
страна местоположения центральных учреждений (ООН и др. организаций) — headquarters state
страны НАТО — the NATO countries / states
страны, не входящие в стерлинговую зону — nonsterling countries
страна, не имеющая выхода к морю — land-locked country
страны новой индустриализации (из числа развивающихся стран, напр., Аргентина, Мексика) — newly industrialized country
страна, не являющаяся членом (организации) — non-member country
страны, недавно вступившие на путь индустриального развития — newly industrialized countries
страна, оказывающая экономическую помощь — donor country
страна, относящаяся (к кому-л.) благожелательно / сочувственно — sympathetic country
страна, отстаивающая свою позицию — holdout country
страна, охваченная экономическим спадом — recession-ridden country
страны ПАНЛИБГОНа (Панама, Либерия, Гондурас, т.е. страны "удобного флага") — PANLIBHON (Panama, Liberia, Honduras)
страны Персидского залива — the Gulf countries / states
страна, подписавшая документ — signatory nation
страна, пользующаяся статусом наибольшего благоприятствования — most favoured nation
страна, предоставившая убежище — country of first asylum
страна проведения совещания — the country hosting a conference, the host country for the conference
страны свободного мира — Free World countries / nations
страны, способные создать собственное ядерное оружие — nar-nuclear states
страна, страдающая от стихийных бедствий и т.п. — stricken country
страны "третьего мира" — Third World countries / nations
страна, участвующая в соглашении — affected country
страны — члены ООН — member-countries of the UN
страна, экспортирующая зерно — grain-exporting country
страна, являющаяся в большей степени импортёром — net importer
страна, являющаяся в большей степени экспортёром — net exporter
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7 dirigir
v.1 to steer (conducir) (coche, barco).2 to manage (llevar) (empresa, hotel, hospital).dirige mi tesis, me dirige la tesis he's supervising my thesis, he's my PhD supervisor3 to direct.Ella dirigió el caso She directed the case.Ella dirige al equipo She directs the team.4 to address (carta, paquete).5 to guide (guiar) (person).6 to point, to range.Ellos dirigen al misil They point the missile.7 to drive, to steer, to pilot, to head.Ella dirige el avión She drives the plane.8 to conduct.Ella dirige la orquesta She conducts the orchestra.* * *(g changes to j before a and o)Present Indicativedirijo, diriges, dirige, dirigimos, dirigís, dirigen.Present SubjunctiveImperative* * *verb1) to direct, lead2) conduct3) address* * *1. VT1) (=orientar) [+ persona] to direct; [+ asunto] to advise, guidelo dirigió con ayuda de un mapa — she showed him the way o directed him with the help of a map
¿por qué no vas tú delante y nos diriges? — why don't you go first and lead the way?
palabra 2)dirigían sus pasos hacia la iglesia — they made their way o walked towards the church
2) (=apuntar) [+ arma, telescopio] to aim, point (a, hacia at)[+ manguera] to turn (a, hacia on) point (a, hacia at)dirigió los focos al escenario — he pointed o directed the lights towards the stage
ordenó dirigir el fuego hacia el enemigo — he ordered them to direct o aim their fire at the enemy
3) (=destinar)a) [+ carta, comentario, pregunta] to address (a to)b) [+ libro, programa, producto] to aim (a at)c) [+ acusación, críticas] to make (a, contra against)level (a, contra at, against) [+ ataques] to make (a, contra against)dirigieron graves acusaciones contra el ministro — serious accusations were made against the minister, serious accusations were levelled at o against the minister
le dirigieron fuertes críticas — he was strongly criticized, he came in for some strong criticism
d) [+ esfuerzos] to direct (a, hacia to, towards)hay que dirigir todos nuestros esfuerzos hacia este fin — we must direct all our efforts to this end
4) (=controlar) [+ empresa, hospital, centro de enseñanza] to run; [+ periódico, revista] to edit, run; [+ expedición, país, sublevación] to lead; [+ maniobra, operación, investigación] to direct, be in charge of; [+ debate] to chair; [+ proceso judicial] to preside over; [+ tesis] to supervise; [+ juego, partido] to refereeel Partido Comunista dirigió los destinos del país durante siete décadas — the Communist Party controlled the fate of the country for seven decades
cotarro 1)dirigió mal las negociaciones — he handled the negotiations badly, he mismanaged the negotiations
5) (Cine, Teat) to direct6) (Mús) [+ orquesta, concierto] to conduct; [+ coro] to lead¿quién dirigirá el coro? — who will be the choirmaster?, who will lead the choir?
7) (=conducir) [+ coche] to drive; [+ barco] to steer; [+ caballo] to leaddirigió su coche hacia la izquierda — he steered o drove his car towards the left
2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < empresa> to manage, run; <periódico/revista> to run, edit; <investigación/tesis> to supervise; < debate> to lead, chairdirigir el tráfico — to direct o control the traffic
b) <obra/película> to directc) < orquesta> to conduct2)a)dirigir algo a alguien — <mensaje/carta> to address something to somebody; < críticas> to direct something to somebody
b)dirigir algo hacia or a algo/alguien — < telescopio> to point something toward(s) something/somebody; < pistola> to point something toward(s) something/somebody
dirigir la mirada hacia or a algo/alguien — to look at something/somebody
3) ( encaminar)2.dirigir algo a + inf — < esfuerzos> to channel something into -ing; <energía/atención> to direct something toward(s) -ing
dirigirse v pron1) ( encaminarse)2)dirigirse a alguien — ( oralmente) to speak o talk to somebody; ( por escrito) to write to somebody
me dirijo a Vd. para solicitarle... — (Corresp) I am writing to request...
* * *= address, channel, direct, gear (to/toward(s)/for), lead, man, pitch, route, run, steer, head, signpost, give + direction, angle, rule over, lend + direction, shepherd, choreograph, key + Nombre + to.Ex. More can be assumed in instructions addressed to the experienced information searcher than in instructions for the novice.Ex. Users make suggestions for modifications and these are then channelled through a series of committees.Ex. This statement directs the user to adopt a number more specific terms in preference to the general term.Ex. Most of the main subject headings lists are geared to the alphabetical subject approach found in dictionary catalogues.Ex. A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.Ex. The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.Ex. Thus pitching instructions at the right level can be difficult.Ex. Requests which cannot be filled by local or regional libraries are automatically routed by the system to NLM as the library of last resort.Ex. The service is run by Radio-Suisse and can be accessed via de PSS.Ex. They decided that they had to set up information and referral services to steer people to the correct agency.Ex. A stickler for details, sometimes to the point of compulsion, Edmonds was deemed a fortuitous choice to head the monumental reorganization process.Ex. There is a need for a firststop organization that could signpost the public through the maze of government agencies and social welfare organizations.Ex. To give direction to these physical resources, there are objectives for the project and a framework timetable.Ex. This publication seems to find particular favour in law firms, possibly because of its currency and the way it is angled towards the commercial world.Ex. From the impressive library of his mansion home on Beacon Hill, Ticknor ruled over Boston's intellectual life and was looked to as the leading arbiter of intellectual and social life in that great city.Ex. Policies are guidelines that lend direction to planning and decision-making.Ex. He showed the ability of a single mind to shepherd cultural ventures.Ex. Response to reading room theft should be carefully choreographed but decisive.Ex. The case study found that children do have the ability to use a classification scheme that is keyed to their developmental level.----* dirigir el cotarro = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.* dirigir el esfuerzo = direct + effort, direct + energy.* dirigir información a = direct + information towards.* dirigir interpretación musical = conduct.* dirigir la atención = put + focus.* dirigir la atención a = turn to, direct + Posesivo + attention to(ward).* dirigir la mirada hacia = look toward(s).* dirigir la palabra = be civil towards.* dirigir los intereses de uno = break into.* dirigir + Posesivo + atención = turn + Posesivo + attention, turn + Posesivo + thoughts.* dirigir + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.* dirigir + Posesivo + mirada = turn + Posesivo + thoughts.* dirigirse = be headed, head, head out.* dirigirse a = aim at, check with, turn over to, turn to, make + Posesivo + way to, set off to, turn to, head for, reach out to, head off for/to.* dirigirse a Alguien = approach + Alguien.* dirigirse amenazadoramente hacia = bear down on.* dirigirse a toda prisa hacia = make + haste towards.* dirigirse en multitud = beat + the path to.* dirigirse hacia = be on + Posesivo + way to, start toward, move toward(s), be heading towards, head for, turn into.* dirigirse hacia + Dirección = push + Dirección.* dirigirse hacia el oeste = push + westward(s).* dirigirse la palabra = on speaking terms.* dirigirse rápidamente hacia = make + haste towards.* dirigir una crítica hacia = level + criticism at.* dirigir una tesis = supervise + dissertation, supervise + thesis.* dirigir un servicio = run + service.* lectura no dirigida = undirected reading.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < empresa> to manage, run; <periódico/revista> to run, edit; <investigación/tesis> to supervise; < debate> to lead, chairdirigir el tráfico — to direct o control the traffic
b) <obra/película> to directc) < orquesta> to conduct2)a)dirigir algo a alguien — <mensaje/carta> to address something to somebody; < críticas> to direct something to somebody
b)dirigir algo hacia or a algo/alguien — < telescopio> to point something toward(s) something/somebody; < pistola> to point something toward(s) something/somebody
dirigir la mirada hacia or a algo/alguien — to look at something/somebody
3) ( encaminar)2.dirigir algo a + inf — < esfuerzos> to channel something into -ing; <energía/atención> to direct something toward(s) -ing
dirigirse v pron1) ( encaminarse)2)dirigirse a alguien — ( oralmente) to speak o talk to somebody; ( por escrito) to write to somebody
me dirijo a Vd. para solicitarle... — (Corresp) I am writing to request...
* * *= address, channel, direct, gear (to/toward(s)/for), lead, man, pitch, route, run, steer, head, signpost, give + direction, angle, rule over, lend + direction, shepherd, choreograph, key + Nombre + to.Ex: More can be assumed in instructions addressed to the experienced information searcher than in instructions for the novice.
Ex: Users make suggestions for modifications and these are then channelled through a series of committees.Ex: This statement directs the user to adopt a number more specific terms in preference to the general term.Ex: Most of the main subject headings lists are geared to the alphabetical subject approach found in dictionary catalogues.Ex: A book index is an alphabetically arranged list of words or terms leading the reader to the numbers of pages on which specific topics are considered, or on which specific names appear.Ex: The responsibility for manning the one telephone left at the disposal of a residue of callers fell to a single officer who had other duties to carry out to justify his keep.Ex: Thus pitching instructions at the right level can be difficult.Ex: Requests which cannot be filled by local or regional libraries are automatically routed by the system to NLM as the library of last resort.Ex: The service is run by Radio-Suisse and can be accessed via de PSS.Ex: They decided that they had to set up information and referral services to steer people to the correct agency.Ex: A stickler for details, sometimes to the point of compulsion, Edmonds was deemed a fortuitous choice to head the monumental reorganization process.Ex: There is a need for a firststop organization that could signpost the public through the maze of government agencies and social welfare organizations.Ex: To give direction to these physical resources, there are objectives for the project and a framework timetable.Ex: This publication seems to find particular favour in law firms, possibly because of its currency and the way it is angled towards the commercial world.Ex: From the impressive library of his mansion home on Beacon Hill, Ticknor ruled over Boston's intellectual life and was looked to as the leading arbiter of intellectual and social life in that great city.Ex: Policies are guidelines that lend direction to planning and decision-making.Ex: He showed the ability of a single mind to shepherd cultural ventures.Ex: Response to reading room theft should be carefully choreographed but decisive.Ex: The case study found that children do have the ability to use a classification scheme that is keyed to their developmental level.* dirigir el cotarro = call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.* dirigir el esfuerzo = direct + effort, direct + energy.* dirigir información a = direct + information towards.* dirigir interpretación musical = conduct.* dirigir la atención = put + focus.* dirigir la atención a = turn to, direct + Posesivo + attention to(ward).* dirigir la mirada hacia = look toward(s).* dirigir la palabra = be civil towards.* dirigir los intereses de uno = break into.* dirigir + Posesivo + atención = turn + Posesivo + attention, turn + Posesivo + thoughts.* dirigir + Posesivo + atención a un problema = turn + Posesivo + attention to problem.* dirigir + Posesivo + mirada = turn + Posesivo + thoughts.* dirigirse = be headed, head, head out.* dirigirse a = aim at, check with, turn over to, turn to, make + Posesivo + way to, set off to, turn to, head for, reach out to, head off for/to.* dirigirse a Alguien = approach + Alguien.* dirigirse amenazadoramente hacia = bear down on.* dirigirse a toda prisa hacia = make + haste towards.* dirigirse en multitud = beat + the path to.* dirigirse hacia = be on + Posesivo + way to, start toward, move toward(s), be heading towards, head for, turn into.* dirigirse hacia + Dirección = push + Dirección.* dirigirse hacia el oeste = push + westward(s).* dirigirse la palabra = on speaking terms.* dirigirse rápidamente hacia = make + haste towards.* dirigir una crítica hacia = level + criticism at.* dirigir una tesis = supervise + dissertation, supervise + thesis.* dirigir un servicio = run + service.* lectura no dirigida = undirected reading.* * *dirigir [I7 ]vtA1 ‹empresa› to manage, run; ‹periódico/revista› to run, edit; ‹investigación/tesis› to supervise; ‹debate› to lead, chairdirigió la operación de rescate he led o directed the rescue operationdirigir el tráfico to direct o control the traffic2 ‹obra/película› to direct3 ‹orquesta› to conductB1 ‹mensaje/carta› dirigir algo A algn to address sth TO sbesta noche el presidente dirigirá un mensaje a la nación the president will address the nation tonightla carta venía dirigida a mí the letter was addressed to medirigió unas palabras de bienvenida a los congresistas he addressed a few words of welcome to the delegateslas críticas iban dirigidas a los organizadores the criticisms were directed at the organizersel folleto va dirigido a padres y educadores the booklet is aimed at parents and teachersla pregunta iba dirigida a usted the question was meant for you, I asked you the questionno me dirigió la palabra he didn't say a word to me2 ‹mirada/pasos/telescopio›dirigió la mirada hacia el horizonte he looked toward(s) the horizon, he turned his eyes o his gaze toward(s) the horizonle dirigió una mirada de reproche she looked at him reproachfully, she gave him a reproachful lookdirigió sus pasos hacia la esquina he walked toward(s) the cornerdirigió el telescopio hacia la luna he pointed the telescope toward(s) the moonC (encaminar) ‹esfuerzos/acciones› dirigir algo A + INF:acciones dirigidas a aliviar el problema measures aimed at alleviating o measures designed to alleviate the problemdirigiremos todos nuestros esfuerzos a lograr un acuerdo we shall channel all our efforts into o direct all our efforts toward(s) reaching an agreementA(ir): nos dirigíamos al aeropuerto we were heading for o we were going to o we were on our way to the airportse dirigió a su despacho con paso decidido he strode purposefully toward(s) his officese dirigían hacia la frontera they were making o heading for the borderel buque se dirigía hacia la costa the ship was heading for o toward(s) the coastB dirigirse A algn (oralmente) to speak o talk TO sb, address sb ( frml) (por escrito) to write TO sb¿se dirige a mí? are you talking o speaking to me?me dirijo a Vd. para solicitarle … ( Corresp) I am writing to request …para más información diríjase a … for more information please write to o contact …* * *
dirigir ( conjugate dirigir) verbo transitivo
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‹periódico/revista› to run, edit;
‹investigación/tesis› to supervise;
‹ debate› to lead, chair;
‹ tráfico› to direct
‹ orquesta› to conduct
2a) dirigir algo a algn ‹mensaje/carta› to address sth to sb;
‹ críticas› to direct sth to sb;
no me dirigió la palabra he didn't say a word to me
‹ pistola› to point sth toward(s) sth/sb;
dirigir la mirada hacia or a algo/algn to look at sth/sb;
3 ( encaminar) dirigir algo a hacer algo ‹ esfuerzos› to channel sth into doing sth;
‹energía/atención› to direct sth toward(s) doing sth
dirigirse verbo pronominal
1 ( encaminarse): dirigirse hacia algo to head for sth
2 dirigirse a algn ( oralmente) to speak o talk to sb;
( por escrito) to write to sb
dirigir verbo transitivo
1 (estar al mando de) to direct
(una empresa) to manage
(un negocio, una escuela) to run
(un sindicato, partido) to lead
(un periódico) to edit
2 (una orquesta) to conduct
(una película) to direct
3 (hacer llegar unas palabras, un escrito) to address
(una mirada) to give
4 (encaminar, poner en una dirección) to direct, steer: dirigió el coche hacia la salida, he drove his car to the exit
dirigió la mirada hacia la caja fuerte, she looked towards the strongbox
dirigió sus pasos hacia el bosque, he made his way towards the wood
' dirigir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cruzar
- derivar
- destinar
- enchufar
- enfilar
- mandar
- manejar
- manipular
- orquestar
- palabra
- conducir
English:
address
- aim
- bend
- conduct
- control
- direct
- guide
- lead
- level
- manage
- mastermind
- operate
- pitch
- run
- shine
- spearhead
- steer
- turn
- edit
- head
- produce
- target
* * *♦ vt1. [conducir] [coche, barco] to steer;[avión] to pilot;el canal dirige el agua hacia el interior de la región the canal channels the water towards the interior of the region2. [estar al cargo de] [empresa, hotel, hospital] to manage;[colegio, cárcel, periódico] to run; [partido, revuelta] to lead; [expedición] to head, to lead; [investigación] to supervise;dirige mi tesis, me dirige la tesis he's supervising my thesis, he's my PhD supervisor o US advisor3. [película, obra de teatro] to direct;[orquesta] to conductdirige el telescopio al norte point the telescope towards the north;dirigió sus acusaciones a las autoridades her accusations were aimed at the authorities5. [dedicar, encaminar]nos dirigían miradas de lástima they were giving us pitying looks, they were looking at us pityingly;dirigir unas palabras a alguien to speak to sb, to address sb;dirige sus esfuerzos a incrementar los beneficios she is directing her efforts towards increasing profits, her efforts are aimed at increasing profits;dirigen su iniciativa a conseguir la liberación del secuestrado the aim of their initiative is to secure the release of the prisoner;dirigió sus pasos hacia la casa he headed towards the house;no me dirigen la palabra they don't speak to me;un programa dirigido a los amantes de la música clásica a programme (intended) for lovers of classical music;consejos dirigidos a los jóvenes advice aimed at the young6. [carta, paquete] to address7. [guiar] [persona] to guide* * *v/t2 COM manage, run3:dirigir una carta a address a letter to;dirigir una pregunta a direct a question to4 ( conducir) lead* * *dirigir {35} vt1) : to direct, to lead2) : to address3) : to aim, to point4) : to conduct (music)* * *dirigir vb1. (película, tráfico) to directJames Cameron dirigió "Titanic" James Cameron directed "Titanic"2. (empresa, equipo) to manage¿quién dirige la selección española? who manages the Spanish national team?5. (libro, medida) to aim / to direct6. (carta, palabras) to addressdirigió sus comentarios a todos los jóvenes presentes she addressed her comments to all the young people who were there7. (orquesta) to conduct -
8 introducción
f.1 introduction, preamble, lead-in, prologue.2 introduction, input, insertion, putting-in.* * *1 introduction* * *noun f.* * *SF1) [de texto] introduction"Introducción a la gramática española" — "Introduction to Spanish Grammar"
2) (=inserción) insertionla introducción del tubo puede causar heridas — inserting the tube o the insertion of the tube can cause injury, the tube's insertion could cause injury
3) (=llegada) [de mercancías, cambios] introductionla revolución que supuso la introducción del vídeo en los hogares — the revolution caused by the arrival of the video in the home
4) (Inform) [de datos] input* * *1) (en libro, obra musical) introduction2)a) (de cambio, medida) introductionla introducción de un nuevo producto en el mercado — the introduction of a new product onto the market
b) ( inserción) insertionc) (a tema, cultura) introduction* * *= background, leading remark, overview, penetration, prelude, preparation, infusion, induction, backgrounder, entrée, build-up [buildup], rollout [roll-out].Nota: De un producto, principalmente..Ex. This article describes the Nordic online data base situation, outlining its background and future developments, as well as the supply of different kinds of data base.Ex. Indeed, to spark reader's curiosity incomplete and leading remarks are possible the most effective.Ex. Figure 16 on page 24 gives an overview of searching.Ex. The somewhat late arrival of the ROOT thesaurus in the indexing world means that its penetration will be slow, although it has great potential as a tool for standardizing indexing languages.Ex. As a prelude to using the scheme, we will briefly outline the various sections of this book.Ex. A study then of the underlying features of the classification process and the components of a classification scheme is a preparation for the more critical and informed application of classification schemes.Ex. The infusion of computers and data bases into the law office and the tremendous increase in published legal materials have given rise to the need for the law librarian.Ex. The author concludes that the new course offered an overall improvement in library induction.Ex. He provides information ' backgrounders' to 100-200 people.Ex. Now that information is being distributed through the visual media, exhibitions can provide an entree for diversified and potentially larger audiences.Ex. The work completed to date has only been a build-up to the main phase but its usefulness has already been shown.Ex. The interview provides a behind-the-scenes look at the company's preparation for the service's official rollout in Summer 2000.----* anterior a la introducción de la escritura = preliterate [pre-literate].* hacer una introducción = set + the scene.* hacer una introducción histórica = give + background information.* introducción (a) = introduction (to).* introducción de datos utilizando un teclado = keypunching.* modo de introducción de datos = input mode.* ofrecer una introducción a = provide + a background to.* posterior a la introducción de la escritura = postliterate [post-literate].* programa de introducción a la biblioteca = library training programme.* servir de introducción = set + the backdrop, set + the framework, set + the context.* servir de introducción a = provide + a background to.* tecla de introducción de datos = ENTER key.* * *1) (en libro, obra musical) introduction2)a) (de cambio, medida) introductionla introducción de un nuevo producto en el mercado — the introduction of a new product onto the market
b) ( inserción) insertionc) (a tema, cultura) introduction* * *= background, leading remark, overview, penetration, prelude, preparation, infusion, induction, backgrounder, entrée, build-up [buildup], rollout [roll-out].Nota: De un producto, principalmente..Ex: This article describes the Nordic online data base situation, outlining its background and future developments, as well as the supply of different kinds of data base.
Ex: Indeed, to spark reader's curiosity incomplete and leading remarks are possible the most effective.Ex: Figure 16 on page 24 gives an overview of searching.Ex: The somewhat late arrival of the ROOT thesaurus in the indexing world means that its penetration will be slow, although it has great potential as a tool for standardizing indexing languages.Ex: As a prelude to using the scheme, we will briefly outline the various sections of this book.Ex: A study then of the underlying features of the classification process and the components of a classification scheme is a preparation for the more critical and informed application of classification schemes.Ex: The infusion of computers and data bases into the law office and the tremendous increase in published legal materials have given rise to the need for the law librarian.Ex: The author concludes that the new course offered an overall improvement in library induction.Ex: He provides information ' backgrounders' to 100-200 people.Ex: Now that information is being distributed through the visual media, exhibitions can provide an entree for diversified and potentially larger audiences.Ex: The work completed to date has only been a build-up to the main phase but its usefulness has already been shown.Ex: The interview provides a behind-the-scenes look at the company's preparation for the service's official rollout in Summer 2000.* anterior a la introducción de la escritura = preliterate [pre-literate].* hacer una introducción = set + the scene.* hacer una introducción histórica = give + background information.* introducción (a) = introduction (to).* introducción de datos utilizando un teclado = keypunching.* modo de introducción de datos = input mode.* ofrecer una introducción a = provide + a background to.* posterior a la introducción de la escritura = postliterate [post-literate].* programa de introducción a la biblioteca = library training programme.* servir de introducción = set + the backdrop, set + the framework, set + the context.* servir de introducción a = provide + a background to.* tecla de introducción de datos = ENTER key.* * *A (en un libro, una obra musical) introductionB1 (de un cambio, una medida) introductionla introducción de un nuevo producto en el mercado the introduction of a new product onto the marketla introducción de esa enmienda modifica sustancialmente la ley the inclusion of that amendment substantially alters the act2 (inserción) insertionla introducción de la aguja en el músculo the insertion of the needle into the muscle3 (a un tema, una cultura) introduction introducción A algo introduction TO sthsu introducción a los misterios de la informática her introduction to o initiation into the mysteries of computers* * *
introducción sustantivo femenino
introduction;
introducción A algo introduction to sth
introducción sustantivo femenino introduction
' introducción' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
que
- iniciación
- título
English:
insertion
- institution
- intro
- introduction
- preamble
- preface
- introductory
* * *introducción nf1. [presentación] introduction (a to);introducción a la lingüística [título] an introduction to linguistics;un curso de introducción a la informática an introductory course in computing2. [de libro] introduction3. [de composición musical] introduction;[en música pop] intro4. [inserción] [de objeto] insertion;Informát [de datos] input, entering5. [de novedad, medida, política, en mercado] introduction;precio especial de introducción special introductory price;la introducción de la moneda única the introduction of the single currency;a él se debe la introducción de la patata en Europa he was responsible for the introduction of the potato to Europe;una banda que se dedica a la introducción de tabaco de contrabando en Europa a gang that smuggles tobacco into Europe* * *f1 introduction3 INFOR input* * ** * *introducción n introduction -
9 exchange rate risk
Finthe risk of suffering loss on converting another currency to the currency of a company’s own country.EXAMPLEExchange rate risks can be arranged into three primary categories. (1.) Economic exposure: operating costs will rise due to changes in rates and make a product uncompetitive in the world market. Little can be done to reduce this routine business risk that every enterprise must endure. (2.) Translation exposure: the impact of currency exchange rates will reduce a company’s earnings and weaken its balance sheet. To reduce translation exposure, experienced corporate fund managers use a range of techniques known as currency hedging. (3.) Transaction exposure: there will be an unfavorable move in a specific currency between the time when a contract is agreed and the time it is completed, or between the time when a lending or borrowing is initiated and the time the funds are repaid. Transaction exposure can be eased by factoring: transferring title to foreign accounts receivable to a third-party factoring house.Although there is no definitive way of forecasting exchange rates, largely because the world’s economies and financial markets are evolving so rapidly, the relationships between exchange rates, interest rates, and inflation rates can serve as leading indicators of changes in risk. These relationships are as follows. Purchasing Power Parity theory (PPP): while it can be expressed differently, the most common expression links the changes in exchange rates to those in relative price indices in two countries:Rate of change of exchange rate = Difference in inflation ratesInternational Fisher Effect (IFE): this holds that an interest-rate differential will exist only if the exchange rate is expected to change in such a way that the advantage of the higher interest rate is offset by the loss on the foreign exchange transactions. Practically speaking, the IFE implies that while an investor in a low-interest country can convert funds into the currency of a high-interest country and earn a higher rate, the gain (the interest rate differential) will be offset by the expected loss due to foreign exchange rate changes. The relationship is stated as:Expected rate of change of the exchange rate = Interest-rate differentialUnbiased Forward Rate Theory: this holds that the forward exchange rate is the best unbiased estimate of the expected future spot exchange rate.Expected exchange rate = Forward exchange rate -
10 Chronology
15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence ofBrazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister. -
11 bank
̈ɪbæŋk I
1. сущ.
1) вал, насыпь
2) берег( реки) ;
край;
тж. перен. The left bank of the glacier. ≈ Левый край ледника. Within the banks of his remembrance. ≈ Насколько он мог помнить.
3) банка, отмель
4) нанос;
занос bank of clouds ≈ гряда облаков
5) авиац. крен (специально создаваемый летчиком при выполнении виража)
6) горн. залежь, пласт
7) уст. муравейник
2. гл.
1) делать насыпь
2) образовать заносы, кучи (тж. to bank up) The morning began fine, but now clouds are banking up. ≈ Утро было отличное, но теперь на небе появились облака. The wind had banked the snow up against the wall. ≈ От сильного ветра у стены вырос огромный сугроб.
3) а) сгребать в кучу, наваливать;
окружать валом Every spring we have to bank up the river to prevent flooding. ≈ Весной нам приходится насыпать валы вдоль реки, чтобы нас не затопило. At night we bank the fire up so that it is still burning in the morning. ≈ Вечером мы сгребаем уголья в кучу, чтобы утром они еще тлели. б) готовить лес к сплаву
4) авиац. закладывать вираж
5) играть от борта (на биллиарде - шар отскакивает рикошетом от борта и ударяет другой)
6) высаживаться на берег, сгружать на берег II
1. сущ.
1) банк to open an account in/with a bank ≈ открыть счет в банке to charter bank;
to establish a bank ≈ учредить банк central bank ≈ центральный банк commercial bank ≈ коммерческий банк credit bank ≈ кредитный банк drive-in bank ≈ банк, где обслуживают клиентов прямо в автомобилях national bank ≈ национальный банк people's bank ≈ народный банк pet bank ≈ банк-любимчик (банк, в котором хранятся государственные средства вследствие особого расположения властей) postal savings bank ≈ почтово-сберегательный банк state bank ≈ государственный банк merchant bank ≈ коммерческий банк savings bank ≈ сберегательный банк bank of issue ≈ эмиссионный банк the Bank for Foreign Trade of Russia ≈ Внешторгбанк России bank account ≈ счет в банке bank currency ≈ банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками bank holiday ≈ официальный нерабочий день (установленный законом)
2) карт. банк break the bank
3) место хранения запасов - blood bank data bank ∙ you can't put it in the bank ≈ амер.;
разг. это ни к чему, от этого никакого толку
2. гл.
1) класть (деньги) в банк;
держать( деньги) в банке;
откладывать bank with
2) карт. метать банк
3) держать банк, быть владельцем банка Giovanni Medici had been a banker before everything, Cosimo an administrator. Lorenzo continued to bank but mismanaged the work and lost heavily. ≈ Джованни Медичи был прежде всего банкиром, Козимо - администратором. Лоренцо тоже вел банковские дела, но шли они неважно и он нес большие убытки.
4) сдавать выручку в банк;
обналичивать
5) хранить что-л. про запас (кровь и т.д.) ∙ bank on bank upon III сущ. ист.
1) скамья, банка ( в лодке)
2) ряд весел (на исторических судах типа трирем и кватрирем, имевших несколько рядов весел один над другим)
3) мануал (органа) ;
ряд клавиш( на пишущей машинке) The organ of Riga Dome has four banks. ≈ У органа Рижского Домского Собора четыре мануала.
4) верстак (в некоторых ремеслах)
5) архаич. суд (от скамьи, на которой сидели судьи)
6) дно емкости для плавления стекла
7) тех. набор одинаковых устройств для массовой работы (напр., в старых АТС)вал, насыпь;
дамба - to dig up a * of earth возвести земляной вал крутой склон берег (реки, озера) отмель, банка, риф - oyster * устричная отмель /банка/ - fisheries * (специальное) рыбная банка - ice * ледяное поле нанос, занос - snow *s сугробы, снежные заносы - the * of clouds spelled rain гряда облаков предвещала дождь - we ran into a * of fog мы попали в полосу тумана борт бильярдного стола (авиация) крен, вираж (горное) забой;
залежь - * of ore пластообразная рудная залежь (горное) уступ( горное) устье шахты сгребать в кучу;
наваливать - to * snow сгребать снег в кучи - the chairs were *ed one upon the other стулья взгромоздили один на другой делать насыпь;
окружать валом, насыпью - to * in окапываться громоздиться, вздыматься - clouds are *ing along the horizon облака скучились на горизонте;
горизонт затянут облаками запруживать окружать, окаймлять - the river is *ed high on both sides река заключена в крутые берега прикрывать (костер) валежником (чтобы он горел спокойно и долго) (авиация) делать вираж;
накреняться сесть на мель (гребля) (сленг) играть шара от борта (бильярд) банк - B. of England, the B. Английский банк (государственный банк Великобритании) - branch * отделение банка - * of issue /of circulation/ эмиссионный банк - to keep an account at a * иметь счет в банке - to keep an account with the National B. иметь счет в государственном банке копилка - father gave her a quarter for her piggy * отец дал ей двадцать пять центов (положить) в копилку (историческое) лавка ростовщика;
стол или лавка менялы фонд;
общий запас;
резерв - blood * запас /банк/ крови (для переливания) ;
донорский пункт - cornea * запас роговицы( для пересадки) банк (в азартных играх) - to keep the * держать банк - to break the * сорвать банк > he is as safe as a * он вполне надужный человек > in the * в убытке > three discount houses were in the * for a small amount три учетные конторы понесли небольшой убыток > to keep smth. in * держать что-л. про запас > you can't put it in the * (американизм) из спасиба шубу не сошьешь класть деньги в банк;
держать, иметь деньги в банке или сберкассе - to * at /with/ the B. of England держать деньги в Английском банке;
(финансовое) вести дела с Английским банком владеть банком, быть банкиром;
заниматься банковским делом превращать (имущество) в деньги - to * an estate продать имение метать банк (в картах и т. п.) (on, upon) (разговорное) рассчитывать, полагаться - to * on /upon/ smb.'s support рассчитывать на чью-л. поддержку - I was *ing on his honesty when I closed the deal я полагался на его честность, когда заключал сделку - you can * on it being true можете быть уверены - это правда преим. (специальное) рад, комплект, набор;
серия - * of cylinders блок цилиндров - * of boilers батарея котлов - * of needles( текстильное) ряд игл;
игольница - * of sieves набор сит - * of lamps (кинематографический) осветительный агрегат - * of keys клавиатура( пишущей машинки, линотипа, органа и т. п.) (устаревшее) скамья (на галере и т. п.) (устаревшее) суд;
судебное присутствие верстак (полиграфия) подзаголовок( специальное) группировать для совместной работы;
комплектовать - the electric lamps were *ed in rows of ten электролампы были сгруппированы по десять в рядadvising ~ банк-консультантagency ~ банк-посредникagent ~ банк-агентbank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банк ~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ банк ~ банкирский дом ~ берег (особ. реки) ~ быть банкиром ~ быть банкиром ~ вал, насыпь ~ ист. верстак (в некоторых ремеслах) ~ владеть банком ~ вносить деньги в банк ~ тех. группа( баллонов, трансформаторов и т. п.) ~ вчт. группа устройств ~ ав. делать вираж;
накреняться ~ делать насыпь ~ держать деньги в банке ~ горн. залежь, пласт (руды, угля в открытых разработках) ~ заниматься банковским делом ~ запас ~ запруживать ~ играть шара от борта, бортов (на бильярде) ~ касса ~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа ~ класть (деньги) в банк;
держать (деньги) в банке;
откладывать ~ кредитное учреждение ~ ав. крен ~ место хранения запасов ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаков ~ образовать наносы( о песке, снеге;
часто bank up) ~ отмель, банка ~ полный состав суда ~ ист. ряд весел (на галере) ~ сгребать (в кучу), наваливать;
окружать валом ~ ист. скамья (на галере) ~ суд ~ судейская скамья ~ фонд Bank: Bank: World ~ Международный банк реконструкции и развития~ attr. банковый, банковский;
bank account счет в банке;
bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками~ attr. банковый, банковский;
bank account счет в банке;
bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ of issue эмиссионный банк~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаковblood ~ донорский пункт blood ~ запас консервированной крови и плазмы для переливания blood ~ запасы консервированной крови для переливания blood ~ хранилище консервированной крови и плазмыbank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банкcentral ~ центральный банкchartered ~ банк, созданный на основе королевского декрета (Великобритания) chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе Закона о банках (Канада)commercial ~ коммерческий банкconsortium ~ консорциальный банкcooperative savings ~ кооперативный сберегательный банкcorrespondent ~ (амер.) банк-корреспондент correspondent ~ банк-корреспондентcredit ~ кредитный банкdata ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ банк данных data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ вчт. информационный банк data ~ вчт. хранилище данныхfederally chartered ~ федеральный коммерческий банкforeign ~ иностранный банкfull-service ~ универсальный банкgiro ~ жиробанкinvestment ~ инвестиционный банкissuing ~ банк-эмитентjoint-stock ~ акционерный коммерческий банкlending ~ кредитный банк lending ~ ссудный банкloan ~ кредитный банк loan ~ ссудный банкmember ~ банк - член Федеральной резервной системыmemory ~ вчт. банк памятиmerchant ~ коммерческий банк merchant ~ торговый банкmoney-center ~ банк, наиболее активно оперирующий на денежном рынке money-center ~ банк в ведущем финансовом центреnational ~ национальный банк national: ~ государственный;
national anthem государственный гимн;
national bank государственный банк;
national park амер. заповедник;
национальный паркnationwide ~ государственный банкnote issuing ~ эмиссионнный банк~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банкеpaying ~ банк-плательщикpiggy ~ копилкаpost office ~ почтово-сберегательный банкpostal savings ~ почтово-сберегательный банкprivate ~ неакционерный банк private ~ семейный банк private ~ частный банк private ~ частный банкирский домprivate credit ~ частный кредитный банкprovincial ~ провинциальный банкpublic ~ государственный банкpublic savings ~ государственный сберегательный банкregional ~ региональный банкsatellite ~ банк-спутникsavings ~ сберегательный банкsecondary ~ второстепенный банкstate ~ государственный банкsyndicated ~ банковский консорциумterm ~ банк терминовtrustee savings ~ доверительно-сберегательный банк (Великобритания)universal ~ универсальный банк~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало -
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13 валютный курс
1. foreign exchange rate2. managed paper currency3. par for exchange4. course of exchange5. exchange rateкурс по кассовым сделкам; курс по сделкам спот — spot rate
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n2) индекс, статистический показатель, характеризующий изменение тех или иных явлений относительно базовой величины4) алфавитный указатель; каталог
- adjusted index
- aggregative index
- alphabetical index
- AMEX Major Market Index
- annual index
- applicable index
- average weighted index
- base index
- benchmark index
- birth rate index
- blue-chip index
- buying power index
- CAC General Index
- calendar year index
- capacity index
- card index
- chain index
- class index of patents
- classified index
- commodity index
- composite index
- consolidated index
- consumer confidence index
- consumer price index
- consumer sentiment index
- core consumer price index
- cost-of-funds index
- cost-of-living index
- crop yield index
- currency pool index
- currency-basket index
- deflator index
- demerit index
- density index
- designation index
- development index
- Dow-Jones index
- Dow Jones industrial index
- downtime index
- dummy index
- economic indices
- engineering and economic indices
- Eurotop 100 index
- exchange rate index
- Financial Times Actuaries Share Index
- Financial Times All-Share Index
- Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index
- Financial Times Share Indices
- Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index
- Financial Times World Index
- fixed weight index
- food price index
- free index
- freight index
- FT index
- FT-SE index
- FT-SE Eurotrack Index
- FT-SE Small Cap Index
- general index
- group index
- growth index
- guarantee index
- hedonic price index
- hi-lo index
- identifying index
- individual index
- industrial production index
- inflation index
- investment index
- labour input index
- leading index
- Lloyd's Shipping index
- market index
- market capitalization index
- maturity index
- migration index
- mobility index
- mortgage contract rate index
- NASDAQ composite index
- Nikkei 300 index
- Nielsen Drug Index
- Nielsen Food Index
- NYSE Common Stock Index
- NYSE Composite Index
- ocean freight rate index
- operational consumer price index
- outgoing product quality index
- output index
- patent index
- performance index
- population concentration index
- postal index
- preliminary index
- price index
- price increase index
- primary index
- priority index
- producer price index
- production index
- product quality index
- profitability index
- public utilities index
- purchasing power index
- qualitative index
- quality index
- quantitative index
- quantity index
- retail price index
- risk index
- seasonal index
- seasonally corrected index
- share index
- share price index
- socioeconomic index
- Standard and Poor's 500 Stock Index
- stock index
- stock exchange index
- summary index
- summary consumer price index
- tariff index
- terms of trade index
- total index
- trade index
- tramp freight index
- transport index
- trend-adjusted index
- unadjusted index
- unit-value index
- unweighted index
- utility index
- value index
- variability index
- volume index
- wage index
- weighted index
- wholesale price index
- year index
- index of applicants
- index of applications
- index of companies
- index of competitiveness
- index of consumption
- index of cost of living
- index of effectiveness
- index of employment
- index of entrepreneurial confidence
- index of goods
- index of industrial production
- index of leading economic indicators
- index of leading indicators
- index of licences
- index of manufacturing capacity
- index of prices
- index of production
- index of productivity
- index of real wages
- index of seasonal variation
- index of securities
- index of share prices
- index of stocks
- index of trademarks
- index of trade sections
- affect the index
- calculate indices
- compile a card index
- drive the index to its July low
- enter on a card index
- serve as an index
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1. n1) цена
- acceptable price
- accounting price
- accurate price
- acquisition price
- actual price
- adjustable prices
- adjusted price
- administered price
- advanced price
- advertized price
- after price
- after hours price
- agreed price
- agreed-upon price
- aggregate price
- agricultural product prices
- all-in price
- all-round price
- American Selling Price
- anticipated price
- applicable price
- approximate price
- arm's length price
- asked price
- asking price
- attractive price
- average price
- bargain price
- base price
- basic price
- basic point price
- basis price
- bedrock price
- benchmmark price
- best price
- best-performing share prices
- bid price
- black market price
- blanket price
- bona fide selling price
- bond price
- book price
- boom price
- bottom price
- B-share prices
- budget price
- buy-back price
- buyers' price
- buying price
- calculative price
- call price
- carry-over price
- cash price
- catalogue price
- ceiling price
- cheap price
- clearing price
- close prices
- closing price
- closing share price
- coming out price
- commodity price
- common price
- comparable prices
- comparative prices
- competitive price
- competitor's price
- constant price
- consumer prices
- contracted price
- cost price
- cutthroat price
- daily settlement price
- dealer price
- decontrolled prices
- delivered price
- demand price
- derived target price
- determined price
- differential prices
- dirt cheap price
- disbursing price
- discounted price
- distress price
- domestic price
- dropping prices
- dual price
- entry-preventing price
- equation price
- equilibrium price
- equitable price
- equity price
- escalating prices
- escalation prices
- escalator prices
- established price
- estimated price
- estimated total price
- euro price
- exact price
- exceptional price
- excessive price
- exchange price
- exclusive price
- exercise price
- exhaust price
- existing price
- exorbitant price
- external prices
- extra price
- factor price
- factory price
- factory gate price
- factory list price
- fair price
- falling prices
- fancy price
- farm prices
- farm commodity prices
- farm produce prices
- favourable price
- final price
- firm price
- first price
- fixed price
- flat price
- flexible prices
- floor price
- fluctuating price
- foreign price
- forward price
- free market price
- full-cost price
- gilt prices
- global price
- going price
- going market price
- gross price
- grower's price
- guaranteed price
- guideline price
- guiding price
- half price
- hard prices
- heavy price
- high price
- highest price
- hire price
- hire purchase price
- home price
- home market price
- House price
- huge price
- identical price
- implicit price
- import price
- inbound price
- increased price
- individual price
- individual price of production
- individual cost price
- inflated prices
- initial price
- inside price
- internal price
- intervention price
- invoiced price
- irregular prices
- issue price
- item price
- itemized price
- job prices
- just price
- keen price
- kerb prices
- knockdown price
- knockout price
- laid-down price
- land price
- landed price
- last price
- leading price
- limit price
- limited price
- listed price
- live market price
- livestock price
- loaded price
- local price
- local market price
- loco price
- low price
- lowest price
- lump-sum price
- making-up price
- manufacturer's price
- manufacturing price
- marginal price
- markdown price
- marked price
- market price
- market-determined price
- marrying price
- maximum price
- mean price
- median price
- median home prices
- medium price
- mercantile price
- middle price
- minimum price
- moderate price
- monopoly price
- national price
- natural price
- negotiable price
- negotiated price
- net price
- new prices
- nominal price
- nonflexible price
- normal price
- normalized price
- notional price
- offered price
- offering price
- offer of issue price
- official price
- open price
- opening price
- option price
- option price of shares
- original price
- output price
- outside price
- overestimated price
- overhead price
- package price
- packing price
- parity price
- peak price
- pegged price
- piece price
- popular prices
- posted price
- preferential price
- pre-increase price
- preliminary price
- premium price
- present price
- prevailing prices
- probate price
- procurement price
- producer's price
- prohibitive price
- public offering price
- published price
- purchase price
- purchasing price
- put price
- put-and-call price
- quantity price
- quoted price
- raw material price
- real price
- realization price
- reasonable price
- receding prices
- receiving price
- recent prices
- recommended price
- redemption price
- reduced price
- reference price
- regular price
- relative prices
- remunerative price
- rent price
- replacement price
- resale price
- reservation price
- reserve price
- reserved price
- retail price
- revised price
- rising prices
- rock-bottom price
- ruinous price
- ruling price
- sale price
- seasonal price
- sagging price
- saleable price
- secondhand price
- security price
- sellers' price
- selling price
- sensitive prices
- set price
- setting price
- settlement price
- shadow price
- share price
- sinking price
- skyrocketing price
- sliding price
- sliding-scale price
- sluice gate price
- soaring price
- special price
- specific price
- split prices
- spot price
- stable price
- standard price
- standard list price
- standard unit price
- starting price
- state price
- stated price
- state-set price
- stationary price
- steady prices
- sticker price
- stiff price
- stipulated price
- stock price
- stock exchange price
- stopout price
- store prices
- street price
- strictly net price
- strike price
- striking price
- strong price
- subscription price
- suggested price
- supply price
- support price
- surging share prices
- tape prices
- target price
- target asset price
- tariff price
- tax-inclusive prices
- tender price
- threshold price
- top price
- total price
- trade price
- trading price
- transaction price
- transfer price
- trigger price
- two-tier price
- typical price
- uncontrollable prices
- underestimated price
- underselling price
- uniform price
- unit price
- unrealistic price
- unreasonable price
- unsettled price
- unstable price
- upset price
- variable prices
- wholesale price
- wide prices
- world bond price
- world market price
- zone price
- price after hours
- price at the current exchange rate
- price ex store
- price ex warehouse
- price for the account
- price for cash
- price for a quantity unit
- price for the settlement
- price in foreign currency
- price in gold
- prices in the open market
- price in a price list
- price in the quotation
- prices in the region of %
- price of call
- price of currency
- price of day
- price of delivery
- prices of farm products
- price of freight
- price of gold
- prices of industrial goods
- price of labour power
- price of land
- price of money
- price of option
- price of production
- price of services
- prices on the quotation
- prices on the world market
- price per metric ton
- price per piece
- price per set
- price per unit
- at the price
- at bargain prices
- at a firesale price
- at a high price
- at a low price
- at all prices
- in comparable prices
- price current
- price excluding
- price exclusive
- price less discount
- price plus markup
- price subject to change without notice
- price subject to final confirmation
- accept a price
- adjust prices
- advance a price
- advance in price
- alter a price
- amend a price
- arrive at a price
- ask the price
- ask for the price
- bargain over a price
- base a price
- beat down prices
- bolster the price of crude oil
- boost prices
- break down prices
- bring the price back down to earth
- bring prices in line with the cost
- bring the average price
- bring down prices
- bring low prices
- buoy prices
- calculate prices
- change a price
- charge a price
- command a high price
- control prices
- correct a price
- cut prices
- decrease prices
- deduct from a price
- depress prices
- deregulate prices
- determine a price
- differ in prices
- drop in price
- enjoy high prices
- establish a price
- estimate a price
- exceed a price
- fall in price
- fetch a high price
- finalize a price
- fix a price
- force down prices
- force up prices
- freeze prices
- fuel prices
- give a firm price
- go down in price
- go up in price
- guarantee a price
- hold in price
- hold out for a higher price
- hold up prices
- increase prices
- increase in price
- keep prices down
- keep prices up
- kick against high prices
- level prices down
- level prices up
- lift prices
- lift prices from their low
- list prices
- maintain prices
- make a price
- manipulate stock prices
- mark a price
- mark down the price
- match the price
- meet the price
- modify a price
- negotiate a price
- offer a price
- outbid the prices
- pay the price
- prop up prices
- push up prices
- publish prices
- put down prices
- put downward pressure on prices
- put up prices
- quote a price
- raise prices
- ramp up share prices
- realize a price
- recalculate prices
- recover the price
- reduce prices
- refund the price
- revise prices downwards
- revise prices upwards
- rise in price
- retrieve the price
- scale down prices
- save on prices
- sell at a high price
- sell below price
- sell under price
- send prices up
- set a price
- settle a price
- shore up prices
- show prices in dollars
- squeeze prices down
- stabilize prices
- suggest a price
- support prices
- take off the price
- tender a price
- trigger prices
- undercut prices2. vназначать цену; оценивать
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17 bank
[̈ɪbæŋk]accepting bank банк-акцептант advising bank банк-консультант agency bank банк-посредник agent bank банк-агент bank карт. банк; to break the bank сорвать банк bank банк; bank of issue эмиссионный банк; to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке bank банк bank банкирский дом bank берег (особ. реки) bank быть банкиром bank быть банкиром bank вал, насыпь bank ист. верстак (в некоторых ремеслах) bank владеть банком bank вносить деньги в банк bank тех. группа (баллонов, трансформаторов и т. п.) bank вчт. группа устройств bank ав. делать вираж; накреняться bank делать насыпь bank держать деньги в банке bank горн. залежь, пласт (руды, угля в открытых разработках) bank заниматься банковским делом bank запас bank запруживать bank играть шара от борта, бортов (на бильярде) bank касса bank ист. клавиатура (органа); bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа bank класть (деньги) в банк; держать (деньги) в банке; откладывать bank кредитное учреждение bank ав. крен bank место хранения запасов bank карт. метать банк; to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) bank карт. метать банк; to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) bank нанос; занос; bank of snow снежный занос; сугроб; bank of clouds гряда облаков bank образовать наносы (о песке, снеге; часто bank up) bank отмель, банка bank полный состав суда bank ист. ряд весел (на галере) bank сгребать (в кучу), наваливать; окружать валом bank ист. скамья (на галере) bank суд bank судейская скамья bank фонд Bank: Bank: World bank Международный банк реконструкции и развития bank attr. банковый, банковский; bank account счет в банке; bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками bank attr. банковый, банковский; bank account счет в банке; bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками bank holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих; you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало bank нанос; занос; bank of snow снежный занос; сугроб; bank of clouds гряда облаков bank банк; bank of issue эмиссионный банк; to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке bank of issue эмиссионный банк bank ист. клавиатура (органа); bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа bank нанос; занос; bank of snow снежный занос; сугроб; bank of clouds гряда облаков blood bank донорский пункт blood bank запас консервированной крови и плазмы для переливания blood bank запасы консервированной крови для переливания blood bank хранилище консервированной крови и плазмы bank карт. банк; to break the bank сорвать банк central bank центральный банк chartered bank банк, созданный на основе королевского декрета (Великобритания) chartered bank банк, созданный на основе Закона о банках (Канада) clearing bank банк - член расчетной палаты clearing bank клиринговый банк commercial bank коммерческий банк consortium bank консорциальный банк cooperative bank кооперативный банк cooperative credit bank кооперативный кредитный банк cooperative savings bank кооперативный сберегательный банк correspondent bank (амер.) банк-корреспондент correspondent bank банк-корреспондент credit bank кредитный банк data bank вчт. банк данных data bank банк данных data bank вчт. банк данных data bank вчт. информационный банк data bank вчт. хранилище данных development bank банк развития district bank окружной банк district bank районный банк domestic bank внутренний банк domestic bank местный банк domestic bank отечественный банк drawee bank банк, на который выписан чек drawee bank банк-трассат federally chartered bank федеральный коммерческий банк foreign bank иностранный банк full-service bank универсальный банк giro bank жиробанк investment bank инвестиционный банк issuing bank банк-эмитент joint-stock bank акционерный коммерческий банк leading bank ведущий банк leading bank головной банк learning element bank банк учебных материалов; собрание учебных материалов lending bank кредитный банк lending bank ссудный банк loan bank кредитный банк loan bank ссудный банк major bank крупный банк member bank банк - член Федеральной резервной системы memory bank вчт. банк памяти merchant bank коммерческий банк merchant bank торговый банк mobile bank передвижной банк money-center bank банк, наиболее активно оперирующий на денежном рынке money-center bank банк в ведущем финансовом центре mortgage bank ипотечный банк mutual savings bank взаимно-сберегательный банк (США) national bank национальный банк national: bank государственный; national anthem государственный гимн; national bank государственный банк; national park амер. заповедник; национальный парк nationwide bank государственный банк note issuing bank эмиссионнный банк bank банк; bank of issue эмиссионный банк; to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке opening bank банк, выдающий аккредитив parent bank банк, владеющий контрольным пакетом акций другого банка parent bank родительский банк paying bank банк-плательщик piggy bank копилка post office bank почтово-сберегательный банк postal savings bank почтово-сберегательный банк prime bank основной банк principal bank основной банк private bank неакционерный банк private bank семейный банк private bank частный банк private bank частный банкирский дом private credit bank частный кредитный банк provincial bank провинциальный банк public bank государственный банк public savings bank государственный сберегательный банк regional bank региональный банк retail bank розничный банк satellite bank банк-спутник savings bank сберегательный банк secondary bank второстепенный банк security deposit bank банк, принимающий на хранение ценные бумаги state bank государственный банк subsidiary bank филиал банка syndicated bank банковский консорциум term bank банк терминов trustee savings bank доверительно-сберегательный банк (Великобритания) universal bank универсальный банк bank holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих; 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18 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
19 Weltkapazität
Weltkapazität
global capacity;
• Weltkarte international map;
• Weltkartell world cartel;
• Weltknappheit world shortage;
• Weltkommission für Umwelt World Commission on Environment;
• Weltkongress world congress;
• Weltkonjunktur world economic trend, world economy;
• Weltkulturerbe World Heritage;
• von der UNO anerkanntes Weltkulturgut World Heritage Site;
• Weltleitwährung world’s leading currency;
• Weltliquidität world liquidity. -
20 market
ˈmɑ:kɪt
1. сущ.
1) базар, рынок to shop at the market ≈ делать покупки на рынке fish market ≈ рыбный базар food market ≈ продовольственный рынок meat market ≈ мясной рынок open-air market ≈ открытый рынок
2) рынок (сбыта) ;
сбыт;
спрос We're in the market for a new house. ≈ Мы стремимся купить новый дом. There's no market for these goods. ≈ На эти товары нет спроса. to be on the market ≈ продаваться to be in the market for ≈ быть потенциальным покупателем;
стремиться купить что-л. to create a market ≈ создавать спрос to capture a market, corner a market, monopolize a market ≈ монополизировать рынок to come into the market ≈ поступать в продажу to depress a market ≈ понижать спрос to find a (ready) market ≈ пользоваться спросом to flood a market, glut a market ≈ насыщать, наводнять рынок to study the market ≈ изучать спрос to put on the market ≈ пускать в продажу, выпускать на рынок bond market ≈ рынок облигаций commodities market ≈ товарная биржа, рынок товаров housing market ≈ рынок недвижимости labor market ≈ рынок труда market research ≈ изучение конъюнктуры, возможностей рынка open market operations ≈ операции на открытом рынке securities market ≈ рынок ценных бумаг stock market ≈ фондовая биржа
3) торговля used-car market ≈ торговля подержанными автомобилями wheat market ≈ торговля пшеницей brisk market ≈ бойкая торговля hours of market ≈ часы торговли
4) рыночные цены at a market ≈ по рыночной цене the market is active ≈ рыночные цены высоки the market is depressed ≈ рыночные цены снижены to play the market ≈ спекулировать на бирже buyer's market ≈ конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя seller's market ≈ конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для продавца bear market ≈ рынок с понижательной тенденцией, рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов (акций) bull market ≈ рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к повышению курсов falling market ≈ рынок, цены на котором падают firm market ≈ рынок, цены на котором держатся твердо rising market ≈ рынок, цены на котором поднимаются steady market ≈ рынок, цены на котором держатся твердо sluggish market ≈ рынок, цены на котором движутся вяло
5) амер. продовольственный магазин ∙ to bring one's eggs/hogs to a bad (или the wrong) market ≈ просчитаться;
потерпеть неудачу to be on the long side of the market ≈ придерживать товар в ожидании повышения цен
2. гл.
1) а) привозить, доставлять( товар) на рынок б) покупать на рынке в) торговать, продавать на рынке
2) продавать;
сбывать;
находить рынок сбыта Syn: sell
1. рынок, базар - covered * крытый рынок - to go to (the) * идти на базар - the next * is on Tuesday следующий базар /базарный день/ (будет) во вторник - he sends his pigs to * он продает своих свиней на базаре рынок (сбыта) - home * внутренний рынок - foreign *s иностранные рынки - overseas *s заморские рынки - world * мировой рынок - Common M. Общий рынок - the wholesale * оптовый рынок - * penetration выход на рынок сбыта - to look for new *s искать новые рынки - * analysis анализ рыночной конъюнктуры - * research изучение конъюнктуры /возможностей/ рынка продажа;
сбыт;
спрос - to be in /on/ the * продаваться - his house is in the * его дом продается - it's the dearest car on the * это самый дорогой автомобиль из всех имеющихся в продаже - to be in the * for smth. быть потенциальным покупателем;
стремиться купить что.л. - to come into the * поступить в продажу - to bring to *, to put on the * пустить в продажу, выбросить на рынок - to find a (ready) * (легко) найти сбыт;
иметь сбыт;
пользоваться спросом - the products of this industry always find a * изделия этой отрасли промышленности всегда находят сбыт /пользуются спросом/ - there is a * for small cars имеется спрос на малолитражные автомобили - there is no * for these goods на эти товары нет спроса - this appeals to the French * это находит покупателя /хорошо идет/ во Франции he can't find a * for his skills ему негде применить свое мастерство торговля - the corn * торговля зерном - the * in wool торговля шерстью - an active /a brisk, a lively/ * бойкая /оживленная/ торговля - a dull * вялая торговля - the flour * is dull торговля мукой идет вяло - to make a * of smth. торговать чем-л.;
торговаться в отношении чего-л.;
пытаться заработать на чем-л. или обменять что-л. рыночная цена (тж. * price) - * condition конъюнктура /состояние/ рынка - buyer's * конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя - * economy рыночная экономика - at the * по рыночной цене - to raise the * поднять цены - to engross the * скупать товар для перепродажи его по более высокой цене, скупать товар со спекулятивными целями - the * rose цены поднялись - we'll lose money by selling on a falling * мы потеряем деньги, если будем продавать, когда цены падают - the cotton * is firm цена на хлопок держится( твердо) - the coffee * is steady цена на кофе стабильна - to rig the * искусственно повышать или понижать цены или курсы - to play the * спекулировать на бирже чаще (американизм) продовольственный магазин - meat * мясной магазин > black * черный рынок > marriage * ярмарка невест > to mar one's * принести вред себе, подвести себя > to bring one's eggs /hogs,pigs/ to a bad /to the wrong/ * просчитаться;
потерпеть неудачу, првалиться привезти на рынок продавать;
сбывать;
находить рынок сбыта - the firm *s many types of goods эта фирма предлагает разнообразные товары торговать, купить или продать на рынке (американизм) ходить за покупками, ходить по магазинам - to go *ing отправляться за покупками active ~ оживленный рынок advancing ~ растущий рынок after hours ~ сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи after ~ внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг approach a ~ выход на рынок arbitrage ~ арбитражный рынок banking ~ банковский рынок barely steady ~ устойчивый рынок с тенденцией к понижению to be on the long side of the ~ придерживать товар в ожидании повышения цен ~ сбыт;
to come into the market поступить в продажу;
to put on the market пустить в продажу;
to be on the market продаваться bearish ~ рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов bearish ~ бирж. рынок с понижением фондовой конъюнктуры black ~ черный рынок black ~ черный рынок bond ~ рынок облигаций с фиксированной ставкой to bring one's eggs (или hogs) to a bad (или the wrong) ~ просчитаться;
потерпеть неудачу ~ торговля;
brisk market бойкая торговля;
hours of market часы торговли bulk ~ рынок транспортных услуг для массовых грузов bull ~ бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение bull the ~ exc. играть на повышение bullish ~ бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение buyer's ~ конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя calm the ~ устанавливать спокойствие на рынке calm the ~ устранять колебания рыночной конъюнктуры capital ~ рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала capital ~ рынок капиталов captive ~ рынок, нейтрализующий конкуренцию captive ~ рынок, защищенный от конкуренции cash ~ бирж. наличный рынок cash ~ бирж. рынок реальных финансовых инструментов certificate-of-deposit ~ рынок депозитных сертификатов ~ сбыт;
to come into the market поступить в продажу;
to put on the market пустить в продажу;
to be on the market продаваться commodity ~ рынок товаров commodity ~ товарная биржа commodity ~ товарный рынок market: confident ~ устойчивый рынок consolidate a ~ укреплять рынок consumer ~ потребительский рынок control the ~ контролировать рынок controlled ~ регулируемый рынок credit ~ рынок кредита cross-border ~ международный рынок cultivate a ~ развивать рынок currency ~ валютный рынок dampened ~ вялый рынок dampened ~ неактивный рынок debenture ~ рынок долговых обязательств declining ~ сужающийся рынок depressed ~ вялый рынок depressed ~ неактивный рынок develop a ~ осваивать рынок develop a ~ развивать рынок development aid ~ рынок помощи в целях развития difficult ~ трудный рынок domestic capital ~ внутренний рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала domestic ~ внутренний рынок domestic ~ отечественный рынок dual exchange ~ валютный рынок с двойным режимом dull ~ вялый рынок dull ~ неактивный рынок either way ~ альтернативный рынок energy ~ рынок энергоресурсов equity ~ рынок акций equity ~ рынок ценных бумаг eurobond ~ рынок еврооблигаций eurocurrency ~ евровалютный рынок eurodollar bond ~ рынок евродолларовых облигаций exchange ~ валютный рынок excited ~ оживленный рынок expectant ~ предполагаемый рынок export ~ внешний рынок factor ~ рынок факторов производства falling ~ понижательная рыночная конъюнктура financial ~ финансовый рынок ~ спрос;
to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом;
there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market: find a ~ находить рынок firm ~ устойчивый рынок flat ~ бирж. вялый рынок flat ~ бирж. неоживленный рынок flood the ~ наводнять рынок fluctuating ~ нестабильный рынок foreign capital ~ рынок иностранного капитала foreign exchange ~ рынок иностранной валюты foreign ~ внешний рынок forward bond ~ бирж. рынок форвардных облигаций forward exchange ~ форвардный валютный рынок forward ~ форвардный рынок fourth ~ прямая торговля крупными партиями ценных бумаг между институциональными инвесторами free ~ свободный рынок, торговля на основе неограниченной конкуренции free ~ свободный рынок freight ~ рынок грузовых перевозок futures ~ бирж. фьючерсный рынок geographical ~ географический рынок glut the ~ затоваривать рынок goods ~ товарный рынок grey ~ внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг grey ~ нерегулируемый денежный рынок grey ~ рынок новых облигаций heterogeneous ~ неоднородный рынок homogeneous ~ однородный рынок ~ торговля;
brisk market бойкая торговля;
hours of market часы торговли illegal ~ нелегальный рынок illegal ~ черный рынок illicit ~ нелегальный рынок illicit ~ черный рынок imperfect ~ несовершенный рынок import ~ рынок импорта inactive ~ вялый рынок inactive ~ неактивный рынок insurance ~ рынок страхования interbank ~ межбанковский рынок internal ~ внутренний рынок kerb ~ бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerb ~ бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи kerbstone ~ бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerbstone ~ бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи labour ~ рынок рабочей силы labour ~ рынок труда leading-edge ~ рынок передовой технологии loan ~ рынок ссуд loan ~ рынок ссудного капитала lose a ~ терять рынок make a ~ создавать рынок market (the M.) = common ~ биржа ~ городской рынок ~ находить рынок сбыта ~ объем потенциальных перевозок ~ покупать ~ привезти на рынок;
купить или продать на рынке ~ продавать;
сбывать;
находить рынок сбыта ~ продавать на рынке ~ амер. продовольственный магазин ~ пускать в оборот ~ реализовывать на рынке ~ рынок, базар ~ рынок ~ рынок транспортных услуг ~ рыночная цена ~ рыночные цены;
the market rose цены поднялись;
to play the market спекулировать на бирже ~ рыночные цены ~ attr. рыночный;
market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка ~ сбывать на рынке ~ сбыт;
to come into the market поступить в продажу;
to put on the market пустить в продажу;
to be on the market продаваться ~ сбыт ~ состояние конъюнктуры ~ специализированный продовольственный магазин ~ спрос;
to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом;
there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса ~ спрос ~ торговать ~ торговля;
brisk market бойкая торговля;
hours of market часы торговли ~ торговля Market: Market: Common ~ Европейское экономическое сообщество market: market: confident ~ устойчивый рынок ~ attr. рыночный;
market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка research: market ~ анализ рыночного потенциала нового продукта market ~ анализ состояния рынка market ~ изучение возможностей рынка market ~ изучение рыночной конъюнктуры market ~ исследование рынка market ~ маркетинговое исследование ~ рыночные цены;
the market rose цены поднялись;
to play the market спекулировать на бирже mass ~ рынок товаров массового производства money ~ денежный рынок, валютный рынок money ~ денежный рынок money ~ рынок краткосрочного капитала mortgage deed ~ рынок залоговых сертификатов move the ~ продвигать товар на рынок near ~ ближний рынок negotiated deposit ~ договорный депозитный рынок new issue ~ рынок новых эмиссий ocean shipping ~ рынок морских перевозок off-the-board ~ внебиржевой рынок offshore ~ зарубежный рынок oil ~ рынок нефти on free ~ на свободном рынке one-way ~ односторонний рынок open ~ открытый рынок open: ~ market вольный рынок;
the post is still open место еще не занято options ~ бирж. рынок опционов overseas ~ внешний рынок perfect ~ идеальный рынок physical ~ наличный рынок ~ рыночные цены;
the market rose цены поднялись;
to play the market спекулировать на бирже primary ~ первичный рынок primary ~ рынок новых ценных бумаг primary ~ рынок сырьевых товаров primary ~ рынок товара, лежащего в основе срочного контракта primary ~ рынок финансового инструмента, лежащего в основе срочного контракта profitable ~ рентабельный рынок property ~ рынок недвижимости ~ сбыт;
to come into the market поступить в продажу;
to put on the market пустить в продажу;
to be on the market продаваться put: ~ yourself in his place поставь себя на его место;
to put on the market выпускать в продажу raw material ~ рынок сырья ready ~ готовый рынок real estate ~ рынок недвижимости receding ~ рынок со снижающимися курсами reseller ~ рынок перепродаваемых товаров rig the ~ искусственно вздувать курсы ценных бумаг rig: ~ действовать нечестно;
мошенничать;
to rig the market искусственно повышать или понижать цены rigging the ~ искусственное вздувание курсов ценных бумаг rising ~ растущий рынок sagging ~ рынок, характеризующийся понижением цен sagging ~ рынок, характеризующийся падением курсов second ~ вторичный рынок second ~ второстепенный рынок second-hand ~ второстепенный рынок second-hand ~ рынок подержанных товаров secondary labour ~ вторичный рынок труда secondary ~ вторичный рынок secondary mortgage ~ вторичный ипотечный рынок securities ~ рынок ценных бумаг seller's ~ эк. рынок, на котором спрос превышает предложение seller's ~ рынок продавцов seller's ~ рыночная конъюнктура, выгодная для продавцов sensitive ~ неустойчивый рынок sensitive ~ рынок, способный к быстрой реакции sensitive ~ рынок, отражающий конъюнктурные колебания sensitive: ~ чувствительный;
восприимчивый;
a sensitive ear (болезненно) тонкий слух;
sensitive market эк. неустойчивый рынок share ~ фондовая биржа share ~ фондовый рынок sheltered ~ закрытая организация (например, фондовая биржа) single European ~ единый европейский рынок slack ~ неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slackening ~ неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slipping ~ рынок с тенденцией понижения курсов ценных бумаг spot ~ наличный рынок spot ~ рынок наличного товара spot ~ рынок реального товара steady ~ стабильный рынок steady ~ устойчивый рынок steady the ~ стабилизировать рынок stock ~ уровень цен на бирже stock ~ фондовая биржа stock ~ фондовый рынок street ~ внебиржевой рынок street ~ неофициальная биржа street ~ сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи swamp the ~ наводнять рынок target ~ целевой рынок test ~ пробный рынок test the ~ проверять рынок ~ спрос;
to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом;
there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса thin ~ вялый рынок thin ~ бирж. неактивный рынок thin ~ рынок с незначительным числом участников и низким уровнем активности third ~ внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг third ~ рынок ценных бумаг, не удовлетворяющих требованиям фондовой биржи tight labour ~ рынок труда с высоким спросом на рабочую силу tight ~ активный рынок с незначительным разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя tight ~ рынок с недостаточным предложением trading ~ бирж. вторичный рынок training ~ рынок профобразования two-way ~ рынок, на котором постоянно котируются цены покупателя и продавца two-way ~ рынок ценных бумаг, на котором заключается большое количество сделок без резких колебаний цен uncertain ~ рынок в неопределенном состоянии unchanged ~ неизменившийся рынок underground ~ черный рынок unofficial ~ неофициальная биржа unregulated labour ~ стихийный рынок рабочей силы unsettled ~ неустойчивый рынок untapped ~ неосвоенный рынок via interbank ~ через межбанковский рынок weak ~ рынок, характеризующийся преобладанием продавцов и понижением цен weaken the ~ снижать активность на рынке wholesale ~ внутренний рынок (рынок, на котором продавцами и покупателями выступают дилеры за свой счет) world ~ мировой рынок world: ~ line-up расстановка сил в мире;
world market мировой рынок;
world trade международная торговля
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