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  • 1 lost labor

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > lost labor

  • 2 lost labor

    ברכה לבטלה
    * * *
    ◙ הלטבל הכרב◄

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  • 3 lost labor

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  • 4 lost labor

    vergeefse moeite

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  • 5 lost labor

    förlorat arbete

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  • 6 lost labor

    тщетные усилия, бесполезные усилия

    Новый англо-русский словарь > lost labor

  • 7 lost labor

    s.
    trabajo inútil, trabajo sin frutos.

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  • 8 labor

    1. n
    1) труд, работа
    •

    to restructure the existing international division of labor — перестраивать / менять структуру существующего международного разделения труда

    to utilize low-cost labor — использовать дешевую рабочую силу / дешевый труд

    - allocation of labor
    - arduous labor
    - cheap labor
    - child labor
    - common labor
    - complex labor
    - compound labor
    - concrete labor
    - conditions of labor
    - constructive labor
    - creative labor
    - demand for skilled labor
    - division of labor
    - drift of labor
    - expert labor
    - female labor
    - forced labor
    - fruits of labor
    - geographical division of labor
    - guaranteed remuneration of labor
    - hard labor
    - highly mechanized labor
    - highly skilled labor
    - hired labor
    - indirect labor
    - individual labor
    - industrial labor
    - inefficient labor
    - intellectual labor     - juvenile labor
    - live labor
    - lost labor
    - manual labor
    - marginal labor
    - means of labor
    - mental labor
    - migration of labor
    - non-union labor
    - peaceful labor
    - personal labor
    - productivity of labor
    - products of labor
    - regular labor     - simple labor
    - skilled labor
    - slave labor
    - social labor
    - socialized labor
    - surplus of labor
    - trained labor
    - unemployed labor
    - unionized labor
    - unpaid labor
    - unskilled labor
    - useful labor
    - useless labor
    - voluntary labor
    - volunteer labor
    - wage labor
    - waste of labor
    - world cooperation of labor     2. v
    трудиться, работать; добиваться

    Politics english-russian dictionary > labor

  • 9 labor

    (Amer.) see academic.ru/41300/labour">labour
    * * *
    La·bor
    [ˈleɪbəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    n POL
    1. AM see Labour
    2. AUS (Australian political party) Labour Party f (in Australien)
    * * *
    (US) ['leɪbə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= work in general) Arbeit f; (= toil) Anstrengung f, Mühe f
    2) (= task) Aufgabe f

    it was a labour of love — ich/er etc tat es aus Liebe zur Sache

    this biography is clearly a labour of love —

    3)
    See:
    → hard labour
    4) (= persons) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl
    5) (Brit POL)

    Labour — die Labour Party

    this district is Labour — dies ist ein Labourbezirk

    6) (MED) Wehen pl

    to be in labour — in den Wehen liegen, die Wehen haben

    2. vt
    point, subject auswalzen, breittreten (inf)

    I won't labour the point — ich will nicht darauf herumreiten

    3. vi
    1) (in fields etc) arbeiten; (= work hard) sich abmühen (at, with mit)

    they laboured hard to get the house finished on time — sie gaben sich die größte Mühe, das Haus rechtzeitig fertigzustellen

    2) (= move etc with effort or difficulty) sich quälen

    the engine is labouring — der Motor hört sich gequält an; (in wrong gear) der Motor läuft untertourig

    to labour up a hill — sich einen Hügel hinaufquälen, mühsam den Berg hochkriechen

    his breathing became laboured — er begann, schwer zu atmen

    * * *
    labor, besonders Br labour [ˈleıbə(r)]
    A s
    1. (schwere) Arbeit:
    a labor of love eine gern oder unentgeltlich getane Arbeit, ein Liebesdienst; → hard labo(u)r, Herculean 1, Hercules
    2. Mühe f, Plage f, Anstrengung f:
    lost labor vergebliche Mühe
    3. WIRTSCH
    a) Arbeiter(klasse) pl(f), Arbeiterschaft f
    b) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl:
    labor and management Arbeitnehmer pl und Arbeitgeber pl;
    cheap labor billige Arbeitskräfte;
    shortage of labor Mangel m an Arbeitskräften; → skilled 2, unskilled 2
    4. Labour (ohne art) POL die Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)
    5. MED Wehen pl:
    be in labor in den Wehen liegen
    6. Schlingern n, Stampfen n (eines Schiffs)
    B v/i
    1. (schwer) arbeiten (at an dat), sich bemühen ( for sth um etwas), sich anstrengen oder abmühen ( to do zu tun)
    2. auch labor along sich mühsam fortbewegen oder fortschleppen, nur schwer vorankommen:
    labor through sich durch Schlamm etc, a. ein Buch etc kämpfen;
    labor up the hill sich den Berg hinaufquälen
    3. stampfen, schlingern (Schiff)
    a) zu leiden haben (unter dat), zu kämpfen haben (mit), kranken (an dat):
    labor under difficulties mit Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen haben
    b) befangen sein (in dat): → delusion 2, misapprehension
    5. MED in den Wehen liegen
    C v/t
    1. ausführlich oder umständlich behandeln, bis ins Einzelne ausarbeiten oder ausführen, breitwalzen:
    labor a point auf einer Sache herumreiten umg
    2. obs oder poet den Boden bestellen, bebauen
    D adj
    1. Arbeits…:
    labor camp (conditions, court, etc);
    a) Arbeitskosten,
    b) Lohnkosten
    2. Arbeiter…:
    labor leader Arbeiterführer(in) ( → D 3, D 4);
    labor movement Arbeiterbewegung f ( → D 4);
    labor demand Nachfrage f nach Arbeitskräften
    3. Labour POL Labour…:
    labor leader führende Person in der Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)( → D 2, D 4)
    4. labor US Gewerkschafts…:
    labor leader Gewerkschaftsführer(in) ( → D 2, D 3);
    labor movement Gewerkschaftsbewegung f ( → D 2)
    * * *
    (Amer.) see labour
    * * *
    (US) n.
    Arbeit -en f.

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  • 10 lost

    adjective
    1) verloren; ausgestorben [Kunst[fertigkeit]]

    get lost — [Person:] sich verlaufen od. verirren/verfahren

    get lost! — (sl.) verdufte! (salopp)

    I'm lost — (fig.) ich verstehe gar nichts mehr

    feel lost without somebody/something — (fig.) sich (Dat.) ohne jemanden/etwas hilflos vorkommen; see also academic.ru/58407/property">property 1)

    2) (wasted) vertan [Zeit, Gelegenheit]; verschwendet [Zeit, Mühe]; verpasst, versäumt [Gelegenheit]
    3) (not won) verloren; aussichtslos [Sache]; see also all 2. 4); cause 1. 3)
    4)

    be lost [up]on somebody — (unrecognized by) bei jemandem keine Anerkennung finden; von jemandem nicht gewürdigt werden

    sarcasm was lost on him — mit Sarkasmus konnte er nichts anfangen

    * * *
    1) (missing; no longer to be found: a lost ticket.) verloren
    2) (not won: The game is lost.) verloren
    3) (wasted; not used properly: a lost opportunity.) verloren
    4) (no longer knowing where one is, or in which direction to go: I don't know whether to turn left or right - I'm lost.) verirrt
    * * *
    [lɒst, AM lɑ:st]
    I. pt, pp of lose
    II. adj inv
    1. (unable to find way)
    to get \lost sich akk verirren
    ▪ to be \lost sich akk verirrt haben; (on foot) sich akk verlaufen haben; (using vehicle) sich akk verfahren haben
    2. (no longer to be found)
    \lost articles abhandengekommene Artikel
    to get \lost verschwinden
    sometimes things get \lost mysteriously manchmal verschwinden Dinge auf mysteriöse Weise
    3. pred (helpless)
    to feel \lost sich akk verloren fühlen
    ▪ to be \lost (not understand) nicht mitkommen fam, nichts [o fam Bahnhof] verstehen
    ▪ to be \lost without sb/sth ohne jdn/etw verloren sein
    to be \lost in contemplation [or thought] [völlig] in Gedanken versunken sein
    to be \lost to the world alles um sich akk herum vergessen haben
    5. (wasted) verpasst
    \lost opportunity verpasste Gelegenheit
    \lost time verschwendete Zeit
    \lost youth vertane Jugend
    \lost soldiers gefallene Soldaten
    \lost planes/ships/tanks zerstörte Flugzeuge/Schiffe/Panzer
    \lost battle/contest verlorener Kampf/Wettkampf
    \lost election verlorene Wahl
    8.
    ▶ get \lost! (fam!: go away!) verzieh dich! fam, hau ab! sl; (no way!) vergiss es! fam, kommt gar nicht infrage! fam
    ▶ to be \lost on sb nicht verstanden [o geschätzt] werden
    financial discussions are \lost on me für Diskussionen über finanzielle Dinge habe ich einfach keinen Sinn
    * * *
    [lɒst] pret, ptp of lose
    adj attr
    verloren; support verloren gegangen; art ausgestorben; civilization untergegangen, versunken; cause aussichtslos; (= missing) person vermisst; dog, cat entlaufen; (= mislaid) book, glasses etc verlegt; (= missed) opportunity verpasst

    I was groping on the floor for a lost contact lens he is mourning his lost wife — ich tastete auf dem Fußboden nach einer heruntergefallenen Kontaktlinse er betrauert den Verlust seiner Frau

    * * *
    lost [lɒst; US besonders lɔːst]
    A prät und pperf von lose
    B adj
    1. verloren (Schlacht, Freunde etc):
    lost cause fig aussichtslose Sache;
    be a lost cause aussichtslos sein;
    lost heat TECH Abwärme f;
    lost motion TECH toter Gang;
    lost property Fundsachen pl;
    lost property office Br Fundbüro n;
    all isn’t lost yet es ist noch nicht alles verloren
    2. verloren (gegangen):
    a) verloren gehen (a. fig Arbeitsplätze etc),
    b) zugrunde gehen, untergehen,
    c) umkommen,
    d) verschwinden;
    give up for ( oder as) lost verloren geben;
    a lost soul eine verlorene Seele
    3. vergessen (Kunst etc)
    4. verirrt:
    be lost sich verirrt haben, sich nicht mehr zurechtfinden (a. fig);
    get lost sich verirren oder verlaufen oder verfahren;
    get lost! umg hau ab!
    5. verschwunden:
    6. verloren, vergeudet:
    lost time verlorene Zeit;
    be lost (up)on sb keinen Eindruck machen auf jemanden, an jemandem verloren sein, jemanden gleichgültig lassen oder umg kaltlassen;
    this won’t be lost on me das wird oder soll mir eine Lehre sein; → labor A 2
    7. versäumt, verpasst (Chance)
    a) versunken in (akk):
    lost in thought in Gedanken versunken, besonders adv auch gedankenversunken, -verloren
    b) vertieft in (akk):
    a) verloren für,
    b) versagt (dat), nicht vergönnt (dat),
    c) nicht mehr empfänglich für,
    d) ohne Empfinden für, bar (gen):
    be lost to all sense of shame keinerlei Schamgefühl haben;
    be lost to the world nicht wahrnehmen, was um einen herum vorgeht
    10. be lost for verlegen sein um:
    * * *
    adjective
    1) verloren; ausgestorben [Kunst[fertigkeit]]

    get lost — [Person:] sich verlaufen od. verirren/verfahren

    get lost! — (sl.) verdufte! (salopp)

    I'm lost — (fig.) ich verstehe gar nichts mehr

    feel lost without somebody/something — (fig.) sich (Dat.) ohne jemanden/etwas hilflos vorkommen; see also property 1)

    2) (wasted) vertan [Zeit, Gelegenheit]; verschwendet [Zeit, Mühe]; verpasst, versäumt [Gelegenheit]
    3) (not won) verloren; aussichtslos [Sache]; see also all 2. 4); cause 1. 3)
    4)

    be lost [up]on somebody — (unrecognized by) bei jemandem keine Anerkennung finden; von jemandem nicht gewürdigt werden

    * * *
    adj.
    verloren adj.

    English-german dictionary > lost

  • 11 labor

    /'leibə/ Cách viết khác: (labor) /'leibə/ * danh từ - lao động =manual labour+ lao động chân tay - công việc, công việc nặng nhọc =labour of great difficulty+ một công việc rất khó khăn =the labours of Hercules; Herculian labours+ những công việc đòi hỏi phải có sức khoẻ phi thường - tầng lớp lao động, nhân công =labour and capital+ lao động và tư bản; thợ và chủ =shortage of labour+ tình trạng thiếu nhân công - đau đẻ =a woman in labour+ người đàn bà đau đẻ !lost labour - những cố gắng vô ích, những nỗ lực uổng công * nội động từ - gắng công, nỗ lực, dốc sức =to labour for the happiness of mankind+ nỗ lực vì hạnh phúc của loài người =to labour at a task+ dốc sức hoàn thành nhiệm vụ - di chuyển chậm chạp, di chuyển khó khăn; lắc lư tròng trành trên biển động - (+ under) bị giày vò, quằn quại, chịu đau đớn; là nạn nhân của =to labour under a disease+ bị bệnh tật giày vò =to labour under a delusion+ bị một ảo tưởng ám ảnh - đau khổ * ngoại động từ - dày công trau dồi; chuẩn bị kỹ lưỡng; bàn bạc chi tiết =to labour a point+ bàn bạc chi tiết một vấn đề

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  • 12 labor

    s rad, posao; trud, napor; rabota; muka, briga; porođajne muke, trudovi; radna snaga, radnici, radništvo, radnička klasa / Labour = brit. laburistička stranka, laburisti; hard # = prisilan rad, robija; lost # = uzaludan trud: # of love = posao koji se rado obavlja (iz ljubavi prema kome); # -intensive crops = radnointenzivne kulture; # record book = radna knjižica; # -saving devices = kućanski aparati; # of Hercules = neobično težak, mučan posao; his #s are over = on se više ne muči, preminuo je, umro je; to be in # = ležati u trudovima, porođajnim mukama; to have one's # for one's pains = uzalud se truditi
    * * *

    biti u radnom odnosu
    djelo
    fizički napor
    mučiti se
    muka
    napor
    obraditi
    patiti
    petljati se
    porod
    porođaj
    porođajne muke
    porođajni
    posao
    potruditi
    previše dobro obraditi
    proletarijat
    rabota
    rad
    raditi
    radni
    radnici
    radnička klasa
    radnički
    sindikat
    trud
    truditi
    truditi se
    trudovi

    English-Croatian dictionary > labor

  • 13 labour

    1.
    ['leɪbə(r)] (Brit.)noun
    1) (task) Arbeit, die

    something is/they did it as a labour of love — etwas geschieht/sie taten es aus Liebe zur Sache

    2) (exertion) Mühe, die
    3) (work) Arbeit, die
    4) (body of workers) Arbeiterschaft, die
    5)

    Labour — (Polit.) die Labour Party

    6) (childbirth) Wehen Pl.

    be in labour — in den Wehen liegen

    go into labour — die Wehen bekommen. See also academic.ru/38655/intensive">intensive 5)

    2. intransitive verb
    1) (work hard) hart arbeiten (at, on an + Dat.); (slave away) sich abmühen (at, over mit)
    2) (strive) sich einsetzen ( for für)
    3)
    3. transitive verb
    (elaborate needlessly)

    there's no need to labour the point — du brauchst dich nicht lange darüber zu verbreiten

    * * *
    ['leibə] 1. noun
    1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) die Arbeit
    2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) die Arbeiter (pl.)
    3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) die Wehen (pl.)
    4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) die Labour Party
    2. verb
    1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) arbeiten
    2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) sich (ab)mühen
    •
    - laborious
    - laboriously
    - laboriousness
    - labourer
    - labour court
    - labour dispute
    - labour-saving
    * * *
    La·bour
    [ˈleɪbəʳ]
    I. n no pl POL Labour Party f
    to vote \Labour Labour wählen
    II. n modifier POL (Labour-)
    \Labour candidate Labourkandidat(in) m(f)
    * * *
    (US) ['leɪbə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= work in general) Arbeit f; (= toil) Anstrengung f, Mühe f
    2) (= task) Aufgabe f

    it was a labour of love — ich/er etc tat es aus Liebe zur Sache

    this biography is clearly a labour of love —

    3)
    See:
    → hard labour
    4) (= persons) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl
    5) (Brit POL)

    this district is Labour — dies ist ein Labourbezirk

    6) (MED) Wehen pl

    to be in labour — in den Wehen liegen, die Wehen haben

    2. vt
    point, subject auswalzen, breittreten (inf)

    I won't labour the point — ich will nicht darauf herumreiten

    3. vi
    1) (in fields etc) arbeiten; (= work hard) sich abmühen (at, with mit)

    they laboured hard to get the house finished on time — sie gaben sich die größte Mühe, das Haus rechtzeitig fertigzustellen

    2) (= move etc with effort or difficulty) sich quälen

    the engine is labouring — der Motor hört sich gequält an; (in wrong gear) der Motor läuft untertourig

    to labour up a hill — sich einen Hügel hinaufquälen, mühsam den Berg hochkriechen

    his breathing became laboured — er begann, schwer zu atmen

    * * *
    labour, laboured, labourer etc besonders Br für labor, labored, laborer etc
    labor, besonders Br labour [ˈleıbə(r)]
    A s
    1. (schwere) Arbeit:
    a labor of love eine gern oder unentgeltlich getane Arbeit, ein Liebesdienst; → hard labo(u)r, Herculean 1, Hercules
    2. Mühe f, Plage f, Anstrengung f:
    lost labor vergebliche Mühe
    3. WIRTSCH
    a) Arbeiter(klasse) pl(f), Arbeiterschaft f
    b) Arbeiter pl, Arbeitskräfte pl:
    labor and management Arbeitnehmer pl und Arbeitgeber pl;
    cheap labor billige Arbeitskräfte;
    shortage of labor Mangel m an Arbeitskräften; → skilled 2, unskilled 2
    4. Labour (ohne art) POL die Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)
    5. MED Wehen pl:
    be in labor in den Wehen liegen
    6. Schlingern n, Stampfen n (eines Schiffs)
    B v/i
    1. (schwer) arbeiten (at an dat), sich bemühen ( for sth um etwas), sich anstrengen oder abmühen ( to do zu tun)
    2. auch labor along sich mühsam fortbewegen oder fortschleppen, nur schwer vorankommen:
    labor through sich durch Schlamm etc, a. ein Buch etc kämpfen;
    labor up the hill sich den Berg hinaufquälen
    3. stampfen, schlingern (Schiff)
    a) zu leiden haben (unter dat), zu kämpfen haben (mit), kranken (an dat):
    labor under difficulties mit Schwierigkeiten zu kämpfen haben
    b) befangen sein (in dat): → delusion 2, misapprehension
    5. MED in den Wehen liegen
    C v/t
    1. ausführlich oder umständlich behandeln, bis ins Einzelne ausarbeiten oder ausführen, breitwalzen:
    labor a point auf einer Sache herumreiten umg
    2. obs oder poet den Boden bestellen, bebauen
    D adj
    1. Arbeits…:
    labor camp (conditions, court, etc);
    a) Arbeitskosten,
    b) Lohnkosten
    2. Arbeiter…:
    labor leader Arbeiterführer(in) ( → D 3, D 4);
    labor movement Arbeiterbewegung f ( → D 4);
    labor demand Nachfrage f nach Arbeitskräften
    3. Labour POL Labour…:
    labor leader führende Person in der Labour Party (Großbritanniens etc)( → D 2, D 4)
    4. labor US Gewerkschafts…:
    labor leader Gewerkschaftsführer(in) ( → D 2, D 3);
    labor movement Gewerkschaftsbewegung f ( → D 2)
    * * *
    1.
    ['leɪbə(r)] (Brit.)noun
    1) (task) Arbeit, die

    something is/they did it as a labour of love — etwas geschieht/sie taten es aus Liebe zur Sache

    2) (exertion) Mühe, die
    3) (work) Arbeit, die
    4) (body of workers) Arbeiterschaft, die
    5)

    Labour — (Polit.) die Labour Party

    6) (childbirth) Wehen Pl.

    go into labour — die Wehen bekommen. See also intensive 5)

    2. intransitive verb
    1) (work hard) hart arbeiten (at, on an + Dat.); (slave away) sich abmühen (at, over mit)
    2) (strive) sich einsetzen ( for für)
    3)
    3. transitive verb
    * * *
    (UK) n.
    Arbeit -en f.

    English-german dictionary > labour

  • 14 time

    1) время; срок; момент; период || выбирать время; приурочивать; рассчитывать (по времени)
    2) рабочее время; такт; период
    3) наработка

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > time

  • 15 labour

    ˈleɪbə
    1. сущ.;
    амер. labor
    1) труд manual, physical labour ≈ физический труд sweated, sweatshop labour ≈ тяжелая работа menial labour ≈ низкооплачиваемая работа skilled labour ≈ работа, требующая (высокой) квалификации unskilled labour ≈ работа, не требующая специальной квалификации forced labour hard labour slave labour labour code labour contract labour dispute labour input labour legislation Syn: drudgery, grind, toil
    1., travail, work
    1. Ant: idleness, leisure, pleasure, relaxation
    2) работа, задание to do, perform labour ≈ выполнять работу division of labour ≈ раздел, распределение работы a labour of Hercules, a Herculean labour ≈ геркулесова работа painstaking labour ≈ кропотливая работа labour of love ≈ любимое дело, бескорыстный труд lost labour ≈ тщетные, бесполезные усилия Syn: task
    1.
    3) рабочий класс, рабочая сила, рабочие, работники the parliamentary representation of labour ≈ представители рабочих а парламенте child labour ≈ детская рабочая сила migrant labour ≈ рабочая сила из эмигрантов organized labour ≈ организованная рабочая сила seasonal labour ≈ сезонная рабочая сила Labour and Capital ≈ труд и капитал labour hours ≈ рабочее время
    4) (Labour) лейбористская партия labour leader
    5) родовые муки, роды to be in labour ≈ мучиться родами, родить to induce labour ≈ вызывать роды abnormal labour ≈ патологические роды accelerated labour ≈ стремительные роды easy labour ≈ легкие роды twin labour ≈ роды двойней labour activity ≈ родовая деятельность She was in labour for five hours. ≈ Она рожала пять часов. to go into labour ≈ рожать prolonged labour, protracted labour ≈ затяжные роды difficult labour ≈ трудные роды, осложненные роды false labour ≈ ложные схватки advanced labour, premature labour, preterm labour ≈ преждевременные роды induced labor ≈ искусственные роды labour pains ≈ родовые схватки labour ward ≈ родильная палата Syn: travail
    1.
    6) затрудненность, чрезмерное усилие The engine works with labour. ≈ Двигатель работает с трудом.
    2. прил.
    1) трудовой, рабочий
    2) лейбористский
    3. гл.;
    амер. labor
    1) трудиться, работать( особ. тяжело, усердно) Don't labour at/over your writing, try to make it seem easy and natural. ≈ Не слишком корпей над своими текстами, старайся, чтобы они легко читались и были понятными. Syn: work
    3., toil
    2.
    2) прилагать усилия, бороться( за что-л.), добиваться( чего-л.) (for) to labour for breath ≈ дышать с трудом to labour for peace ≈ добиваться мира, бороться за мир Syn: strive
    3) кропотливо разрабатывать, вникать в детали, мелочи ( преим. во фразах to labour a point, a question и им подобных) to labour a point, to labour a question ≈ рассматривать вопрос, вникая во все детали
    4) редк. подвигаться вперед медленно, с трудом The truck laboured up the hill. ≈ Грузовик с трудом продвигался вверх по склону.
    5) быть в затруднении, мучиться ( преим. labour under)
    6) уст. рожать, мучиться родами
    7) подвергаться сильной качке (о судне) Syn: pitch
    2., roll
    2.
    8) уст.;
    поэт. обрабатывать землю ∙ labour under труд;
    - manual * физический труд - foreced * принудительный труд - surplus * (политика) (экономика) прибавочный труд - * code кодекс законов о труде - * legislation трудовое законодательство - * сontract трудовой договор работа, задание;
    задача( особ. трудная) - * сompany (военное) рабочая рота - * detail( военное) рабочая команда;
    наряд на работу (возвышенно) житейские дела, заботы;
    невзгоды - his *s are over его жизнь кончилась рабочий класс;
    труд - L. and Capital труд и капитал - the rights of * права рабочего класса рабочие;
    работники;
    рабочая сила - direct * (экономика) основные производственные рабочие - shortage of * нехватка рабочей силы (L.) лейбористская партия - * МР член парламента от лейбористской партии - the * vote голоса, поданные за лейбористов - to vote * голосовать за лейбористcкую партию чрезмерное усилие;
    затрудненность - the engine works with * двигатель работает с трудом родовые муки, роды - a woman in * роженица - * pains родовые схватки - * ward родильная палата, родильный покой - to be in * мучиться родами, рожать (устаревшее) продукт или результат труда > * of love бескорыстный труд;
    любимое дело > lost * напрасный труд, тщетные усилия > hard * каторжные работы, каторга лейбористский - * government лейбористское правительство трудиться, (тяжело) работать - to * in the fields работать в поле - to * at a task напряженно работать над заданием - he is *ing to finish his article он прилагает все усилия, чтобы кончить статью прилагать усилия, добиваться, стремиться - to * for peace бороться за мир - to * for breath задыхаться, дышать с трудом двигаться, продвигаться с трудом - to * along a bad road медленно продвигаться по плохой дороге - the car *ed up the hill машина с трудом шла в гору - she *ed up the stairs with her bags она еле плелась по лестнице со своими сумками (морское) испытывать сильную качку;
    преодолевать волнение - the ship was *ing корабль боролся с волнами тщательно, кропотливо разрабатывать;
    рассматривать подробно, во всех деталях (вопрос) - to * an argument детализировать аргументацию - I will not * the point я не буду подробно останавливаться на этом быть в затруднении, мучиться, страдать( от чего-л) ;
    подвергаться (чему-л) - to under a delusion впадать в ошибку, быть в заблуждении, жестоко заблуждаться - to * under bad health постоянно хворать мучиться родами, рожать (устаревшее) обрабатывать (землю) ~ родовые муки;
    роды;
    to be in labour мучиться родами, родить casual ~ внеплановая работа casual ~ временная работа casual ~ нерегулярная работа casual ~ случайная работа child ~ детский труд compulsory ~ принудительные работы contract ~ рабочая сила предоставляемая контрактором;
    законтрактованная рабочая сила direct ~ живой труд, непосредственно затраченный на производство продукта direct ~ основная работа direct ~ труд производственных рабочих engaged ~ занятая рабочая сила female ~ женский труд ~ труд;
    работа;
    усилие;
    surplus labour полит.-эк. прибавочный труд;
    forced labour принудительный труд forced ~ принудительный труд to ~ for peace добиваться мира;
    he laboured to understand what they were talking about он прилагал усилия, чтобы понять, о чем они говорили human ~ человеческий труд immigrant ~ иностранная рабочая сила в стране ~ рабочий класс;
    труд (в противоп. капиталу) ;
    Labour and Capital труд и капитал ~ attr. лейбористский ~ attr.: ~ pains родовые схватки;
    labour ward родильная палата ~ code кодекс законов о труде ~ exporting country страна экспортирующая рабочую силу ~ прилагать усилия, добиваться (for) ;
    to labour for breath дышать с трудом to ~ for peace добиваться мира;
    he laboured to understand what they were talking about он прилагал усилия, чтобы понять, о чем они говорили ~ attr. трудовой;
    рабочий;
    labour force рабочая сила;
    labour hours рабочее время ~ input количество затраченного труда ~ leader лейбористский лидер руководитель тредюниона leader: labour ~ руководитель профсоюза ~ legislation трудовое законодательство legislation: ~ закон;
    законопроект;
    labour legislation трудовое законодательство labour ~ законы о труде labour ~ тркдовое законодательство labour ~ трудовое законодательство ~ of love безвозмездный или бескорыстный труд ~ of love любимое дело ~ attr.: ~ pains родовые схватки;
    labour ward родильная палата ~ кропотливо разрабатывать, вдаваться в мелочи;
    to labour the point рассматривать вопрос, вникая во все детали ~ уст., поэт. обрабатывать землю;
    labour under быть в затруднении, тревоге;
    страдать (от чего-л.) to ~ under a delusion (или a mistake) находиться в заблуждении ~ attr.: ~ pains родовые схватки;
    labour ward родильная палата lost ~ тщетные, бесполезные усилия management and ~ управленческий и производственный персонал manual ~ ручной труд manual ~ физический труд outside ~ приглашенная рабочая сила paid ~ оплачиваемый труд penal ~ каторжные работы seasonal ~ сезонная рабочая сила skilled ~ квалифицированная рабочая сила skilled ~ квалифицированные работники ~ труд;
    работа;
    усилие;
    surplus labour полит.-эк. прибавочный труд;
    forced labour принудительный труд unorganized ~ рабочие, не явяющиеся членами профсоюза unskilled ~ неквалифицированная рабочая сила unskilled ~ неквалифицированный труд unskilled: ~ labour собир. неквалифицированная рабочая сила ~ labour неквалифицированный труд, черная работа

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > labour

  • 16 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 17 ♦ labour

    ♦ labour, ( USA) labor /ˈleɪbə(r)/
    A n.
    1 [cu] lavoro; fatica; impresa: manual labour, lavoro manuale; lost labour, fatica sprecata; (mitol.) the labours of Hercules, le fatiche d'Ercole; the fruits of one's labours, il frutto delle proprie fatiche
    2 [u] (econ.) lavoro; manodopera; lavoratori: labour and capital, il lavoro e il capitale; skilled labour, manodopera specializzata; unskilled labour, manodopera non specializzata; organized labour, manodopera sindacalizzata; DIALOGO → - Car problems 2- If it's just the tuning it'll just cost you labour, se è solo una messa a punto ti costerà solo la manodopera
    3 [u] – (polit.) Labour, il partito laburista; i laburisti (collett.): Labour won the 2001 election, i laburisti vinsero le elezioni del 2001
    4 [u] (med.) travaglio del parto; doglie: a woman in labour, una donna in travaglio
    5 (fam. ingl.) – the labour = labour exchange ► sotto
    B a. attr.
    1 – Labour (polit.) laburista; dei laburisti; laburistico: the Labour Party, il partito laburista
    ● labour camp, campo di lavoro □ labour costs, costo del lavoro; oneri salariali □ Labour Day, festa del lavoro (o dei lavoratori) NOTE DI CULTURA: Labor Day: in USA e in Canada si celebra il primo lunedì di settembre □ labour dispute, controversia (o vertenza) sindacale □ (stor.) labour exchange, ufficio di collocamento □ labour force, forza lavoro; popolazione attiva □ (econ.) labour-intensive, ad alta intensità di lavoro: The service sectors are labour-intensive, il terziario è un settore ad alta intensità di lavoro □ labour law, diritto del lavoro □ labour laws, legislazione del lavoro □ a labour leader, un dirigente sindacale, un sindacalista □ (econ.) labour market, mercato del lavoro □ labour pains, le doglie □ the labour question, la questione operaia □ labour relations, relazioni industriali; rapporti fra i sindacati e i datori di lavoro □ labour-saving, che fa risparmiare lavoro: labour-saving machines, macchine che fanno risparmiare lavoro □ labour shortage, scarsità di manodopera □ the labour situation, il clima sindacale □ labour strife, conflittualità nelle aziende □ ( USA) labor union, sindacato □ ( USA) labor unionism, sindacalismo; movimento sindacale □ (econ.) labour unrest, vertenzialità; conflittualità sindacale.
    (to) labour, ( USA) (to) labor /ˈleɪbə(r)/
    A v. i.
    1 lavorare; operare
    2 affaticarsi; sforzarsi: to labour to finish a job on time, sforzarsi di finire un lavoro in tempo
    3 avanzare faticosamente; arrancare: The old car laboured up the slope, la vecchia automobile arrancava su per la salita
    5 (fig.) battersi; lottare: to labour for peace, lottare per la pace
    B v. t.
    1 elaborare; ribadire; tirare per le lunghe; insistere su: to labour the point, tirare per le lunghe un argomento; dilungarsi senza necessità su un punto; I promise I will not labour the point, prometto che non insisterò su questo punto
    2 (poet.) lavorare, coltivare ( la terra)
    ● to labour under a delusion, essere vittima di un'illusione; ingannarsi □ to labour under a false impression, avere un'impressione errata.

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ labour

  • 18 love

    1. noun
    1) (affection, sexual love) Liebe, die ( for zu)

    in love [with] — verliebt [in (+ Akk.)]

    fall in love [with] — sich verlieben [in (+ Akk.)]

    make love to somebody — (have sex) mit jemandem schlafen; jemanden lieben

    for love — aus Liebe; (free) unentgeltlich; umsonst; (for pleasure) nur zum Vergnügen od. Spaß

    not for love or money — um nichts in der Welt

    [Happy Christmas,] love from Beth — (in letter) [fröhliche Weihnachten und] herzliche Grüße von Beth

    Peter sends [you] his love — Peter lässt [dich] grüßen

    2) (devotion) Liebe, die (of, for, to[wards] zu)

    love of life/eating/learning — Freude am Leben/Essen/Lernen

    3) (sweetheart) Geliebte, der/die; Liebste, der/die (veralt.)

    [my] love — (coll.): (form of address) [mein] Liebling od. Schatz; (to somebody less close) mein Lieber/meine Liebe

    fifteen/thirty love — fünfzehn/dreißig null

    2. transitive verb

    our/their loved ones — unsere/ihre Lieben

    2) (like)

    love to do or doing something — etwas [leidenschaftlich] gern tun

    3. intransitive verb
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (a feeling of great fondness or enthusiasm for a person or thing: She has a great love of music; her love for her children.) die Liebe
    2) (strong attachment with sexual attraction: They are in love with one another.) die Liebe
    3) (a person or thing that is thought of with (great) fondness (used also as a term of affection): Ballet is the love of her life; Goodbye, love!) die Liebe
    4) (a score of nothing in tennis: The present score is fifteen love (written 15-0).) null
    2. verb
    1) (to be (very) fond of: She loves her children dearly.) lieben
    2) (to take pleasure in: They both love dancing.) lieben
    •
    - academic.ru/43925/lovable">lovable
    - lovely
    - loveliness
    - lover
    - loving
    - lovingly
    - love affair
    - love-letter
    - lovesick
    - fall in love with
    - fall in love
    - for love or money
    - make love
    - there's no love lost between them
    * * *
    [lʌv]
    I. n
    1. no pl (affection) Liebe f
    there is no \love lost between the two die beiden können einander nicht ausstehen
    to marry sb for \love jdn aus Liebe heiraten
    to show sb lots of \love jdm viel Liebe geben
    ▪ to be in \love with sb in jdn verliebt sein
    to be head over heels in \love bis über beide Ohren verliebt sein
    to fall in \love with sb sich akk in jdn verlieben
    \love at first sight Liebe f auf den ersten Blick
    to give [or send] sb one's \love jdm Grüße bestellen, jdn grüßen lassen
    send my \love to her! grüße sie von mir!
    all my \love, Richard (in letter) alles Liebe, Richard
    to make \love to sb (have sex) mit jdm schlafen, jdn lieben euph; ( dated: woo) jdn umwerben, jdm den Hof machen
    2. (interest) Leidenschaft f; (with activities) Liebe f
    she has a great \love of music sie liebt die Musik sehr
    it's a pity you have so little \love for your job es ist schade, dass dir deine Arbeit so wenig Spaß macht
    \love of adventure Abenteuerlust f
    \love of animals Tierliebe f
    \love of books Liebe f zu Büchern
    \love of one's country Vaterlandsliebe f
    to do sth for the \love of it etw aus Spaß [o zum Vergnügen] machen
    \love of learning Freude f [o Spaß m] am Lernen
    the \love of one's life die [größte] Liebe seines Lebens
    3. esp BRIT ( fam: darling) Liebling m, Schatz m fam; (less intimate) mein Lieber m, meine Liebe f; (amongst strangers)
    can I help you, love? was darf ich für Sie tun?
    4. no pl TENNIS null
    forty \love vierzig null
    5.
    ▶ \love is blind ( prov) Liebe macht blind
    ▶ to do sth for \love (for free) etw umsonst machen; (as loving person) etw aus Liebe machen
    ▶ all's fair in \love and war ( prov) in der Liebe und im Krieg ist alles erlaubt
    ▶ for the \love of God! um Gottes willen!
    ▶ for the \love of Mike! BRIT ( fam) um Himmels willen!
    ▶ not for \love [n]or money um nichts in der Welt
    II. vt
    1. (be in love with)
    ▪ to \love sb/sth jdn/etw lieben; (greatly like) jdn/etw sehr mögen [o sehr gernhaben]
    I \love reading ich lese sehr gerne
    I would \love a cup of tea ich würde [sehr] gerne eine Tasse Tee trinken
    \love it or hate it,... ob es dir passt oder nicht,...
    I would \love you to come to dinner tonight es würde mich sehr freuen, wenn Sie heute zum Abendessen kämen
    to \love sb dearly [or deeply] /passionately jdn von ganzem Herzen/leidenschaftlich lieben
    to feel \loved sich akk geliebt fühlen
    2. ( fam or iron)
    he's going to \love you for this! na, der wird sich bei dir bedanken! iron
    she's going to \love that, isn't she! na, da wird sie sich aber freuen! iron
    I \love the way you just borrow my clothes without asking me das finde ich ja toll, wie du dir meine Klamotten ausleihst, ohne mich vorher zu fragen
    3.
    ▶ \love me, \love my dog ( prov) man muss mich so nehmen, wie ich bin
    III. vi AM verliebt sein
    ▪ to \love for sb to do sth gern wollen, dass jd etw tut
    I would \love for you to come to dinner tonight ich würde mich freuen, wenn du heute zum Abendessen kämst
    * * *
    [lʌv]
    1. n
    1) (= affection) Liebe f

    love is... — die Liebe ist...

    the love he has for his wife — die Liebe, die er für seine Frau empfindet

    to have a love for or of sb/sth — jdn/etw sehr lieben

    he has a great love of soccer/music — er ist ein großer Fußballanhänger/Musikliebhaber

    love of learning — Freude f am Lernen

    for the love of God! —

    to make love (sexually) — sich lieben, miteinander schlafen;

    I've never made love — ich habe noch mit keinem/keiner geschlafen

    make love to me —

    make love not war — Liebe, nicht Krieg

    2)

    (= greetings in letters etc) with all my love — mit herzlichen Grüßen

    3) (= sb/sth causing fondness) Liebe f

    yes, (my) love — ja, Liebling or Schatz

    she's the love of my life —

    sport is the love of her life he sent some roses to his love (dated) the child is a little love — Sport ist ihre große Liebe er schickte seiner Liebsten (dated) ein paar Rosen das Kind ist ein kleiner Schatz

    4) (inf form of address) mein Lieber/meine Liebe

    I'm afraid the bus is full, love — der Bus ist leider voll

    5) (TENNIS) null
    2. vt
    lieben; (= like) thing gern mögen

    I love tennis — ich mag Tennis sehr gern; (to play) ich spiele sehr gern Tennis

    he loves swimming, he loves to swim — er schwimmt sehr gern or für sein Leben gern

    don't be sad, you know we all love you — sei nicht traurig, du weißt doch, dass wir dich alle sehr gernhaben

    I'd love to come —

    we'd all love you to come with us — wir würden uns alle sehr freuen, wenn du mitkommen würdest

    I love the way she smiles — ich mag es, wie sie lächelt

    I love the way he leaves us to do all the work (iro) — ist es nicht toll, wie er uns die ganze Arbeit überlässt (iro)

    she's going to love that (iro) — na, da wird sie sich aber freuen (iro)

    3. vi
    lieben
    * * *
    love [lʌv]
    A s
    1. (sinnliche oder geistige) Liebe (of, for, to, toward[s] zu):
    love herzliche Grüße (Briefschluss);
    be in love verliebt sein ( with in akk);
    fall in love sich verlieben ( with in akk);
    do sth for love etwas aus Spaß oder zum Vergnügen oder aus Gefälligkeit tun;
    play for love um nichts oder um die Ehre spielen;
    for the love of aus Liebe zu;
    for the love of God um Gottes willen;
    a) nicht für Geld und gute Worte,
    b) um nichts in der Welt;
    send one’s love to jemanden grüßen lassen;
    a) zärtlich werden,
    b) sich (körperlich) lieben;
    a) jemandem gegenüber zärtlich werden,
    b) jemanden (körperlich) lieben;
    there is no love lost between them sie haben nichts füreinander übrig, sie können sich nicht leiden;
    love of adventure Abenteuerlust f;
    love of (one’s) country Vaterlandsliebe;
    love of learning Freude f oder Spaß m am Lernen; → fair1 A 11, give B 16, labor A 1, order A 1
    2. Liebe f (geliebte Person):
    3. Love die Liebe (personifiziert), (Gott m) Amor m, der Liebesgott
    4. umg (Anrede, oft unübersetzt) Schatz:
    mind the step, love! Vorsicht, Stufe!
    5. umg Schatz m:
    he’s a real love er ist ein richtiger Schatz;
    a love of a car ein süßer Wagen
    love all null zu null
    B v/t
    1. jemanden (auch körperlich) lieben, lieb haben
    2. etwas lieben, gerne mögen:
    I’d love a cup of tea ich hätte sehr gern eine Tasse Tee;
    love doing ( oder to do) sth etwas sehr gern tun;
    we loved having you with us wir haben uns sehr über deinen Besuch gefreut
    C v/i lieben, besonders verliebt sein
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (affection, sexual love) Liebe, die ( for zu)

    in love [with] — verliebt [in (+ Akk.)]

    fall in love [with] — sich verlieben [in (+ Akk.)]

    make love to somebody — (have sex) mit jemandem schlafen; jemanden lieben

    for love — aus Liebe; (free) unentgeltlich; umsonst; (for pleasure) nur zum Vergnügen od. Spaß

    [Happy Christmas,] love from Beth — (in letter) [fröhliche Weihnachten und] herzliche Grüße von Beth

    Peter sends [you] his love — Peter lässt [dich] grüßen

    2) (devotion) Liebe, die (of, for, to[wards] zu)

    love of life/eating/learning — Freude am Leben/Essen/Lernen

    3) (sweetheart) Geliebte, der/die; Liebste, der/die (veralt.)

    [my] love — (coll.): (form of address) [mein] Liebling od. Schatz; (to somebody less close) mein Lieber/meine Liebe

    fifteen/thirty love — fünfzehn/dreißig null

    2. transitive verb

    our/their loved ones — unsere/ihre Lieben

    love to do or doing something — etwas [leidenschaftlich] gern tun

    3. intransitive verb
    * * *
    n.
    Liebe -n f. v.
    lieben v.

    English-german dictionary > love

  • 19 LM

    1) Компьютерная техника: L M, List Messages, Local Macro
    3) Медицина: left main
    4) Американизм: Land Mean, Lost Minions
    7) Шутливое выражение: Living Marxism
    9) Метеорология: Low Melt
    10) Железнодорожный термин: Union Pacific Railroad Company
    11) Астрономия: Low Mass
    12) Биржевой термин: Liquidity And Money
    14) Телевидение: loading motor
    15) Телекоммуникации: низкая середина (полоса частот)
    16) Сокращение: Last Month, Licentiate in Medicine, Lord Mayor, left male, list of material, Lunar Module (Apollo spacecraft; a.k.a. LEM), Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking), Labor Month, LadderMonkey (gaming league), Ladies' Meeting, Lady Macbeth, Lady Madonna (Beatles song), Lagrange Multiplier, Lambert(s) (unit of luminance), LanManager, Language Minority (language learning), Laser Module, Lata Mangeshkar (Indian singer), Lateral Meniscus (knee), Lauis Metis (neutral zone planet from Diaspora), Lay Midwife (midwife without a medical degree), Le Mans, Lead Man (Supervisor), Leaky Mode (transmission line), Left Message, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), Levenberg-Marquardt (algorithm), Libris Mortis (roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons), Licensed Midwife, Life Master (Contract Bridge Ranking), Life Member, Lifetime Maintenance, Light Magnum (ammunition), Light Meter (photography), Lightwave Multimeter (Agilent), Line Monitor, Linux Magazine, Linux-Mandrake (Linux Distribution), Liquid Metal, Liquidity-Money (macroeconomic curve that links interest rates and output as a result of interactions in asset markets), List of Material/s, Litchfield and Madison Railroad, Littlewood and Miller (probabilistic model), Load Multiple (IBM), Loadmaster, Local Manufacture, Location Management, Lockheed Martin, Logic Module, Logistics Management, Logistics Manager, Loop Modem, Lorenz-Mie, LoudMusic, Love Marriage, Low Migration (printing ink), Low Moment (chemistry), Lowell Massachussets (.50 caliber ammunition headstamp), Luigi's Mansion (video game), Lumbering Might (computer game), Lunar Magic (game), Lunar Module (replaced LEM), Lunch Menu, Lunixmonster (Natural Selection gaming server), liver metastasis
    17) Университет: Lab Manual, Learner Model
    18) Физика: Light Meter
    19) Электроника: Leaky Mode, Light Microscopy, Linear Monolithic
    20) Вычислительная техника: Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM, Apollo spacecraft, Space), локальная ЭВМ (local machine), локальная машина (local machine)
    21) Нефть: lime
    22) Биохимия: Light Microscope
    24) Транспорт: Left Motor
    25) Экология: Meander length or river or stream
    26) Деловая лексика: Labor Managed, Linear Model
    27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: linear meter, load moment
    28) Образование: Language Minority
    29) Инвестиции: liquidity preference money curve
    30) Сетевые технологии: Local Machine, Lock Manager
    31) Полимеры: low-modulus, low-molecular
    32) Программирование: Load Math
    33) Автоматика: language for manipulation, linear motion
    34) Контроль качества: laboratory evaluation
    36) Электротехника: latch magnet, load management
    37) Имена и фамилии: Leonard Michaels, Lord Michael
    38) Должность: Leisure Monitor
    39) Чат: Love Mode
    40) NYSE. Legg Mason, Inc.
    41) НАСА: Lunar Module
    42) Программное обеспечение: Lan Manager, Lisp Maintainer
    43) Единицы измерений: Long Metre

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > LM

  • 20 Lm

    1) Компьютерная техника: L M, List Messages, Local Macro
    3) Медицина: left main
    4) Американизм: Land Mean, Lost Minions
    7) Шутливое выражение: Living Marxism
    9) Метеорология: Low Melt
    10) Железнодорожный термин: Union Pacific Railroad Company
    11) Астрономия: Low Mass
    12) Биржевой термин: Liquidity And Money
    14) Телевидение: loading motor
    15) Телекоммуникации: низкая середина (полоса частот)
    16) Сокращение: Last Month, Licentiate in Medicine, Lord Mayor, left male, list of material, Lunar Module (Apollo spacecraft; a.k.a. LEM), Life Master (Contract Bridge ranking), Labor Month, LadderMonkey (gaming league), Ladies' Meeting, Lady Macbeth, Lady Madonna (Beatles song), Lagrange Multiplier, Lambert(s) (unit of luminance), LanManager, Language Minority (language learning), Laser Module, Lata Mangeshkar (Indian singer), Lateral Meniscus (knee), Lauis Metis (neutral zone planet from Diaspora), Lay Midwife (midwife without a medical degree), Le Mans, Lead Man (Supervisor), Leaky Mode (transmission line), Left Message, Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), Levenberg-Marquardt (algorithm), Libris Mortis (roleplaying games, Dungeons & Dragons), Licensed Midwife, Life Master (Contract Bridge Ranking), Life Member, Lifetime Maintenance, Light Magnum (ammunition), Light Meter (photography), Lightwave Multimeter (Agilent), Line Monitor, Linux Magazine, Linux-Mandrake (Linux Distribution), Liquid Metal, Liquidity-Money (macroeconomic curve that links interest rates and output as a result of interactions in asset markets), List of Material/s, Litchfield and Madison Railroad, Littlewood and Miller (probabilistic model), Load Multiple (IBM), Loadmaster, Local Manufacture, Location Management, Lockheed Martin, Logic Module, Logistics Management, Logistics Manager, Loop Modem, Lorenz-Mie, LoudMusic, Love Marriage, Low Migration (printing ink), Low Moment (chemistry), Lowell Massachussets (.50 caliber ammunition headstamp), Luigi's Mansion (video game), Lumbering Might (computer game), Lunar Magic (game), Lunar Module (replaced LEM), Lunch Menu, Lunixmonster (Natural Selection gaming server), liver metastasis
    17) Университет: Lab Manual, Learner Model
    18) Физика: Light Meter
    19) Электроника: Leaky Mode, Light Microscopy, Linear Monolithic
    20) Вычислительная техника: Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM, Apollo spacecraft, Space), локальная ЭВМ (local machine), локальная машина (local machine)
    21) Нефть: lime
    22) Биохимия: Light Microscope
    24) Транспорт: Left Motor
    25) Экология: Meander length or river or stream
    26) Деловая лексика: Labor Managed, Linear Model
    27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: linear meter, load moment
    28) Образование: Language Minority
    29) Инвестиции: liquidity preference money curve
    30) Сетевые технологии: Local Machine, Lock Manager
    31) Полимеры: low-modulus, low-molecular
    32) Программирование: Load Math
    33) Автоматика: language for manipulation, linear motion
    34) Контроль качества: laboratory evaluation
    36) Электротехника: latch magnet, load management
    37) Имена и фамилии: Leonard Michaels, Lord Michael
    38) Должность: Leisure Monitor
    39) Чат: Love Mode
    40) NYSE. Legg Mason, Inc.
    41) НАСА: Lunar Module
    42) Программное обеспечение: Lan Manager, Lisp Maintainer
    43) Единицы измерений: Long Metre

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Lm

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  • Labor army — The notion of the Labor army (трудовая армия, трудармия) was introduced in Bolshevist Russia in 1920. Initially the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor acivity, such as logging, coal mining,… …   Wikipedia

  • Labor-Green Accord — The Labor Green Accord was a 1989 political agreement between the Australian Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens (then called the Green Independents) to form government in the Australian state of Tasmania after the 1989 general election had… …   Wikipedia

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